Quote Originally Posted by Bright-Flower View Post
Part of it may be that red magic is a combination of other techniques, though I do wish the quests had revealed where the rapier part came into play instead of waiting for lore book 2. The 'red magic' part is just taking THM/BLM and CNJ/WHM and blending them together, so if you understand how those work, you understand how red magic works.
Yeah, I just would have preferred they provided more detail into how and why they started combining them.

Where the rapier came into play, why they felt it better than the staves that THM/BLM and CNJ/WHM use, why they thought that the combination of the 2 schools would work.

Heck, even some in-game lore to cover the whole "White Magic" aspect of their design being boiled down to mostly Aero/Stone/Holy (Which are considered White in this game) - Offensive based skills - Which is something that some people had an issue with in regards to how RDM was implemented into the game.

Also, how they even use White Magic in the first place, given that the CNJ/WHM story is focused around attuning to the elements (With White Mage being a padjali thing, the WoL being a curious exception that wasn't entirely well recieved) while the little story describing RDM merely states that the RDM just channels aether through themselves (Thus the thing with Lambard and forbidden Thaumaturgy when he was trying to find a way to bypass the limitations of how much aether a living body can channel without being destroyed)

But no, we get this focus on how Bad People are doing Bad People things and we have to stop them because they're Bad and we're Good which then turns into Lambard is a Voidsent Vampire which turns into No Wai Arya is also a Voidsent Vampire! (Neither have any correlation to Red Magic except for the fact that X'rhun Tia knew both of these people. If anything, I would have expected something like this to come from the BLM story as at least that would be consistent with the whole "Stop Bad People from using Black Magic for EEEEEVIL!" thing they have going for them)