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

[Riastrad]

I imagine at the end of the dungeon a construct springs to life with a mention of how many millennia it has been since "our" last visit. Cue the puzzled look on our face when it spouts broken bits of lore and then we have a vision of events from the past.

The echo vision of the Exarch reading the Heavensward tome also still needs to be addressed. Insofar as I remember, we have never had a vision of the future using the Echo. We even question what that was when it happens to us.

[MrThinker]

The echo vision of the Exarch reading the Heavensward tome also still needs to be addressed. Insofar as I remember, we have never had a vision of the future using the Echo. We even question what that was when it happens to us.

That particular vision is of Crystal G'raha's past. We are experiencing an echo of HIS memories, because that event already happened for him. It's just at the time, we (the WoL) had no idea he was from the future.

[Riastrad]

That particular vision is of Crystal G'raha's past. We are experiencing an echo of HIS memories, because that event already happened for him. It's just at the time, we (the WoL) had no idea he was from the future.

I am inclined to accept that answer. I just find it strange that it was in first person and was pointed out as odd by our character, while being triggered without G'raha being present (granted the previous scene did have him talking to us, unless he was watching us sleep). However, I do buy into the the theory that multiple time lines are at play here. Just because we took one path does not mean the other is gone for good (Arbert's body wandering about as the "Wayward Warrior" when we know he is gone. Though it could be a Sin Eater in there.) Echoes of a Fallen Star indeed.