Primals Unquestionably Bad

[Anonymoose]

My guess if that if one of the 12 was summoned the same way as the mog king (ascian method) then the same can happen.

Perhaps the true reason Louisoix used our prayers to conjure only their strength...

This theory of how primals work has really picked up steam around here, but even if I did play a role in it, I'm not ready to accept it whole-heartedly. All of the early promotion for FFXIV focused on the embrace of the Twelve on Eorzea, and SE doesn't usually lie so hard so fast. Even in FFXI, the religious mythology of those who defiled the heavens and had their homes cast into the sea as an act of divine retribution ended up being pretty damn close.

Of course, we haven't heard much from before the time of the Allag and most of the lore of the wandering races has them showing up long after their fall. The lore says that Eorzea belonged only to the Twelve when the wandering races arrived and that they protected us out of appreciation of our resilience... and this is where I see some possibility. Think about it - if the land belonged only to the Twelve when we showed up, but the Allag ran the show before that... maybe Acheron wasn't the only giant, augmented Allag guardian that survived the Fourth Umbral. If other Allag guardians were the original basis for the legends of the Twelve, then we wouldn't be wiping the floor with SE's mythology and we'd have support for the theory of summoning that we're building, which would be comforting... but right now we don't have much to go on, and nowhere near enough for me to make that claim.