If the Garleans fear primals so much

[Will Report Flying Cars]

Why did they summon Bahamut?

[Sunny]

keep going, all will be revealed.

Less tongue-in-cheek-y, THIS IS A BIG SPOILER: The People In Power (aka the ones doing the summoning) aren't actually afraid of the primals at all; the fear is used as a tool to justify what they're doing, with the end-run goal being a cataclysm that reunites the Source with one of the other worlds.

[Will Report Flying Cars]

Originally posted by Sunny:

keep going, all will be revealed.

I'm in heavens ward now

[Kai]

Originally posted by Will Report Flying Cars:

Why did they summon Bahamut?

That's the thing they wondered too...
Garleans as you said, don't get it.

[Rhyagelle]

As far as I understand it so far from the game:

The entire purpose was to use Dalamud to destroy all primal threats in Eorzea. They didn't intend for Bahamut to ever become free. It's really all due to Nael becoming a fanatic. lol

[Lord Doober De La Goober MXI]

they didn't really "summon" the guy since he was already sealed in Dalamud by the Allagans

its was an "oh ♥♥♥♥ THATS inside Dalamud?!" by more or less by the general populace

can't remember if a few of them were already tempered or not like : Cid's father was

[Kai]

Yeah, they've pretty much been screwed since the beginning of their empire.

[defective pancake]

no, Nael van Darnus DID summon Bahamut because she got tempered by him during research into Dalamud which was meant to nuke Eorzea to eliminate the primal threat once and for all. garleans CAN get tempered even if they dont possess aether (by natural means at least).
garleans dont fear primals, they officially consider them more like a nuisance, but theres also a bit more to it when you get to post-StB-pre-ShB story.

[Kai]

Originally posted by detective pancake:

no, Nael van Darnus DID summon Bahamut because she got tempered by him during research into Dalamud which was meant to nuke Eorzea to eliminate the primal threat once and for all. garleans CAN get tempered even if they dont possess aether (by natural means at least).
garleans dont fear primals, they officially consider them more like a nuisance, but theres also a bit more to it when you get to post-StB-pre-ShB story.

Jokes on them because every living being is made up of Aether, just because they cannot 'use' it doesn't mean they aren't made of it.

[MOSLEY]

Originally posted by Will Report Flying Cars:

Originally posted by Sunny:

keep going, all will be revealed.

I'm in heavens ward now

Your questions are answered later. Keep playing.

[Will Report Flying Cars]

Originally posted by detective pancake:

no, Nael van Darnus DID summon Bahamut because she got tempered by him during research into Dalamud which was meant to nuke Eorzea to eliminate the primal threat once and for all. garleans CAN get tempered even if they dont possess aether (by natural means at least).
garleans dont fear primals, they officially consider them more like a nuisance, but theres also a bit more to it when you get to post-StB-pre-ShB story.

Thanks

[galacticcorgi]

They're hypocrites. The Primals weren't even being summoned en masse like this until they began invading and wrecking societies they deemed primitive.

[Oberon]

Originally posted by Anakha:

They're hypocrites. The Primals weren't even being summoned en masse like this until they began invading and wrecking societies they deemed primitive.

Well, we know for a fact that the emperor who instituted the anti-primal policy was Emet-Selch, whose plans directly benefited from Primal summoning. The entire policy itself was just a front, an excuse to go to war. a "they're hiding WMDs" kind of deal. He knew it was BS, and there were absolutely better ways to go about it, but the name of the game is "do it in as messy of a way as possible."

Even better when you consider that, as Emperor, Emet-Selch was probably the one who dispatched the Agrius. My headcanon/theory is that he also tipped off Midgardsormr and planned things just-so, so that the two would blow each other up right over the aether seal in Mor Dhona. A major threat down for the count and primal summoning becoming a cinch, all in one fell swoop. The Agrius wasn't a warship. it was a nuclear kamikaze.

[ta24-b2]

as a loyal imperial subject: they summoned it to kill it.