Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
Okay so why was water specifically left behind given we know the war of the magi was orchestrated by the ascians

If aether was drawn equally across all sources and aspected by the mage leaving behind a blight of sorts (like 16’s blight or the empty in 14) why was there was overabundance of water aether left in the source especially when the we know the ascians were trying to tip tje balance towards water and rejoin the 10th

A blight/empty situation may align with an umbral umbral calamity (like the 8th) but not a water aspected calamity, the magical arts draw deep from the lands aether and it left us with water aether, I still don’t see how that’s up for debate
Of all the potential options, “water remained because in current gameplay white mages and conjurers don’t have much going on anymore for water so the old mages must not have used water either” is the silliest one. I’m also still not sure where you got Nym and wind from either.

In ye olde 1.0 lore I remember something about the elementals being responsible for flooding the world because of the War of the Magi. Despite it being from after Yoshi-P’s takeover, that lore hasn’t been transferred over but a ton of water energy flowing into the world at once from an angry elemental leading it to getting even bigger due to calamity on another shard makes a whole lot more sense than “they didn’t use water spells” and it at least has the benefit of being explicitly stated in-game.