The Dark Divinity 3.0

[Ibi]

Unukhalai says there is a difference, but the Dev team has explicitly stated, clear as day, that the term "Eikon" is the just an older version of the word "Primal."

Here's the exact wording of Fern's post in relation to this:

EXTRA FUN FACT: In the EN version, ‘primal’ is the term that the beast tribes give to the ‘summons’ (the beast tribes believing them to be the gods that created the world and their races). The term 'eikon' has also appeared in the story since 1.X, but this is used almost solely in a derogatory fashion by the Garleans who do not see the summons as deities, but as false gods (icons) who must be destroyed. It turns out that this term ‘eikon’ was, in fact, a term used long ago by the Allagans to describe the powerful summons. It can be assumed that this is where the Garleans got the term, along with other information about the true nature of the otherworldly creatures.

It states that the Garleans use the term eikon "almost solely in a derogatory fashion" to describe "summons". It states that the Allagans used the term eikon "to describe the powerful summons".

Nowhere, however, does it explicitly state that eikon meant the same thing as primal to the Allagans. There's no explanation provided here of what the difference between "powerful summons" and "summons" is. Could it be as simple as powerful summons just being a subset of summons? Certainly. Could it also be something more than that? Given that we know nothing of the nature of how eikons are summoned (if they are summoned at all) and only some information about the nature of how primals are summoned, it seems folly to simply dismiss the possibility.

It's quite possible for Unukhalai's comments to be true while not contradicting what Fern said.