Shadowbringers RDM Wishlist

[Nalien]

I don't ascribe to that at all.

It was specifically the White Mage line of healing spells, as far as I remember. This dated back to 1.x though, around when White Mage was first introduced (so Astrologian and Scholar weren't even things), so it's entirely possible they abandoned that concept, but I distinctly remember them saying the Cure line of spells were White Mages water spells, "Waters of Life" sort of thing, it's often a trope in fantasy that water is used in recovery (something like Breath of the Wild being the most obvious recent example, wake up in water, the Zora (water) power was healing based, etc.). And again, it's hard to look at the animation for Asylum and not see the water effect.

Whether that carries over to Vercure or not, I can't know for certain, but Red Mage was built from White Mage and Black Mage, not Astrologian or Scholar, and it's Vercure, not Verbenefic or Verphysick. I'd imagine the same lore that applies to Cure applies to Vercure.