Quote Originally Posted by Dualblade View Post
Personally I'm thinking this will end up going into a theory I've held for a long time: That one can in fact summon without worrying about the whole "temepering the summoner and others" thing. Which would of course lead into the Ascians being the reason why the current way summoning works leads to temepering.
Already known with Shiva, and technically Moggle Mog, although I grant that it may be difficult to tell the difference with the latter.

Also Alexander is implied to never have tempered anyone. We go in with Cid and the Ironworks crew into Alexander, and they were completely fine. Quickthinx was also not exactly following Alexander's true intentions. However, I'm less attached to that hypothesis (of Alexander not tempering anyone), since it could all be handwaved with "it's all part of Alexander's time-travel plan".