Does New Endwalker Aether Info Explain Old Lore? (*6.0 Endwalker Discussion*)

[Beytran70]

Please note I am not completely done with the MSQ yet, but an element that has recently come up has been making me think.

So. Dynamis/Akasa AKA emotional aether.

For a long time one of the confusing elements to people in the lore has been how some Jobs actually harness their aether to use magic, and a lot of the explanations have often included things like willpower and emotion and the like, such as with Dark Knights. How does this interact with Dynamis/Akasa? Is it possible that emotion can harness and direct both, or do these classes actually use this other type of aether and not normal aether? How would that affect things?

Thoughts?

[sidurgu-12]

dynamis and aether are two different types of energy and for drk its possible its dynamis theyre tapping into but its kind of iffy given they use a form of eather to fight.

[Jandor]

I think of aether as more conscious manipulation, and dynamis as more subconscious.

You decide you want to chuck a fireball, you use aether to make a fireball.

You need to make an absolutely gigantic fireball to save your friends from a rampaging monster? You use more aether than you can normally handle because your emotions are making the ambient dynamis give you a little boost.

Some jobs probably tap into it more, especially those that purport to be fuelled more by emotion or instinct than training or studying. For example, Warrior inner beast probably has a bit of an innate dynamis aspect to it, or Dark Knights inner darkness.