(06-10-2015, 01:25 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: With that said, I seem to recall that Raya-O-Senna was teaching us the abilities we were picking up as White Mages as we went along? Or am I completely misremembering it at this point?
I've not finished the White Mage stuff, but for the quests up to level 40, there's no real teaching going on. She does tell you general stuff like:
Only You Can Prevent Forest Ire Wrote:I would ask you to placate this tree. The process is quite simple: stand before the tree and raise your hands. Commune with the elementals that reside within, and attune yourself to them, until your feelings are in absolute harmony.
... but I don't think that counts as much in the way of teaching! So far, it seems she's mostly been the sort to rely on A-Towa-Cant's crystal to do the work in terms of actual abilities. Her role seems to mostly be motivational speaking and trying to get her brother to stop being a jerk. Though that may or may not change in the later quests, the character had, at least to that point, clearly been learning White Mage-ness some other way.
Supporting this would be the dialogue of the initial quest:
Seer Folly Wrote:A most admirable cause, yes? But alas, A-Towa was never to return. He perished in a far-off land, and having taken no apprentices, his legendary powers were lost to us for eternity. Or so I believed...until I met you
Which would appear to imply that, due to the crystal, those powers are not lost. Presumably as the teachings get Matrix'd into your brain over time. That and (again, to the point I've been up to), there's been no narrative connection between gaining abilities and what Raya-O-Senna says. Not even anything like, 'Allow me to show you a useful spell'. She usually leaves you on the note of 'go hone your skills'.
... or how her brother's a jerk.
