I'm all for clever localization but please don't just leave out important story.

[Roris]

This is what I walked away with from that scene too. Also felt like he was still an enemy.

Yeah he certainly came off as more malicious and with ill intentions for doing what he did. Now admittedly my brain turned off after the obligatory overused and unfunny internet pop culture reference because it was painful to see, but the main feeling I was left with was that he had shadier intentions rather than a more righteous test to see if we really deserve to be chosen.

My main issue with most of these rebuttals is that they are being made after having read the Japanese text, therefore to say "oh it's clear he's implying what is directly stated in the JP version" is tainted by the fact that you've already SEEN what is stated in the JP version and you're now able to speculate on the EN version.

Pretty much, it comes off as trying too hard to sound smart on the internet, see I totally understood the thing and you didn't, praise me for being great and intelligent for speculating and firing up all my braincells to figure all this too deep for you meaning that was also not that deep and pretty clearly stated in another language.

The only thing worth speculating about is the Echo, until now I don't really think it was stated to be separate from the Blessing. So now the Blessing that didn't do much except guard against Ascians that also didn't do much against us, at least not directly since the 2.0 main story, is gone but the Echo is still there, when that was also given by Hyadelin. The Blessing was removed but the Echo stayed even though Hyadelin's strength is too weak to maintain the first one, but apparently still strong enough to maintain the second stronger one, at least stronger because it actually does more in the game. There's also the point that IIRC in ARR and especially for new players both the Blessing and the Echo are given at the same time when the first crystal is collected, while old players had the Echo way before the Blessing was given.