Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
The way I understand it, is that Lahabrea went around teaching a limited version of Ancient creation magic with a specific tempering thing built into it to keep the cycle going.

When it comes to summoning "faith" is not being used as emotional fuel, but instead as a clear image of the being to be summoned. All of the summoned beings are gods or at the very least ideals (as in Shiva's case). The people summoning them are Sundered and so have very limited power in creation magic compared to the Ancients and need outside help. But together with a power source (crystals) and a common, strong faith they all have together in a single shared idea of a being, they can perform creation magic. When a clear image is not formed, like with Ga Bu's summoning of Titan, the summoning goes wrong and Titan's personality was warped by Ga Bu's state when he summoned him.

So summoning, at least to me, is purely aetheric and has nothing to do with dynamis at all.
That makes a lot of sense to me! Except I wouldn't call Ga Bu's summoning "gone wrong" and I also disagree with the clear image thing. All summons are warped, Bahamut the Eikon is described by Tiamat as a twisted abomination or something (based on the original artwork of the high dragons Bahamut the living being definitely did not even look like the eikon but more like his siblings and those dragons deffo had a very clear mental image of what their king looked like). I assume there's inherently something volatile about the summoning process it's basically a children's first attempt at creation magic.

Phoenix and Anima were summoned entirely unconsciously, with Phoenix it's especially egregious, because the people actually prayed to the twelve, yet what emerged wasn't a twisted version of those gods or whatever, but instead an entirely different entity, one not to protect, but to rebirth, as if the people had actually lost the belief in protecting the realm and instead channeled their faith into the next best thing, you know a chance for those who would walk after.