Quote Originally Posted by Berethos View Post
That was the impression I got as well.

She does speak as if they came together as a sort of joining, rather than Hydaelyn consuming Minfilia and the latter being lost to the former.

Of course that raises additional questions if true - possible that the combined version is essentially a new entity of sorts? And what would that mean for us?
The echo makes things funny. We really have barely touched on it but by far the Echo makes us more 'unnatural' than anything else, including the Blessing of Light. Theoretically we could do the same thing the Ascians do and possess other people if our body died.

Since the end of 2.0 there has been a really strong sense that we are the last play Hydaelyn has. She knows she is on the point of losing. I think everything she has done since we stepped on the field, and perhaps even before that, has been preparing for her diminishing. Midgardsormr's test would make a lot more sense if the whole point of it was for us to be able to grow strong enough to use the blessing without needing Hydaelyn. After all, as the Ascians said, Hydaelyn has sacrificed a great deal of her strength protecting us.

It occurred to me that in a way what Hydaelyn might be doing with Minfilia is effectively passing off part of her existence into another vessel. I feel there has to be more than just needing a mouth piece for one message. Why create the Word if that was all that was needed? Surely Minfilia could have carried the truth to us without needing to be bound to Hydaelyn. One possibility is in Minfilia she is creating a sort of 'heir'. If she is growing so weak that she cant sustain herself, perhaps by turning Minfilia into a kind of avatar of the light sustains a sentience for the Light that Hydaelyn represents.

Long term I suspect our end goal will be restablishing some kind of balance. How that would work however is anyone's guess.