Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
I still don't know where it is at that the Ascians are like, "We need to hurry hurry hurry, y'all!" Can someone point to the point in the story where it happens?

I'm still also inclined to take anything they say with a grain of salt, because like, Lahabrea was all, "We will need the primals in order to get the calamity going." But like, nah, not really. They resort to a chemical weapon to kick off the 8th, which did happen in one of the timelines. No primal involved at all. Ascian words are as air.
I always took that to mean "we need primals to sow chaos to make people panic and eventually make stupid decisions that causes our carefully prepared house of cards to come crashing down on their heads". And while it might not be the sole contributing factor, it was prominent in at least 2 Calamities. Studying the Primals captured by Allag allowed them to develop the technology needed to create Dalamud as a prison for the dreadwyrm, which invariably led to the 4th Calamity. And the defeat of primals prior to the 7th Umbral Calamity caused their aether to be absorbed by Dalamud and served to speed up its' descent towards Eorzea (or at least that was I thought it was, someone please correct me).