Primal Summoning Question.

[Anonymoose]

if I summon ifrit and a fellow summoner summons a ifrit egi as well will they differ from each other. Is that why Tristan summoned belius?

A summoner can only summon the Egi of a primal that they have defeated in the past for two reasons, and it's the less-obvious one that matters here. First, of course, the summoner needs to have been bathed in the aetheric mist of the dying primal to attune their aether to it. Second, though, a little less metaphysical, the summoner shapes the arcane construct, and you cannot give it a form that you've never seen.

Now, the same tribe of Amalj'aa has been summoning all of the incarnations of Ifrit we've seen so far. Their mindset changed, and thus Ifrit's behavior changed, but he looks the same. Because of this, I think all Ifrit-Egi summoned by modern-day summoners would end up looking similar, as well. Tristan (and his brother) both fought Ifrit, and then an Ascian underling used the memories of summoners past (stored in the soulstones aka job crystals) to give Tristan knowledge of the elder primal Belias, enabling him to summon Belias-Egi.

Why does Belias-Egi look like Ifrit-Egi?

• Likely-Truth: Dev. Team couldn't commit resources to make another model

What options does the Lore Team have for explaining it?

• A: Belias actually did look like Ifrit. They are both avatars of Inferno, and Belias, a demon king, would look quite similar to Ifrit. Perhaps their histories are somehow entwined.

• B: Tristan had the knowledge of Belias, but had never seen him, so the memories from summoners past got enmeshed with Ifrit (a primal he had faced), due to their similar traits

• C: ??? (Other)