Quote Originally Posted by Calysto View Post
So I'll propose the following :
-Lily is not a living being, but the exact formula stored in crystal by the previous owner. maybe so she could persist as she had no material form
Note that I'm personally fine with Feo Ul being a form that SCH can summon, but I have an issue with the above.

In SCH lore, it's said that the Faeries were "bound" (the word used) to the SCH Job Stones. It doesn't saying their formula was discovered or inscribed, it says they were bound. Generally speaking, binding something requires that something to be pre/independently-existing. That is, there must be a thing to be bound.

This HIGHLY implies that Lily (her name) and all the other Faeries (like Lilac, the one from Setoto's father) were as well. It's more probable (since the SCH's didn't SEEM particularly evil) that this was less an involuntary capturing and more of a pact forming, that from then on connected the individual Faerie with an individual SCH Job Stone. The actual Faerie player SCH's summon is named Lily, with Eos and Selene being two sides of her personality (since she did have pretty bad amnesia when we found her), but she's one being. And for the record, Eos seems to be her preferred/actual form (it's the one she uses in all cutscenes she's in with us)

So a lore reasoning would more be if Feo Ul and Lily were to agree to merging their powers to help their WoL and agree to "share" a pact with you. (/Rand Al Thor intensifies)

It seems very unlikely that Lily ISN'T a living being (in some form), or that she's just a formula unless the lore we have is exposed at some point as being some complicated lie the SCH's of old established and perpetrated through centuries for reasons that...honestly wouldn't make any sense, as there's no "gain" for them by their enemies thinking the Faeries are formula spells rather than individual beings. Not to mention they were known to both Mhach and Amdapor, the latter of which we KNOW captured and interrogated SCHs (Setoto's father among them), and the former we can reasonably expect also did that. Meaning one or the other of them would likely have determined if it was a lie and exposed it, if it were, in fact, a lie.