How DOES BB do it? The answer is so obvoius I'm stupid for not thinking of it sooner.
 

'It', of course, being warping time and space so that he can travel vast distances in the blink of an eye, accidentally twist time and space around himself so that the universe spits out a duplicate that lives one second in the past, walk accross a rope over lava that's only anchored on one end, and all those other physically impossible things he's done.

The answer is so obvious that I CAN'T be the first person to think of it. Simply put, BB is the very first time mage (there was a class by that name in FF5, as well as FFT). It makes perfect sense. Time mages can warp time and space much as BB does. I say that BB's the first time mage because BM, RM, and WM seem confounded by his time and space warping abilities, and at least one of them would probably know if time magic had already been discovered/invented.

Anyway, discuss. Or not.

"It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're doing can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history." - Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

Particleman, I agree whole-heartedly with you as it suddenly makes so much sense.

And beinsane, I completely missed what your quote meant and thus I have no idea what it's saying.

Simply put, if you're completely oblivious to the possibility you might fail, you won't.

And that's a very good theory if we ignore Sarda, since he obviously can warp time and space as well (see: dinner preparation). Of course, his abilities are beyond anything else anyway.

Well, maybe Sarda operates in the same manner as Arthur Dent flies, in the HHTTG books. Achieving the right frame of mind just before he initiates a spell.

Sky Warrior Bob

Yes & no. Arthur's first time flying was by accident, as well as the 2nd time, but afterwards, he learns to fly at will, just by putting his thoughts into the right frame of mind.

I mean, Adams also went on to talk about schools that taught the knack for flying, and implied that potentially anyone could managed it, just as long as they could achieve the optimum point of distraction.

SWB

David Eddings proposed the theory in his book, Polgara the Sorceress, that if one did not know what he was doing was impossible, then a person could do that. You know that you can't grab yourself by the neck and hold yourself at arm's length. You know that you can't pick up a rope that you are holding and has already been severed from the other side and walk across it. But :bbelt: very well may not. So, therefore, he can do it.

This is the guy who got lost in a straight hall, after all.

Sarda can do all that because he is in fact of the Sage class in FF3j, the be-all-end-all magic user . . . a red mage on steroids, if you will.

Sorry to dissapoint you all, but BB isn't the very first time mage. Check it out