Quote Originally Posted by Nahara View Post
I love your explanation, but have to object to this.
I think it's still possible that most of the explanation is correct, but it's just slight different?

We fight story Garuda and gain her crystal and knowledge of her powers and abilities. Not all of her powers and abilities, but enough to basically reach out and connect this creature we're created with the "essence" of Garuda. Then, having connected our puppet to true Garuda, she can then use all of her abilities, but because of the relative power of her "container", those powers aren't as powerful as when she is called by the Ixal.

While the -egi battles are similar to their primal counterpart, there are differences in each (iirc). For example, I could have sworn Ifrit-egi called out a bunch of fire sprites during our fight, but not in the story (or hard mode). Obviously they should be able to, but the choose to against the summoner, but not against the group.