(05-19-2016, 12:43 AM)Kattoki Wrote: Sorry for bringing this topic back up. I see everyone is going into the lore of the game. But was more curious about people's views in a RP sense. Like my character cannot see aether even if she is a arcanist and stuff. To her she would see fire erupt from someone's hand or staff.
The real issue I have though is I see a lot of people RPing out there about Aether example glowing eyes or aura's something under normal circumstances my character cannot see. Yet there are all these special snowflake people that can see Aether somehow. Some explain they have the echo but that land of RPing is another topic all together.
Well that's the thing, I usually like speaking about lore so that I'm making sure the basis is solid before going into what it implies on our roleplay.
Well, nothing says explicitely in lore that you can't see aether and all. That you can't see aether without killing yourself in the process like Y'Shtola does. Maybe there is a way to do it safely, I don't know.
I know however that I don't want to be that guy that plays a character that not only equals a sharlayan powerful sage, but goes event further as to do better than her.
Though, if you are looking for my personal take on the thing since I play a (modest) character with a certain, some what random, magical affinity... She is a Hearer, so that means she has access to a specific way to deal with the aetheral world around her (not to be confused with the aetheral plane!). She certainly doesn't see it. She doesn't really sense it either (it's not for naugh that people have to resort to contraptions like aetherometers and the likes to measure it in basically every quest and the MSQ). But, she can get a glimpse of what happens around by just Hearing elementals. She is dependent on what they tell and say, and she has to interpret it as best as she can. Not that very different from say, an astrologian that can interpret the stars through magicks, or any other "magical profession" you can think of.
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