We Garleans have no religion of our own, so I'm by no means an expert on such a thing. But the other races do have them. When someone summons a primal, though it may be born from a plea to their god for help, they are not summoning their god to the physical world. They're summoning a corrupted version of the idea of their god, one that instead of offering salvation, demands sacrifices of aether– life forces, if you will.
I suspect that might be closer to what you encountered.
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We Garleans have no religion of our own, so I'm by no means an expert on such a thing. But the other races do have them. When someone summons a primal, though it may be born from a plea to their god for help, they are not summoning their god to the physical world. They're summoning a corrupted version of the idea of their god, one that instead of offering salvation, demands sacrifices of aether– life forces, if you will.
I suspect that might be closer to what you encountered.