Names for Tempering

[Enkidoh]

You know Moose, the more I think of it the more I think the mysterious Primal that so put the fear of the gods into the XIVth shortly after the fall of Ala Mhigo was just a mislabeling of Midgardsormr on SE's part, as they called Midgardsormr 'an elder Primal' on the 'Waning of the Sixth Sun' recap disc on the Collector's Edition, only to then state that was a mistake.

So it's likely the labeling of a 'Primal' appearing to halt the Garlean advance is just another typo in the same way (it fits the time frame for the supposed incident, and also remember that during the Battle of Silvertear Skies, when the Agrius crashed and ruptured the seal in Silvertear Lake, Primals in fact did appear - but not just one, hundreds of them shot out of the aether at high speed.).

[Anonymoose]

So it's likely the labeling of a 'Primal' appearing to halt the Garlean advance is just another typo in the same way

I've often wondered that myself; especially considering "shortly after" could easily be five years when compared to the fact that usually, when this incident is brought up, we're being told a history that spans from the Empire's founding all the way up through the conquering of the East to the invasion of Eorzea. The only thing stopping me from just believing that and calling it a day is that, if this was indeed an error, how did they go from using it on the original FFXIV Promotional website to REUSING it on the ARR promotional website and never noticing the mistake? And then on top of that watching us try to figure it out for years without ever stopping in like, "You can let that go, now. That was our bad. Sorry!"

All they'd have had to do is say, like, "so, when we said 'a primal' what we really meant was 'the primals,' you know, after Silvertear."