(08-07-2017, 10:07 PM)Tiergan Wrote: People have given you the full extent of the lore as we know it now complete with diagrams and in-depth explanations.This is false as I've accepted my mistakes in misinterpretations and misreadings. I've asked what I've desired since the start and do not see a defined answer for it. Please don't attempt to direct this into another direction, I'm already struggling internally trying to ask in the first place about something I asked 3 pages ago.
Anything further honestly just looks like you're trying take your own fabrications of how magic might work in Eorzea and jam them in between the cracks in hope it'll all cement together the way you would like them to. Â And while that's totally fine if you want to do that and RP it with other people who would find it interesting and worthwhile - it also rapidly stops having a place in a thread devoted to lore.
(08-07-2017, 10:29 PM)L Wrote: The simple answer is that a mage can manipulate polarities. This is the very foundation of Thaumaturgy. As for what determines polarity in a natural case, outside of magic? It just is. Dry air is just umbral, chilly air is just umbral.
That's all I ever wanted to know, thank you lol.
EDIT: I just asked my friend a couple of the same questions and he gave me some information that clarified a lot for me...
To quote him, "Thanalan is hot and arid because there is a large amount of umbral fire aether there Aether drives the environment, not the other way around"
That helps clarify a bit in terms of what I was thinking about when I asked about why thanalan would have more umbrally aligned fire in it so to speak. I always thought the world was the other way around, makes a lot more sense now.
Then this...
"Yeah. There is a natural dispersal of aether in the world just like how there is a dispersal of minerals in the real world. Some places have gold, some have iron, some have thorium because that's how it worked out after all the immensely complex natural systems worked out
Aether is the same. Some place have more of one than another because that's how it has distributed over time. Major events can change that distribution (like climate change.)
Climate is based on aether."
So in actuality... This applies to elements and polarization alone, it all exists and formed the world rather than the world existing of it. So elemental aether is naturally about and polarized just so naturally "just because" rather than aether being there for a certain reason due to the enviornment and explicit other changes(calamities, hydaelyn, etc)... I've had it reserved this whole string of posts.
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