Quote Originally Posted by Rosenstrauch View Post
You can probably count both the 5.0 trip through Amaurot (the dungeon) and the 5.3 starshower as well, bringing all six of them up to four to five times. And Ryne, oddly enough, to three times.

But yeah, this is what I meant before. If the Twelve were Hydaelyn's summoners, then the number of people who could plausibly be reincarnations of them is dropped down to a handful of characters. Off the top of my head, the only Source-bound, non-Ascian characters known to have the Echo would be the WoL, Arenvald, Minfilia, Krile, Ysayle, and Mikoto. Oh, and the Sahagin priest whose soul was eaten by Leviathan. I'm sure there were a lot more back in 1.0, which was before my time, but they all seem to have either died or gone missing, I guess?

EDIT: Thinking about that, it's actually kind of sad. Minfilia founded the Path of the Twelve for the purpose of gathering people with the Echo and helping them understand and use it for Eorzea's betterment. But between the switch over to 2.0, the events of 2.0-2.55, and her death, the Path of the Twelve basically doesn't exist anymore outside of the WoL and maybe Arenvald and Krile. Everyone else is either a member of the Circle of Knowing or one of Alphinaud's hired mercenaries who stuck around after the Crystal Braves imploded.
I'm not sure it matters if they have the echo currently, as all life has some small part of Ancient's aether in their soul. Just some people don't awaken their echo.

Maybe they will explain better in 6.0 who does or does not awaken to the echo?