Thordan's 12 Knights are not Primals

[Anonymoose]

I'd imagine Lahabrea was pretty pissed about Elidibus not telling him about that particular extension of said project.

The way I've been interpreting things thus far, if Thordan was granted the Echo, it'd have been impossible for Lahabrea not to have known. Both the Sahagin Elder and Minfilia conclude that the former awakening to the Echo was somehow via Elidibus' intervention (2.2). When the Ascians meet to discuss Ramuh's demise and his troubling consent to the Warrior of Light's path, Lahabrea is the one to draw up the next plan: nurture the gifted, give rise to a new god (2.3). Suddenly, a girl with the Echo becomes the center of a heretic sect that gives rise to a new primal, Shiva, which Nabriales monitors under Lahabrea's orders to ensure that man and god are successfully merged (2.4).

The next thing you know, Lahabrea and Eldibius are standing together behind Thordan's throne, like every movement they've made since the Warrior of Light defeated Ultima was building up to merging the Archbishop - already desperate to win one war and sure to start others if he won - with such power. Logically, that means Lahabrea had to have known that to merge man with god they'd need the Echo, and that Elidibus was capable of giving it to him. (Unless I've interpreted anything wrong.)

I think Lahabrea was blinded by arrogance, given that everything had gone well for him since Ultima. I think he expected that Thordan would take out the Warrior of Light, and then keep having him and Elidibus over for tea while they helped him take out the dragons, the primals, the Garleans, and ever onward. And he was right, aside from the part where the next stop after the Warrior of Light was him.