(04-30-2014, 04:47 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: I'm not sure I entirely agree with your point 3. Tempering turns people into slavish devotees of their Primal and often drives them to become twisted reflections of the principle the Primal represents. Ramuh, for instance, is about fatherly protection and unity, and so his Tempered followers kidnap other Sylphs to "protect" them and unify their people. Ifrit represents cleansing fire, and so his followers kidnap people to strengthen him via Tempering (to better burn away impurities) and attack "infidels." As far as we've seen, the chosen of Hydaelyn and A Certain Other Thing don't exhibit any of those characteristics; they appear to act as they wish through their own free will.
Kinda erroneously lumped all this into...
(04-30-2014, 03:17 PM)Melkire Wrote: The Echo is... lacking the characteristic malevolence behind tempering...
...to save time, but yeah, I gotcha.
Ifrit definitely distinguishes tempering as something distinct ("taint of another" referring to other Primals, clearly), but it seems heavily implied that the PC's allegiance to Hydaelyn is why he can't temper them.
Not really looking to delve into the Echo here, other than as an example that there are other forms of... well... whatever you want to call it. Patronage? Sponsorship? Team Crystal vs. Teams Primal?
One more question: what's the mention of tempering w/ regards to King Mog? Anyone have a quote? Or is the manner in which he's summoned the only commonality between him and primals?
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