Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
I'm pretty confident that Ratatoskr's power isn't limited to Elezen. It seems to be inherent in all native Ishgardians, of which Hyur are a minority population. It's also known that there are hybrids in the city (Hilda, f'ex) for various reasons (primarily adulterous affairs within noble houses), meaning even the "pure" Elezen probably have some Hyur ancestry... excepting the High Houses, to an extent.

My wager is that we'll use the Echo to go into Estinien-Nidhogg's soul and convince Estinien to let go of his hatred and lust for revenge. Doing so should theoretically break Nidhogg's hold on him, given the wyrm now self-identifies as vengeance incarnate (and he's almost literally correct). Many believe the Echo can be used to brute force Nidhogg out, but I'm not sure of that yet... besides which, we haven't been seen doing anything with the Echo but unwillingly rooting around in peoples' memories. It'd be a big leap to go from unconscious, unwitting memory theater to ripping out entire psyches.
I should probably clarify that I didn't literally mean we rip out Nidhogg. Just that the Echo allows us to go into the soul of Estinien and act as a catalyst. I originally imagined something like is going into some mindscape that where we were in the memory of the village where Estinien lived before Nidhogg attacked and if we had a solo instance perhaps we fought with a mental form of Nidhogg there who was trying to stop us from reaching Estinien. After all the source of Estinien's rage and desire for vengeance is that attack.

Also I'm curious on how our our strengthened blessing of light effects things. Strickly speaking our original blessing never really failed us till it was stripped. My thought is our strengthened blessing might simply be less reliant on Hydealyn. It would make sense if she was weakening for her to seek to make us more independent of her power.