(07-10-2015, 10:52 AM)Aaron Wrote: See this is what confuses me, I remember long time ago I just threw around the idea of Aaron just "seeing" Ifrit get summoned and even getting almost captured but a few lore guys I said it to specifically told me Ifrit has only been summoned < 5 times and that any fates recalling attempted tempers are cannonically always thwarted by adventurers otherwise the primal would be too powerful to kill because of you know, successful tempers.
Like I said, it's a matter of some debate, much like the current power of elementals in the Shroud. (The FATE thing, however, is definitely wrong. There are several FATEs, leves, and quests where you fight tempered servants.) An important thing to remember about XIV is that there's not a whole lot that the devs slam the door on and say, "No, this can never happen." Lore in XIV is more about understanding what's common versus rare, rather than what's forbidden.
Without falling back onto "play what you want," if you side with the "primals are god-level power and extremely rarely summoned" camp, you have still some options. You could've been part of, or near to, the Company of Heroes or another Grand Company unit when they Brannigan-ed Ifrit and Titan. You could, as Hammersmith noted, not be summoning an egi but some other aetheric construct, similar to a carbuncle. (This will be a lot easier once pet glamours are available.) Perhaps you were in the general vicinity of one of the primal summonings that the Main Character defeated -- because you were captured or because you had bad luck (imagine a ship getting too close to Leviathan, or getting lost in the Sylphlands!).
Conversely, if you side with the "primals are nasty but mostly dangerous because of their social and aetheric effects, being commonly summoned," you could easily have been present at the defeat of one or more of them, even if you weren't the blade that took them down.
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