Quote Originally Posted by Rosenstrauch View Post
Seriously. It seems like every time Hydaelyn being a primal was brought up in Shadowbringers, the Scions, Lyse, and even Ardbert went...



It's kind of astonishing, really, how little any of them care.
I mean, in the context of the tempering theory debate at least, the pro-Hydaelyn/anti-tempering faction (and I say this as a pro-Hydaelyn individual) has pretty much the same reaction: even if she is a primal, nothing she's done has been malicious, and there's no evidence of the harmful effects other primals have, despite her existing for millennia.

But that's because the story has just completely refused to focus on Hydaelyn at all; the most she's been relevant in ShB has been in the accounts of Emet-Selch in revealing her as a primal and her role in the Sundering, and Venat's appearance, not as herself. I would dearly love more concrete information on what the implications of Hydaelyn being a primal are, especially in her own words, so I could at least offer an affirmative defense instead of relying on the absence of evidence of deleterious and malicious effects. But at the moment all we have is what the story is not telling us.