The Ascian Question: Have the Ascians ever lied?

[Rocl]

Yet know that if I should perish, so too will the mortal within whose flesh I reside.

He really seemed to say casting him out of Thancred would kill our ally; but again I guess, we didn't technically "kill" Lahabrea then—but he also shouldn't have been expecting us to have the power to do so?

Solus specifically spread information that the Burn was caused by the summoning of Primals. We learn it was actually caused by the Allagan Empire cutting off the aetheric flow.

You can wriggle and squirm your way in to making these potentially true—but there's no way these lines weren't intended to deceive. I also fundamentally disagree with the idea you can call their instruction on the rites of summoning as 'technically true.' They hammer home the point time and time again that while their be a mote of the Allagan general in Garuda, she was never a god to begin with, and she isn't one now. Ysale summons the slimmest amount of aether unto herself and it doesn't make her Shiva.