Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
that's just your conjecture to support your take on it.
Unfortunately for you, there's multiple instances of us having Echo visions for people or places that aren't our direct focus. Like I said before, she has the vision when she actives the Resonance, though she's just turned her attention towards Arenvald, her mind and Echo vision are for us. Perhaps she was intending to read Arenvald's past to say something to shut him up, but got us instead.

As far as storytelling goes, it's only mild misdirection, and it's more just leaving room for the writer to change their mind about it, if they want to, as they do with a great many things. It's also to leave it to interpretation, so that players can have fun ruminating on it, as we are now. Personally though, I think it's just more a mishap with the cutscene direction. Like she has to look at Arenvald to talk to him, even though we were just the one who had an Echo vision of her. I think they chose to have it clear that she was speaking to Arenvald, because Echo visions have the benefit of not needing to be direct to make clear who they're about.

As for that, you're misunderstanding my response to Veloran. He's talking about her buffing herself with the buff she gets in the instanced battle at the Resonatorium, and trying to say, that like we can't control our Echo at all, she can't either. Which is just simply not true, as observed in the fight, we have to use the Siphon to essentially, "Turn Off" her abilities, and she reactivates them at will when she regains her focus. Basically, her Echo isn't always on, and she controls when it is, at least while she's conscious and able to focus.

As for how Krile's Echo works for Krile, that's cool and all, but the Resonant aren't subject to the same limitations.

This conversation did make me look back at one of your earlier posts, and I watched some of the other cutscenes. Of particular interest is the Price of Freedom, the scene right after Castrum Abania, where she holds her head to stop or quiet possible Echo visions from Lyse. It makes me realize, that yes, Fordola can control when she has visions, but it takes conscious effort. Eventually she can't sustain that effort and has visions, including when she sleeps.

It also made me think, what if it's not a conscious effort to turn on the Echo for a Resonant being, but effort to keep it turned off?