So, this has been bugging me for a while now.

Why did the archbishop summon King Thordan? Now to be clear, I DID enjoy the Thordan fight and all. However we've been told over and again that both a large amount of Prayer and Aether are required. The Archbishop claims that the transformation was powered by a 1000 or so years of prayer and the power of the eye. Now unless I've missed a MAJOR detail, this is clearly not true. At no point has any characters mentioned Thordan with any benevolence, if anything he appears to be treated as a "cool" myth and people only talk about him when directly asked about it.

Normally this wouldn't bother me so much.

However, there IS a suitable "Person" who seemed to be ripe for the summoning. This person has and still is worshiped to this day by many Ishgardians. Characters also often pray to this person (off-handedly i'll admit) at multiple points during the MSQ. It just seems so obvious to me that Halone would be primal of choice for Ishgard. To be completely honest I was completely convinced we would face Halone at some point in the MSQ due to talk of primal summoning and more than a few lingering shots of Halone statues (Did no one else see this as some serious fore-shadowing?). Hell, i'm fairly sure the Archbishop had 2 of them in his office (that were practically always in frame).

So all in all,
How strong was ArchThordan with the serious lack of Prayer?

Do you think we could have beaten Halone?

Why Thordan over Halone?

Considering Thordan's worship is seemingly non-existent, how on earth did the Heavens' Ward manage to summon individual Knights Twelve? Where was their Aether supply?

Was the Archbishop uncomfortable in becoming a female primal?

Or perhaps he wanted to be a King more than he wanted to get the job done right?

Or perhaps like every other Mistery in FFXIV, it was the Allagans?