(07-05-2016, 04:02 AM)Valence Wrote:(07-04-2016, 07:40 PM)Kilieit Wrote: This. I can only imagine that part of the reason highly destructive magics tend to be illegal in Eorzea is precisely because the average person, who does not have a high enough aetheric potential to cast magic, is susceptible to harm from them with no way to defend themself.
Well, we know that the illegality of most of those highly destructive magicks are a result of the Great Flood of the 6th Umbral Era. Magic got totally prohibited and actively hunted down decades after, until people started to soften up a bit about it... But stigma remains to that day (cf Black and White magic).
That would be correct. Black and White Magic are so highly feared because both types of magic pull aether from the planet itself rather than from a person's own aetheric stores. The War of the Magi was literally killing the planet due to the amount of aether being used. So the Elementals caused the Great Flood to wash all of them away.
... The fact that they're magic nearly killed the planet, AND ushered in a great catastrophic event to deal with it... well, it only makes sense that people would be less than eager to see that stuff come back. At the very least White Magic is being limited to just the Padjals. Black Magic has no such force restricting it - hence why it's considered so dangerous.
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