What happened to SB (story)?

[CosmicKirby]

Ilberd didn't need any crystals for his summoning. He had Nidhogg's eyes to provide all the energy he needed. And Cosmic Kirby was wrong about the Ala Migan's not having any religious zeal: They died full of hate, praying for vengeance. They were the ones doing the summoning, Ilberd merely shaped their hate. He was the one who decided it had to be a dragon.

faith
noun
1.
complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
"this restores one's faith in politicians"
synonyms: trust, belief, confidence, conviction; More
2.
strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

re·li·gion
noun
the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.


Faith is often used as a more nebulous 'belief' or unreasoned trust or desire for/in something. (IE, one can have 'faith' that their friend won't betray them, they aren't being religious for this faith.) Religion is very much a group or organized amalgam of faith. Compare and contrast someone having 'faith' or being spiritual, vs someone involved in the catholic church.

This may just be the localization team stepping on their own toes here, but I think a core component of religion is the practitioners have to be somewhat consistent in beliefs. And them being 'religious' and yet summoning a primal that has NO religion tied to it at all, (Much worse, is somehow recognizable by DOMANS of all people.) makes no sense and can likely just be amounted to fan service. (And, again, the giant bugbear in the room is that the Ala Mhigans would have summon Rhalgr himself, yet for reasons that can only be described as author Fiat, they did not.)

Aside: The main problem with things like Illberd or Lakshmi being very poorly explained summonings of primals, is that the 'rules' of summoning primals get progressively more flimsy. This results in damaging, (at least mine) one's sense of disbelief. If Primals are so 'easy' to summon, there should be far more of them running about at any given time. We've seen them summoned by accident even, this should be a much more common occurrence.