The girls of patch 2.4

[Nutz]

As for her merging with Shiva that does seem to be possible since this was a unique summoning in the story. It's also possible that she was acting in a similar way to the artifact the Ascians keepgiving to the beast tribes. They use these artifacts it to summon their primals in addition to massive amounts of crystals. Judging by her using Haedalyn's quote it's entirely possible Iceheart has echo and was able to summon shiva due to having echo thus acting like a medium in place of the artifact. This follows along with the existing story where Minifilia is trying to figure out what the echo is exactly and the quote is one of those "so the plot thickens" kind of moments. I'm very interested in seeing where this plot thread goes.

When this happened it made me think of the ridiculously early (considering where we are now) announcement that FCs could eventually capture the actual primals and summon them at full strength. I figure the way Iceheart is able to summon/ become Shiva, likely due to the echo, is a decent explanatory thread to lead to players summoning/ transforming into primals. C'mon Minfilia & co. Get working on it!

[Prototype909]

When this happened it made me think of the ridiculously early (considering where we are now) announcement that FCs could eventually capture the actual primals and summon them at full strength. I figure the way Iceheart is able to summon/ become Shiva, likely due to the echo, is a decent explanatory thread to lead to players summoning/ transforming into primals. C'mon Minfilia & co. Get working on it!

The primal Shiva (Less of a primal and more in line with King Moggle Mog as a psuedo hystorical/mythological figure) could be said to at least be in-part sympathetic to Iceheart's goals though, whether or not this has any bearing on the summoning attempt or not is unknown I suppose but is something to consider. We don't know how summoning primals who would be outright hostile to humanity such as Garuda or Titan through a conduit would work.

[Balipu]

When this happened it made me think of the ridiculously early (considering where we are now) announcement that FCs could eventually capture the actual primals and summon them at full strength. I figure the way Iceheart is able to summon/ become Shiva, likely due to the echo, is a decent explanatory thread to lead to players summoning/ transforming into primals. C'mon Minfilia & co. Get working on it!

Wait, what? When? Why and How?