[6.0 spoiler] Limit breaks

[PangTong]

Dynamis is a pure retcon explained away by Nidhana as "foreign scholars often conflate the two". That's their explanation for why the lore books are wrong about limit breaks, about why Mikoto (Archon in the study of aetherology) is wrong when she says feelings are aetherial phenomena, and why any jobs which harness emotions for power are wrong in describing that power as aetheric in nature. I find it difficult to believe that the setting's scholars, who are known to be able to perceive, sense and measure aether, could confuse an entirely separate energy source which cannot be seen, felt, or directly influenced, with aether. But that's the world we're in now.

[Gerel]

Dynamis is a pure retcon explained away by Nidhana as "foreign scholars often conflate the two". That's their explanation for why the lore books are wrong about limit breaks, about why Mikoto (Archon in the study of aetherology) is wrong when she says feelings are aetherial phenomena, and why any jobs which harness emotions for power are wrong in describing that power as aetheric in nature. I find it difficult to believe that the setting's scholars, who are known to be able to perceive, sense and measure aether, could confuse an entirely separate energy source which cannot be seen, felt, or directly influenced, with aether. But that's the world we're in now.

Considering that dynamis effectively just replicates the power of aether, and can't be measured, it is rather easy to see why a group of experts would conflate the two and go with the simplest answer: everything is aether. Now that we know better? We can better attempt to define the barrier between what is purely aether, what is purely dynamis, and what is a combination of the two. We also have to take into account that we're not like Meteion; we're aether-heavy in comparison. We're just "light enough" on the building block energy that we're capable of interacting and utilizing dynamis to further enhance what's there--we're the happy balance between two extremes. I imagine that would cause further issues in trying to determine the use of dynamis without properly knowing what it is.

It also opens us to interesting possibilities on the origins of magick on the Source. Before, it was thought to be a result of fervent prayer in response to a Calamity. Now it could be that Dynamis played a hand in our discovery of it. Ushered in the very desire to research a way to replicate those spells and voila: aether was discovered.