If…..

[Connor]

I don’t really understand how this would make sense.

I mean, Scholars are Nymian and from the Source, how could they have any links to an entity from another world in the first place? Feo Ul also isn’t a ‘fairy’, not in the sense that Eos or Selene is, since she’s not an artificial construct made of aether bound to the Scholar’s soul stone. Further, how would they then explain an omnipresent Feo Ul? It makes sense for primals because you’re basically just summoning a photocopy made of their aether, and they’re no longer manifested in Eorzea.
How would it work when you’re summoning something that’s still active (and standing next to herself 3 times lol), even if it is on another world.

As for Seraph, I can only assume it’s the fairy’s ‘true form’; Seraph is what you’d see Nymian Scholars in the past summoning as opposed to Eos/Selene. It’s made clear throughout the Scholar storyline that our control and influence over the fairy isn’t absolute, so I assumed that’s why we only end up summoning one half of her each time (Eos or Selene). Summon Seraph is basically putting your all into the summoning to awaken the actual Fairy herself and not just aspects of her. But since our control isn’t absolute, we can’t sustain it for long. That’s all pure conjecture though.

The form also makes sense to me. Fairies essentially work on the same principles as primals/summoned entities, so the form manifests based on the beliefs of the summoners. Considering she was designed to fly around the battlefield saving the lives of soldiers and strengthening them, it makes sense they’d see her as some kind of ‘High-Ranking Guardian Angel’, and that her form would change to match that (hence the glowing Angel fairy lol).