Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
To a degree, yes, but not in the ways a lot of people say. The Ancients were too aetherically beefy to actually be able to manipulate dynamis, or to be manipulated by it--you could see this in how their 'creation magic' was the thing that broke, because they were actually immune, but their creations weren't. The elpis flower/the Heartbloom being largely inert in Elpis itself but reactive in the sundered world is the clearest example that yes, dynamis is being manipulated in the sundered world, just subconsciously.
Doctor Hermes was less aetherially dense I assume than the other ancients? Cause he had the Elpis flower react.

So creation magic is kind of the opposite of dynamis manipulation am I getting that right? Basically magic in general?

Beings that are not dense in aether can manipulate dynamis and they do so with their emotions.

And on the other end of the spectrum beings that are aether-rich can manipulate aether via creation magic which is not emotions, but something else, I don't know what, it's magic. The desperation/prayer whatever that leads to summonings is coincidental, emotions certainly don't hamper magic.

Not everything physical is aether, right? So the creatures in Ultima Thule for example are just dynamis and can of themselves also influence dynamis and also interact with aetherial beings like us. Are we even made of aether in UT? Or do we get a dynamis body after Thancred's sacrifice?

So when we fight let's say a Stellar Dragon in UT, we aren't actually physically fighting it, we are manipulating some dynamis into no longer expressing in a hostile way which is substituted by physical form. In fact the form of UT itself is just a substitute for us to make sense of it rationally, does that make sense?

I don't understand anything about the story btw.