*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[KizuyaKatogami]

It's been a while, but I don't think so? My recollection is that we traveled to the aetherial sea via the antitower, and then spoke to Minfilia as the Oracle by using the little crystal macguffins we got during ARR. It never seemed like the crystals were an energy source for that - more like a catalyst to make communication possible.

I haven’t seen it in awhile but i thought that was implied to be our first real sign she was a primal. We use the crystals and i think they even just disappear after and she says her energy is waning and we have no more to give her.

[MikkoAkure]

I haven’t seen it in awhile but i thought that was implied to be our first real sign she was a primal. We use the crystals and i think they even just disappear after and she says her energy is waning and we have no more to give her.

We "invoked the power of our crystal" when the Warriors of Darkness brought theirs out, trying to escape, which was all a part of Urianger's plan, somehow. The combination of all the crystals brought us to a meeting with her and after which she sucked the crystals dry for more power. But the power in the crystals was already her own power that she had given to the crystals to begin with. It wasn't the same as other primals, who we see being summoned with stashes of regular, naturally-made crystals.

I don't even know if the writers had planned for Zodiark and Hydaelyn to be primals that early. They said during fan fest once that they didn't do the Warriors of Darkness arc expecting us to go to the First, either. A lot of the game's story feels like they had a vague idea of how it was going to go, and made up how we were going to get there and what happens along the way.