How exactly does a white mage purify something?

[Cleretic]

What I mean was were they somehow breaking down their own aether and using the element that's stronger to the corrupted aether. Which would go against conjury teaching and highly dangerous or using nearby aether of an element that was stronger than the corrupted element. That was until I went over at least the conjurer quests where we just beat up a corrupted aether sprites that were being caused by an ahriman. It's more of are we praying and willing the corruption away or are we as I said using ambient of the polar/stronger element to defuse the corruption? As nothing is shown coming from us yet we still solve the problem.

I mean, the thing here is that we don't even have an exact description of the problem, so we don't really know what the solution is. The terms used are more evocative than descriptive. The conjurers clearly know what they're doing, so however they're solving this is working, but they're not exactly giving us scientific descriptors.

[SannaR]

I mean, the thing here is that we don't even have an exact description of the problem, so we don't really know what the solution is. The terms used are more evocative than descriptive. The conjurers clearly know what they're doing, so however they're solving this is working, but they're not exactly giving us scientific descriptors.

Which is the problem though after having thought about what Sylphie describes I think it's some sort of silent communication that's normally one way with nature. Even E-Sumi tells the WoL after their initial quest to go and commune/attune with nature so that doing so comes to them as naturally as breathing. As Sylphie with her rare gift is capable of hearing nature's woes.

That and conjurey and at least modern white mages still have that thin layer of Shinto paint they were trying to elude to with how they're meant to work or be seen as when it comes to their purification and anything tangentially related to the elementals.