(03-06-2016, 08:42 AM)Kellach Woods Wrote:(02-25-2016, 05:50 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: For these more powerful primals such as Leviathan or Ramuh, the amount of aether needed to summon their egi is too great for a mortal mage to handle, thus the Austerity fails.
Hold up hold up hold up...
BLM use the aether of the land to augment their own (50-60 deals with the consequences of drawing too much). Any lore-related restrictions that SMNs could not do that (and then horrible consequences would happen - naturally)?
Obviously mechanically it can't happen.
I mean... theoretically speaking... I guess it could work? But at that point, wouldn't you just be resummoning an actual primal, albeit an incredibly weak one? If you're using the planet's aether and the idea of a primal you've already slain, you'd just recreate a primal that was tethered to the land's aether like a normal primal. I think the point of the egi is that it's form is tied to your aether and because the egi is created by splitting your soul between the two, it is bound and controlled by you, because in a sense... the egi is you, just the tainted you.
Fernehalwes Wrote:Basically, every being is made up of aether. It’s your own aether, and that is you. By taking your aether and splitting it, you create an egi, but you still have yourself. The thing is, you’re maintaining both of these at the same time, which is why summoners can only do this with one egi at a time. If you split yourself too much, your grip on yourself is gone and you fade back into the Lifestream. That’s not to say there aren’t certain beings in the world that have a larger pool of aether; some beings can split into multiple egi, while maintaining that balance, before they die.
Y'mhitra Wrote:When you summon an avatar, you draw upon your body's reservoir of aether to grant life and form to what is known as an arcane entity─that much we already knew. I had, however, overlooked the simple fact that our aetheric reserves are finite─thus the magnitude of egi that you are able to summon is limited by the extent of your own life force. Simply put, if the egi is too powerful, then the summoning fails...
Could things be different if Shatotto's discovery of external aetherial manipulation had been discovered 2000~3000 years before? Perhaps. But good lord can you imagine if you had hundreds of summoners "splitting" Hydaelyn's aether to create hyper-powerful primals to fight eikons?
