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FreelanceWizard · **07-10-2015, 01:25 PM**

(07-10-2015, 12:51 PM)Melkire Wrote: It's more that we, the players, only witness a handful of primal summonings. This makes it difficult to determine conclusively how frequently the primals are summoned by their relative beast tribes.

Clearly, if they were summoned and promptly defeated every few days, the main character's assistance in putting down the Primal thread wouldn't be treated with the impact that NPCs seem to place upon it. Not much meaning to the Scions' assistance if it's a routine task.

I tend to feel that the primals defeated by the Main Character are especially potent or otherwise dangerous summonings -- particularly given the recent battles with the Garleans that have left the Grand Companies weakened -- which is why the Scions end up getting involved. It's not that primal summonings are exceedingly rare, it's that city-threatening and persistent summonings are. Leviathan is an interesting case, as the instance destroyed by the Main Character in the MSQ is first time Leviathan's been summoned in quite a while (at least so far as the Maelstrom knows), but we also know that's because the Ascians just recently showed the Sahagin how to do it. There's surely nothing stopping them afterwards once they know how, other than access to crystals.

An interesting point is that HW seems to make out summoning primals as a fairly simple act once you know how to do it, if you have the right tools (knowledge, aether, image, and will). The Ascians' game seems to be to spread this knowledge as much as possible, knowing that those in fear will have the image and will, and all they then need is the aether to make their dreams into reality. Each summoning weakens Hydaelyn and moves things closer to their end game.

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