(06-04-2015, 11:00 PM)Memenu Wrote:(06-04-2015, 10:16 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Primals siphon aether from the land by existing. Â It doesn't have to be conscious. Â It's just how they work. Â They can't maintain a form without doing so, and that is why they are such a problem. Â Tempering is a secondary issue, and their love of crystals goes right back with their need to constantly consume aether to continue existing.
Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I could swear this has been mentioned at least two or three times so far in this thread, and thus far you have never addressed it. Â You keep ignoring that pesky, but important fact.
I haven't been ignoring it, I've just been thinking about it. Since the body used to be that of one of her followers, and that it is a physical (read; a naturally created, living) body, would, or could it completely negate the draining of Aether? I don't know, the reason; It hasn't been explored or even commented on in-lore. It'd explain the lack of need for crystals, Tempered followers, etc, but it would be a bit too...Convenient, so to speak.
Shiva.
Iceheart still needed crystals, we can assume prayer, and some method of summoning the primal essence onto herself. As said earlier, a primal needs to willingly temper individuals, but the aether drain is a constant force.
person opinion: I think having a living body as a base might lessen the amount of aether needed/drained, but it shouldn't negate it. A primal is, by definition, still going to be draining aether by existing in the physical plane.
