Re-examining "Answers" and the nature of Ascians

[Enkidoh]

Id like to think that the "echo" plays a part in Hydaelyn's "corruption" if you will.
Its strange that only a few people (besides yourself) possess Echo and the works of the Scions are quite remote. If its a gift from Hydaelyn, then what is its true purpose.

Actually, 1.0 clearly showed the player character is not the only with the Echo - there were plenty of Echo users shown, but with varying degrees of potency - it's how Minfilia was able to run a large organization, the Path of the Twelve, consisting totally of Echo users (some were shown to only have mastery of languages, such as a lalafell who boasted it was quite profitable for him, while others could view other peoples' memories clearly yet have no understanding of foreign languages - Minfilia specifically was shown in 1.0 to not understand beastman languages and instead have to call on the player to translate). Specifically, in both 1.0 and ARR it was stated the player's ability in the Echo was unusually strong though, so it's obvious then that the narrative would refer more to the player's ability instead of other people though.

The reason why it doesn't seem there's a lot of other Echo users is because Minfilia actually explained in 1.0 that Echo-users tend to experience a lot of contempt and persecution from 'normal' people and hence usually hide their abilities (for instance, in 1.0 there was shown a little lafafell girl from a noble Ul'dah family who had literally been thrown out on the street by her parents when she started having Echo visions), hence why the Path of the Twelve existed, it was not just a research guild to try and understand the Echo's nature, but also provide a sanctuary for those newly 'waken' to the Echo.

I was somewhat disappointed the new ARR story somewhat shoves the Echo aside after only giving it a cursory explanation (and the Path being re-purposed and reorganized into the Scions of the Seventh Dawn), as Minfilia went into major detail about it in 1.0.