Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
I'll ask the fundamental question: If we are unable to use an ability, then what does it matter if we possess the ability?
I'll point out that during one of the side quests we were given a concept template for robes and a few lightning crystals (or clusters, I don't recall which) and our only issue with making the robes was that we didn't know how to use the template and creation magic. It would seem that while our personal capacity for aether is insufficient, a simple handful of crystals is supposedly enough to compensate. In fact, the fact that summoning is described by the ascians as a form of creation magic, which we witness being used in the Akadaemia Anyder final boss cutscene.

So, if we do possess the ability, we might actually be able to use it.

Heck, given the animations for the crafting classes, we might already be using a corrupted or diluted form of creation magic already, but that could just be due to game mechanics and limitations in the game engine.