Quote Originally Posted by Tama-Kanzashi View Post
And also, according to the game itself, the "tempering" that Zodiark supposedly did to the Ancients was very different from the tempering of the crude Primals of the tribes whose summoning process was intentionally introduced to them in a botched fashion. It is supposedly much milder and more like a slight nudge.
Funnily enough, that is one of the few instances where to my understanding the English has gone askew from the other languages. I saw a comparison a while back and the others were more along the lines of "proper summoning won't temper you unless it's something on the scale of Zodiark".