(06-08-2015, 10:41 PM)Verilys Wrote: I can't watch the videos from my current location, sadly! But though Elementals obviously exist and have real power (and that's relatively well-displayed in many questlines), do we have an unbiased source with regards to Succor? I kinda like the idea of it not being something of the Elementals' own power, but if they catch you using it, they'll smite you down. Which is probably exactly what happened to Sylphie's mother.
... Or maybe she was assassinated by Padjals. Adorable child-like bearers of wisdom? Or bloodthirsty beasts of Elemental Law?
Per the quest line, she used too much of her own aether healing others and died from that. The Thaumaturge quest line cross-verifies that expending too much of your own aether can be harmful or fatal.
The question of "how powerful are the elementals now" is a bit of a grey area in lore, IMO. To me, at least, their powers do seem significantly diminished, given that the Garleans had more or less free run, the wards on Amdapor Keep and the Amdapori Township are gone, the Lambs of Dalamud and voidsent are running amok, Ala Mhigan refugees are making their way in, and so on. Religion and culture take a long time to change, and given that the elementals will regain strength if the Shroud is cared for (which the Gridanians, for a variety of reasons, would want to do), it seems unlikely that it would change significantly, particularly in a mere 5 years.
Would one want to taunt the elementals and risk the greenwrath in the 7th Astral? It still seems unwise for reasons including the rumors that surely still fly about it, the Gridanians who will certainly try to stop you, and the possibility of running into that one elemental who trips you with a root at the wrong moment, sending you falling down a ravine to your ignoble demise -- or happens to be big, powerful, and angry still. It's for that reason that any non-Padjal who'd come across Succor, IMO, would keep it very, very quiet. However, from the overhead OOC viewpoint, it seems implausible to me that the elementals could strip you of magical power, much less strike you dead instantly for doing something they don't like.
For now.
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