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(07-10-2014, 07:00 PM)C Wrote: I wanted to expand a bit on what I wrote before, because I think the reasons I chose this limitation can be applied to a lot of the people who did so.
Five years ago the Red Moon crashed down on Eorzea and everything changed.
The Garleans had been pushing into Hydaelyn, and things were looking grim. C'kayah was living in the Shroud at the time, and as the Garleans pressed forward, he moved to Gridania proper. The soldiers who weren't already out fighting were massing for the last defense of Gridania. Anyone who was able bodied was taught to use a weapon, because there was every expectation that they would have to. And anyone with the barest hint of conjury was hastily trained by the conjurer's guild. C'kayah already was a decent field medic, both from his tribal days as a hunter and from his weeks in the field guarding caravans and the like. His possession of the conjurer's talent led to him also being taught to tap into it. Because time was short, the training was hasty and incomplete.
After Carteneau, his teachers urged him to complete his training, but he had other plans for his life. After the attack on him at the Royal Ball, he spent some time in Gridania under the conjurer's tutelage, but he's still got a long ways to go.
I imagine his is a very common story.
It's important to remember that the average person trying to learn Conjury can't drain their own aether. Â They don't have the innate talent for it. Â The reason Selphie was able to drain her own life force to heal others is that she was quite literally born with the innate ability to perform conjury without any training. Â This is because she was born a Hearer (and had been suppressing/ignoring that aspect of her abilities for years). Â So the average joe with a half-assed bit of training in conjury is just going to fail the spell they're trying to cast - not drain their own life force instead.
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