Quote Originally Posted by Voidmage View Post
The Alexandrians are not from the source. Only the Milalla.
Oh. Well I did not feel this was made clear. And it creates a problem because if the people in Solution Nine are 1/7th the Soul density of the people on The Source, and their souls are being swapped around with those from Shaaloani... that seems like it could mess a lot of things up. So I thought this was their explanation for that.
Magic itself shouldn‘t be harder because the principle is the same in any world.
Well yes, but the principle is you use your own aether for it in most cases. The Ascians could summon huge things without consuming their own being, while people on the Source consumed their own being when doing so during the final days or had to rely on Aether crystals like the beast tribes. It would stand to reason there is a similar effect on how useful magic really is for them or that it would at least be really low potency if used on the Warrior of Light.
The first… hmm do we see many people using magic outside of gameplay on the level of the source?
I don't remember any other than Ardbert's gang, but if anyone did they'd be easy to forget after the years that have been since I did the MSQ.
I might remember wrong but I was sure to have read somewhere that, even if the Ascians were successful the end result wouldn’t be the Anscients again but a new fully rejoined race.
Not only from a personal level like culture and memory (none of them would forgive the ancients and many of them would abuse those godlike powers) but also from a race perspective.
Even were all that so, the Ascians plan was to imbue the old memories into them like they did with Fandaniel for example (at least, the memories they had preserved, I don't know if they preserved everyone's).