Even if BLU doesn't come in 4.0 (I'm personally praying so fervently for Geomancer that I may accidentally summon a primal!), I think the Allagan-tech might be the best way to go RP-wise for Blue Magic. Â The practical execution has already been well-expressed vis a vis SMN Egis, but even a non-SMN RP trope could work given Allagan history.
The Ultima isn't exactly Blue Magic, but Allagan magitech-esque workings could easily be the bridge/key to Blue Magic. Â Garleans may have taken this and with a Sharlayan style magic study of Garlean tech, it could be where we see Blue Mages finally showing up in-game. Â But the WoL/Eorzean adventurer could easily stumble upon Allagan/Ultima esque tech that supplements his/her magic abilities to absorb and redeploy enemy magics. Â
This makes more sense the farther you progress in the storylines with these access points of intense interaction with Allagan tech like the Crystal Tower and even more importantly Azys Lla. Â Not to mention that the accumulation of Allagan tomestones of philosophy, lore, esoteric, even mythology could easily be used RP-wise as a way to either inundate your character with Allagan absorption-tech or used as a catalyst to capture and redeploy. Â My personal RP-take would be to have my character hold a cache of Allagan tombstones that are independently used to capture enemy magic and redeploy through the tombstone until such a time as the character can sufficiently lean to absorb that power into himself (i.e., introduction of Blue Mage class itself, or find a suitable NPC trainer to commandeer ala Matoya)
The Ultima isn't exactly Blue Magic, but Allagan magitech-esque workings could easily be the bridge/key to Blue Magic. Â Garleans may have taken this and with a Sharlayan style magic study of Garlean tech, it could be where we see Blue Mages finally showing up in-game. Â But the WoL/Eorzean adventurer could easily stumble upon Allagan/Ultima esque tech that supplements his/her magic abilities to absorb and redeploy enemy magics. Â
This makes more sense the farther you progress in the storylines with these access points of intense interaction with Allagan tech like the Crystal Tower and even more importantly Azys Lla. Â Not to mention that the accumulation of Allagan tomestones of philosophy, lore, esoteric, even mythology could easily be used RP-wise as a way to either inundate your character with Allagan absorption-tech or used as a catalyst to capture and redeploy. Â My personal RP-take would be to have my character hold a cache of Allagan tombstones that are independently used to capture enemy magic and redeploy through the tombstone until such a time as the character can sufficiently lean to absorb that power into himself (i.e., introduction of Blue Mage class itself, or find a suitable NPC trainer to commandeer ala Matoya)
