Quote Originally Posted by _Koneko_ View Post
lets be fair if the power of the primal comes from its summoners if the mother crystal did not have dividing she would have lost she simply did not have enough followers it was most likely 100 % on purpose that the world was sundered as it was the only way to contain zodiark if zodiark is the will of the star like emet says then dividing the star would divide zodiark and thus remove his power by shattering it into 14 fragments

i would say hydaelyn was summoned in response to the never ending need for sacrifices to keep zodiark ancored in reality we know that by design the primals need huge amounts of aether in order to keep existing and with most of the ancients tempered they would happily keep giving him those sacrifices perhaps even giving him the new life would not bring their people back but was simply something the tempering persuaded them it would combined that with the huge amount of aether zodiark would need operate his powers you have a endless wheel of death that never stops for a goal that is unobtainable

and even if zodiark could bring those 50 % back how do we know they would be any different then when lakshmi brough back that dead daughter a false life
I dont think that the Amaurtean creations needed an endless supply of Aether to continue to exist. The constructs like Zodiark and Hydealyn were created in a way that makes them permement and stable. Zodiark did need the energy to restore the original souls because he would need to plug the gap in power. I think this is why Emet say's they are primals after a fashion. It is implied that much of the modern monsters and creatures were originally constructs created by the Amaurteans that have existed past their ultimate fall. By this reckoning, it would mean that these too would fundementally be a primal.

I think there is a difference between primal summoning and the creation magic used by the amauroteans and i think the difference comes down to the amount of natural aether available and also how it is achieved. The Amauroteans seened to have a detailed plan of the construct meaning its shape and existence was set, while primals are loosely based on desire and belief which results in the fundamental shift in mentality with each subsequent summoning. Which becomes a strange self fulfilling cycle. The summoner calls forth the primal > the primal tempers> the tempered continue to summon > the summon retempers the only exception to this cycle seems to deities like Shiva, Thorden and Ramuh each of whom have their own characteristics. Shiva is a particulaly interesting incarnation as it means the primal would essentially temper herself with her own will if that is what is happening except that the echo would prevent that. Thorden also seemed himself after his defeat. Either way its an interesting concept.