So, looking at Sounsyy's link, I think this answers my faerie question:
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MCKF: “Yes, the second one. Fairies again, while they fall under the taxonomy of elementals, they are actually beings that were created. They did not exist before. The Scholar would take the energies and elements from around them and would basically create these beings that were made of the elements.â€
Q: “Those are bound to the soul crystal then and passed from one person to the next where carbuncle is more one per person. Very cool.â€
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So a Carbuncle is created by an individual Arcanist by carving diagrams into a gemstone (ruby, topaz, etc), and each arcanist's Carbuncle is slightly different and personalized to them. So your Carbuncle would remember what you told it a week ago, even if you had unsummoned and resummoned it a dozen times, but no other arcanist's Carbuncle would know that info, because their personality and memory is bound into the gem.
So the Scholar's Soulstone would be a more complex version of that, able to house the presumably more complicated diagrams and formulae needed to create a Faerie. Since they're passed down from Scholar to Scholar, the process of making a Faerie is probably one that takes a long time and a lot of skill/knowledge. It also means the Faeries have stronger individual personalities, since they're far older than the average Carbuncle, and longer memories, for the same reason.
So making a new Faerie would probably be both a lost art and something that would consume an entire lifetime of effort, only to be passed down to one's students. Oh well.
At least I've learned that I should be able to personalize my Carbuncle and teach her tricks, since each one is a unique entity.
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MCKF: “Yes, the second one. Fairies again, while they fall under the taxonomy of elementals, they are actually beings that were created. They did not exist before. The Scholar would take the energies and elements from around them and would basically create these beings that were made of the elements.â€
Q: “Those are bound to the soul crystal then and passed from one person to the next where carbuncle is more one per person. Very cool.â€
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So a Carbuncle is created by an individual Arcanist by carving diagrams into a gemstone (ruby, topaz, etc), and each arcanist's Carbuncle is slightly different and personalized to them. So your Carbuncle would remember what you told it a week ago, even if you had unsummoned and resummoned it a dozen times, but no other arcanist's Carbuncle would know that info, because their personality and memory is bound into the gem.
So the Scholar's Soulstone would be a more complex version of that, able to house the presumably more complicated diagrams and formulae needed to create a Faerie. Since they're passed down from Scholar to Scholar, the process of making a Faerie is probably one that takes a long time and a lot of skill/knowledge. It also means the Faeries have stronger individual personalities, since they're far older than the average Carbuncle, and longer memories, for the same reason.
So making a new Faerie would probably be both a lost art and something that would consume an entire lifetime of effort, only to be passed down to one's students. Oh well.
At least I've learned that I should be able to personalize my Carbuncle and teach her tricks, since each one is a unique entity.
