Quote Originally Posted by Ametrine View Post
Arcanists don't really have lore. They're just customs officials that employ Carbuncles as a means of enforcement. Literally they could use any other means of defense. They weren't a pet class nor a tome weilding job in 1.0.
Their concept is using math and symbology to manipulate Aether though. Which to me would make sense with creating traps or much more crude constructs.
The way they just tack on "And thus they can summon Carbuncle" just feels kind of lazy and shoehorned... And the other abilities don't even really get any focus or explanation as to how they are related to geometric manipulation of Aether at all. It's basically just handwaved out-of-game as "Yeah, they have 'miscellaneous abilities' and stuff" and not even touched on to that extent in-game from what I remember.

That said, I don't have the supplemental lore book that was released, so it's possible there's more in there about it.