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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9322644" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Building on the ideas others mentioned, about the &quot;maybe they're just the first to (re)discover the ritual,&quot; perhaps there are other conditions which affect this process.For example, you've mentioned they look like just especially-pointy gemstones. Maybe, prior to the present day, folks just grabbed them up because they were shiny, and couldn't even actually tell that these things had any value. But something has changed about the world, and now a small slice of people, perhaps only a shining few, can see which things are actually powerful and which ones are just glass in the same shape (or whatever). Maybe it has something to do with a minimum magic threshold being crossed; maybe it's that a particular deity's influence has grown or waned; maybe it's that people with the right genetic makeup didn't exist before now.Whatever the reason, it's just pure happenstance that these people happened to be the ones who can see it. Nobody chose them, they weren't prepared or destined to it any more than they were prepared and destined to have blue eyes or red hair or whatever. It's just a fact about their existence that enables them to do this.I'm drawing inspiration pretty heavily from &quot;the Echo,&quot; one of the special powers that makes FFXIV's player character, the Warrior of Light, capable of doing all the fantastical things they do. They ARE &quot;chosen&quot;--but only after this power is revealed, not before. Prior to that moment, the adventurer who would go on to become the Warrior of Light was an otherwise normal-seeming person; they were chosen because they had awakened their Echo, not chosen and then given the Echo.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9322644, member: 6790260"] Building on the ideas others mentioned, about the "maybe they're just the first to (re)discover the ritual," perhaps there are other conditions which affect this process. For example, you've mentioned they look like just especially-pointy gemstones. Maybe, prior to the present day, folks just grabbed them up because they were shiny, and couldn't even actually tell that these things had any value. But something has changed about the world, and now a small slice of people, perhaps only a shining few, can [I]see[/I] which things are actually powerful and which ones are just glass in the same shape (or whatever). Maybe it has something to do with a minimum magic threshold being crossed; maybe it's that a particular deity's influence has grown or waned; maybe it's that people with the right genetic makeup didn't exist before now. Whatever the reason, it's just pure happenstance that [I]these[/I] people happened to be the ones who can see it. Nobody chose them, they weren't prepared or destined to it any more than they were prepared and destined to have blue eyes or red hair or whatever. It's just a fact about their existence that [I]enables[/I] them to do this. I'm drawing inspiration pretty heavily from "the Echo," one of the special powers that makes FFXIV's player character, the Warrior of Light, capable of doing all the fantastical things they do. They ARE "chosen"--but only [I]after[/I] this power is revealed, not before. Prior to that moment, the adventurer who would go on to become the Warrior of Light was an otherwise normal-seeming person; they were chosen [I]because[/I] they had awakened their Echo, not chosen [I]and then given[/I] the Echo. [/QUOTE]

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