*Spoilers* Do we have "Creation Magic?"

[Jonnycbad]

Creation Magick is the process of transforming Aether into matter, shaped only by the will of the user. There's no violation of physical principles because we know from in game lore that all things are made up of aether. In a sense it parallels our own physical world where all matter is energy when you look at it from a quantum scale, hence why mass can be turned into energy and vice versa (laws of thermodynamics). Since all things in FFXIV are made up of (not just contain) aether, its a simple matter for an Amaurotine to use their own internal aether stores to create matter from nothing. The matter comes from their own bodies, which again has vast stores of aether.

Now, crafting is the act of using aether stored in an elemental crystal to power/aid your synthesis. The heat provided to melt the iron ingots or boil the water or liquify gold, etc, the wind to help shear the fabric, the earth to add pressure or force to your hammer, ice to cool and condense reagents and reactions, lightning to carve, split, or divide objects, you get the picture. The mass is provided in the recipe, the crystals are catalysts of energy to aid the proccess, but we are still shaping items based on knowledge and using our own tools to craft. It's not like FFXI "synthesis" which was a form of creation magic. In FFXI you throw ingredients and materials into the air, activate a relevant elemental crystal, and the think of a mental image of the finished product, and shortly after the finished product poofs into existence. In that world, your "synthesis skill" for each craft was a measure of how focused your mental images of the finished product were and not so much your actual skills with a doming hammer or carpenter's saw are like in XIV.

[ObsidianFire]

Yes. We (and everyone else for that matter) still have Creation Magic. That is what summoning a Primal is. It's just that we have so little aether now as an individual that the aether for Creation Magic also has to come from somewhere else. Like aether crystals.

On a smaller scale, Arcanists are more then likely making use of Creation Magic to summon Carbuncles, Fairies and Egis. Arcanisim at its core is all about using math and geometry to shape aether into the same shape every single time. That's what all those diagrams in grimiores and codexes are. What seems to differ is what math/geometry the different summons are based off of. Carbuncles use the math/geometry of gemstones. Fairies are somehow created sentient beings that are housed in the various Scholar soul stones. Egis and Demis are based on the math/geometry of a defeated primal. Which is itself a product of creation magic.

For that matter, the Anima quest is also this. We literally end up making a sentient soul out of various forms of aether for the purpose of helping us in battle. The soul even compares itself to the primals as an example of what it needs to watch out for since it too is an aetherial creation created for one goal.

What seems to differ between Carbuncles, Fairies, Egis/Demis and the Anima when compared to Primals is the scale of the summoner/creator verses the scale of the created being. Carbuncles, Fairies, Egis and the Anima all have less aether then an individual person has. Primals have more aether then an individual person has. And it's when something created with Creation Magic has more aether then an individual does that the problems with Tempering seem to come into play most often.

[Jonnycbad]

Greg summoned Enkidu with a fleeting thought from a bunch of fire crystals, with no knowledge of summoning. Perhaps he too is a WoL, maybe driven insane by traveling the void. But he uses the same black energy portal teleportation magick that Ascians use.

[RyuDragnier]

Greg summoned Enkidu with a fleeting thought from a bunch of fire crystals, with no knowledge of summoning. Perhaps he too is a WoL, maybe driven insane by traveling the void. But he uses the same black energy portal teleportation magick that Ascians use.

Greg is from beyond the rift, rules don't apply to him. Especially if you believe that all versions of Gilgamesh (except for FFXV) are the same, just from different points in time.

[Nightsword]

The 60-70 Dark Knight quest line also pretty good indicator that we do too.