I want to talk about tempering

[Jandor]

As much as folks give Lyse crap about that, it's not as though they just opened the doors to them. They took plenty of precautions to avoid a summoning. In a game of security versus intrigue, one side is going to win out over the other, and this time intrigue won - the danger came not from the delegates, but from the tempered HUMANS that they had secretly installed.

She gets crap for it because it was a dumb idea. You say yourself that they cannot be trusted and will betray any agreement they make as soon as they think they have the upper hand.

The Scions and Raubahn should have known better than to even entertain the idea IMO.

I've been wondering about worship of the 12 in that regard. Well technically we've already seen the result of worship of Halone. It requires more than just worship. It requires crystals and a ritual. Although the SB primals kinda thumbs it's nose at the ritual part.

I hope the writers have a reason why the summoning ritual isn't really required anymore, and that it's not just because it makes it easier to whip new primals up for cool fights.

Tempering seems to be a deliberate act - it's not just caused by being near a primal, they have to directly target you with their aether or whatever exactly it is that they do.

Tempering can be a deliberate act, but it will happen eventually anyway if someone spends enough time in the Primals presence, regardless of if the Primal wants to.