What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Fayt1203]

Isn't that the Echo that does that?

The Echo is a fraction of the power of an ancient, a residual power that normally rests within all life in the Source and its reflections, there is a way to trigger awakening to the Echo which often lead to experience a vision of a star-shower falling from a burning sky. and seeing that we are sunderd we need blessing or the traveler's ward as Venat called it for protection.

Jandor has a simpler term,

The blessing is apparently the echo on steroids.