(09-04-2013, 05:26 AM)Nahv Wrote: This is a very good question. I haven't quite run across anyone who is sick yet (that I paid attention to) so I would have to do a bit of research. Since there is Espuna to cure poisons - there does seem the ability to have weakness of types that play a toll against the body/health of a person. As it was mentioned above there was a disease in Gridania - so I will try to look more up of that and see what I can dig up on it.To me, that Greenwrath looks more like a curse than a disease (sure a disease could have the same effect but you wouldn't get it in that particular way by being rude to nature). Which brings me to this: Is there a deity/primal/divinitything that has sickness/curses as its speciality (similarly to how ifrit has fire as its speciality)? If so, a monster tribe would be able to call it into primal form and make it curse, I don't know, a city so that every citizen inside would attract more aether, therefore getting slowly overloaded with it (without having to worry about that no creation only borrow law of aether). Then we could just make it so that that curse can spread to others, thus spreading outside of the cities and to other cities/villages.
My first thought upon your first paragraph was a disease or virus in which caused aether to replicate within the body, thus creating an excess - however, I do not believe that would be quite possible since it is stated along the story line that all aether borrowed must be returned (cannot create or destroy essentially, merely borrow).
Since it is nearly 5:30am where I live, I will have to look into this more tomorrow and along the way and also search around weaknesses and diseases in FF. Thanks for bringing up this question, sadly is something I will have to look into before I can give a better answer.
In the end it would pretty much become an all out war once people figure out a primal (or whatever it is) caused this, and the weakened armies would have to face the big bad monsters protecting the deity and then kill the deity. (And then lock the area to make sure the deity doesn't appear again).
Just what I think it could be.
