It's pretty clear that "nature is inhuman", but the standards of morality as applied to "nature" in the universe of FFXIV are remarkably inconsistent.
Because last time I checked, incredibly powerful and capricious entities made of aether weren't the friends of the city-states.
But I guess because these ones are ~part of a tradition~ with Gridania and not associated with those mean nasty totally inhuman beast tribes, they should be revered and obeyed!
I've done some digging. It seems an awful lot like the reason why elementals could manifest as readily in the Shroud as opposed to anywhere else had to do with the amount of aether concentrated in the region, not specifically because it is a holy land and they are the holy guardians of it. And, what do you know, after the aether of the world got disturbed, they suddenly started being a lot less powerful in said region. Who would have thought? It could very well be that a lot of the religious and magical significance placed upon the Shroud has absolutely nothing to do with it being specifically relevant to the gods, and more to do with aetheric activity giving people who didn't know any better the impression that it was relevant to the gods.
Because last time I checked, incredibly powerful and capricious entities made of aether weren't the friends of the city-states.
But I guess because these ones are ~part of a tradition~ with Gridania and not associated with those mean nasty totally inhuman beast tribes, they should be revered and obeyed!
I've done some digging. It seems an awful lot like the reason why elementals could manifest as readily in the Shroud as opposed to anywhere else had to do with the amount of aether concentrated in the region, not specifically because it is a holy land and they are the holy guardians of it. And, what do you know, after the aether of the world got disturbed, they suddenly started being a lot less powerful in said region. Who would have thought? It could very well be that a lot of the religious and magical significance placed upon the Shroud has absolutely nothing to do with it being specifically relevant to the gods, and more to do with aetheric activity giving people who didn't know any better the impression that it was relevant to the gods.
