There's a detail about the term primordial that most creatures use without truly understanding.
For many, primordial simply means ancient, powerful, or predating known civilizations. A beautiful word to decorate legends and frighten historians.
But, on deeper scales of existence, primordial doesn't describe age. It describes precedence.
Something primordial didn't just come "before" in time; it came before the rules that would organize time. It's a category reserved for forces, species, and consciousnesses that were born too close to the origin of things.
Such beings don't learn about the world as others do.
They recognize it.
While mortals study fire, measure fire, and try to master fire, a primordial entity sees the idea that allowed fire to exist.
While angels recite sacred names and demons carve infernal symbols in stone, a primordial being perceives the invisible structure that made names and symbols possible from the beginning.
