Connection Between The Twelve and the Allagan

[ExHeroKid]

I find there is no reason to believe the Twelve are anything different from Primals. (and I *thought* there was some game text implying or suggesting this, but I could be making that up). Memes given physical manifestation by the combined will of a people and the power of the crystals. Of course, you create a feedback loop when you do this: what can be interpreted as the existence of these beings reinforces them in the peoples' consciousness.

Incidentally, you can expand this idea to explain both crafting and converting gear into materia. The crafter uses the component materials and their own will (fueled by crystals) to "make" the end product. When you convert to materia, you remake it into a crystal, but the crystal has gained "experience" or memory of how it was used, thus making materia instead of crystals again.

Wow. /10char