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V'aleera · **01-30-2015, 07:56 PM**

(01-30-2015, 05:58 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: Conjury is the ability to manipulate the aether in Nature and, through meditation, bend that aether into a spell. It usually requires a wand or stave of un-worked or organic wood to channel the energies of the spell.

Thaumaturges require a medium to focus their inner energies as opposed to using meditation. This medium usually comes in the form of an aetherially enhanced gemstone upon a stave or wand, but is not exclusive to those things.

This has been an area of some interest for me as well, as one of my favorite character archetypes is the long-lived wizard/sorceress with incredible mastery over magic (Magna Aegwynn, Flemeth, The Lady etc.) and I've lately been wondering whether such a character would be possible within the FFXIV setting (more as a thought exercise than a current desire to RP that kind of character with others).

Presuming such a character exists that is capable of wielding multiple forms of magic, I'd like to speak specifically to the subject of foci mentioned above. Is there anything in the lore that would specifically preclude the insertion of a thaumaturgic gem into an organic staff conducive to conjury? And on a slightly related note, does a master of arcanima absolutely need a book of spells or can the geometric patterns be invoked from memory?

Conjury and / or Thaumaturgy?

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