Quote Originally Posted by Tharne View Post
They are born with the ability to use creation magick, they chose when to create something, you don't lose control of your legs all of a sudden and I'm pretty sure they had experience with children learning to use those powers and weird stuff happening from time to time, it's not like they're new at this.
And also if they are born with it, what kind of a sick joke is it if they can't use something natural to them ? 'Sorry fam, you're breathing to much, I have decided to cause a Calamity.' - The Planet. (Y'shtola even said that because they have a huge amount of aether their creation magick doesn't affect the aether from the land)
The Sound was affecting creatures already alive and transforming them, that's not their creation magick's doing, and it wrested control of their abitily to use their magick, they weren't in command anymore.
During the sidequest about their views on nonconformity, the one you're first sent to talk to mentions that even the slightest distraction during the creation process can alter the results. They were creating robes, they noticed a group of children running by, and as a result they got a bunch of child-sized robes that they had to desynthesize. If an attempt at a large-scale concept went wrong and created a cacophony from underground, any ongoing creation within the entire city could be radically altered by fear, and that fear could spread like a pandemic.