Quote Originally Posted by Vallhallix View Post
Not quite, it didn't have much to do with not being strong enough, because if that were the case, drawing power from Bahamut (one of the strongest primals) and using his ahk morn and teraflare should have been impossible.
Your chara trained and improved since then, it makes sense that you'd be capable now of things you weren't before.

To reinforce this, the ascian in the quest is even in awe that the summoner's mortal body was not destroyed by the trance alone like it was a huge feat.
Well your chara is still a monster strong enough to make Thordan wet himself and not just because of his old age, so.

The lore reason was that each summon was consuming the SMNs own aether, and we already had 3.
The first is a yes, sort of, the second is a no. You never summoned more than one Egi at a time so it only consumed so much aether. How many you could summon didn't change that. But you still needed a certain amount of aether to summon and maintain an Egi, and any Primal after the first three would require too much aether relative to how much you had at the time, leaving you dry. The Trance was a means to bypass that restriction by making the most of the summoner's limited aetherpool. But by letting us have a Bahamut summon - which already goes against your reasoning, because we're not supposed to have more of those? Not only is that our 4th, but a big one - we have clearly surpassed that restriction, even if we can still only manage it for a limited time. Maintaining a lesser Primal's Egi should be much easier, even with your proposed theory.

And, as mentioned before, we're getting more Glamours. That's confirmed. And I doubt it's just more colored Carbuncles.