For me the following are my definitions:

Primal - an entity summoned by the will of the living people of THAT world (thats why Ascions have to encourage peeps to summon, and why they dont themselves). Once destroyed, their aether returns to the planet.

Elder Primal - an entity summoned in the same way as above, but from a prior era.

Eikon - a primal whose entity has been summoned but whose aether is bound to an item or items. Once they are destroyed, their spirit returns to that item rather than rejoining the lifestream. This means they can keep reappearing after they gather enough aether to do so.

This leads me to the following questions:

1) When we die, we are bound to a crystal. Age old question, yes you know where I'm going with this.

2) We know an Ascian can be bound to crystal instead of roaming to find another body. What does this say about ascians?

3) We know people can summon primals into themselves, and even control them completely with their will. It seems only those with the echo can possibly do this. We know ascians can control the will of those they possess...is their a similar reasoning behind this? Why can they control humans* when they didn't summon them? (or...)

4) Why do all the primals seem trapped and released at the battle of silvertear falls? prior eras had primals? didn't they?...what if....those are all just memories people obtained during rejoinings? Why the crystal tower appeared out of no where, and other such ancient relics?


so many questions every time we get more answers