Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
2] The original Dalamud was a machine, the spell cast by Louisoix was ... a spell. Why did the sealing spell look similar to the machine? Hard to say until something is conclusively stated, but a primal looks like you imagine it to be - the summoning of the Twelve manifested as their SYMBOLS, the main thing everyone who prayed to them associated them with in kind - perhaps expectation heavily influenced the appearance of the spell. Prayer that Dalamud would be returned to the heavens, that Bahamut would be rebound; these things would evoke an image of the satellite itself.
After learning more about the Allagans, I thought about the whole spell-looks-like-Dalamud thing, and rather than speculate that the prayers of the people shaped the spell to look like the broken container, the conclusion I came to was more or less the opposite: That Dalamud was the shape that it was in mimicry of the containment spell. The Allagans were masters both of magic AND technology (if, indeed, there could be said to be any difference between the two; any sufficiently advanced science, and all that), and it could well be that the sphere-with-spines structure is simply the best choice for sealing a powerful primal. As such, they built Dalamud to channel aetheric energies in the same way that the sealing spell would, and the shape emerged naturally. I imagined that if you were to strip the metal out of Dalamud while it was in operation and just left the energy flowing through it, it would essentially look exactly like Louisoix's spell.

Naturally, this is just more speculation. I just found it personally interesting to see that Moose had observed the same thing and come to the opposite conclusion. XD