*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[Jandor]

The Echo is not necessarily always viewing whatever someone happens to be thinking about. For instance when Fordola Echoes WoL's past she suddenly sees seemingly all of their adventures, and there are times WoL Echoes certain events that are unrelated to either a person or a location. Considering the Ancient's increased control of the Echo, it wouldn't be surprising if they could sift through memories at will.

I guess we were thinking about all of our adventures then, the whole 'peer at memories they're thinking about' info comes directly from Venat.



I'd be inclined to agree that the memories you get sometimes seem very tangential at best, but neither us nor the Ancients seem to be capable of rummaging around in peoples brains at will.

Moreover, Emet does say that they can outright tell whether or not someone is lying. So while the Echo itself could serve to prove the point, it's also an aside.

To be fair, he's hardly going to go around saying the Convocation actually has no idea if someone is lying.

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Telling the Governing body of your world all about the apocalyptic threat it faces would seem like a pretty good idea, and yet Venat very obviously didn't do that. So either she didn't think she could convince them, even with the echo and the lie detector, or she thought that telling them wouldn't pan out, in which case the echo and the lie detector are irrelevant.