Quote Originally Posted by Zohar_Lahar View Post
There's a lot still left unexplained, like why the War of the Magi started, why Mhach was so obsessed with destruction magic, what did Amdapor actually do that pushed the elementals into calling Oha-Sok, and how Nym's ruins ended up on floating rocks.
I have a theory regarding what Amdapor may have done.

Based on Amdapor HM we know the Elementals fear the stone guardians of the city. They would not even enter the city with the padjal when they attempted to cleanse it. Given how powerful the Elementals are and what we know them to be capable of I find this response to the amdapori golems rather odd.

It's worth noting also that Oha-Sok was, in a sense, the Elementals' version of a primal:

Quote Originally Posted by Raya-O-Senna
Oha-Sok is the collective fury of the elementals given form. Their suffering summoned her forth, and in her turn she stokes the fire of their rage with her keening.
When do races tend to summon primals? When they feel threatened and desperate. Up until now we've always assumed they were desperate because the abuse of White Magic was draining the land dry and killing the Elementals as a side effect. That is still a possibility, but the fear they displayed towards these guardians suggests something more specific.

With these facts in mind I speculate that there are two posibilities; either the stone guardians are capable of killing Elementals, or they were made from Elementals. What if the Amdapori version of White Magic was capable of enslaving the Elementals? One of the significant details of the War of the Magi is that it highlights white magic as having just as much potential for destruction as its antithesis. All sides were driven to desperation by the end. With the Mhachi enslaving powerful voidsent to fight on their behalf the Amdapori may have enslaved the Elementals in desperate retaliation.

A crackpot theory with no real evidence, but it would place Amdapor as a fitting mirror for Mhach.