Quote Originally Posted by Sephr View Post
It's just a shame most skills used by enemies in this game are so damn boring, or I'd be totally behind blue mage at this point.



Doesn't the story specifically state that we have the potential to summon them? It's more that you'd bind yourself to one primal and hate all the others, though that could change in the future. I could see it turning into some situation where we slay the primals then revive them at a later point to help vs. the Garleans and dalamud or whatever, under the condition they help us... Purely a guess at this point.
The story is two-fold, since summoners throughout history FF history were capable of summoning multiple either through trials or training, i.e Rydia.

The main exception was Tina, whom was basically an Esper herself. It's why we need a continuation of the story in order to even become a summoner siince currently, nothing is really driving us to allowing it to be a class or job, especially given that we're basically set to kill one of the staple Summons in the series. So unless it all leads to an epic build up of ending up with Carbuncle as our first summon again then we end up summoning a new set, it seems they're tying Primals (summons) a lot more heavily into the story this time around.