Limsa Lominsa oathbreakers?

[Skies]

I love the lore surrounding Kobolds - in the Blacksmith questline (I think, might be Armorer), they explain that the metal 'Cobalt' actually comes from the word 'Kobold,' because that's how Eorzeans first got ahold of it - by trading with the Beastmen!

Which is an interesting parallel to the actual origin of the word Cobalt. Because Cobalt originates from the german word Kobold which means a goblin. Cobalt was named such because in early ages attempt to smelt cobalt ore (which is always mixed and never pure) would often simply yield useless powder (since they thought they were smelting stuff like copper and nickel) as well as being fatal in many cases as cobalt was often found with arsenic mixed in, and the smelting creating noxious fumes.

[Anonymoose]

Just throwing this out there into the aether discussion - I don't even think the aether goes into the crafted items, does it? In areas where the aether concentrates, crystals form. Sometimes, based on the geography of the area the aether is crystallizing in, one aspect of the elemental wheel becomes dominant over the others. When we use, say, a fire crystal, are we not just freeing the crystallized aether, letting it return to the environment around us, and harnessing the energy crated in the phase transition? When we use a turbine to capture the energy of the wind and then use that energy to, say, mill grain, we don't say that the grain possesses the wind we stole from the environment system.

Primals, we are told, are essences which were one diffuse amongst the aether, but were allowed to consolidate due to the imbalance of the system as a whole. When a primal consumes aether, it leaves the system. One way to look at it is that primals become crystals themselves - except ever expanding, conscious crystals that seek to leech all aether from the system and use it to gain power. This is why we are able to take the stolen aether back from Garuda by leeching it out of her and forming it into a Crystal of Light. By felling a primal, you free the stored aether in the same way that you do when using a crystal, no?

I wouldn't say that using crystals is the same as feeding primals and both are bad; I'd say that using crystals and felling primals are the same and are both good.