Quote Originally Posted by decoratibo View Post
I understand where you're coming from but lore and story building really don't mean that much when I can summon Jibanyan as a minion and then fly off on my Regalia while queuing for the Nier raid. Obviously the devs are not super concrete about the lore of XIV and what it means. This was just a bad decision made under the guise of an otherwise unrelated concept to make it not seem as bad.
all minions are little magic dolls or mechanical toys, and Regalia can easily be done with magitech ( still find the car and most mounts stupid to begin with)