Elements

[Supersnow845]

I have the Encyclopedia Eorzea and it doesn't say that. That link is also empty and the wiki isn't exactly a reputable source either.

There's a mention that "Monitoring of the realm's aether indicated an unhealthy imbalance towards water" but nothing at all about the use or lack thereof of water magic being the cause. Instead everything else just points to generally sucking the land's aether out and that is mentioned repeatedly over and over in that section. There's also no mention of "Nym being focused on wind".

So the war of the magi sucked all the lands aether but left water, I physically don’t know how that can be interpreted any other way than the magical societies didn’t use as much water otherwise they would have sucked out all the lands aether and caused a blight/empty style situation that may have induced an umbral aspected calamity but not a water one

The land was tipped to a very specific element, one that aligned with the 10th, and it was caused by the war of the magi, what other answer is there in this situation