Primals - A Discussion on Ethics & Philosophy (ARR & HW Spoilers)

[Mysterysword]

It's funny, but Alphinaud, in-story, once addressed this issue. I'm not sure exactly where he said it - perhaps to Ysayle herself - but basically, he acknowledged that even Louisoix himself resorted to primal summoning in his attempt to prevent the Calamity.

What's worth noting is that both times Ysayle transforms after she allied with us, she wasn't using up a source of aether that had been gathered for the exact purpose of her summoning. When she transformed against Ravana, she was essentially stealing his crystals. When she transformed at the Garleans, she was using her own Crystal of Light.

(Sure would be interesting if that turned out to be foreshadowing that we will eventually be forced to resort to the same thing with our own Crystals.)

Also, Thordan wasn't going to stop at just defeating the Ascians. He was intending to take over the entire world, (insert Saturday morning cartoon villain laugh here) or basically rule over all of mankind as an immortal god-king. To that end, he was trying to kill us, since as primal slayers, we were the first hurdle in that plan. Too bad for him, we ended up being the last hurdle as well.

[Shai]

(Sure would be interesting if that turned out to be foreshadowing that we will eventually be forced to resort to the same thing with our own Crystals.)

Yes. I've been waiting for this since that Sahagin leader transformed himself into Leviathan.

It feels like an inevitable conclusion to our conflict with the Ascians -- which will (in effect) make us no different than Thordan.

Thordan doesn't use Eorzean aether either by the same token.
He used Nidhogg's Eye and the power already gathered by the Warring Triad.

So again, it's not that big of a distinction. In fact, Ysayle using Ravana's accumulated crystals still robs Eorzea of that aether, regardless of whether or not some other being had them "on reserve" or not. She's (in that scenario) more of a villain than Thordan because she's intentionally killing the planet to further the goals of her comrades -- who are trying to stop primals from killing the planet. I have issues with the double standard (obviously).