What I envisioned for Summoner

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Well this goes both ways to be honest. You see FFXIV making the summons look appropriate, I see FFXI accomplishing the same lore as FFXIV without making the pets look like scribbles. In FFXI they were a sliver of the celestial beings power projected through the summoner. You were getting a weaker image of the true being. Yet they didn't have to make them 1/3 of the size of the summoner to pull that off.

Now while this may not work in FFXIV cause the true primals are enormous, they could still be sizeable and have detailed models without ruining the image of them as weaker than the true primal.