Wait, so Anima's summons- with the exceptions of Sobek and Nidhoggr- are all forced to be there? They're only there because Anima befriended them and they allowed her to contract them y'know.
Still a contract, and they mighht appear there when they were in the middle of something else and would have preferred to finish up their bath and whatnot. Sage, on the other hand, basically asks the stuff that's already in the area to help him out. And it does. Because the Wild Earth is more like a 4-year old child than a highhly intelligent and scheming primordial force of nature.
And
yes, I understand the difference between the two is effectively negligible.
Also, technically everything he does is 'summoning', but it doesn't usually actually look like it. Whrn the wind just starts to hate you and manages to peel asphalt and send you flying away with the sheer force of it, but never takes any humanoid form or anything(how the fuck do you fight the Wind, except by not moving?), it's not a summon in the typical sense. Nor is it one when the earth just buckles and twists underneath you. Etc.
On the other hand, when it
does take up form and shape, or a spirit decides to get in on the fun, that is definitely a summon.
But leaving all that aside; I have doubts Maria is as polite/refined as an 82-year old chinese man. Or at least doubts that she can get away with as much stuff and still be thought of as polite. Being old has it's perks. (also any of you who can figure out what his name means gets brownie points; good luck
)
Immovable rod: The Relatively Immovable Rod, aka an Unstoppable Force that happens to align with current gravitational systems and rotations etc.
Also good for parties and foiling supervillains who try to stop the rotation of the earth or reverse it some such.