Add Blue Mages Already

[Seraphor]

Some further speculation on Blue Mage:

Garlean Magitek is entirely powered by Ceruleum, a form of processed Aether, which also happens to be named after a shade of Blue.
I believe that the reason they’ve previously said that we won’t be getting a Blue Mage (although context is everything and it could’ve just been we won’t be getting it YET) is because Blue Magic is already in the game. In terms of Lore, it is the Garlean philosophy of claiming the power of the eikons for their own which serves as the basis. Basically Ultima Weapon.
Ultima Weapon not only absorbs the essences of the first three primals, but it uses their skills, along with some other previously used Blue Magic spells such as Homing Laser. Ultima Weapon IS our Blue Mage, and by extension Magitek IS Blue Magic.

In many ways it wouldn’t be very lore-friendly to give us a Blue Mage with this in mind (which I believe is the basis for SE’s ‘no Blue Mage’ comments) however that doesn’t rule it out entirely. ‘Lore’ has already seemingly been broken with some jobs, and the most similar example is Summoner.
Summoning Primals is BAD, the game tells you this every chance you get, so what does a Summoner do? It finds a way around this, a loophole. You’re not really summoning Primals, you’re shaping your own aether into a rudimentary form of a Primal.
Something similar could, and should happen with Blue Magic/Magitek, but it would need some groundwork to be laid out first. This groundwork I believe is Nero’s side-arc, and once we inevitably go to Garlemald/Ilsabard we might be ready for it.

Nero will have found a way to replicate Ultima Weapons technology on a smaller scale, that’s more elegant and effective the basic Garlean Magitek. Basically the coming together of the Allagan’s Ultima Weapon and Garleans Ceruleum Magitek will be the true advent of Blue Magic and one way or another this will become available to us, either via Nero himself joining us against Garlemald, or another character stealing the technology from him, as Nero cuts the act and becomes a true adversary, no longer needing us to aid in his research.

[GothicWaltz]

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I wasn't expecting this conjecture, but now that I've read it...I want it so bad.