How did players on Aniro explain IC why the Kamis ask homins to "clean" the land by digging out Goo-materials - and then will not tell anyone what to do with it?
Well, you have to destroy the materials game-mechanic-wise sooner or later, as it would otherwise fill all your storage-room soon :D Has this been just ignored IC on Aniro, as if the Kamis all over Atys at the altars did not ask homins to dig up Goo at all?
Magic that homins use CAN definitely be different from the magic that the Kamis use, even if the basic theories are the same. Some animals and plants "spit" magic, which homins cannot for instance. But this also is some kind of Atys-magic.
Magical effects and boosts of items are another kind of Atys-magic. We can consider that magic put onto items was either told to homins by the Kamis originally too (as the Karavan most likely didn't) or homins have found a way how to do this by themselves (not very believably)... If they did, they might have also worked with the basic knowledge of magic and over time found ways how to use magic to destroy Goo :p
But why should the Kamis not have been able to teach something that they themselves cannot use in the same way? Trainers can teach athletes how acrobatic moves are done in theory without doing them. The Kamis might very well have considered the bodies and sap of homins before teaching the homins how to use magic in the homin-way. Kamis could have taught the theory and watched homins experiment with it, finding out together what works well for homins and what does not (like spitting fire).
So as a conclusion I really don't understand why anyone could think that homins and Kamis HAVE to weave the same kind of magic in the same way? There is no logic in that, sorry.
All of this is what led me to the idea that Homins must be able to destroy small parts of the Goo with a kind of magic that works differently in homins than in Kamis. Still it can't be sufficient enough to cleanse large areas like those at the rims of the Witherings, where also still new Goo is seemingly seeping out of the ground from below; so better methods to heal the Goo are still being sought.
A Sage on Leanon once said that the bodies of Kamis "consist" of sap - hinting at that they have no flesh nor bones. Well, there are bones and parts of carcasses in the Goo on Atys, that have not been vanished for many, many Atysyears. So this led me to believing that homins don't dissolve in Goo - just like (some?) animals don't.
We also know players who worked or are still working on theories about the Goo; the most important known scholar of today being Filira Kilor Tasmatican. His theory is based on Goo being fungal - similar to mold. :) There are also some who believe that the "demon" that/who is described on the sign-board of the outpost Demons Crossroads Diplomatic Outpost has been a Kami...
Well, you have to destroy the materials game-mechanic-wise sooner or later, as it would otherwise fill all your storage-room soon :D Has this been just ignored IC on Aniro, as if the Kamis all over Atys at the altars did not ask homins to dig up Goo at all?
Magic that homins use CAN definitely be different from the magic that the Kamis use, even if the basic theories are the same. Some animals and plants "spit" magic, which homins cannot for instance. But this also is some kind of Atys-magic.
Magical effects and boosts of items are another kind of Atys-magic. We can consider that magic put onto items was either told to homins by the Kamis originally too (as the Karavan most likely didn't) or homins have found a way how to do this by themselves (not very believably)... If they did, they might have also worked with the basic knowledge of magic and over time found ways how to use magic to destroy Goo :p
But why should the Kamis not have been able to teach something that they themselves cannot use in the same way? Trainers can teach athletes how acrobatic moves are done in theory without doing them. The Kamis might very well have considered the bodies and sap of homins before teaching the homins how to use magic in the homin-way. Kamis could have taught the theory and watched homins experiment with it, finding out together what works well for homins and what does not (like spitting fire).
So as a conclusion I really don't understand why anyone could think that homins and Kamis HAVE to weave the same kind of magic in the same way? There is no logic in that, sorry.
All of this is what led me to the idea that Homins must be able to destroy small parts of the Goo with a kind of magic that works differently in homins than in Kamis. Still it can't be sufficient enough to cleanse large areas like those at the rims of the Witherings, where also still new Goo is seemingly seeping out of the ground from below; so better methods to heal the Goo are still being sought.
A Sage on Leanon once said that the bodies of Kamis "consist" of sap - hinting at that they have no flesh nor bones. Well, there are bones and parts of carcasses in the Goo on Atys, that have not been vanished for many, many Atysyears. So this led me to believing that homins don't dissolve in Goo - just like (some?) animals don't.
We also know players who worked or are still working on theories about the Goo; the most important known scholar of today being Filira Kilor Tasmatican. His theory is based on Goo being fungal - similar to mold. :) There are also some who believe that the "demon" that/who is described on the sign-board of the outpost Demons Crossroads Diplomatic Outpost has been a Kami...
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