[Spoilers] On Meteion's powers

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Originally Posted by Antoine_Lenheim

Well, yeah, how nice it would be if they actually explained all of these instead of utilizing "soft magic" systems and then making us theoretize and speculate. This is one of the complaint I have. Soft magic systems are lazy. And FF deserves better than this. My take on magic systems is, limitations forces you to think cleverly about how you approach your scenario. I really dislike it when someone breaks the rules established so far because "it's magic, deal with it". On this principle, you could solve any situation with a deus ex machina.

Now, maybe they will explain it a bit further, but I doubt it.

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Soft magic has its time and place. By its nature, it's more prone to be mystical - not based on hard facts but on spirituality, feelings, emotions, or higher powers. It worked well in things like Star Wars and LotR, where those stories are intended to feel more like folk legends or fairy tales. And it's the reason why so many people hate the whole midi-chlorian thing, because a hard limit like that takes away some of the mysticism that so many people loved about that world.

It works well in FFXIV, imo. The thing with MMORPG is that it's tricky to set anything in stone. Things are being changed and adjusted constantly, not to mention that your story is taking place over years rather than being told in a game that can be finished in 14 hours. You need to have flexibility with your story, your battle mechanics, your fights, etc. You want your characters to have room to keep getting stronger and stronger and have cool new things they can do as they level up. Soft magic is very friendly to this.

Not to mention the fact that it has definitely given the story a more folktale feel to it than say FF7, which also works well to me. The whole story is your WoL's journey to becoming a hero to the world - it's your folk legend that is being told. I don't think hard magic would let them tell that story as well.

I believe it's mentioned that the Meteia can not only project emotions (and thus Dynamis energy), but also assimilate it, as seen when Meteion gained Hermes's love of candied apples simply by being in proximity to him even though she cannot eat herself. That power is thus shared between all the Meteia units of the hive mind. As a consequence, the hundreds, possibly thousands of Meteia units have absorbed the negative Dynamis energy of untold numbers of dead or dying civilizations, and that power accumulated over the millennia as Meteion added more and more souls to her egg. On her own, at the moment she fled Etheirys, the Meteion we know was probably fairly weak in comparison to the Ancients, but untold eons of passively absorbing and mastering the manipulation of Dynamis in her hidden corner of creation allowed her power to grow to apocalyptic levels. That is my understanding of it, at any rate.

Why does it still stand? surely it is no match for you.

Says it all really. She is weak but caused so much problems by manipulating others emotions and turning them into frenzied madness. What she and her sisters lack, in strength, they made up in numbers.

hers is the power of emotions they broke whole worlds and nearly destroyed the universe but ye sure lets claim meteion is weak :P

heck the whole point of her domain is that it don't matter how powerful a ancient you'd send in there their ianbility to use dynamsis means they'd just die without thancred's sacrifice we would not even have the land masses or the ability to survive in her domain

not to mention they'd most likely have no way of actually reaching her as far as we know the ancients didn't have a space program and meteion seem to suggest that hermes couldn't make it to where she was going as a fleshy ancient