Much is made during the story about the dangers of summoning primals. I don't think it's a spoiler at this point, after 1.0's story, to mention that Louisoix was hesitant to perform the summoning of the Twelve and held it off as a last resort. Given that summoning siphons a large amount of precious aether in order to sustain a primal's presence in our realm, and that's a bad thing, I have two questions.

1. What is sustaining Carbuncle? More to the point, what is sustaining the hundreds and hundreds of Carbuncles running around? Why is summoning it not forbidden? I understand that probably it is not a true primal, but it is an aetheric being, right?

2. Why on Hydaelyn would Free Companies be allowed to summon primals at all? Not to bring down all those SMN who are really looking forward to pulling a lion out of their hats for once, rather than egi bunnies, but if it's bad for the beastmen to do it, why would it be cool for adventurers to do the same?