
(04-30-2015, 12:27 PM)Kage Wrote:(04-30-2015, 12:16 PM)TheLastCandle Wrote: The big difference between Ishgard's "HALONE WILLS IT!" stuff and Gridania's Elementals is that the latter have very real, demonstrable power within the Shroud, and when it was a focal point in the 1.0 quests, they were not afraid to exert it. It's something that's been glossed over since ARR, whether because they were weakened (as some choose to interpret it) or simply because SE decided not to focus on it. I don't know.I think at the lore panel they said that "yep it's because they've been weakened" so it's word of "god"
We have no idea how much they've been weakened, though, and there's every reason to believe they've been growing stronger now that the Calamity is over (the "land" is healing).
But even weakened, they are such a concern that the entire White Mage questline revolves around trying to make sure one of the most powerful remains asleep for fear of what it might do if it woke up. Â And the Conjurer questline has Elementals in full view towards the end, and they seem pretty terrifying.
I mean, I get that people don't like religion and it's fun to make fun of it, but I'm not sure why people have such a problem acknowledging that yes, the Elementals do actually exist and it actually is important to keep the pact with them because, actually, they can fuck people up if that pact is broken.