SMN Disease based spells

[IrisBlanchimont]

As you said, the arcanists of Limsa Lominsa are more akin to scientists and mathematicians (which is why it's not really correct to describe their role as "sacred"; that would be a more apt description for the thaumaturges of Ul'dah or the conjurers of Gridania ).

I merely used the Earth term for that kind of magical-mathematical symbolism which is typically called "sacred geometry". In fact you're quite right in the idea that its the least mystical of the magical classes.

[TinyRedLeaf]

In fact you're quite right in the idea that its the least mystical of the magical classes.

Indeed. And it's very much in keeping with the pragmatic nature of Lominsan culture (freedom in strength born of wrought-iron cannons and arms; let's eat and be merry, and loot while we can, arr!), and highly reminiscent of Enlightenment-era England. England in that period of history was developing an intellectual tradition that was uniquely its own, one based more on empirical science than the more theoretical metaphysics of continental Europe. English scientists and philosophers of this era — Hume, Newton and Bentham, to name a few — were more interested in phenomena that were observable and measurable. They would have been the real-world equivalents of Eorzea's arcanists.

And it can't be coincidental that England was as much a piratical state as Limsa Lominsa is in this era. Hard science goes well with guns and muskets, I reckon.