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Since when has the Echo given us foresight, though? It lets us see past events, not future ones...
The Echo has always given us foresight.

You know the Echo buff in dungeons? When we 'wipe', the failure in-lore is considered a possible vision of the future. This gives us insight, which manifests gameplay-wise as increased stats and power.

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For it to even have had any function in the events of 2.55, she'd also have to have been in contact with those involved to use Echo hacks to gain any insight into what was going on and it would have to have been on the spot, which doesn't give a lot of time to recover and set a clear course of action to aid us...
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Still seems far fetched to me, though it could make for an interesting plot detail (though equally, it could make for a terrible one...), but really... If Alisaie has the gift of foresight through the Echo, she sure as hell isn't displaying it... If I had that gift and Derplander sniffed me out, I wouldn't have been shocked, I'd have known he was about to find me and I'd have known Thancred was about to jump to my rescue... I really don't think she has any such gift,
We actually have a canonical example of someone who manifested future vision as a part of the Echo. Moreso then the foresight given to the WoL.

In the very first trailer for FFXIV, Derplander received what was confirmed as a vision of the future as a result of his Echo, which involved him fighting alongside yet-to-be met companions. After receiving it, he then set off to find the adventurers he'd seen. By the time of the End of an Era, he's found them and they fight alongside him during the Battle of Carteneau.

If Alisaie does have foresight via the Echo, it probably manifests similiar to Derplanders. She doesn't see visions of everything to pass, just as we don't see everything in that has already happened. But she sees enough.

As for the rest, we've actually discussed the issue of timing before. Several months ago. I actually proposed the 'Alisaie has the Echo and it gives her the gift of foresight' theory there.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...the-Fall/page2