What if the Devs added another "Clan" for each Race?

[Jandor]

your highlighting those words doesn't mean pureblooded Garleans have a small chance to manipulate aether. It means using Magitech they might be able to bypass their lack of ability with aetherial manipulation and maybe possibly give themselves something like the Echo or even the abilities of the Ascians. This doesn't mean a 1 in 10000000 chance of an Arcanist.

p.s. Putting my reply into spoilers, because duh, spoilers to shadowbringers content.

I don't understand how you've arrived at the conclusion that the passage is talking about Magitek. It specifically mentions inborn ability to manipulate the bodies aether.

Magitek isn't something you're born with. It also generally uses Ceruleum as fuel, rather than the bodies own aether.

[Gothicshark]

I don't understand how you've arrived at the conclusion that the passage is talking about Magitek. It's specifically mentions inborn ability to manipulate the bodies aether.

Magitek isn't something you're born with. It also generally uses Ceruleum as fuel, rather than the bodies own aether.

my reply is in spiolers again, because I am hitting 5.2 spoilers on this.

The statement you quote is open-ended so the writers of the game have wiggle room. However, instead of using the wiggle room, they used magitech to build a device that modified a living body so that it could use the Echo, or something of that nature, the by-product of that research allowed the first Prince Zenos yae Galvus to transcend to the approximation of an ascian. "however, and thus the arcane arts have ever eluded all but a few." the few who have, Solus zos Galvus, an Ascian pretending to be a Garlean, and Zenos, an artificially Transcended person.