Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
The thing you spoiled does theoretically give a way that this could be true, but it's crucially not in the way that we often see people say that Auspices and Tural Vidraal are primal-like. All evidence we have about both of them suggests that the same phenomena happens in both places simply because an animal that lives long enough eventually collates insane amounts of aether; there is no collective faith involved, except that some (not all) Auspices do seem to have become objects of faith.

As for the way this square peg could fit in the round hole...

It's plausible that the Auspices and Tural Vidraal may have started being a phenomena simply because those around them believed that could happen; like the pixies potentially springing to existence because the Church of the First Light thought they already did, they might be the result of a collective faith creating a part of the ecosystem that wasn't there before. It'd actually answer an unresolved question I've had: why there aren't Auspices in Eorzea. By this logic, they simply never eventuated in Eorzea because there wasn't that collective belief that they existed.

...But that theory itself just opens a different hole: if this is ultimately a phenomena born of collective belief, then how did effectively the exact same thing develop on two separate continents with, to our knowledge, no interaction?
Actually, we do have evidence to support the idea that auspices are a result of collective faith. that evidence being a dev flat out telling us that it's because of the collective faith in the area causing them to come into existence.

2018 Fan Fest GE Interview w/ Koji Fox:GE: From the development angle, until now, everything was always presented as so mysterious. What are the Twelve? Who knows. What are the Elementals? Who knows. (pauses) Do we know what the Elementals are, yet?

Koji: Who knows?

GE: …So we have all of this for years and years, Eorzea’s this big mystery. Then we go over to Othard. One moon in Othard and it’s like, ‘Here’s the auspices and the kami and it’s all real!’ What?

Koji: That’s what they believe! It’s all about the belief systems over there. I think they wanted to do that—to make it that it’s so ingrained in that society that they’ve made it real by believing it to be so. And…it is! (laughing) Because we have auspices all over the place!
Both Kami and Auspices are specifically mentioned explicitely to be a result of collective faith in this statement, and the parallels between Auspices and Tural Vidraal is brought up in the MSQ itself, essentially confirming that they're essentially just seperate cases of the same phenomenon. This is consistent with literally every other example we have of "naturally occuring primals"