"When mako is in my veins, they are a lovely shade of aqua," he replied, dipping his head slightly and looking up in a very coy manner. While it was flattering, he was very much aware of his own charms and always was a bit of a playful character so long as his ego was given the right stimulation. "Mako has an inner light that is captured in whatever is saturated by it. Hence the Mako Eyes of a SOLDIER."
"Humans need the materia but not mako for magic," he said turning back to business and tapping the stones set in his sword. "The Cetra were intimately connected to the Lifestream and able to use magic as easily as we breathe. The Calamity had tried to use that connection to corrupt the Lifestream but the Cetra found her and stopped her at a cost of their lives. By the time I and my colleagues were created, there was no easy way to use mako. Materia of this size and quality is rare, and the use of it for magic was not a precise science until creating artificial materia was possible."
He smiled, picking up his sword and letting the light catch the runes inscribed along the blade. They knew better now but at what cost to the Planet? Were they going to still weaken it in endless battles until the Lifestream was dead and they no longer had magic or mako?
"Yes, but at first the use of materia was limited and the magic was only a drop of water from the ocean. It was when mako was drained to power machines and build SOLDIERs that we started to truly kill the Planet. The group that created SOLDIER and mako reactors is gone and we are looking to other ways to power our industry, but some say it is too late."
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"Humans need the materia but not mako for magic," he said turning back to business and tapping the stones set in his sword. "The Cetra were intimately connected to the Lifestream and able to use magic as easily as we breathe. The Calamity had tried to use that connection to corrupt the Lifestream but the Cetra found her and stopped her at a cost of their lives. By the time I and my colleagues were created, there was no easy way to use mako. Materia of this size and quality is rare, and the use of it for magic was not a precise science until creating artificial materia was possible."
He smiled, picking up his sword and letting the light catch the runes inscribed along the blade. They knew better now but at what cost to the Planet? Were they going to still weaken it in endless battles until the Lifestream was dead and they no longer had magic or mako?
"Yes, but at first the use of materia was limited and the magic was only a drop of water from the ocean. It was when mako was drained to power machines and build SOLDIERs that we started to truly kill the Planet. The group that created SOLDIER and mako reactors is gone and we are looking to other ways to power our industry, but some say it is too late."