Quote Originally Posted by Packetdancer View Post
I feel like it's worth pointing out that in 1.x, unless I am wildly misremembering things, the Echo literally let you travel through time into the past on two occasions. Not just perceive the past, but literally interact with things, and physically bring objects back to the present. While not explicitly retconned, it's sure been swept under the rug and ignored, and time-travel since then has been treated as a much more complicated prospect.
That flavor even made it into ARR actually! If you remember the scene where we handed Cid his goggles which confused many a lore forum poster at the time and is still brought up from time to time. The Echo has never been us actually going into the physical past but we were definitely interacting with people's memories in funky ways.