No offense Nalien, but I think that ship has long sailed - the game has been stating from pretty much the beginning that 'Primals=BAD!' and the fact that as the Warrior of Light we're known with a terrified respect by the Garleans as the 'eikon slayer' (amongst other things), I really don't think that idea about FC's summoning a full-size Primal will ever actually be implemented, and has instead since been discarded by the development team as another concept which isn't really workable. But hey, I've been proven wrong before!![]()
This is what I feel too - that Hydaelyn has never been shown as anything other than benevolent and concerned towards the various lifeforms that dwell on Her, where as the Ascians have always been depicted as malevolant, untrustworthy, dangerous, and downright evil, concerned with nothing other than the revival of their ambiguous dark god. Hells, they don't even really care for each other's well being - remember Lahabrea's dismissive attitude at the very end of 2.55 when talking with Elidibus about Nabrieles's complete destruction? They're a group of sociopathic monsters utterly convinced of their own smug superiority.
Ironically, when 1.0 was released and the first trickles of FFXIV's lore came out, there was a mention in the 1.0's manual about how various wars throughout Eorzea's history have been regarded as 'wars of the Heavens', and that the citystates were actually fighting on behalf of their respective Guardian of the Twelve. Of course even the manual shrugged about whether this was indeed true or not (and at that stage, Hydaelyn as a 'goddess' and for that matter, Zodiark too, were completely unknown and never mentioned in the game).
I disagree that the Ascian's endgame of the 'Rejoining' is 'returning things to a single existence', in that they've consistently said it's to bring about the rebirth of Zodiark at Hydaelyn's expense. In fact, Elidibus is the only Ascian so far who seems more interest in the idea of 'balance', although again, that might just be another means to an end to try and arrest our growing potency and prevent Hydaelyn from regaining Her strength - if hypothetically 'balance' was attained whose to say he wouldn't then say "Okay, now to make the pendulum swing in the opposite way to darkness and Lord Zodiark's rebirth! Mwhahahahaa!" Because time and again, the rebirth of Zodiark is stated as being the Ascian's goal, a change towards darkness instead of Light.