A few days ago I had asked about a Blue Mage concept on tumblr, thank you to those who replied, now I am bringing it here! I think I’m going to work with said concept for my miqo’te Arialys- it fits her character and it was the original concept I had made for her. I’d like to take a minute and explain it, maybe get some more opinions and maybe even ideas on how to make it better? Either way, here goes!
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(obligatory anime girl)
Blue Magic- Â is a skillset consisting of abilities used by monsters.Â
A lot of people may be concerned with the fact that this will enable my character to learn exceptional moves from certain enemies, such as the Primals or any other being that holds a terribly powerful type of move. Or that it will be an instant thing and suddenly she’d throwing around the move Bad Breath and decimating people. This is not, and will not be the case, ever. Since there are no actual game mechanics to go off of, I will refer to previous mechanics and such as a type of guideline. In FFXIV the Echo is something that can read aetherical waves, which memories are seemingly imprinted on, allowing anyone with the Echo to tap into the aether and see past events. Blue magic is just another type of aetherical wave (as is any magic), so with a type of altered Echo, a blue mage should be able to simply see/read the waves as they are produced, studying them before they disappear and memorizing them over time. No, Blue magic is not and instant process. Depending on the move and the skills of the blue mage themselves will depend on the moves they are able to wield/use. Just because they can read the waves and memorize them does not mean they will always have the available aether to actually use said move (limitations such as this prevent them from learning special moves from Primals/Bosses and such).
The process of learning the move means that the enemy must use the ability and the blue mage has to be present to see it, meaning they need a clear shot and no distractions during the usage of the ability. Unlike the Echo, it does not require one to be unconscious, but the blue mage will be incapacitated while they are reading the aetherical waves. Now, unlike the typical game mechanics of only being able to learn abilities from just monsters, the blue mage should be able to apply this to just about any type of magic, again…it depends on their abilities to read the aether and manipulate it later on. While I’m on the topic of abilities being used…certain monsters have moves that were once able to be learned by the blue mage…which logic wise made very little sense. A prime example of this is Bad Breath that the Morbols use. This would not be a move that could be learned. Why? Morbols as a species are a plant like creature…Bad Breath is not a move the requires aether to be used, logically I would say it is a type of poison produced by a gland the Morbols have, which is very potent. Since the blue mage does not have these glands…this move is unattainable. This would go for a few different moves that are beast/creature specific like that- blue magic is strictly magic only.
That’s all I’ve got for the moment on this topic, but it is something I’m going through with as a character concept. Any opinions/critique would be nice, I’d love any input on the topic really. Thank you for taking the time to read!
(obligatory anime girl)
Blue Magic- Â is a skillset consisting of abilities used by monsters.Â
A lot of people may be concerned with the fact that this will enable my character to learn exceptional moves from certain enemies, such as the Primals or any other being that holds a terribly powerful type of move. Or that it will be an instant thing and suddenly she’d throwing around the move Bad Breath and decimating people. This is not, and will not be the case, ever. Since there are no actual game mechanics to go off of, I will refer to previous mechanics and such as a type of guideline. In FFXIV the Echo is something that can read aetherical waves, which memories are seemingly imprinted on, allowing anyone with the Echo to tap into the aether and see past events. Blue magic is just another type of aetherical wave (as is any magic), so with a type of altered Echo, a blue mage should be able to simply see/read the waves as they are produced, studying them before they disappear and memorizing them over time. No, Blue magic is not and instant process. Depending on the move and the skills of the blue mage themselves will depend on the moves they are able to wield/use. Just because they can read the waves and memorize them does not mean they will always have the available aether to actually use said move (limitations such as this prevent them from learning special moves from Primals/Bosses and such).
The process of learning the move means that the enemy must use the ability and the blue mage has to be present to see it, meaning they need a clear shot and no distractions during the usage of the ability. Unlike the Echo, it does not require one to be unconscious, but the blue mage will be incapacitated while they are reading the aetherical waves. Now, unlike the typical game mechanics of only being able to learn abilities from just monsters, the blue mage should be able to apply this to just about any type of magic, again…it depends on their abilities to read the aether and manipulate it later on. While I’m on the topic of abilities being used…certain monsters have moves that were once able to be learned by the blue mage…which logic wise made very little sense. A prime example of this is Bad Breath that the Morbols use. This would not be a move that could be learned. Why? Morbols as a species are a plant like creature…Bad Breath is not a move the requires aether to be used, logically I would say it is a type of poison produced by a gland the Morbols have, which is very potent. Since the blue mage does not have these glands…this move is unattainable. This would go for a few different moves that are beast/creature specific like that- blue magic is strictly magic only.
That’s all I’ve got for the moment on this topic, but it is something I’m going through with as a character concept. Any opinions/critique would be nice, I’d love any input on the topic really. Thank you for taking the time to read!
