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    To the best of my knowledge this was never explicitly explained. The Crystals from the story are just highly concentrated forms of Aether, (which makes sense why you'd receive one upon defeating the Primals since this is what the beastmen tribes offer up to them in order to bring them to our Plane) but they seem to have a higher purpose as they're shown being placed in Hydaelyn's domain. I'm not exactly sure, but I think these same crystals were the ones whose power was expended to enhance your abilities and give you the shielding to survive the Ultima attack unleashed by Ultima Weapon.

    I'd have to double check the cutscenes again as well but there were spots for 6 Crystals in that circle (one for each Primal I assume) but we only defeated three Primals and received a Dark Crystal from the first Ascian that was defeated. (and it wasn't shown going to the "Circle") There's still three other known Primals (Leviathan, Ramuh and the up-until-now unshown Shiva) so I wonder what bearing defeating them and receiving their crystals will have.

    Maybe some of the other Loremongers will have some further insight on this, or maybe the story hasn't progressed enough yet to reveal what's going on with them.

    Edit: Through a strange coincidence I just watched the promo video on Steam and Y'shtola referred to one of the crystals we had as a "Crystal of Light". Why would the Primals' essence convert over to one of these?
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    Last edited by Orophin; 02-19-2014 at 07:00 AM.