Complex
Complex adjective - Having many parts or aspects that are usually interrelated.
Primal
Primal adjective - Relating to or occurring near the beginning of a process, series, or time period.
Usage example: there was a period of primal idealism after the founding of the republic and before the rise of partisan politics
Both words in one sentence
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Heavensward introduced Alexander, a Primal so large and complex that simply sitting in place and not moving at all would drain the region he spawned in of all aether within a matter of months.
Source: Walking Wasteland -
Dumb Struck: Captain Creideiki suffers damage to the language centers of his brain that cuts him off from Anglic and forces him to resort to Primal or Trinary, which are too primitive to convey complex ideas.
Source: Literature / Uplift -
Other times it's more complex, like how the early Beast Wars toys' bios set up the series as a direct continuation of G1 on modern-day Earth, with Optimus Primal and Megatron being the same characters as G1 Optimus Prime and Megatron (which would later be contradicted by the TV series).
Source: Franchise / Transformers
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