Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
*Gestures wildly at the place known as “The Burn”.
The thing with the Burn is that it isn't the result of a primal summoning, but it is the result of depriving the land of aether. So if primals are not having that kind of effect on their locations then they are presumably not draining aether from the locations.

However, that is not necessarily the same thing as them not draining the land's aether in the long term. It is possible that they need regular offerings of crystals so they don't run out of power and have to start draining the land directly to maintain their existence.