Quote Originally Posted by Dualblade View Post
Personally I'm thinking this will end up going into a theory I've held for a long time: That one can in fact summon without worrying about the whole "temepering the summoner and others" thing. Which would of course lead into the Ascians being the reason why the current way summoning works leads to temepering.
Yeah. Primals as we know and understand them are entirely rooted in Ascian teachings; they're a plague meant to engender instability and bring about Calamities. Hydaelyn and Zodiark must naturally precede the Ascians, so it's likely they're a separate sort of existence altogether, one not inherently harmful. After all, if Hydaelyn were a bog standard primal we're familiar with, the planet would already be drained dry after thousands of years.