Theory: The Primal invasion of Ul'dah

[Enkidoh]

No, the Paragon is actually an Ascian masquerading in a form that the beastmen don't find threatening, who teaches them to summon their Primal - the slyphs were visited by a Paragon back before the Calamity, where they debated summoning Ramuh in order to protect themselves from the Garleans, but ultimately decided not to after seeing how the Primals were corrupting the other beast tribes. The 'Chosen One' however is simply a sylph that is born (or rather, 'sprouted') in a time of despair and who will lead the sylphs into a new age.

Hence the tug-of-war between the free sylphs led by Frixio and the tempered versions over the Chosen One's podling - he's basically a sylvan messiah in a sense. But the important thing is the sylphs' Chosen One has nothing to do with the Ascians.

[Morningstar1337]

Hence the tug-of-war between the free sylphs led by Frixio and the tempered versions over the Chosen One's podling - he's basically a sylvan messiah in a sense. But the important thing is the sylphs' Chosen One has nothing to do with the Ascians.

Ah good. I don't want to think that I accidentally doomed the sylphs like that.

Back to the OP. the reason I listed Ifrit and Shiva is because I don't see the other primals interested in Ul'Dah

• Ramuh is an enigma, but not to the same extent as Shiva. We know that he would defend the Tweveswood (which seems to be close to Thanalan) but odds are that he won't get close enough to try or get killed by the player before he can do anything about Ul'Dah (and besides gridana would be a higher priority for him
• Leviathan is more of less sea bound. On top of that the Sahagin would rather try to conquer Limso Lominsa first)
• Titan is painted as more of a guardian and the Kobolds wouldn't be interested in Ul'dah anyway (ether becuase of general laziness and their own beef with the Maelstrom)
• Garuda seem likely just to wage war with anybody, but the Ixal would be the furthermost Ul'dah and also more concerned with the other closers companies.
• Enkidoh already disproved the Ifrit as a possiblity for the invasion but he is the only Primal worshoped by beastemn who actualy have abeef with Ul'dah.

So if anyone Primal were to attack Ul'Dah it would have to be Shiva (and only because of her being an enigma) or an unknown primals that the Asceans discovered. Or maybe the Asceans gathered a hoard of crystals and said tio the Amalj'aa "To bring salvation to your kind, the god (Ifrit) must show the people of the shelled city (Ul'dah) the light" in their paragon disguise.