Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
I would just chalk that up to the system being not as well thought out as I'd have like. "Umbra" literally means darkness. To say a WHM is based on a job that uses "Darkness magic that is technically actually light, or eventually evolves into light" feels weak for me.
Astral and umbral are ultimately just fancy labels stuck on active and passive forces, and not actually part of the elemental wheel at all.

Also, "white magic" and "black magic" have never strictly been about using light-themed and dark-themed magic, but healing and harming. Fire and lightning are traditional black mage spells throughout the FF series but both are essentially bright lights, not darkness.