What job is Y'shtola in 5.0?

'Stola's almost always used a wand or a staff though and the scions themselves don't play by the rules when it comes to abilities.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

'Stola's almost always used a wand or a staff though and the scions themselves don't play by the rules when it comes to abilities.

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True but as far as magic goes she can't use black magic without a blm soul stone. Literally no one can. It regulates your aether preventing you from being incinerated from the inside out. We learn this in the HW blm quest line DX

It's been a few hours and some sleep later but I do remember hearing Yoshi P using the words 'kuro madoshi' to describe Y'shtola during the reveal, which basically means black mage. At the very least when they brought up the Trust System she was termed as the 'DPS' while Thancred was the 'tank' and Urianger was the 'healer'. I do think if anything though she's just going to be a thaumaturge for reasons that others have pointed out. Even when she was a healer she was always classified as a conjurer and not a white mage.

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Originally Posted by Transient_Shadow

True but as far as magic goes she can't use black magic without a blm soul stone. Literally no one can. It regulates your aether preventing you from being incinerated from the inside out. We learn this in the HW blm quest line DX

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True, but that doesn't stop thms from slinging fire and ice spells which are black magic spells. Or the numerous thm enemies. There's obviously more than one stone out there becasue our lala trainer probably would have died regardless of sharing a body with our world's Shantoto.

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Originally Posted by Transient_Shadow

True but as far as magic goes she can't use black magic without a blm soul stone. Literally no one can. It regulates your aether preventing you from being incinerated from the inside out. We learn this in the HW blm quest line DX

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She's using what looks like Matoya's staff, but with the Crystal Eye fitted into it. I could see that filling the same purpose as the soul crystal when it comes to aether regulation, especially with how attuned Y'Shtola is to aether after her dip in the Lifestream.

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Originally Posted by Transient_Shadow

True but as far as magic goes she can't use black magic without a blm soul stone. Literally no one can. It regulates your aether preventing you from being incinerated from the inside out. We learn this in the HW blm quest line DX

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While that is the case, there are Less forms of the BLM spells we know NPCs can access exclusively for themselves. We have seen this many times already and while these skills are consider "lesser" forms of Job skills, they are still just as effective.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

True, but that doesn't stop thms from slinging fire and ice spells which are black magic spells. Or the numerous thm enemies. There's obviously more than one stone out there becasue our lala trainer probably would have died regardless of sharing a body with our world's Shantoto.

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Maybe BLM soulstones are as dirt-cheap as BLU's soulstones and sold as souvenirs somewhere.

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Originally Posted by AriaFairchild

Maybe BLM soulstones are as dirt-cheap as BLU's soulstones and sold as souvenirs somewhere.

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I'm inclined to believe either Y'shtola got her hands on a soul crystal, or just... made her own. This is Y'shtola we're talking about. It's also possible she's gotten so talented with personal aether manipulation that she can regulate it herself without the need of a soul crystal.

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Originally Posted by AriaFairchild

Maybe BLM soulstones are as dirt-cheap as BLU's soulstones and sold as souvenirs somewhere.

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Unlike whm lore wise I don't think there's a reason why there couldn't be more than one. There just wouldn't be many soul stones as their kind of old and after the great flood black mages and thus black magic became highly unpopular and if I remember right it was even outlawed for a bit? After all Mach had to have enough mages around to control the various Voidsent they went about using and or imprisoning.

Willing to bet it's Matoya occupying her body and part of the story for the trust system is trying to recover Shtola's and the rest of the scion's souls.