Realization: Is the WoL a primal?!

[sarehptar]

Something worth thinking about for people who are fans of the primal!WoL idea: even if we aren't technically primals by nature, we are starting to fill the same role.

Primals are summoned by beast tribes and people when they feel a great need, typically from very strong fear and a desire for protection from enemies. Besides aether, the key ingredient for a primal summoning is faith. The people of Eorzea are absolutely starting to turn to the Warrior of Light for the exact same reason the beast tribes and both sides of the Dragonsong War turned to primals. We keep protecting the people over and over, defeating their foes, saving the day, so on and so forth, and the people's faith in our abilities just continues to grow.

The Dark Knight storyline actually touched on this a tiny bit, in the sense that people are starting to turn to the Warrior of Light for anything, creating mounting expectations about our responsibility to aid those who won't (but should be able to) aid themselves.

I mean, is there much difference between the Ixal summoning Garuda to expel the Garleans and the Grand Alliance frantically calling us up every time someone invades? How long before this excessive faith produces something terrible?

(So no, we're not primals. But if we were to die now, for some reason, the people's faith in us could very well result in the creation of primal!Warriors of Light, just like the people's faith in Louisoix could have led to a summoning of Phoenix if the news got out to the world.)