(06-06-2015, 06:06 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: Realistically, even if people suddenly stopped calling it fantasia, they'd just find some other way of using a fantasia in an IC fashion, whether it was as simple as plastic surgery, a sex change operation, or some wacky aether hijinks that somehow morphed a person entirely. The realism faction is not particularly high with this concept. It is stated in the game that people can effectively break down their bodies into aether, which is how teleportation works. Why then, could a person somehow not "accidentally" or perhaps purposely, teleport and come out different? Wouldn't it only need some advanced aetherial manipulation then? For a serious or plot-driven storyline, such things are just as plausible and possible.
We have sprites, animals and voidsent that can literally glamour themselves into beings of an entirely different shape.
I can understand not wanting to accept fantasia at face value but come the fuck on.
I'm not a fan of devs introducing in-game items, with flavor descriptions, and then going out of their way to say "this item isn't real". Would have preferred that they used the Mog Station entirely to switch that but I suspect they never thought of that.
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White/Black magic refers to a very specific subset of magic that draws its power (aether) from the land itself rather than with Nature's consent/their own power.
Briefly, black magic started killing the planet because black mages used it indiscriminately, white magic was thus gifted to certain individuals to counteract them, and the resulting conflict was the equivalent to an apocalypse-level event. Both eventually returned under severely restricted format (Granted to a specific caste of Gridanians for White magic, studied in dark shadows and beastmen for Black magic).
So, while you could technically refer to CNJ/THM spells as white/black magic respectively, they are not White/Black magic in the lore sense.
