(04-21-2015, 04:28 PM)cuideag Wrote:(04-21-2015, 01:43 PM)Hammersmith Wrote:(04-21-2015, 01:38 PM)cuideag Wrote: IIRC one of the first if not the first BLM quest has you going out to summon voidsent with voidsent blood or whatev, too, so I definitely imagine using blood (be it voidsent or otherwise) still has a part in THM/BLM junk.
My personal headcanon has that extended out to arcanistry even, though I am sure officially the Arcanist's Guild would not be OK with people making up schematics with anything vile like blood or whatev. surely, someone's done it though.
I'm in the boat that says Sympathetic Magic grants anything based in blood most of it's power. Â Got some of it's blood? You got some pull on it you didn't before. Â Power over it. Â Power to maybe ward, or repel, or dozens of other things.
Trick is making it bleed first, of course, but blood is a hell of a tie to have when practicing any school or tradition of magic that can affect a thing that bleeds.
Yesss, yes, this! It's a theme I've wanted to explore in RP but I've never felt confident enough to actually do it. Might have to get some scheming done along these lines, though... HMMM.
It's a fun concept and you can find dozens of historical sources where you didn't want a bit of "you" getting into a "magic users" hands. Â Curses and the like would move over easy to some of the Scholar's line of work, all scientificy. On the other hand you could move it over to the Thaumaturge's method of pulling at aetheric weaves and ties and schools using it as a focus. Lots of options!
You can do it!
I've got a system of magic I've plotted out that has sympathetic magic ingrained heavily into it, but I'm not well read enough on the FF magic systems yet to start slotting it in for proper loreification/co-existance with what's already there.
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