Quote Originally Posted by Melinia View Post
Ordinary people appear to be able to use the aetherite as well.
There's competing and complimentary information regarding this statement throughout Eorzea, so much so that it's not explicitly clear. If the average person could teleport anywhere any time, then it would negate a huge swath of practicality from our world. What's to stop ten thousand soldiers appearing out of nowhere onto frontlines of a battle or mass evacuation of a city in one go? You could never lock prisoners in cages and transportation firms would go broke etc.

I'm more inclined to believe it's Echo-only. But then you have Sundhimal and co. with their too-general explanations...