I want to talk about tempering

[Iscah]

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.

It's political though. I looked up the quest dialogue when this came up in another topic recently. They had to invite the Ananta to be polite, and show they were involving all the local tribes, and expected they would refuse to come - so they were caught by surprise when the Ananta actually came.

Even then it's better to stay on good terms with your not-outright-aggressive enemies, rather than give them a reason to be offended and retaliate, and so honouring the invitation while ensuring there were no crystals available for summoning seemed to be a sensible compromise.

Also Lyse shouldn't be getting crap for it because it probably wasn't her personal decision to invite them, unless there was other dialogue that I missed.

It's not reallly any different to the sylphs in ARR where we decided that they weren't an immediate threat and should just let them be for the meanwhile.

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.

Where does it say this? We haven't seen anyone just living around a summoned primal long enough to know that this happens, have we...?