Quote Originally Posted by Okamimaru View Post
The part that makes me wonder about if he's a primal or not is how shocked the kojin were at his spontaneous summoning... nobody called out to susano to intervene... it was more of a "omg it's susano!" Maybe the Kami are closer to the elementals than primals... but we as eorzeans can only default back to our past experience with beast tribes and primals... it felt more like susano was a genie trapped in a bottle... the battle with him was his "I'm finally free! Let's get rowdy!" party... on the flipside maybe his love of freedom keeps him from tempering his followers
The Kojin were shocked because Susano isn't really the true primal, much as Odin isn't. The real primal is the imbued artifacts. Susano is merely an extension of them much as Odin is an extension of his sword. As for tempering, however, I belive you're very much correct; Susano values wild freedom above all else and so it would make sense that he exerts no control over the Kojin.