Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
Water is part of conjury but there is also an explicit desire to not use water that much in current gameplay, whether that’s linked to the war of the magi or not is up for debate but the war of the magi causing the flood because they used less water than any other element is pretty hard to deny
I denied it and it was really easy.

Nowhere at all in the game is it stated the War of the Magi had fewer water spells being cast and that's what caused the flood or that modern mages are purposefully avoiding water magic because of its links to the flood.

The easiest answer to players not having anything for water spells beyond Aquaveil, Suiton/Meisui, and BLU spells is that is was a decision from the gameplay designers rather than the writers for some reason leaving it as subtext in the lore and never talking about it outright despite how important such a fact would be. You would think that 1/6th of the elemental table being purposefully left out of the game due to story reasons would have been explicitly stated some time in the past 10 years of ARR at least, but it's not.

To suggest that gameplay mechanics are behind unexplained bits of story is like suggesting that the city-states are tiny because you can walk across them in 2 minutes in-game and there's <100 or so NPCs. Unless the game actually states something, I'm not going to take some random player's personal fanon as fact.