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    Taisai Jin
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    Lancer Lv 64
    The colour of the swirl around spell casting is a poor indication of a spells aspected element. The Cure and Medica series of spells are in fact Water aspected as far as lore goes, playing off the "Waters of Life" trope, despite the green swirls which are pretty much just the standard spell casting animation and nothing more (one could argue it's green to match the green HP bar I guess). That was the answer as to why Conjurer/White Mage had little representation of Water aspected abilities back in the day, at least. and when I say back in the day I mean 1.x/ARR beta, no I don't feel like grabbing a shovel to back that up, don't really care to convince with hard facts either way... if this is a topic that truly matters to anyone, I'd suggest making a thread in the lore section, this isn't really the place for it...

    Given Red Mages origins with regards to White Mage, I'd imagine Vercure is likewise Water aspected. As for the aetherial blades being Ice aspected... I'd like to think so, but I don't recall any lore regarding it... Closest we have is Alisaies usage of it, and you can maybe tie in somethingsomething with regards to the choice of blade Urianger decided to hand her before we set out for Doma, but there isn't really anything... Unless there is a line in the lore book stating it's unaspected or Ice aspected, does it really matter? Even if there is, it doesn't really matter all that much... Let people have their own headcanon... Even if you take Vercure as Water and Fleche as Ice, doesn't surmount as an argument against Verwater and Verblizzard IMHO... If it did, we wouldn't have Verfire, because we have Verflare... Pretty sure we're allowed to double dip in the elements...
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    Last edited by Nalien; 08-02-2019 at 05:02 AM.