(07-06-2017, 07:33 AM)Valence Wrote: I guess I would have to skim through all the precise quotes about the GCs sending regularly their mean to the slaughter to go fight primals that would crop up here and there on a regular basis...
I got the exact opposite vibes from the story. We get it mentionned several times for the Company of Heroes, that used to face a few primals during the time where the WoL wasn't a thing and slaying eikons.Â
Beats tribes start summoning primals during the 1.0 MSQ and the Ashcrown Consortium takes the brunt of it, where their relations were pretty cordial and business like before (they didn't summon primals before).
It takes gargantuan amounts of crystals to summon primals, which isn't a thing that can occur on a regular basis.Â
From the feeling I got when the Company of Heroes tells about their past deeds, Titan and Leviathan got summoned once/twice maybe?
It had been long years (or more) when a primal had to be faced by Limsa when they tell the story. This is such a catastrophe that it sticks in memories for decades.
Then, a few more cases happen during ARR, HW, etc, where the WoL is basically there to deal with them.
In short, unless I find a specific lore burb/quote I missed (very possible!), I don't believe that besides what the story portrays, there is summoning of primals everywhere on a regular basis.
Tristan from the SMN storyline is an interesting case though. If I remember correctly that guy was exposed to primal energies not because he was part of a company fighting them, but due to a drama that got his brother. Fighting primals is far from being the only way to become a SMN.
You bring up some interesting points! But in Tristan's case, wasn't he able to become a Summoner via Ascian direction/tampering? I could be misremembering, but I thought there was some otherworldly being setting those gears into motion.
Another thing I've noticed regarding Primals is the lore found within the EX Primal quests. Based on what those quests say, the Primals that exist today are exponentially more powerful than pre-WoL Primals. The quests make a big deal about how every time the Primals are killed, the beastmen summon an even stronger iteration in response. So it implies that each Primal slaying actually harms the overall good, since each subsequent felling prompts the beastmen to summon an even stronger entity next time, ad infinitum.
So does this imply that the Primals who exist today are much, much, much stronger than the ones the Company of Heroes faced before, since the beastmen grow wiser and more desperate/zealous with each iteration?
