Lore check request

[Jana]

Hello! I play a Summoner IC so I thought I should add my thoughts, though most of what I'd say has already been said.

 

My character is an adventurer with the Echo who was actually present and helped slay the Primals she can summon, Titan and Ifrit. (She's also ICly fought Ramuh, thanks to Dogberry's events, but cannot pull an Egi out.) I took the approach that "Primal summoning happens a bit more than we see in the MSQ," which not everyone agrees with, but I feel is acceptable within the game's lore. People can't even seem to agree on just how common the Echo is for adventurers (and laypersons).

 

My character is also very paranoid, and takes her status as a Summoner more seriously than the characters around her often do: She's very hesitant to pull an Egi out with strangers around due to the reaction ordinary people should have to it (adventurers don't seem to care much at all though)!

 

It's not incredibly difficult to make it possible for your character, but you do have to take into account how the game presents magic, Allagan magic in particular, before you go around blasting everything with Evoke!

[Kellach Woods]

Also, IIRC you only need to experience a Primal Summoning once - the other times you get the pets this whole point is never mentioned.

 

And the start of 50+ has you try to summon an Egi of the later MSQ primals and that summoning fails.

[Kaniko Niko]

Though not a Summoner, I can offer a tidbit about Black Mage:

 

Being a Black Mage isn't uniquely locked like the White Mage is. What IS locked, however, is the Warrior of Light's protection from black magic. There is very little difference between a Thaumaturge and a Black Mage storywise. The issue is that the way a Thaumaturge channels aether.

 

Without the Gem of Shatotto, the Black Mage soul gem, you have a soft cap on how much aether a person can manipulate before his own inner life-aether reaches criticality and starts to get rather...

 

Fissile.

 

Boom.

[Yssen]

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Though not a Summoner, I can offer a tidbit about Black Mage:

 

Being a Black Mage isn't uniquely locked like the White Mage is. What IS locked, however, is the Warrior of Light's protection from black magic. There is very little difference between a Thaumaturge and a Black Mage storywise. The issue is that the way a Thaumaturge channels aether.

 

Without the Gem of Shatotto, the Black Mage soul gem, you have a soft cap on how much aether a person can manipulate before his own inner life-aether reaches criticality and starts to get rather...

 

Fissile.

 

Boom.

 

Just a side note. It is very much up for debate how gated WHM actually is. I mean, Y'shtola is a WHM. She is Sharlayan and was born and raised there, she is not even the Archon that was assigned to the Shroud. This in no way eliminates the idea that one should come up with a good story to explain stuff, but that is pretty much an across the board thing. One should always come up with good story to explain stuff. Yar.

[Jana]

Y'shtola's a Conjurer, actually. Her special magic is Sharlyan in origin and doesn't draw upon Succor as far as we can tell.

[Shoshopu]

Shoshopu's also an IC Summoner! She has a Leviathan-egi, so mostly she uses it in my FC's Skype RP, and she doesn't whip it out in public places (except Camp Bronze Lake, once). She doesn't often bring summoning up in public either unless people ask her what she does, and they let her go on for long enough that she gets to that. She always starts with "I'm an arcanist."

 

She certainly can't use any of the new stuff, the post-50 abilities, mostly because those are related and she's got nothin' to do with that. She's essentially still just an arcanist but she uses a Leviathan-egi instead of a Carbuncle, but she's always looking for opportunities to learn more, and figuring out unique uses for her egi that she couldn't use her Carbuncle for.

 

I'm of the same mind as Freelance Wizard in that primal summonings happen more frequently than people might think. That thinking opens up a lot more exciting RP opportunities, IMO. Feel free to send me a PM if you wanna talk shop or ask specific questions about how I RP it! o/

[Yssen]

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Y'shtola's a Conjurer, actually. Her special magic is Sharlyan in origin and doesn't draw upon Succor as far as we can tell.

 She uses Regen and other WHM stuff like Holy when in combat.