(07-03-2013, 01:08 PM)Alothia Wrote: I like to liken the way that the mages cast in FFXIV to that of the weaving of the One Power in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. There are different levels of casters, people have different talents. People can take the different elements and apply them in different ways...*shrug* I think that the world allows for all sorts of magic users~This is primarily where I've derived Eva's use of magic from as well - however that's also because 'weaving' is something she can relate to. I've also felt emoting "casts a cure spell" is just rather bland. It may be that this is something that will just vary from one mage to the next and is highly subjective to the RPer and the character. Regardless, that is great literature!
Here's the link to the wiki article about the One Power in the Wheel of Time universe. Makes sense to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Power
Another point of discussion I'll go ahead and introduce along this same vein is I've heard most mages learn through some sort of education process, whether it be formal instruction with other more experienced mages, reading from books, or what have you. I've known one other to RP this similarly to what Eva does as having a sort of natural born talent for it (in Eva's case white magic). This is akin to what a Wilder would have been described like in the Jordan books. Her block is that when she starts to think about what she's doing rather than just allowing it to happen, the efforts usually collapse. For her it's very much an empathy thing and more about "feel, don't think." I've seen nothing specific to either confirm or deny this is appropriate for the lore of the game or not.
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