Primals should look more mechanical like in FFXIII

[Balaur]

The terms for summons are interchangeable depending on the FF you're playing and who you ask. Even in FFXIV, the Garleans call them Eikons, not Primals.

The terms I used were based on the games of interest. FFXIII used the term "Eidolon" for the mechanical, Transformer(TM) style of summon. The OP was directly appealing to this model. As they were effectively fal'cie, created to serve man, the eidolons from that game have an innate character that departs from other games. In this game, this world -- this universe -- they are called Primals, and their look is set ... or should be.

[Renvalt]

The only "mechanical" Primal that would make sense would be Alexander - and that seems like something that only mainland Garlemald would be able to manufact.

The terms for summons are interchangeable depending on the FF you're playing and who you ask. Even in FFXIV, the Garleans call them Eikons, not Primals.

Pretty sure that Eikon is the Garlean word for "Primal". Eorzeans simply call them Primals because they've dealt with these powers enough to know that they're SUPPOSED to exist - they're just given physical form because of the beastman oppression.

Garleans, on the other hand, are not familiar with the concept of elemental deities, and thus use a word to describe that which is foreign to them ('course, it could be an Allagan word, but I doubt it - otherwise the Ala Mhigans would've called them such or something similar).