(10-12-2015, 04:07 PM)Wemrys Wrote:(10-12-2015, 03:57 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Additionally, there is nothing to say that you could not have learned those techniques from someone who already knows them. Â There is no requirement, at least in the WHM questline, of this being the only way to discover those things.
I will relent in the fact that the DRK questline mentions explicitly that there are certain abilities that Sidurgu teaches you and then others that you learn from your soulstone in particular moments where the power of the stone was triggered. I think you may have a point in this sense that the soulstone is a repository of lost arts in some cases, but in others you can learn things from other users.
I tend to think of them as the "Cliff Notes" version of whatever discipline you are learning. Â It's not all that different from, say, Luke Skywalker stumbling through trying to revive the Jedi techniques when he really didn't have anyone to teach him once Obi-Wan and Yoda were dead.