Does Scholar Really Use Magic? - Lore/RP

[Lambdafish]

Various mage classes has different 'sources' and ways of channeling aether but in the end they all use it, so saying "oh but this class's particular tool is a bit different" seems relatively meaningless and makes an unconvincing argument.

Thats my point though, does it or doesn't it matter? Because while you could well be right in that aether = magic, the use of an external tool is far more akin to garlean tech than actual magic. In the sightseeing log, we find the following passage: "To power their legions of war machina, the Garleans require a steady supply of the aether-based fuel known as ceruleum." What this tells us is that ceruleum is aether based, making magitek technology aetheric fueled. That gives us a huge link towards MCH, which also uses technology that is aetheric fueled.

My argument therefor is that MCH uses magitek, not magic. Garleans use magitek, not magic. Other jobs use magick because the aether is the source of the abilities, not just the fuel (and it is just fuel, the lorebook describes the process as "converting mana into lightning-aspected energy (or as well call it in the real world - electricity) to power the invention"). You could argue that it is semantics, but I think there is an important distinction.