(07-12-2017, 06:49 AM)Valence Wrote: More exactly, White Magic aka Succor draws upon the Land in the exact same fashion than Black Magic. Not from the Elementals. This is also why it destroys the planet as surely as black magic when abused. Succor is not Conjury, for which you pray and get attuned with Elementals to borrow from the land (or else Elementals would just have to block everyone from using Succor, and we wouldn't see The Stillglade Fane Police™ running around and pointing fingers at trespassers and whatnot).
White Magic, like Black Magic, only destroys the land when it's used in excess. If Amdapor and Mhach had simply been using their magics for routine, small things, they wouldn't have pulled aether from the land quickly enough to cause serious issue. The problem is when Flare and Holy (and similar things) are going out over the battlefield hundreds or thousands of times. Conjury also draws from the land, but lacks the ability to pull aether at that rate, and so the land is able to regenerate between uses.
Quote:Now the control over Succor is strongly enforced by Elementals and Padjals,
There is actually no indication that the Elementals or Padjal have any physical control over who uses Succor or how it is used. They have control over the knowledge, but not the use, as far as I can tell.
Quote:but I suspect it wasn't that so in the time of Amdapor before the Elemental got pissed and flooded everyone.
Well, no, since at the time Padjal did not exist, and knowledge of White Magic was developed by Amdapor, and thus they controlled how it was disseminated.
Quote: Pure speculation on my part on this specific bit but I also suspect that the WhM soulstone plays a role as important as gems of Shattoto for the BLM.
There is nothing in quest text or lore that I am aware of that even hints at this. You learn some secrets from your Soulstone, but it is implied that you are merely learning them at an accelerated rate thanks to the Soulstone, not that you couldn't learn them at all otherwise. It is never once even implied that using White Magic without a Soulstone is detrimental or harmful in any fashion in the way that using Black Magic without a Soulstone will kill you
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