[Spoilers] On Meteion's powers

[Gerel]

Oh, okay. I mean, I don't remember them mentioning that she can wield creation magicks and utilize Dynamis for that purpose on top of everything. But sure.

They didn't know what she was truly capable of. Not even Hermes had the faintest clue. Dynamis, even for the Ancients, was a mysterious force that they knew only so much about. Much of their knowledge was conjecture and theory. Meteion's very nature as a being composed of Dynamis meant she was far more adept in its use and could mimic what her creators were capable of by drawing on emotions and the ambient Dynamis that came of the Meteia's travels and experiences.

We only figure it out because it was pretty much stated by Hydaelyn, and later, the rest of the Scions.

[YianKutku]

They didn't know what she was truly capable of. Not even Hermes had the faintest clue. Dynamis, even for the Ancients, was a mysterious force that they knew only so much about. Much of their knowledge was conjecture and theory. Meteion's very nature as a being composed of Dynamis meant she was far more adept in its use and could mimic what her creators were capable of by drawing on emotions and the ambient Dynamis that came of the Meteia's travels and experiences.

We only figure it out because it was pretty much stated by Hydaelyn, and later, the rest of the Scions.

I'm reminded of the comparisons people make between dynamis and "dark energy" as per the current theoretical understanding of our universe. Primarily because Hermes's number for the amount of dynamis in their universe (68.3 percent) is more or less the current guess for the percentage of dark energy in the total energy of the universe.

The reason it's called "dark" energy is we have no way of directly measuring it. Instead, dark energy is measured by its indirect effects on other things; its very existence was theorized because based on what we know, the universe should be expanding at a certain given rate, but instead it's expanding way faster, and so physicists ended up attributing that to a strange, unknown, and undetectable form of extra energy, in order to make their equations work. And given adding this "dark energy" to the equations does make them work, there's clearly something happening, but we don't know what or why.

Compare to dynamis in FFXIV's setting, which the Ancients can't measure quantitatively, or even detect... up until Hermes created Meteion the entelechy, based off his studies of the Elpis flowers. But Meteion wasn't even created to study dynamis, but rather simply to use it for interstellar travel. While we eventually learn that dynamis is somehow the root cause of the despair that caused creation magic to go haywire and Sundered beings to transform, we still don't know how it does that, and I would say the Ancients would not have known either, even if they deigned to research the matter. Which, going by what we saw in Elpis, would have been highly unlikely, because of the sheer inertia of Tradition in Amaurotine society.

Dynamis is a cosmological black box. Nobody knows how it works, nobody knows how to quantify it, and nobody knows if the effects it has on anything else are primary or secondary. For all we know, dynamis is present only to make a certain flower species change colour, and all the "broadcasting emotions" and "limit breaks" stuff is unintended side effects.