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C'io Behkt · **09-20-2013, 03:37 PM**

(09-19-2013, 09:47 PM)Jove Wrote: Summoners (the job)
Primal Slayers?
Not exactly. Summoners need only to perform a ritual to summon a Primals' egi, and then defeat that egi to bind it to them (yep, all they have to defeat is that mini Ifrit, Garuda or Titan you see floating behind them). It's made very clear that in the lore, the actual Primals themselves are not summoned and do not need to be defeated to obtain their egi.

Origins
Summoners as we know them today actually practice arcane arts developed by Allagan mages. The term "egi" is an Allagan word meaning "pure" or the "essence of", so for example "Ifrit-egi" literally translates as "the essence of Ifrit". Allagan summoners basically found a way to siphon the essence of Primals and manifest this essence as an egi, which is bound to do their bidding.

I'm going to politely contest your findings on Summoners under the label "Primal Slayers" because, in the Job's story, you are told to and are required to defeat the Primal whose essence you draw upon BEFORE you can even attempt to summon the and bind the egi. Furthermore, through the investigation of that Job questline, the NPC narrows down the list of suspects through use of a "Primal Slayer" list that one of the Grand Companies keeps, stating heavily that only those who have bested a Primal can even be considered candidates for Summoning. This is all very explicitly stated information. They do need to be encountered and survived prior to egi binding.

Now, what I think you mean by the "actual Primal" is the difference between the Primal's true essence, which exists outside our plane of existence, and the Primal's manifestations, which is what we see in the game and what the Beastmen conjure through crystal sacrifice. No mortal can defeat a Primal's true form because the true form never appears; instead, a mortal can defeat the manifestation. The egi is also a manifestation, but on a much smaller scale (and speculated to be free of the problems plaguing fully manifested Primals).

Summoners, Garleans and the Void lore tidbits

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