Somnus and Mamool Ja

[NoloeTazier]

Fighting around and I had to kill some "invasive species" called Thavnairian Mitelings? Where's that? Radz-at-Han

Maybe this has something to do with the Mamool Ja

Radz-at-Han is a city state to the east (Othard), I thought this originally that maybe they (the Mamool Ja) were the creators of the Giantsgall Weapons which were shipped to Limsa, then the Mamool Ja followed their trade to Limsa as well. So I had to re-read and it states "to the east," and the Mamool Ja are to the west...so I assume new land. Monsters named after Thavnair may have found their way aboard the boats supplying the shipments (Thavnair being an island).

I can give you part of the answer to that. Garuda and the other primals weren't sealed in Mor Dhona. What was sealed in Mor Dhona was a massive concentration of aether. The release of this aether just allowed the beast tribes to start summoning the primals. The tribes most likely worshipped the primals long before they could summon them. We know for sure that the Ixal have been worshipping Garuda for longer than they've been able to summon her. After all, they didn't lose the ability to fly recently. I really like the theory that was put forth in one of the other threads here on the Lore forum that Garuda might be the cause of them slowly losing their ability to fly as a way to make them more dependent on her.

My guess of how they originally learned of the primals is that in some earlier era the primals were free and later banished and worship of them has been passed down for thousands of years. One of the lore experts probably has a better theory though.

I'll take the opening CS as quite literal, you see Ifrit and Titan fly from the explosion as they're released back to the land. The reason why Primals were not summoned prior to this was because they were sealed under the Silvertear Lake. The explosion of the Agrias, mostly due to the Ceruleum engines and ceruleum on board, was enough to shatter the seal under the lake and release the Primals. With the Tomb of Xandes and the Crystal Tower being in this general area I would say maybe Bahamut wasn't the only (Elder) Primal sealed by the Allagans. We know the Garleans encountered Primals in Othard PRIOR to the invasion of Eorzea, so what's the different between Othard Primals and Eorzean Primals? The Eorzean Primals were sealed away.

But yeah, the Primal names may be out there for everyone to know, we just as Adventurers just recently learned of them. I think the Ixali losing their primary feathers that helped them fly has more to do with the evolution that they underwent in Xelphatol than the worship of Garuda.