Quote Originally Posted by Kicha View Post
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You're right about one thing, killing the queen usually destroys the hive, but note that the primals cannot be killed. they return to the aether after defeat abut are not themselves killed. This is the likely reason why tempering is impossible to cure. In this case the Hive Queen still lives, so her drones are still drones

As for the next paragraph. Suppose that the primlas can be summoned secretly as in with out anyone else knowing. They would summon a weaker version of the Primals (not as weak as the Egis, they are strong enough to temper) a few victims at a time. They would try to make the Primal stronger if there are more than a few people (such as the Ifrit boss with at least 8-12 people not counting the Echofied PCs being sacrificed). Related is the possibility that tempering does not consume enough aether to be noticed by the Scions or Grand Companies.