You know, there's one thing in particular about the idea of the echo being a direct gift from Hydaelyn and/or a form of tempering that always bugged me a bit the more I thought about it. Remember how back in 1.x when they were explaining how the echo works and what the path of the twelve did, that they mentioned that some people had 'walked the path' or something to that extent, but basically anyone that had gained enough mastery over the echo eventually saw something so despairing that they more or less gave up on doing anything at all. Sort of curious how *that* fits into anyone's theories.