Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
I think that Zodiark and say, Ifrit for example, are both primals in the same way that a space shuttle and a bicycle are both vehicles. They share some basics in common, they're both man-made devices for getting someone from point-A to point-B for example, but beyond that they're not very comparable.

I have to wonder how much of what we have learned from dealing with modern primals will even be applicable to the pair of several millennia old reality warping gods at the heart of the story.
That might depend on how old Alexander actually is.

It's probably one of those things we're not supposed to compare too closely, since we've fought the time-warping Alexander and the reality-hopping Omega, and the whole Shadowbringers story implies that in the future, mortals like us will be able to reverse-engineer both of those (plus the Crystal Tower) enough to surpass them individually.

So Hydaelyn and Zodiark are starting to feel like they might not be so mysterious in type, even if they're vastly more powerful in degree. But that's not what the story is trying to be, so I figure we have to kind of fudge around with stated capabilities a bit to maintain that sense of escalation. (Personally, as I've mentioned before, I don't think the escalation is necessary, but that's a whole other conversation.)