Are the Twelve Primals too?

[Fenral]

It was Hydaelyn who gave the WoL the power to create the blade of light, but if a mortal being wants to re create such a weapon withouth a god's help its when a self sacrifice would be required I suppose.

I think it was actually a simple matter of "not enough aether." We had close to enough, but Moenbryda chose to link to a small isolated reserve for the dry run, which unfortunately ended up being used on Nabriales almost immediately. I don't think we're going to start burning up our allies one by one to kill off Ascians, because that wouldn't really solve anything in the long run.

If only there were some larger source of efficient aether-convertible energy we could tap into... Gee, I really wish there was something like that standing around real obvious-like... But there's just nothing that convenient, is there? Shame.