(08-08-2017, 06:10 AM)Valic Wrote: Specifically your analogy toward heat representing them, as that's exactly how my lore savvy friend described them as well. As for the thaumaturge mention at the end, we actually recently had that talk as well. Discussing if they were somehow in an area much more aligned umbrally that they would be more like to use the reverse of what they use now. Though again like you said, it would be clunky and counter intuitive to be using what forces would be considered less devastating as a main offense and vice versa. It can be done but it's just not simply because of logic.
Well it's not that astral ice is by necessity less potent than astral fire, I meant more like, since it's harder to find astral ice and easier to come by astral fire, it probably requires less resources or something to build up...? But then again, as I said above, it's pure speculation on my part. It just seems to make sense to explain why it's Astral Fire and Umbral Ice and not the other way.
It could be that it's actually as easy to generate astral ice than umbral ice, or whatever. I would advise not to put too much weight behind those hypothesises. I generally don't like hypothesises and I rarely give in to them, especially since it's by definition out of the lore.
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