Obtaining summons

[KaiserDrill]

The primals are considered evil by the humans and garleans. This is because they are the gods of the beastmen tribes that they fight against. The beastmen tribes summoned them as a way to defend themselves and the aether that people are taking from the planet. So the primals being good or evil is just a matter of perspective.

As far as summoner goes, we wont know how exactley how we obtain them. I am of the thought they will be housed. In equippable gemstones like in ffix. Perhaps each job quest gives you another gemstone to use (e.g. In ffix ramuh was housed in the peridot stone)

We are going to house the essence of primals in a lesser being. Yoshi has already stated that carby is arcanist exclusive, however changing to summoner will grant access to other pets, essences of ifrit and garuda having already been confirmed.

[Ryans]

The primals are considered evil by the humans and garleans. This is because they are the gods of the beastmen tribes that they fight against. The beastmen tribes summoned them as a way to defend themselves and the aether that people are taking from the planet. So the primals being good or evil is just a matter of perspective.

The Eorzean Alliance is fighting the Primals because they are the ones draining the aether from the planet, not the other way around. Primals require a shit-ton of aether to stay in corporeal form and the beastmen that worship them are providing that aether. The Alliance doesn't actually know how to harvest aether, they had been trading with the beastmen for years but the beastmen had recently stopped the trading process (Due to their gods demanding the crystals).

So no, the Primals are not corrupt and need to be cleansed, at least to the extent of our knowledge, they are just power hungry. (I.E. The reason mini Ifrit gets stronger is because Darnus shoots that aether blast and Ifrit absorbs it)