More primals than elements?

[RolandDebreton]

I think using the summons, aeons, etc. for Eorzea and the espers for "foreign" primals could be a really fun idea.

The idea of fighting Zeromus, Exodus, Adrammelech and Chaos (as nods to previous FF bosses even) again as say a "foreign esper" gives me chills. Talk about a fan-services two-fer. They would need to tinker with them a bit and make the main-line series espers look a hint more like Chaos of I, Zeromus of IV and Exodus/Exdeath of V (opinion of course). Alas, I've gone from intended course.

To add my own thoughts, I would say that it was never implied that a Primal absolutely 'has' to have some elemental alignment. Though I think an alignment of some kind is implied simply by their nature as deities representing aspects of the world.

If each beastman tribe is able to summon a primal then, Goblins, Dragons (If Bahamut isn't theirs), Tonberries, Qiqirn, Mamool Ja and so on would need their own. Can you imagine a Tonberry primal? It wouldn't seem elemental, it would have to simply be a dark, pyschotic being:

[Ichi]

Additional thoughts:

Othardian Primals: they seem to open up possibilities such as Fenrir, Alaxander, diabolos, and im sure a few more we would all love to see. Behemoth was also included in that video, another possible candidate for Mob type primals, the Beast king. (courels, hyenas, and hippocerfs... no im not gonna make that reference).

Siren is off the charts for me, and I'd be interested to hear more speculation on her for now id guess shes Othardian, But just for laughs I'll picture Qiqirn.

Speaking of laughs... since we already got Good King Moogle Mog, Good King Mog. I wantz Fat Chocobo!

[Ichi]

If each beastman tribe is able to summon a primal then, Goblins, Dragons (If Bahamut isn't theirs), Tonberries, Qiqirn, Mamool Ja and so on would need their own. Can you imagine a Tonberry primal? It wouldn't seem elemental, it would have to simply be a dark, pyschotic being:

I definitely think each Beast Tribe will be able to summon a primal as we've seen even Good beast tribes (moogles) summon primals. Also the devs have stated that Dragons are beastmen and not 'fiends' which probably implies intelligence to the point of sentience despite their lack of a Broca's area (part of the brain responsible for speech) they could still be highly intelligent.

Furthermore we know there are more primals than the the ones summoned by beastmen... Looks like we have a lot to look forward to... and theyll probably add beastmen... oh man this game is going to be around for a while ><;

[Taelyn]

I definitely think each Beast Tribe will be able to summon a primal as we've seen even Good beast tribes (moogles) summon primals.

As per Yoshida in the live letter...

From a lore-perspective, Good King Moggle Mog XII is not a primal and is introduced as a sort of fairy tale which became real due to the effects of the Seventh Umbral Era. Due to this, we have to have a proper story for his appearance in ARR, and we will be implementing this via a scenario in patch 2.1.