I don't have much to add to both already very exhaustive answers.
Just expanding on the difference between white magic and conjury, as said above, is not small. Both are a different art of magic, much like black magic is different from thaumaturgy. While both conjury and white magic relay on similar ways to focus their magic, using prayers, attuning to the land around, white magic basically has access to Hydaelyn's aether where conjury only borrows from elementals and the immediate land around (the same way that a black magic draws from Hydaelyn while thaumaturgy only from your own body).Â
This means that the energy at the disposal of a white mage is nothing alike. The art of Succor also, is much, much more than just healing and casting a few elemental spells. It relies a lot on shielding, barriers and such, as well as animating golems (like seen in Amdapor), sealing voidsent, etc. It can also deploy devastating spells like Holy, for example. I would assume that in the old Amdapory society, there was probably a lot of different fields of study in White Magic considering how it was everything to them, and how extensive it was (much like Black and Void magic were everything to Mhach).
Just expanding on the difference between white magic and conjury, as said above, is not small. Both are a different art of magic, much like black magic is different from thaumaturgy. While both conjury and white magic relay on similar ways to focus their magic, using prayers, attuning to the land around, white magic basically has access to Hydaelyn's aether where conjury only borrows from elementals and the immediate land around (the same way that a black magic draws from Hydaelyn while thaumaturgy only from your own body).Â
This means that the energy at the disposal of a white mage is nothing alike. The art of Succor also, is much, much more than just healing and casting a few elemental spells. It relies a lot on shielding, barriers and such, as well as animating golems (like seen in Amdapor), sealing voidsent, etc. It can also deploy devastating spells like Holy, for example. I would assume that in the old Amdapory society, there was probably a lot of different fields of study in White Magic considering how it was everything to them, and how extensive it was (much like Black and Void magic were everything to Mhach).
Balmung:Â Suen Shyu
