About Scholar's Third Limit Break: Angel Feathers

[Anonymoose]

Eos and Selene are often spoken of as if they're different faeries, but they're really just different aspects (read: stances) of the same being.

Raises often have angel wings associated with them, and even the LV50 relic for SCH (Last Resort) ends up having them.

So, for SCH's LB3, the Faerie glows white, gets angel wings, and everyone is raised.

I'm not sure if there's more to it, though - there might be!

(Also, I also wish I could use the angel winged faerie as a glamour, but hey.)

[StarDrake]

It is kind of interesting that Lily's aspects seem to correlate with the Sects ASTs use, though Selene doesn't offer any additional Mitigation.

It's another recurrence of astral and umbral. The duality of light and (not-evil) dark runs through virtually all forms of magic on Hydaelyn.

(Also, I also wish I could use the angel winged faerie as a glamour, but hey.)

Don't we all, really

[Morningstar1337]

It's another recurrence of astral and umbral. The duality of light and (not-evil) dark runs through virtually all forms of magic on Hydaelyn.

Indeed, MNK's Chakra, BLM's Magic (and BLM/WHM in general), AST sects, PLD/DRK. This motif persists thought the Jobs, as well as other aspects of the game

[MiniPrinny]

I'm not sure if there's more to it, though - there might be!

(Also, I also wish I could use the angel winged faerie as a glamour, but hey.)

Well, I figured I'd help you out a bit, Anonymoose. While yes, that's likely the whole of it for FFXIV's universe, it's not so cut in dry for the series as a whole. Angel Feathers, like most of the limit breaks has an identity outside of FFXIV. In this case, it's the ability of the rarely occurring summon, Seraph. It functions rather similarly, restoring the party's HP and in later games it also removes KO like it does here. But, while the name just simply that, fairies have been summoned in the past in the series. Again, they seem to restore HP and remove KO with their signature abilities (it varies game to game).

With this in mind, one could theorize that Angel Feathers is Lily's ultimate spell, but to use it, she needs much more aether than the Warrior of Light has to give her. This most likely means that when a Scholar uses Angel Feathers, what they are doing is giving Lily the aether she needs to take on an angelic form and use Angel Feathers herself. This could be seen as converting Lily into miniature primal. The name, how Limit Breaks function, and the situations where you would be using Angel Feathers makes me think that Angel Feathers is one of the most awe-inspiring limit breaks, since it shows absolute faith between the Scholar and their fairy. The Scholar is trusting their fairy with an absurd amount of power and potential for abuse, while the fairy is trusting the Scholar to reel her back in if she goes overboard with that aether and starts to become a true primal.