Inks and wards

[dubstephalflife]

I'm rping someone who is learning how to write wards to protect against void, and one of my rp friends brought up that she thought silver was especially good against voidsent, but she couldn't remember where she heard it. Does anyone know where this might've come from?

Which brings to mind, are there any other metals and inks good for different kinds of wards and spell writing?

[Anonymoose]

The item levels of scepters and books seem to imply that more precious metals conduct aether better. Is there a reason to assume that does not hold specifically when facing Voidsent? Better aetherial manipulation means stronger magick, and wards are magickal in nature, are they not? At first glance, I'd assume it still goes Copper > Iron > Silver > Mythril > Electrum > Gold > Rose Gold > Platinum.

Hopefully whoever started passing around this information has a citation, because I can't recall such a thing

DISCLAIMER:
The following is mostly in jest.

There's this an item called a Gold Needle (for curing petrification) and the item description is that it's made of pure gold. The materials? Electrum, spoken blood, and ahriman wings. If Electrum is a silver/gold alloy, how do people blood and voidsent parts leech the silver out and leave you with a pure gold needle!? Perhaps this is related to your phenomenon!

[Bombast]

My guess would be that your friend is confusing the our world (Where silver is, in many cultures, considered the purest material, and generally accepted to be extremely powerful when used in a paranormal setting) and FF14's world.

As best as I know, there is no 'anti-voidsent' material, just powerful metals smelted and refined into powerful aetherial items and wards. Which would make platinum the most powerful of all at the moment (Until, I suspect, Heavensward drops, and 'True Gold' is put into the game just to make the whole thing more confusing.).

[LineageRazor]

In the Goldsmithing class quests, when you turn in your items for appraisal the guildmaster will often talk about the aetheric properties of the item you've created. Two of the quests involve Silver: The level 25 quest "Or Ever the Silver Cord be Loosed", and the level 30 quest "Serendipity Now". I'm not currently at home, and can't check the cutscenes, but if there is some mention of Silver being potent against Voidsent, it's probably in the cutscenes for one of those two quests.