My own hypothesis on the nature of Primals [SPOILERS]

[treuhavik]

What if....the twelve are the only, and I'm using this term loosely, real entities... These "primals" are just a primitive, or primal, fragment of them?

Let's say Rhalgar is a Black Mage (a stretch, I know /sarcasm) and Ifrit is or was some creature that was imbued with the all aggressive, ever destructive fire traits of him. Lady Iceheart was imbued with some power of Halone, using this St. Shiva as a connection between the two (Perhaps the echo gave Iceheart the power necessary to make this connection). King Mog could have just been a moogle, a highly thought of moogle, but just a regular moogle all-in-all. When the moogles became distressed, they looked to and prayed to their king, effectively granting him some god-like powers from, say, Athlyk maybe.

It's entirely possible that when the Ascians taught summoning to the beast tribes, they showed them only how to call on the negative sides of the twelve in order to further their scheme. To go along with this theory, there would also be purely positive aspects of the them, as well as the god as a whole (which no one yet has been successful in summoning).

Is your mind still intact? If so, what is it thinking?