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[fiendennor]

Do you believe in magic?
If so, what do you know about it?

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[fiendennor]

Do you both use it in the same way, then? Is there any significance to your being from different lands-- regional variants, perhaps?

[ysayle]

All magic makes use of aether. Her spells focus from within herself and are cast outward, as best I can tell. She would be better able to explain red magic to you than I.

I am a thaumaturge, so I draw upon the aether around me to make use in the casting of spells.

[fiendennor]

"Red magic"-- I've heard that term before. You refer to the somewhat idiosyncratically named combination of "white magic" and "black magic"? There's another here who referred to that term other than her.

[ysayle]

Ah. X'rhun has spoken with you, then? He is Alisaie's teacher, and a friend. Though one I made here. We never met on Eorzea.
His magics' origin is of a time after great wars of magic occurred, bringing about an Umbral era that flooded the land.
'White' typically heals, and gives back aether it 'borrowed', for lack of a better term, while 'Black' draws upon any source from the world around it. It tends to be much more destructive.

[fiendennor]

Yes, that's consistent in the descriptions he gave me. He also mentioned "arcanistry"? Is that similar to your skillset? Also, are you suggesting that you come from the same land, just years apart?

[ysayle]

No. They are very much mind over matter, precision and numbers, control. At least, as far as I know. I have not had the pleasure of spending much time in their company. Some adventurers follow such path, but it is primarily Lominsan in origin.

Yes. It is actual fact, not suggestion - my last memories end during a time of great upheavel. Both he and Alisaie Leveilleur are from after such a period, though I believe it a matter of months, rather than years.

[fiendennor]

I'd be interested on learning more about the differences in types of magic at a later date, if you wouldn't mind.

But that's interesting to me. Do you remember the Storm coming to herald the end of your world as I do?

[ysayle]

My education is not as broad as others, but I would be happy to share what I do know.

I know that the world ended, and the Storm was at the source of such an end. But I do not remember it as clearly as others do.

[fiendennor]

That would make sense.
After all, your world lasted, at a minimum, several more months from what you remember.
It is interesting, though. That you remember it at all.
The timeline doesn't make sense.

[ysayle]

There is a great deal about our situation that does not make sense.

And yet I sense no falsehood in the tales of events from those that rescued us.

The Storm took much from many. It would not surprise me if its presence warped time itself as part of its progression, and the destruction of stars.

[fiendennor]

I'll grant that something that powerful may not behave in a way consistent with anything we know before. And don't mistake me: I'm not accusing our benefactors of lying. Merely suggesting that I don't think we fully understand the task that is ahead of us. Or the events behind us.