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Alphinaud is an Academician, so he gets to have Scholar spells while keeping his carbuncle. Minfillia was able to cast spells as a Rogue. Urianger has a Death spell as an Astrologian.

People who’ve known me for a while have probably heard this speech before, but what defines a Disciple of Magic class or job in this world has nothing to do with what spells they cast! It has everything to do with how those spells are cast. How do they manipulate aether? How do they focus that aether into a spell? And sometimes what medium are used to facilitate spellcasting. These are the things that define a mage, not what spells they cast. 

For example, in lore a conjurer has access to all six elements: Wind, Lightning, Fire, Earth, Ice, Water. Y’shtola was originally trained as a Sharlayan conjurer. Thus, she has access to spells of all those elements. But how she casts those spells now as a “sorceress” might be different than what we, at a glance, might suspect from a conjurer, white mage, or black mage on the Source. It might be the same, just with a different name like how the WoD mage was a “Magus”.

Alphinaud isn’t a Scholar, because he doesn’t have a faery companion, or training as a Nymian Scholar. But he is a Sharlayan trained arcanist versed in healing magicks. Likewise, Urianger may be casting spells in the manner of a Sharlayan Astrologian, but he’s versed in other forms of magic from before, like arcanima. Those spells don’t necessarily go away just because you pick up a different tool… but you might have to reinvent how you work the spell!

A great example of this is Red Mage! They cast spells that were originally used by Black Mages and White Mages. The difference isn’t in the spells they cast, but again, it’s how they cast them that distinguishes them from their predecessors - casting using only internal aether.

A big thanks to @sultana-dreaming​ and Anonymoose for discovering and pointing out this obscure nugget of lore to me!

Most are familiar with the Gridanian flag, a white lily encircled by twin adders. The serpents are symbolic of the union between early Elezen and Hyuran tribes during Gelmorra’s time. What is less commonly known is the symbolism behind the lily:

Foundation Day Commemorative Coins: “Kan-E-Senna, Elder Seedseer, opposite the sacred lily, from which the first whispers were heard, entwined by the twin serpents for fraternity.”

In the Year 1076, a Gelmorran conjurer named Jorin held the first successful communion between man and elemental in Peacegarden. After these early talks, the elementals permit the Gelmorrans to live within the Wood. The first whispers of the elementals heard by the conjurer Jorin, were heard from a lily, and the flower has been sacred to Gelmorra and Gridania ever since. In 1081, Jorin’s wife gave birth to the first Padjal, I-Ohok-Pota, chosen of the elementals.

Hope this helps, anon!

I overdid things as usual lol

And I have more on the way in the next weeks ‘cause I can’t stop drawing stupid DB comics.

he is half of my soul, as the poets say.

                          Why … did you believe them?

[[ I had this cute little idea of Teledji mentioning he wanted to be a chocobo racer when he was a child. Then I thought, what would Tulala say to that? And this was the result!