Murdock328

We'll see. Can't say the research on the subject wasn't fun, though. Learned a lot of interesting things. Thank you all!

I tried telling her that too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm honestly in vain hope that there's some way to do this with hard formulae since that seems to be what she wants. But, at the very least I need a deep enough understanding of it that I can confidently tell her "this is how it is" .. which.. at this point I just might, but still I've got nothing better to do than keep looking and bothering various lore fans and forums so here I am.

This is actually quite helpful, but at the same time not what I truly am looking for. The bits about tempering seem to be promising, though. But to summarize my problem again: I'm trying to theorize new techniques for a dnd campaign with FF classes/jobs in a time period where there are no soulstones of summoners lying around nor teachers for the art. The character is self taught entirely. The DM let me get away with some shenanigans for the first egi, but everything else I need to explain aetherically. It's easy for spells, but when it comes to primals we get into this awful problem... "The allagans did it, so it works. trust me." and things are rarely explained beyond that. I understand summoning is a bit of a mess when it comes to aetherology mechanics and a lot of it falls into mysticism and 'strength of belief' malarky.. So lets move on to a bombardment of more questions, for now. So knowing that egis are essentially half of your own aether merged with the taint of a primal and following your will... ...and that you can't add much more aether to empower it or you'll simply die.. What if you gained the aether from another source? From a magnitude of crystals, sacrifices, or if you could somehow draw directly from the lifestream? If given an unlimited supply of aether would an egi become a proper primal or a supercharged egi? Would it simply explode / pop harmlessly like an overfull balloon? What truly drives your control over an egi? Is it your will alone? Is it your aether and the fact that the egi is a part of you? Would adding more aether from an outside source cause you to lose control?

So flash back a few eras to the start of the war of the magi. Summoning didn't exist. At least, not in any real capacity. I have a character for a homebrewed DND campaign that is a crazed nymian scholar who became obsessed with the primals. He spent 40 years of his life studying and now he has found his first success. That's his backstory. For the actual campaign if I want to create new summoning techniques (Trances, demi-egis, etc...) I have to explain, aetherically, how that would work to the DM. I'm not finding a lot of resources that break things down to the most fundamental aetherical level on how summoning truly works, but I'm sure she'll meet me half way if I can at least make a convincing story. So I guess my questions are: How does summoning work as a whole? How do trances work and is it even possible to have a non-dreadwyrm trance? (currently its impossible to even have dreadwyrm trance) Are there work-arounds for certain things? Should I just call down Dalamud and beat Bahamut up for his lunch money then call it a day/apocalypse?