(07-04-2016, 04:20 PM)Piphan Wrote:(07-04-2016, 04:08 PM)Gegenji Wrote: "Levin" is just what the game calls lightning. Just like they call a day a "sun" and a month a "moon" and so on. So I was just being overly fancy in saying "magical lightning."
*Ohhhhhhhhhh.* Haha, I understand. Makes sense. Is lightning special in that regard, or are there fancy names for fire and ice spells as well? I wanna be down with the magical lingo.
I think levin is the only one with the alternative term. Though all the Primals have fancy titles - Lord of Levin, Lord of the Whorl, Lord of Crags, and so on. Levin is just also used in electrical attacks by some thunder-elemented beasties (ex. Levinbreath).
And the crystals really are the sticky wicket in the situation. I mean, you can also have unaspected crystals - since they are solidified aether - as well as having them be aspected or even overly aspected and corrupted. The latter even negates powerful elemental effects - as corrupted wind crystals were used to break Garuda's wind barrier (which, granted, could also be construed as a purely magical force).
In addition, the Vanu Tribe dailies include what seem to be joint elemented crystals. Firetouched Earth Crystals and the like. So, perhaps the solidified aether does just as arcane casters do and can "attune" to act like a particular element, due to that elemental wheel. And so they are used in place of more mundane uses of the element (fire crystals instead of flint and tinder) because they are similar enough to cause the desired effect?
After all, ice crystals don't melt like normal ice would - so wouldn't it be easier to just use those to chill something down rather than having to make ice?
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