Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
To play devil's advocate, yes, the moment that we learned Hydaelyn was a Primal, this possibility was put on the table. Every Primal we know of siphons Aether from the land - some, like Alexander, at a truly horrific rate. The possibiilty remains that Hydaelyn (and Zodairk, for that matter) are DIFFERENT in some way and don't require a supply of Aether to persist - but it's not fair to say that "nothing we've seen" suggest.
The only issue with this is that Hydaelyn has actually been weakened to the point she cannot communicate with us directly anymore, much less the ability to actually help us as she did in the past. Which makes me think that Hydaelyn is running herself on a fixed amount of aether and simply refuses to draw any aether that was not originally hers to begin with, like how she used the crystals of light that Ardbert and his team had to recharge her battery a little to send Minfilia off with a chunk of power to stop the Flood of Light and even though she could have used Minfilia as a conduit to absorb the huge amount of aether in the flood to recharge herself she did not.