Midgardsorm versus the Garleans

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Actually, you were already in an echo if seeing Y'shtola, Yda, Papalymo, or Thancred, as they are only seen within visions of 1562 until the final main scenario quest, Futures Perfect.

At the very end of the city-state introduction quests, just before the starshower appeared, you somehow brought the Scion with you, into an echo vision within the already occuring echo vision. It is only when you returned from the echo within the echo (echo-ception) that your Scion noticed something amiss, declared that you had the Echo and stated something along the lines of 'It's begun...,' 'It's too late,' or 'So this is the danger...'. It is then that your attention is turned to the swelling clouds soon to loose a volly of flaming orbs.

Now, it is strongly suggested that the vision of the meteor shower marked the awaking of the adventurer (and many others) to the echo, but that's not to say that the echo didn't also sound when the seal within Silvertear Falls was broken by the Agrius. It's entirely possible that the two events were linked, as they took place in the same year.

Although Minfilia heard the Echo much earlier than the adventurer, it's likely that the starshower played a part in her awakening as well, just at a different period in time.


So, back to Midgardsormr, we have on one hand that he "came into being" with the appearance of Silvertear Falls, and his own story in which he came to this world bearing his seven yet-to-be-born children. So, which is true? Well, perhaps they both are. Perhaps Midgardsormr truly is from another world or dimention, and was beckoned by the wellspring of aether that is Silvertear, or perhaps even Hydaelyn herself...

There are far more gaps to fill than there are pieces to fill them at current, but it seems we'll finally get some answers on all of this throughout Heavensward.