Everything is made of Aether as you say, and has various amounts of aether body reserves at their disposal in top of their aetherial essence (making some individuals more attuned and powerful at magic than others).Â
However, cast any spell on someone, it will hurt all the same no matter what as far as I know.Â
I don't remember having seen anything in the lore closely resembling to natural elemental resistances, or even magical resistances.Â
I think there is a misunderstanding how magic works. The less someone is attuned to magic doesn't mean that they are resilient to it in turn... I would even more tempted to say, quite the contrary since they have even less means to defend themselves against it.Â
That would be like saying because you are less able to see and use an arrow, then somehow you will resist it more...
Well, to be honest I see where your friend is coming from. The character is supposed to have close to no connection to aether, and so magic ability, but if it's not just a lack of affinity and aether power, but also like a bubble of void preventing them to use magic and be harmed by magic properly, then as you say, it's contradictory and defeats itself. Everyone IS aether. And then, if you say, well, that the character is very much born of aether like everyone's soul, but is somehow cut off from the surrounding aether and the rest of the world, then I would say, it's the best way to go like corrupted crystals go, if you block the flow of aether, but I'm mostly speculating here.
Now then, there are plenty of other ways to be resilient or even invulnerable to magic: barriers of all sorts, among other tools, be them material or aetherial.
However, cast any spell on someone, it will hurt all the same no matter what as far as I know.Â
I don't remember having seen anything in the lore closely resembling to natural elemental resistances, or even magical resistances.Â
I think there is a misunderstanding how magic works. The less someone is attuned to magic doesn't mean that they are resilient to it in turn... I would even more tempted to say, quite the contrary since they have even less means to defend themselves against it.Â
That would be like saying because you are less able to see and use an arrow, then somehow you will resist it more...
Well, to be honest I see where your friend is coming from. The character is supposed to have close to no connection to aether, and so magic ability, but if it's not just a lack of affinity and aether power, but also like a bubble of void preventing them to use magic and be harmed by magic properly, then as you say, it's contradictory and defeats itself. Everyone IS aether. And then, if you say, well, that the character is very much born of aether like everyone's soul, but is somehow cut off from the surrounding aether and the rest of the world, then I would say, it's the best way to go like corrupted crystals go, if you block the flow of aether, but I'm mostly speculating here.
Now then, there are plenty of other ways to be resilient or even invulnerable to magic: barriers of all sorts, among other tools, be them material or aetherial.
Balmung:Â Suen Shyu
