Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
The thing is, we haven't been told ANYTHING about what the Beast Tribes think of this whole meteor, impending doom, aetheric clusterf**k thing... We might assume that they don't know - I assume, however, that they're to blame. There's a reason all those deaspected crystals started showing up en mass right before Dalamud went red and all this sh!t got started.
Well, given Ifrit and the other Primals are described as aether-devouring entities (Read that somewhere but can't find a direct quote, thanks empty wikis) we can presume they've got their hand in the aether-devouring moon which is about to land on our pretty heads.

That being said, I don't know what the Beastmen tribes or even the primals could gain from the destruction of nearly every living thing in Eorzea.

Unless...

Let's say that the moon actually falls on Sivlertear lake, where all the aether is meant to gather and that the Primals can easily evade the destruction which would result. Could it provide them with a direct route to the Aether ressources of the planet? Or maybe even feed from the Aether which could be produced by the death of all the nearby creatures.

This is only based on a quote I cannot find however, maybe they don't even feed on aether.