Quote Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace View Post
I still hold to the idea that True Eikons don't need worshipers to maintain physical form.
As much as I would love for SE to do away with the "every god like entity = Primal" attitude, the evidence has unfortunately pointed to the opposite. Sephirot's preview description indicates that he was, indeed, created by a tree like race to defend them against the Allagans. His existence was dependent on the people who needed him, just like every other Primal.

Zantetsuken, as well, seems to have it's own brand of worshipers. Most people argue that the sword persists without worship, but that's not necessarily true. The Extreme versions of Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan used the bodies of a mortal host to sustain their strongest forms. So, too, does Zantetsuken. The sword feeds off the aether of its wielder, and has been doing so for hundreds of years.

I do like the idea of Eikons retaining a sense of "self" when dissipating back into the aether though. It's always been a little unclear just how much of the Primals are actually real and how much of them has been created from the wishes of their summoner. The fact that they always tend to come out as twisted machinations of the summoner's wishes (instead of the genuine article) leads me to believe that they do have an essence of some kind.