Garlean Inability to use magic.

[rainichan]

Emet-Selch states when you speak to him at level 74 that he possessed a random body upon travelling to the first. Not to mention that one of the main reasons he is so interested in the Exarch is because he was able to transport us through the rift to the first with our body, something Ascians are unable to do. Dialogue in question:

">> Choice 1: Why choose this form here in the first?
Emet-Selch: Well, well, what a curious question.
Emet-Selch: Mortal flesh is but the vessel into which we Ascians pour the elixir of our souls, moulding it as fits the occasion. Or not, if we so choose.
Emet-Selch: Be it for a year or a millennium, I prefer to retain the same form until my duty is done. So, after arriving here in the First, I fashioned some hapless body into the man you see before you.
Emet-Selch: Though as your friend over there can attest, there are those of us who forgo such alterations.
Emet-Selch: He was ever the rash one, Lahabrea. Jumping from vessel to vessel. Never heeding the toll it took on him."

Ah, I forgot about that, been a while. Cheers.

[Theodric]

Not really?

I suppose he looks more like an ancient than some characters, wouldn't say he's perfectly like one though. Maybe if he had a shave.

There's some differences, though I wouldn't consider Maxima to be too far off of an Ancient in terms of his appearance:



I daresay it's likely a slightly tweaked model, even. Much in the same way as how Themius is quite obviously an altered Ramza and Varis' facial features are built off of those of a male Raen.