Additional Kagoshima Producer Letter LIVE Questions Answered (Updated Irregularly)

[Anonymoose]

What if such aetheric essence needs a catalyst to latch on to--what if the living aether of the deceased serves as that beacon. <...> In other words, nothing is ever summoned fresh. There's always a lost soul at the heart of it--eternally bound in an aetheric prison called a "primal"

It's like I've spent every moment since Ramuh just circling the rim without falling through the hoop... </facedesk>

<...>perhaps you need a soul to begin with - something forced to act as a vessel for that essence and belief. The creation of Phoenix used Louisoix's, after all.<...>

February 2015

I tossed out that whole theory based on the whole "It's just aether and prayer." from Hraesvelgr. And yet it seems it was partly true. I guess if I just sand half of each of my previous theories off and glue them together, it works, again? We've gotta be getting so close, lol...

I don't think there's much of a difference between primals and carbuncles on the small scale, only the large scale.

Personally, I'm going to maintain a bit of a fence between them (for now - until we information that positively links them). According the post above (as far as I can tell on the vagueries), for primals, prayer acts as a beacon for the scattered bits of something in the Lifestream, rematerializing that thing in a form shaped by faith. However, as far as we know, an arcanima construct is just you splitting off your own aether and shaping it into a bidable avatar using mathematics or the tainted signature something (such as a primal) has left on you. So, summoning Carbuncle would be you splitting yourself in two parts and shaping one with mathematics. Summoning Garuda-Egi would be you splitting yourself in two parts and shaping it using the signature of Garuda, which (having been present at her demise and thus having touched the aetheric mist left behind by her) is permanently etched into (attuned to) your soul.