Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
Oh, I have no doubt about that. I think the primals are going to be like pokemon - we start on this island and we know about these ones... and then we go to another island and the PrimalDex goes apes#!t with things Professor Cid forgot to tell us.



Based on what we know of primals so far, I figure it was self-defense. Primals live in their own isolated spheres of influence and, to them, that is all that there is. They might have ambitions of taking it all, they might dream of being the One True God, but let's face it, Ifrit gives a grand total of 0 Damns what's going on in Limsa Lominsa right now. You have to wander into Amalj'aa territory before he starts blowing blue flames at you. If the Amal aggressively expand later, I'm sure he'll burn that bridge when he gets to it.

The Empire, by taking all territories of those lands, inevitably would wander into foreign primal territory (inevitable now that we know there are foreign primals, anyway). I'm sure they just didn't take too kindly to that, and the damage they dealt to the occupation made the Emperor realize that as long as they're around, they're going to be a pain in his throne.
What is clear tho is that none controls the Primals none tells them what to do....i assume if you summon one with the purpose of them crushing an enemy (to use them as a weapon) you have to go hide under a rock and let it go "wtf? RAWR!" on everything that moves.