Quote Originally Posted by Skies View Post
There is a misunderstanding. A leve is actually a permission to execute an official job such as hunting or such things, the leveplate is made of crystal and resonates with the aetheryte and 'registers' your presence there, so that it can be noticed you're on the job.
This was... Actually explained in the official XIV site somewhere!
Good.

Since I got halfway through this thread, I keep thinking that *everything's* in a twelve-damned Echo. The leve thing just made sense to me for a moment, as you basically repeat the action over and over and it would be a good explanation as to why certain NPCs didn't own more subligaria than required to clothe the whole of Aldenard ten times over.

And I still don't really get why Derplander Echoes when he picks up the leve, when that's something none of us have ever done (which is why I thought that maybe it was something we did do each time, unwittingly).

/echo paranoia