On Primals

[Viridiana]

Given the many spanners thrown into existing theories about primals, I don't think many of us can confidently claim to know everything about them any more.

Granted, but I like to speculate with what info we do have.

First, Ferne has dropped a major hint at the Las Vegas Fan Fest that primals are not necessarily elemental.

And I don't recall anyone ever saying a primal drains or strengthens an element. The only thing we know for sure is that they are sustained by aether and strengthened by worship.

I've never considered Odin or Mog to be elemental, so no big surprise there, to me. As for whether they must consume an element, the Scions claim that they require crystals to summon. Barring any deaspected crystals, we know that elemental crystals are being consumed. The question, then, is whether it's one particular element or if any will do.

I still need to check whether it was the primals or a vast store of aether (or both) that was sealed away in Silvertear Lake. We don't know who created the seal, although my guess has always been the Allagans. And if it were indeed the Allagans, then for them to have sealed away modern primals like Ifrit, Titan and Garuda would suggest that these primals are some 5,000 years old. How much older would that make Bahamut and Odin? I don't know.

Well, the modern primals were seen escaping from the seal...

But it does make me wonder why the Scions aren't making a fuss about Odin running loose in the Black Shroud. If that is indeed an elder primal, then their aether goggles should have picked up the disturbance by now. I'm therefore of the opinion that the current Odin is no more than an apparition of the Dark Divinity, and not the actual primal himself.

Kinda curious about that, myself. I mean, based on how primals work thus far in the game, Odin is very much an outlier. The closest he has to worshipers would probably be either adventurers (delighting in combat) or lay persons (wishing for a strong warrior to protect them). Even then, a summoning is supposed to require crystals, so that seems to be missing. Unless he can somehow get enough aether from the environment, or something. . .