Versesai

Quick preface; I am asking this question on behalf of a somewhat shy friend, so some of my responses may come from them if questions are asked. A close friend of mine has had a character they love for a long time now, but they've sometimes run into an issue with RPing them; The character is mute and very reserved aside, so communication is often a problem for them on a more casual basis. Her initial solution was things like pads of paper but those can be clunky in social situations and not useful for very intense situations where there's no time for that and she's been looking for alternatives. One thread of thought she's come across is some way to mimic speech using aether, either by direct speech or a less direct method, but before she did anything like that she wanted to get a kind of feel for what options were generally available. This can also include alternatives to this, of course, but I'm mainly interested in getting some feedback on what methods someone could use aether to 'speak', in any form. If you could also provide any information to devices or methods like this in the lore that would be great. Thanks!

Greetings there, first RP question I've hit a stumbling block with since I started on XIV and it's a fairly complicated one, so I'll try to make it simple. I've got a character who is fairly untrained in Aether manipulation of any kind, but is rapidly realizing that against some of the things he's encountering his big axe and can-do attitude aren't going to cut it all the time in bad situations, so he's looking to augment his arsenal by incorporating Aether. Now, this is going to take two forms; Form one, I want him to learn to channel basic aether. I don't want him to cast spells because he's absolutely not the lightning bolt lightning bolt heal type, but being able to add some heft to a blow by making it all magical or enhancing it would be nice. Second, I want him to be able to use some limited earth-type aether manipulation, namely to form weapons out of stone for practical combat purposes. Mostly because (IC) I want him to have an excuse to not have to carry giant warrior axes around everywhere because those are cumbersome and hard to hide and (OOC) I want an excuse to use the Titan Axe and hit things. For the first bit, I'm more looking for an idea of how complicated that'd be and what specifically it'd do or involve, and how long it's reasonably take a smart, instinct-heavy Xaela given he's really only seen people using aether but has it on good authority that it is a nice thing. For the second bit, I'm looking for the same but more importantly, how stable such a thing would be and what kind of drain it'd be to keep that around, or if it'd be able to be manipulated/etc like shifting it's weight or density to certain areas. Tl;dr I've got a warrior who IC wants to hit things harder using magic and wants to turn rocks into big hulking axe-like things to hit people like a truck, how do this? Thanks in advance and I appreciate your time!