Elements

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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.

Again I’m not saying that the lack of water spells in the modern game is caused by the war of the magi, I said you can speculate that

But if the 6th umbral calamity wasn’t caused by the magi not using water magic please provide literally a single other possibility given they have deleted the “vengeful elemental” story

1) ascians caused the war of the magi
2) 2 war of the magi caused the 6th umbral calamity
3) 6th umbral calamity was caused by an overabundance of water aether as opposed to any other element

Seems pretty clear here, if you can’t read between the lines I’d guess you’d like to argue that the war of the magi wasn’t caused by the ascians given its never explicitly stated

That is all I’m saying, it’s possible to speculate on the former but if they seek to deny the latter please provide something to back that up as near everyone agrees on the latter