Triple Triad Card descriptions

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This is worrisome for us theorists...

Aye, I can see someone sculpting a new theory out of the Ramuh and Garuda cards that invokes some of the FFXI lore about the gods once being specific people. My latest progress on the "Primal Theory" was mostly founded on some strange comments Urianger made and old FFXIV trailers, mostly assuming that they weren't entities but simply the essence of the land, sculpted by belief.

To continue seeing things through my lens while also musing this hypothetical new theory, perhaps you need a soul to begin with - something forced to act as a vessel for that essence and belief. The creation of Phoenix used Louisoix's, after all. It'd certainly solve my problem about Shiva's soul being specifically mentioned. Using that framework, perhaps Ramuh was once a living sage, as he was in FFXI, with vast knowledge of the eras. Perhaps Garuda's soul was not broken until fashioned into the body of the Empress of Birds and forced to contain the essence of Vortex.

Now, I know this is a bit ironic, considering that I only recently said that the song Answers is vague enough to be interpreted a thousand ways... but I've felt that, as the theme to Final Fantasy XIV "Season One," that it was mostly about the primals. The primals we've dealt with in this era are the essences of the Land (Inferno, Vortex, et al.), the six facets of Hydaelyn's light.

First previews of FFXIV: The Land will not suffer man's irreverence.
Lyric from answers The Land's alive, so believe.
Hint from Koji that he loves using the word "forsaken" in things relating to the primals.

Could bring "Our souls have been torn, and our bodies forsaken" into the fold of such a theory.

EDIT
If any of that were true, it might not be out of the question that we'd hear from Bahamut again, someday.
Not the primal god of the Meracydians Bahamut, but the actual brood-progenitor Bahamut...

Hmmm. Maybe I should ponder this whole thing some more.