(06-06-2015, 04:06 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: To put it out there, Elder/Ancient Primals are just ones that are not being actively prayed to today.
Odin basically tempers a victim to pick up his sword and then uses the host to drain enough aether until he can materialize.
Bahamut is kept alive by ancient Allagan tech.
Belias is a little strangers, as we don't have much lore there. Seeing how he's basically a giant purple/black ifrit-egi, I've seen some speculation that perhaps Belias is an older interpretation of Ifrit that fell out of worship. (If we're assuming primals are the way they are because of how they are believed to look like, this could make sense). Otherwise, Belias simply falls under the category of "no longer worshipped" and was just a flickering memory brought alive through the bunches of SMN stones SMN Quest Rival Guy had. >Also, Ascians.
Belias is odd due to the lack of info on him in the ff14 world. My bet is he could be one of the demon fell by the Zodiac Brave like with Final Fantasy Tactics. He was also a summoner based class in FFT which is more then likely why he was used as a nod to the Ivalice Alliance as are the Ascian names being linked to the Scions of Light.
I wouldn't be surprised we get the see the rest of the Scions of Darkness as some point either as a past of the summoner quest line or linked to the growing weapons arc some time down the road.
