(ShB Spoilers) Didn't Hydaelyn, uh...

[Erendis]

This part about the Twelve “bleeding the land dry” is actually stated in game on numerous occasions during the ARR campaign, mostly by Gaius. Primals receive aether via prayer and devotion, as well as from crystals even when not physically summoned (paraphrasing). But the whole concept of the Twelve kinda fades into the background and is never really addressed directly like this after ARR

So it is, but he got no clue what he is talking about... Probably just blindly believing what Solus said.

[QT_Melon]

So it is, but he got no clue what he is talking about... Probably just blindly believing what Solus said.

No it's also mentioned in Tales from the Calamity.

https://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/anni...?rgn=na&lng=en

[Erendis]

No it's also mentioned in Tales from the Calamity.

https://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/anni...?rgn=na&lng=en

Should Eorzea’s patron deities assume physical form, it seemed more than likely that they would be prone to the same appetites as the gods of the beastmen.

Nowhere does it state that the Twelve drain lands unsummoned. And there is no hint whatsoever that they were ever fully summoned.

[Daralii]

Nowhere does it state that the Twelve drain lands unsummoned. And there is no hint whatsoever that they were ever fully summoned.

It was even a plot point in ARR that the Ascians were trying to trick devotees to summon them as primals, plus Gaius was still sipping Lahabrea and Hades' koolaid until an elevator ride and series of explosions after the screencapped line.