Quote Originally Posted by the-kuponut View Post
Yes it is the same fairy from the LB, and is even included in the HW artbook.

While true that your fairies aren't arcane entities born from your own aether like ACN does, it still operates on the same concept. The SCH forge bonds with fairies then use the soulstone to summon them (from Encyclopaedia Eorzea). And Seraph is the ultimate form of the fairies. Selene/Eos are both the same fairy but with a different form.

Our soulstone is Surito Curito's, and so, the fairy is Lily, and the Seraph is also Lily, just her ultimate, most powerful form.

Angel feathers has its own section in the first EE, with a quote from a SCH about how they thought they will die when their fairy sprouted angel wings and saved them from their fatal wounds.

AST lore has nothing to do with this, and G'raha's timeline shenanigans are an entirely seperate issue. Plot holes always open up when you bring timelines but that is an entirely different can of worms that has nothing to do with SCH and is in no way connected to the discussion. There already exists "102059601062968286 lore problems" with the introduction of Dynamis and time travel, but none of these are relevant.

You can dislike the transformation, but it is in no way lore inaccurate or in clash with the job's identity, that is my point, SCH always had angelic connections, since ARR.
I think most people are just not liking the direction SE is taking Scholar. I've been playing it from the start and I remember the Scholar moveset was mathmetician/strategist themed while the fairy had the heals/angelic motif. They've been eroding that over the last few expansions and making it such a mismash of lore it feels like it doesn't have a real defined identity anymore with the last bit of Lily being crammed in to fit with what SMN got. My opinion, of course.