Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
In a world where food literally converts into aether for spellcasting, dieting must not be much of a thing.

They actually make a specific point in the aftermath of 5.3 that casting spells needs to be recharged by eating food (at least when you don't have a giant aether battery providing power instead).
We eat aether, like Zero did with the apple, and more. The problem of our sides is the "more".
If we were only aether, what the point of bury a corpse (why are there corpses)? Or why did the scions need their bodies back?
We have "a physical soul", this soul need aether and we are able to convert soul in magic, but the body need something else, for example archon bread XD