Quote Originally Posted by Akiza View Post
Summoner is not a pet job it was orginally a Black Mage that decided to focus on the art of summoning which is how Summoners were born. To make it more of a Summoner SE would have to give us the ability to transform into a unique God/Goddesss embodying Hydealyn in order to keep in line with the lore.
The thing is there is never a time in the summoner storyline in XIV where they say what the mages were. They were just allagan mages that were able to summon primals and then discovered an art to transmute there essence into egi versions. So we don't know if the allagan mages were black mages,white mages or neither of the above.

In final fantasy III where summoning was first used. The black mage came from the wind crystal and the evoker class that turns to summoner from the water crystal. Adding to that the sage class in III was a master mage and used every type of magic black,white and summoning. So it was more an advanced red mage then a black mage.