Being all "I was there for killing a Primal" or "I killed a Primal" tred dangerous grounds.
Most of the Primals have "canonical" points where they were summoned and beat down before the MSQ took place. Â Titan&Levi at Limsa and Ifrit down in Thanalan, specifically, get these kind of "They almost nuked a city last time" callouts.
On the otherhand: You're in Final Fantasy and you have options!Â
1) You might have BEEN there at the canonical Primal slayings(Titan, Levi, and Ifrit have all RECENTLY shown up in the last 20+ years before the MSQ), and then you dug into Egi work with the Sons or something during scholarly pursuits. Â A career adventurer might well have been at Primal Slayings in the 7'th astral era, recently even, before the Calamity.
This is a "Deepest Lore" approach, and there's nothing wrong with it. Â Hell, it's kind of solid, and fits the given history as we know it along with the basics of "How does an Egi work?" concepts. Â Just don't be Goku and be responsible for all primal slaying every wow I'm so powerful look at me, and you're fine. Â Keep it reasonable, keep it sane.
2) Your summons arn't Egi summons. Â Maybe you weave ether into constructs that act as spell channelers. Â Maybe you let your subconcious steer a magical construct or Homunculi. Â Maybe it's a magitec animatronic that you've been working on that spews fire and transforms (and rolls out?)Â into different primal 'shapes' to activate different devices inside it.
This is the freeform approach that detatches from 'pure' lore and moves onto more plausible but less canonically 'true' methods of being a 'summoner' without being a Summoner. Â These are also neat, and often very creative! You're also in short spinning your own ways to make these things work, which means you need to make sure you're not spinning a God Mod powered char out of thin air, since you're making up your own lore for it. Â Just remember to Not Be a Dick and you'll be fine here.
Most of the Primals have "canonical" points where they were summoned and beat down before the MSQ took place. Â Titan&Levi at Limsa and Ifrit down in Thanalan, specifically, get these kind of "They almost nuked a city last time" callouts.
On the otherhand: You're in Final Fantasy and you have options!Â
1) You might have BEEN there at the canonical Primal slayings(Titan, Levi, and Ifrit have all RECENTLY shown up in the last 20+ years before the MSQ), and then you dug into Egi work with the Sons or something during scholarly pursuits. Â A career adventurer might well have been at Primal Slayings in the 7'th astral era, recently even, before the Calamity.
This is a "Deepest Lore" approach, and there's nothing wrong with it. Â Hell, it's kind of solid, and fits the given history as we know it along with the basics of "How does an Egi work?" concepts. Â Just don't be Goku and be responsible for all primal slaying every wow I'm so powerful look at me, and you're fine. Â Keep it reasonable, keep it sane.
2) Your summons arn't Egi summons. Â Maybe you weave ether into constructs that act as spell channelers. Â Maybe you let your subconcious steer a magical construct or Homunculi. Â Maybe it's a magitec animatronic that you've been working on that spews fire and transforms (and rolls out?)Â into different primal 'shapes' to activate different devices inside it.
This is the freeform approach that detatches from 'pure' lore and moves onto more plausible but less canonically 'true' methods of being a 'summoner' without being a Summoner. Â These are also neat, and often very creative! You're also in short spinning your own ways to make these things work, which means you need to make sure you're not spinning a God Mod powered char out of thin air, since you're making up your own lore for it. Â Just remember to Not Be a Dick and you'll be fine here.
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