Quote Originally Posted by Nilroreo View Post
I was willing to accept that when Rulakir clarified a few comments later that tempering was an element incorporated into primal summoning only after the sundering. This might've been done in an attempt to retcon Emet's claims of being tempered himself making it easier to just suspend your disbelief and assume both have the ability to protect you... but then Hydaelyn's unending codex entry happened.
I'm just going to have to write off the in-setting author of the codex as a bedazzled fanboi, who's lost all touch with reality, especially given Zenos's research into the Echo. The lore book even states primals of all sorts confer blessings, and hers is quite explicitly similar in function to other primal blessings (have they forgotten SHB or something?)... the only reason I can think that would make sense for them to try (and I stress that word) rewrite it this way is so she could recognise you as a time traveller... but it still doesn't undo the fact that the Echo is why even individuals without a blessing, like Fordola or Arenvald, can withstand a primal without being tempered. So that lore stands.