Thread: [6.0 spoiler] Limit breaks

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Now, with that out of the way.

I've seen a certain fan theory posited a fair bit. It's pretty simple: Limit Breaks are the result of the "Dynamis" force introduced to us in this expansion.

But here's the problem:
1. Emet-Selch goes out of his way to shoot down the idea that being desperate leading to a burst of strength/determination/whatever you want to call it is a result of Dynamis
2. Overall, Dynamis is several times noted to be very difficult for aether-rich beings to control or make any kind of practical use of, and it's noted to be very weak in the presence of aether.
(2.a. OK yeah in Elpis we're a bit "thin" as they describe us, but it's never suggested we're this way when time travel isn't severely weakening us)

Is there any hard evidence that dynamis actually has anything to do with limit breaks?
Or is this another "All moonkeeper miqo'te males are submissive sex slaves" lore "interpretation"?

Originally Posted by waifugenerator

Using a tank lb3 is mandatory during the final trial and after you use it, the Endsinger says something along the lines of "Dynamis?"

I missed that. Very interesting...

But also that whole area is something of an exception to the usual rules, so I'm still left to wonder if they're semi-retconning all limit breaks, or if that's meant to apply to that specific circumstance only, where your allies also made exceptional use of dynamis...

Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

(2.a. OK yeah in Elpis we're a bit "thin" as they describe us, but it's never suggested we're this way when time travel isn't severely weakening us)

but it is. repeatedly even.
1) the reason the ascians were nigh unkillable and uncapturable until we devised many extreme and convoluted methods to counter that? because their aetheric density is much much higher than ours
2) the reason emet-selch saw us as pitiful half beings unworthy of life? because we are mere fractions of what we could be
3) the reason the song of oblivion is able to transform modern people directly while in ancient times it could only corrupt creation magic? because we are much less aetherically dense than the ancients.

dynamis is weakened by aether yes but its not as if a single drop of aether overpowers any amount of dynamis, or the entire world ending event were trying to stop wouldnt have worked to begin with.

Originally Posted by subteraneanbird

but it is. repeatedly even.
1) the reason the ascians were nigh unkillable and uncapturable until we devised many extreme and convoluted methods to counter that? because their aetheric density is much much higher than ours
2) the reason emet-selch saw us as pitiful half beings unworthy of life? because we are mere fractions of what we could be
3) the reason the song of oblivion is able to transform modern people directly while in ancient times it could only corrupt creation magic? because we are much less aetherically dense than the ancients.

dynamis is weakened by aether yes but its not as if a single drop of aether overpowers any amount of dynamis, or the entire world ending event were trying to stop wouldnt have worked to begin with.

Relative to ascians? Yes.

But when dynamis is first introduced as akasha, it's still framed in the same way: There's not much in the way to directly interact with it nor make use of it. Ascians might be a 40,000 lumen flare to our 1300 lumen floodlight, but we're still beings constituted of aether on a very aether heavy world.