Quote Originally Posted by Kallera View Post
Without the presence of chosen ones to fight off primals and given the damage the primals do when summoned in such manners, the prospect of destroying the believers becomes a tantalizing solution(and one even the eorzean cities would have embraced, Gridania in particular).
Specific to this - it's an interesting conundrum.

Garlemald is justified in wanting the primal threat to not be a threat. It's the same thing the Scions ultimately want - to prevent those who are capable of summoning primals from doing exactly that.

However, from the Garleans we have seen portrayed in a meaningful way thus far, which is mainly just the upper echelons of the Garlean military and the highest reaches of leadership, their particular response has been to crush those capable because they seem to see just being capable as a threat.

Conflict designed to stop a threat creating more of said threat - sounds like the kind of things Ascians are wont to do, so here's my 3.4 (and possibly 3.5) speculation...we'll discover that the Ascians have indeed had a hand in Garlemald beyond Lahabrea and Gaius. It fits with their usual modus operandi, being involved like that, and would make room for some interesting twists (crazy level being the current emperor is possessed by an Ascian in the way Thancred was, but that's crackpot theory level stuff).