The 5.2 dungeon looks like it'll be a lore bomb

[Iscah]

The dungeon itself - the part with hallways, loot and 3 bosses - probably can't be an Echo, for the simple reason that our Trusts are coming along.
Unless we *can* bring them into an Echo vision ... which would be even more interesting...

If anything like that, it might be a "here and now" place that triggers Echo-visions for us but the others can't see the visions.

Well we did just get a power upgrade by fusing with the 1st WoL.. maybe our echo powers will grow with each WoL combined within ourself..

I very much doubt we will be fusing with the rest of our soul-shards. There are two ways that happens: we fail to stop the Ascians from rejoining more shards, or we travel there (highly difficult in itself) and force a probably-living person to give up their life so we can get a power boost. Ardbert was a special case.

This also has me wondering then with the disagreement between players about us having Cid's goggles during the garuda fight.. since we have basically been confimed to be of the same race as the Amurot people.. maybe we did make his goggles outta Aether without realizing it..

For what it's worth, the illustration for the side story with young Cid and Nero shows that Cid already has his goggles then.