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While the Sound does mess with the Creation Magic... nothing we have seen of it indicates Creation Magic is the cause of it. From the sound of it, it comes up out of nowhere and starts wrecking havoc. More interesting, the "solution" to fixing the Sound isn't getting rid of Creation Magic. Whatever Zoidark did to end the Sound (or contain it) he left Creation Magic alone.
Zodiark fixed the immediate issue, but it was Hydaelyn that actually got rid of creation magic by sundering the world and splitting everyone's souls. Previously it was a natural ability inherent to (at least) all Amaurotines. Some semblance of it exists within current magical systems, but rather than drawing upon concepts, they mostly brute-force effects through the manipulation of aether. If it actually worked the same way, you'd probably see a lot of people trying to cast Fire 1, only to conjure a fit of bubbles or gust of air, as even the slightest idle thoughts or flawed conception ruined the spell they were trying to enact.
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Personally my thoughts on it are that the Sound is the result of uncontrolled creation magic, whether consciously created or more likely, sub consciously created, say by a dreaming individual. I think that the writers for XIV are likely to reference the old film, Forbidden Planet from 1956. Within that film a human scientist learns that a superior race of Alien, the Krell, once inhabited the planet he has been the lone researcher on, 200,000 years prior. They created a machine powered by 9,200 nuclear fusion reactors that was capable of constructing anything from their mere thoughts alone. The Krell apparently existed for over a billion years, and evolved past the point of war and violence. Yet, they disappeared, and all surface level structures of theirs on the planet were ground into dust in the span of a single night. "The secret devil of the soul of every person on the planet set loose all at once to loot and maim. To kill and take revenge." Within the movie, the professor who studies the Krell is shown to have gained their capacity at a limited scope to create with his mind, and he creates an intangible, invisible beast when he sleeps that seeks to destroy things that plague him in his waking hours.
Exactly my belief, though I kind of doubt any intentional allusions to that film or the presence of an actual machine beneath the earth. Instead I think it was a manifestation of their collective unconscious, inadvertently birthed through long-term use of their creation magics, that took form in the Lifestream.