Duty Commenced 09 - Lore Lowdown (Aetherytes)

[Kallera]

A person chooses to return to their homepoint or a dungeon's entrance. But return(either willingly or by ko) is a choice, which remains in control during a KO. If a person loses conciousness in battle, how do they retain control over when and when not to reduce the body to aether, such as a raise being casted on you? If a person has no control over the raise process, what would cause it to kick in when loss of conciousness occurs?

[ExKage]

A person chooses to return to their homepoint or a dungeon's entrance. But return(either willingly or by ko) is a choice, which remains in control during a KO. If a person loses conciousness in battle, how do they retain control over when and when not to reduce the body to aether, such as a raise being casted on you? If a person has no control over the raise process, what would cause it to kick in when loss of conciousness occurs?

People beat me to it! As it came up on RPC I hoped to see what insight people might have here. Their post was this

So I guess an alternate explanation of why we homepoint when we "die" is that we're reflexively making use of the Return spell? Interesting food for thought; I suppose that means that anyone playing a sufficiently-aethered-up adventurer (namely anyone embodying a Job full-on) should be extremely difficult to kill if they aren't one-shotted, since the body will naturally try to ride away on the Lifestream to a homepoint.

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this idea because traveling using aether still requires some type of consciousness and concentration does it not? When we use return, we are still casting (hence concentrating). If we were able to do such a thing without consciousness, wouldn't the concentration factor be heavily reduced?