Quote Originally Posted by Eisi View Post
What does that mean to use and manipulate Dynamis? Are the sundered doing that?
To a degree, yes, but not in the ways a lot of people say. The Ancients were too aetherically beefy to actually be able to manipulate dynamis, or to be manipulated by it--you could see this in how their 'creation magic' was the thing that broke, because they were actually immune, but their creations weren't. The elpis flower/the Heartbloom being largely inert in Elpis itself but reactive in the sundered world is the clearest example that yes, dynamis is being manipulated in the sundered world, just subconsciously.

There have been some moments in the game where dynamis probably was active now that we look back on it; probably the clearest example is the Totentantz in the Dancer questline, but there's a few more places where it's a not-unreasonable thing to bring up. It's just that the OP's example of primals is... not that.