Quote Originally Posted by Exodus-E View Post
Even so, they do grant their followers some of their own powers (e.g. tempered weapons and totems from Ifrit or the ability to power up flying ships from Garuda).
If they truly didn't care about them, they wouldn't have even bothered granting some of their..."magnificence", so to speak.
They don't. They care about themselves. Having followers that die from anything that looks at them funny isn't a good thing. Having followers that can conquer and expand their influence, bringing them more fodder for tempering (and thus more power), on the other hand...