(04-19-2017, 03:41 PM)Gegenji Wrote:Ah, as I thought then. I had always assumed that was the case. I have a character of my own who has a very tiny aether pool due to some stuff in their past. And I know many characters who have something wrong with their aether or lack the ability to use it all together. I always like the 'science' and theory behind this kind of stuff so this info is all very interesting to me!(04-19-2017, 03:36 PM)Casa Kai Wrote: Hmm yeah that's something like what I was looking for, thanks. So Aether is basically the energy source for anything and everything.
Correct. Every living thing has aether in it. In fact, the CNJ questline in particular shows what happens if you try using your - for lack of better term - lifeblood aether to cast spells. It will kill you.
Instead, as the THM questline intones, everyone has a different size... aetheric well that they can draw from to cast their own spells. The only other way to power spells is by using the ambient aether around you - but there's varying degrees of that (from CNJ's "borrowing and returning" policy to BLM's "I'mma take it" one). And, of course, that just taking and using the world's aether nearly killed the planet in the War of the Magi and caused the Elementals to flood everything.
