Elements

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Of all the potential options, “water remained because in current gameplay white mages and conjurers don’t have much going on anymore for water so the old mages must not have used water either” is the silliest one. I’m also still not sure where you got Nym and wind from either.

In ye olde 1.0 lore I remember something about the elementals being responsible for flooding the world because of the War of the Magi. Despite it being from after Yoshi-P’s takeover, that lore hasn’t been transferred over but a ton of water energy flowing into the world at once from an angry elemental leading it to getting even bigger due to calamity on another shard makes a whole lot more sense than “they didn’t use water spells” and it at least has the benefit of being explicitly stated in-game.

As far as I know that legacy plotline was dropped (especially since they didn’t have a defined direction for the calamities yet and it’s not mentioned anywhere in encyclopaedia eorzea) but I’m not necessarily saying that since we use little water it’s evidence that the war of the magi didn’t use any just that all evidence points to them drawing more of the 5 other elements than water which can be thematically relevant if that was the intended design

Water is part of conjury but there is also an explicit desire to not use water that much in current gameplay, whether that’s linked to the war of the magi or not is up for debate but the war of the magi causing the flood because they used less water than any other element is pretty hard to deny