(01-15-2014, 11:35 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: 8. I've had this insane theory (that I stand by) that Sylphie, the girl in the ARR CNJ quests, has access to Succor that she does not realize, and E-Sumi does not wish to be exposed. Conjury is the manipulation of the Aether around the caster, it does not drain ones own Aetherial stores. Yet Sylphie's magic does. Sylphie has little interest and proficiency in typical Conjury skills like Wind or Water, but has a natural-born affinity to healing. (Succor) And E-Sumi is quick to discourage, forbid, and chastise the use of this magic. Perhaps because he fears she will get herself killed with it. Perhaps because it is a forbidden magic that only Padjal are supposed to wield or even know about...
Sylphie is a Hearer. Â Hearers are born, not made. Â Hearers have an innate ability with Conjury, though they apparently may not recognize it or fully understand what it is they are doing. Â Because of this, they do not always draw from the aether around them (as standard Conjurers and White Mages do). Â Instead, they draw from their own aether. Â The reason E-Sumi-Yan is so against what Sylphie is doing is made explicitly clear during the Conjurer questline - she's drawing on her own aether, and as a result is slowly killing herself. Â The more power she expends, the more she is cannibalizing from her own life force. Â This is why her mother died - apparently her mother actually managed to Raise someone else, but in the process damaged her own life energy so badly that she died from it.
The Elementals were apparently trying to get Sylphie's attention and were offering her power to heal others and protect herself, but Sylphie didn't understand what they were saying (in part because her mother - having heard voices for as long as she could remember, but apparently never having been identified by the Conjurer's guild as a Hearer, and thus trained - drilled into Sylphie the belief that the Elementals were angry with the Conjurers and Gridania as a whole, and that they didn't like anyone using their power), and rejected the help.
It's interesting to note that every Padjal is also a Hearer.
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