Quote Originally Posted by Wolfandre View Post
It is worth noting that the White Mages didn't directly cause the Umbral Event, so much as their actions did. The Elementals were the ones who, if memory serves, caused it by manifesting their grief as Oha-Sok, the Elemental of Nihility. Oha-Sok judged humanity and decided the world would be better off if it were drowned. White magic, then, wasn't so much banned as much as it was forgotten about (I think maybe that was the idea.... "Awh, man! Look at all this awful stuff you guys did with that really awesome thing we gave you!!") and restricted by the Elementals.
This makes me wonder, if Oha-Sok isn't a primal or something akin to it. The primal of the elementals. Just how intelligent are the elementals?