Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
I'm not saying that umbral and astral are "energies". They're polarities or aspects which can apply to any of the elements.

And while Eorzea uses those terms, they are labeled differently on the First.

The active polarity is named "astral" in Eorzea and "Darkness" in Norvrant.

The passive polarity is named "umbral" and "Light".

Meanwhile, separate to the Dark (active) polarity and Light (passive) polarity, there is Dark energy and Light energy. They're separate concepts using the same terms.
Ok, I see what you mean now,

To be honest, the Source people don't really use Astral/Umbral either in their dialogues. At this point, I'd have to replay the game and pay attention when they use the terms astral, light, umbral and darkness to see if they make any distinction. From what I understand, in Eorzea, astral and light are just as much synonyms as astral and darkness would be in Novrant.

yeap.. it's confusing..