Quote Originally Posted by Connor View Post
Wouldn’t this mean everytime a Scholar summons a fairy they’re literally creating a living slave? I mean, they can think for themselves, store and retain memories / knowledge, and even refuse your commands (though maybe not past level 60 because then you can eat them lol). I’m not even sure they’re capable of speech, though I do remember something in the lore about them whispering so quietly nobody can make out what they say, so maybe that’s not quite accurate. But I still don’t get the sense that they’re ‘alive’ in the standard meaning of the word. They’re an aetherial construct like Carbuncles.

As a Scholar I’m not sure how I feel with the idea that I’ve been brutally murdering an innocent creature ever 120 seconds to get more Energy Drains lol. I hope they don’t carry grudges…

But basically I feel like in a world where aether can be used to create ‘creatures’ like fairies, it’s much harder to quantify what ‘real life’ is outside of living breathing physical things. I mean, is self-awareness enough to be considered ‘alive’ when your entire existence is contingent upon another person/entity that can end it at will?
Honestly, the lore is extremely brutal to creatures that "don't have a soul". All of Elpis is basically the Ancients messing around creating and destroying life for fun and science, and only Hermes seems to have any sort of empathy or compassion for these creatures.