Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
Another oddity is Ga Bu, the kobold child who unwittingly summoned Titan in grief at his parents' deaths. While this isn't Incarnate Summoning, it is quite the unique case in that like Incarnate Summoning it required only one summoner and was very different from a group-summoned primal. The Titan summoned is little more than a manifestation of Ga Bu's rage and sorrow; as a result while Ga Bu may or may not have been tempered by the summoning, he displays none of the fanatical behavior of your typical tempered follower and instead remains in near-catatonic grief.[/hb]
One possible explanation to the Ga Bu thing... While Titan was clearly influenced by Ga Bu's emotional state, all the trappings for the Summoning had already been prepared by someone else, so it might not be unfair to say that it wasn't Ga Bu himself performing the summoning, even if he triggered it. Additionally, we were right there with Ga Bu: it was demonstrated in the summoning of Lakshmi at the summit that the Warrior of Light can directly shield people without the Echo from becoming Tempered (the whole intercept-the-temper-balls minigame). While we weren't explicitly shown doing so, perhaps we were able to prevent Ga Bu from becoming tempered.

The Ga Bu thing is something that bugged me for a while, and while I do find the reasoning to be a bit shaky, that's what I came up with to potentially explain it.

Another possibility is that Ga Bu WAS tempered - but he was so traumatized by the whole ordeal that he's not ready to start his new life of zealotry...