Are jobs bound by lore?

[MikkoAkure]

You do not need a job stone to be a job. Job stones absorb the experiences of their practitioners so that their techniques can be passed on to future practitioners more easily, but you can learn those techniques without a stone. It just takes time (or talent) like learning anything else.

That’s not entirely accurate.

You use machinist as an example, but the man who gives you the stone himself says that the job stone is required to transfer your aether to the aetherotransformer(the lunchbox). Without that, you would just be a Lominsan musketeer. Similarly, black magic cannot be controlled at all without the use of the stone. Scholar faeries are also bound to the stone and an NPC says only those who have a stone and were bathed in a primal’s aether can become summoners.

It may be possible to learn other job abilities without a job stone, but who would teach you? In a world where regular training + experience = magical stone imparting memories of techniques upon you, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a traditional teacher, and it would definitely be the long path.

Even the world’s center of learning, Sharlayan, doesn’t have such teachers. Levava’s grandfather loses all of his astrologian powers as soon as he gives up his stone to you. The monks of Ala Mhigo also historically depended on job stones. And now they’re even more crucial for monks and other professions that have been endangered