Quote Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh View Post
And I also don't buy the "player is a primal" theory because the story keeps hammering the point of how a primal can drain aether from the land very quickly by simply existing in said space. We would have sent the world into ruin by now and no, I'm not going to buy the theory of how we're "special" and thus making us a primal that doesn't drain aether.
Arguably, we are a sort of not-primal but something in the same vein anyways. Rather than taking our power from the land and life in our immediate vicinity, we cut to the chase and tap right into the Mother-crystal herself. Hence her weakness after we beat Lahabrea the first time. Though now we are apparently strong enough in and of ourselves to avoid that. ((Sortof. We haven't replicated the Sword of Light feat again without special items.))