[Spoilers] Is Hydaelyn a primal?

[Akonyl]

I'm leaning very heavily on the "Solus is jerking our chain." side of this. The more I sit and think about this as a possibility, the more it doesn't make sense. Yes there's some stuff that points in that direction, but there's also stuff that points in the other direction. So yeah, I'm gonna wait till we have the full scene and context, cause this is coming from someone who only benefits from messing with us.

Like, big question, if the two are primals, who originally summoned them and how did they summon them? Every time I get to this question, I just can't think of a logical explanation from the standpoint of the lore.

There could just be another method with which the first primals came into being, that doesn't necessarily make them not primals. When it comes to things dealing with the origins of existence, either in science or religion, you'll oftentimes reach a point where the simpler rules stop applying, and you just have to accept that something existed at the start, without anything else having made it.

I don't think prayer is a necessary aspect of a primal, it's just the method through which mortals are able to force their creation, I think it could be as simple as "a primal is aether given form via any method". It's kind of like scientists nowadays who can make artificial DNA in lab settings, just because we can make DNA ourselves doesn't mean it was intelligently designed the first time it came into existence. Hydaelyn+Zodiark could have arisen out of the primordial aether from happenstance, and they'd still be primals.


I'd be willing to believe this is just Solus being a tricksy Ascian more if it wasn't used as the end stinger of the launch trailer for the game at E3, but since it was, I'm pretty willing to believe it.