I really do look forward to it, as this is really conflicting and challenging to my headfruit!

And yet, I feel that it does not mean Silvertear at all - I feel that this "primal siting" is what helped spur on the Garleans to first of all, build up appropriate weaponry and airships, and then to attack in the battle of Silvertear, in a tactic that they thought would ensure it doesn't happen again/a primal could not stop their advance.


At that point in time, though, how did the Garleans perceive the Eikons to be beatable? By genocide of the beastmen? Did they have access to the ultimate weapon then? If a primal was summonable without the seal being broken, than that seems anticlimactic - there was no point to break the seal, really.

I've mentioned this previously, but my theory is that there was some sort of elder primal in the region of Ala Mhigo, trapped within some sort of device and accidentally/purposefully released a la Bahamut and Odin. It may not need to be summoned, then, and indeed would enjoy bloody retribution upon release. With the Ultimate Weapon being buried underneath Ala Mhigo, there indeed could be other technology which had the capability to entrap primals in the region. The summoner quest line shows evidence that that Allag were capable of summoning elder primals as egi - so a conclusion would be that they were able to defeat elder primals in battle.