Quote Originally Posted by Dorander View Post
Explain Ahk Morn then? Just magic and hand/wavey? Summoner's are taping into the residual aether of Bahamut when he manifested at Cartineau to recreate at least on a minor scale: his power.

How about Dragoon? Their entire job quest story explains that the Warrior of Light is also a true Azure Dragoon along with Estinien. Which means they are drawing power directly from the Azure eye, through their soul gem, manifesting supernatural abilities from the power of dragons.

So at least with two of the jobs, we are pulling power DIRECTLY from dragons or in the case of SMN a primal version of one. Sounds very Blue Mage to me.. but, I suppose you'll say those don't count.
Because those aren't Blue Mage situations in the slightest.

A Blue Mage learns the powers of their enemies, but uses their own power to recreate them. As you've pointed out, Dragoons/Summoners are using power -directly- from other sources to perform their arts. Maybe I'm wrong and Blue Mages keep eyes and ears of enemies and use them up to use skills in some kind of spell-reagent fashion. Somehow, I don't think they do. At least, I cannot see them doing so in FFXIV.