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cidolfus telamon ([personal profile] ramuhs) wrote in [community profile] shellphones2023-11-07 03:31 pm

first ⚡ a topic on summoning

Type: Text
Sender ID: ramuhs
To: General public
Subject: Summoning other creatures and people
Warnings: None except maybe FFXVI spoilers in their respective threads?

[// PUBLIC PORTION //]
A curious question to my fellow riftfarers — to those who are capable of "summoning" or calling upon powerful beings or even people, how does it work in your world? Any particular requirements? Contracts?

And have you any luck doing so while here? Any changes you've discovered?


[This is a general broadcast type post, so anyone can threadhop if they'd like to swap stories or anything! Cid will be reading everything...with very keen interest.]


[// PRIVATE TO FFXVI CAST //]
In case you're wondering what this is about, while on that ghost ship a girl somehow managed to summon me from a rock she had—materia she called it. She also knew about Ramuh and some of the other Eikons from our world.

Given there was no warning and that she might not be the only one, thought I should give everyone a heads up. For now I'll be trying some tests with her to see how it works and will share the results.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-07 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
This ties into the question I posed regarding magic earlier.

[ This question seems rather pointed but! ]

To answer yours, summoning is an unfortunate common practice upon my star. With enough aether and prayer, one can almost create an entity. For some, it is a god or goddess of worship such as the Amalj'aa with Ifrit and the Sahagin with Leviathan.

However, these primals, as we call them, are not the entity in truth. They are merely whatever hopes and prayers are poured into the summoning. Primals are a drain upon the aether of the land and often enslave others through a process we call tempering.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-07 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh ho! He recognizes this voice... But interesting that he is not asking what aether is. Hmm! ]

They are capable of maintaining form as long as they are continuously supplied with aether and prayer. Tempering bends ones will to that of the primal. A faction of the Amalj'aa constantly bring others before the Lord of the Inferno to create new followers and new prayers, as an example.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-08 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Quite so. A group of people on my star often refer to these primals as "eikons."

[ Cid. "ramuhs." Lightning magicks. He starting to see the patterns here. ]

Ironically, Ramuh isn't particularly known to be as violent as Ifrit or even Garuda. While other Primals tend to seek conflict with the other Spoken races nearby, Ramuh is content to remain in the Sylphlands, protecting the Slyphs.
Edited 2023-11-08 04:20 (UTC)
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just private from here on out

[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-08 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Aye, but I might not necessarily figured it out so soon if not for meeting a few others.

The idea of turning to stone simply through overuse of your own personal aether does not settle well with me. Though to think that you could be summoned so readily...

I can see your concern there.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-09 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Had I known that beforehand, I would have scolded you for the use of levin so readily. One should not be so quick to consume their own aether in such a way. There are even consequences for it where I come from.

[ IT'S NOT ABOUT STAMINA CID! ]

If only I could put hands on said texts. I might have been able to be of more assistance. Unfortunately or fortunately, I know full well how the peoples of my star discovered the art of summoning.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-10 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
In a way, I suppose. Dion made mention of the state of your star. While I cannot possibly conceive of a place where channeling and bending aether to one's sill ceases to exist... Mayhap it is the best solution.

For all of you.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-10 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh if only it were simply a matter of changing mindsets, hmm? There always seems to be something else lurking in the background and pulling the strings.

I also apologize for I might have made one of your companions irritable.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-10 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Now you have to understand, I might have a bit of a personal take in this curse business. Though I had been speaking to Joshua about the potential to teach how I channel aether.

Clive, naturally, was rather upset about the notion. I might have told him to trust his brother's judgement.

That did not go over well, as you can imagine. He told me off and I might have replied in kind.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-10 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
I realize this. However, he also should realize that he knows little and less about me to make such assumptions.

[ He already figures that the lot of them have had difficult lives. It's not a contest. Not really. ]

Anyway... It's through the use of ambient aether. Channeling in this way means that you do not use your own life energy.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-10 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
How so? What is that process?
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-10 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
Were they using some type of foci?

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[personal profile] summonbeasts 2023-11-07 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
What is so unfortunate about it, if I may ask.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-07 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Aether is, in the most simplistic of terms, the energy that flows through life itself. So when we say that summoning a primal requires an overabundance of aether, it usually has an adverse effect on the star.

In one such instance, it essentially caused an entire portion of our star to be a burned out wasteland. The area used to be teaming with flora and fauna. Now the only creatures that linger there are those that can survive such a harsh clime.
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[personal profile] summonbeasts 2023-11-09 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Maria pauses a moment to take that in.]

I'm very sorry something like that happened. The creatures I summon take nothing but my own energy thankfully.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2023-11-09 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
There is no need. People commit acts out of desperation without knowing the full consequence of their actions. 'Tis no fault of their own that they succumbed to the temptation. Who would not attempt to call upon their god or other deity in their time of need?

[ He doesn't really think anything less of those that do call forth a primal. After all, they are being deceived. But he has seen primals act according to their better natures as well. So who can say? ]

Your on creatures... Is it more that they are pact-bound?