It had been the wine!
Lind had been unable to deduce from elixirs how to proceed but he had no such blinders with brewing. He simply tried to make the best he could and realized a shocking thing.
Daos were foundational but they had a relationship that was far more flexible than he believed.
The Dao of Fire was all the Laws of Fire but there still existed the Eternal Flame Dao so what made that different? One was grasping the simple Laws of flame and combining them into a Dao almost anyone could put together but the Eternal Flame Dao he had once encountered was far more.
It was about looking behind the relationships between flame and the rest of the world. To truly claim the Dao of Fire was to see the whole, not just a single aspect. He had been doing the latter for far too long.
He had fallen into the same trap as those that denigrated 6 elementals so long ago!
His success at correcting elemental theory had implanted a bias that all systems were wrong going forward.
