Midday question

[Kusanagi7]

so i was listening to the latest episode of limitbreak radio and they said midday was a primal so my question is he a primal from my understanding he came from space n was a gate keeper to silver tear lake?

[CyrilLucifer]

We have no evidence he's a primal. Quite the contrary - we can ride him. While we all joke about being able to ride primals, in a realistic scenario we actually have and it didn't work. When we're atop Bismark he damages us constantly; in BisEx he actually kills you if you're on top of him too long.

That being said, Middy's origins remain a mystery that we continue to debate about. We all have our opinions. But yes, he is the Guardian of Silver Tear Lake in Mor Dhona, due to a pact with Hydaelyn. What he's protecting there is also a mystery. . .but one that is far closer to being cleared up after 3.2, in my humble opinion.

[Anonymoose]

Midgardsormr is definitely not a primal. He's the Father of Dragons - the first of their kind and the King of Kings.

How do we know for sure? Did Fernehalwes actually say so? Did Fernehalwes quote Yoshi-P actually saying so? Did Corvinoobus find out that the Waning of the Sixth Sun BluRay bonus disc calls Midgardsormr an "elder primal" and explicitly let everyone know in no uncertain terms that he "ain't no primal"?

The answer is D) All of the above.

Incidentally, Midgardsormr might not be from "space". It's worded pretty ambiguously. He "came to" this planet in "a time before time", yet we have almost zero knowledge of the span between when Light and Darkness were one and when corporeal life arose, and life is usually credited to Hydaelyn. It could just as easily be that he just kind of came into being with the corporeal world. That might be why his name means world serpent. If splitting the original status quo into a planet and moon stressed the boundaries of the realm so hard that it fractured into fourteen facets, what's beyond? Granted, it'd be pretty funny to see a map of the known universe with one planet, one moon, a sun, and the rest is just "There be dragons."