The twelve as primals /vs/ personal guardian diety

[Enkidoh]

Don't forget though that summoning never actually summons the real deity at all, but just a pale imitation of it which then becomes nothing but an aetheric leech demanding aether and prayer to keep it anchored in the corporeal realm (and tempering it's summoner to do so). Gaius was ironically correct when he said that that the Twelve were "no different than the gods of the beasts".

I haven't seen anything recent from the development team about personal summoning of a player's Guardian deity, and I doubt it would even be possible (for the above reasons). It sounds more like wishful thinking to me personally (I remember ages ago mentioned on the Lore forum that the Twelve in fact do exist but not necessarily in a form that Eorzeans or the player too for that matter may expect, but nothing further seems to have been mentioned on that subject), or just rumour making by players disappointed that they can't summon full size Primals and so are looking instead at the Twelve as an alternative.

Really, whether the Twelve do exist or not is somewhat moot given that Hydaelyn has kind of taken over as the very real and active divinity in the game's storyline - she is the source of the Echo after all, and the player is empowered by her. Thus making whatever piddly god or goddess of the Twelve the player chose as their guardian somewhat redundant. But I digress...