And last I checked, the other Avatars are still sleeping, Alexander and Odin are not.
- It's both. They live to battle each other and exist for no other reason.
- Alexander isn't like the other Avatars and niether is Odin.
- Alexander needs a physical vessel to inhabit, a machanical body for the spirit to possess...in other words, an Automaton.
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From my understanding, Odin was free long before Raogrimm showed up, but much like he did with Luzaf, Raogrimm's overwhelming negative emotions, the rage he felt, drew Odin to him and was thus granted power. The Shadow Lord was to do to the midlands what Luzaf and the Dark Rider were doing with ToAU, sow chaos and spread fear and cause war and death and violence. Odin is not a nice guy. He's about the closest thing we've come to the actual "Devil" in this game. Even Promethia wasn't as evil-for-the-sake-of-evil as Odin is. Those he allies with, those he uses to achieve his goals, are chosen because their hearts are so filled with hate and rage that they draw Odin to them. And he feeds on that, and twists that person into his servant and sends them out into the world to do bad things. This wouldn't just be a Retcon to suddenly let the *heros* of the world summon him, it would be a donkey punch to the continuity and storyline they've already laid out. On top of the fact they'd have to find a reason for you to fight him in Einhajar...
And for as much as Odin is the consuming darkness, Alexander is the burning light. His only concern is to cleanse the world of darkness, and Odin is his number one target. But once he's out of the way, Alex will surely make his way down the list until all is light...and that wouldn't leave much left for us.
We summon the Celestial Avatars because Carbuncle believes that us showing them, little by little, the good things we're doing in the world will make them not want to wipe us out when they inevitably wake up. When they do wake up, they're going to return the world to Paradise, and Carby thinks if we can show them we "ain't that bad" they'll decide to not destroy all life on Vana D'iel. Odin, he's already awake, and on top of that he's causing these bad things we have to run around and fight against. He doesn't care about Paradise, he just wants to spread his evil and darken the world. Alexander, well he woke up too, and again, not concerned about Paradise, he just wants to burn everything until there is no darkness left in the world. That's how those two work and that's how they balance out.
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