This post originally was missing the comment about summoners recognizing one another by the presence of looming bodyguards. I edited it in after rereading and revising about a dozen times. So I'm glad you didn't get to it until the director's cut. :)
Anyway, I was thinking "spiritual aura" too, or maybe the fact that at least Isaaru and Dona wear ribbons, and others wear obis, but there really is no consistency whatsoever in their costuming (WHY AN ARTICHOKE?! WHY?!) so that doesn't work.
I think the fayth probably is in charge of opening the door mechanism, but who knows. Remember those lifts in Mushroom Rock... at least some of them have Yevon symbols and seem to operate using some form of very primitive hydraulics that seems rather different from gear-and-mechanics machina. HEY. There's a lot of water in this game, actually; maybe Yevon does sanction Roman-style hydraulics with clay pipes and water and hot springs and such. (Not that one should expect any kind of consistency about machina from Yevon.)
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Date: 2015-06-07 06:34 pm (UTC)Anyway, I was thinking "spiritual aura" too, or maybe the fact that at least Isaaru and Dona wear ribbons, and others wear obis, but there really is no consistency whatsoever in their costuming (WHY AN ARTICHOKE?! WHY?!) so that doesn't work.
I think the fayth probably is in charge of opening the door mechanism, but who knows. Remember those lifts in Mushroom Rock... at least some of them have Yevon symbols and seem to operate using some form of very primitive hydraulics that seems rather different from gear-and-mechanics machina. HEY. There's a lot of water in this game, actually; maybe Yevon does sanction Roman-style hydraulics with clay pipes and water and hot springs and such. (Not that one should expect any kind of consistency about machina from Yevon.)