Minfillia Speculation

[Nalien]

He simply knew we could undo an Ascian with "mortal contrivances", as he put it. We blasted Igeyorhm with the Eye, then he forged a sword from the other Eye and did the same thing to Lahabrea.

Technically he did something entirely different; We trapped Igeyorhm and blasted her, utterly undoing her. He blasted Lahabrea, then absorbed him in his weakened state. He was already aware Primal fed off aether, as I imagine most are at this point, he simply drew the conclusion that it didn't matter what form that aether took, which... Well, it was a conclusion I'd been shouting at my screen since 2.2... That the Scions still haven't realized this (despite us watching Thordan do it...) places them firmly on the Bravely Default level of main character "intelligence"... At least Y'mhitra pretty much realized it, shame she hasn't shared that with her sister... You'd think at this point we'd be going "Hey, Ysayle was pretty bad ass... If we could do that we could summon a Primal to OHKO Ascians or make the Garleans piss their pants and run, then dismiss it to safely return aether to Hydaelyn with no lengthy battle...", but no... Still haven't coined that, have we... Please let Minfilia slap some sense into the Scions now...