Let us review the history and role of the summoner, that we might never forget the tragedy that befell the unfortunate Tristan.Ī summoner is a unique type of mage who harnesses the energy of the primals and reshapes it into a biddable avatar. These tactical magi of Nym created an Elemental-like creature called Fae in order to unlock greater forms of Succor, a magick which had been granted to the Amdaporians. The ability to shape this energy also allow practitioners to manifest arcane entities known collectively as 'Carbuncle.' This is perhaps the most defining power attributed to the art of arcanima.įrom what we've gathered, modern day Arcanima stems from the remnants of Nymian Scholars who lived on and around Vylbrand roughly 1,600 years ago, beginning sometime near the end of the 5th Astral Era until some point in the early 6th Astral Era when their entire civilization was wiped out by a horrible plague. These definitive formalas are represented by 'arcane geometries'-patterns that allow arcanists to manipulate aetheric energy and produce specific effects. It was their efforts to express the nature of aether in mathematical terms that gave rise to the exacting science that we practice today. The roots of arcanima can be traced back to the esoteric calculations practiced by the people of the south sea isles. Beyond that it's a bit subjective, headcanon territory. The geometries shape the magic, and the ink used for grimoires is specially made from things like blood and electrum sand so that it conducts aether well. how arcanima actually works? Because there's not very much hard lore on that either. What other sort of lore were you looking for? Like. I love playing with arcanists who summon their carbuncles in different ways, though! Me, I just say it depends on the geometry which carbuncle you create but it's (usually) in a special ruby. All colors of carbuncles have rubies on their heads, and in FFXI (yeah yeah I know) one used a Carbuncle's Ruby to unlock the Sumoner job, so I always call them rubies, but then the carbuncles have names like 'Emerald Carbuncle' and 'Topaz Carbuncle' so some people play it as, inscribed emeralds summon emerald carbuncles, inscribed topazes summon topaz carbuncles. In my interpretation it's not really clear what kind of gem, though.

Specifically they use gems with geometries inscribed in them to summon carbuncles.

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