Was this ever explained?

[Lady]

Just a few questions from 1.0 that I never found the answers to:

1) What was the voice we heard in the begining cutscene: Hear... Feel... Think...

2) In the Limsa Lominsa story, there was a big freak out in a cutscene because you held your gun all gangsta style... what was that about?

3) What happened to my companion? Any word about getting our companions back in ARR? Or do we assume they died at the end .... ;_;

[Vilhem]

Questions 1 and 2 can be answered by reading the CG Midlander thread. It's quite extensive to explain along with the background events leading up to it, but perhaps Moosy or Catapult can give a condensed answer.

Question 3: I do believe Yoshi-P stated that the companion idea would be "taking a break", but that they may be introduced again at a later time.

Judging from the last main scenario cutscene though, it looks as if after the battle with Gaius, your Path companion departs in his own search for "the power" your circle member mentions.

[Shougun]

1) I thought it was something to do with our ability to see things, which some speculated was given by a primal (I think because Ifrit said we were touched already). Though I want to think it had something to do with the lodestone.

2) I dont speak Iermapeerate Limsanese

3) They are gone for the time being but Yoshida said they may add them back later, so for now just think of them on a long vacation


Edit: Screw you Vil... <3 lol

[Kayokane]

I can answer #2 for you: You were holding your gun like a 'pirate' does, the Barracudas are trying to keep 'pirates' out of their ranks.

[Vilhem]

1) I thought it was something to do with our ability to see things, which some speculated was given by a primal (I think because Ifrit said we were touched already). Though I want to think it had something to do with the lodestone.

2) I dont speak Iermapeerate Limsanese

3) They are gone for the time being but Yoshida said they may add them back later, so for now just think of them on a long vacation


Edit: Screw you Vil... <3 lol

Type faster, pleb!

[Enkidoh]

#2 I have no idea, as I never did the LL storyline, but #1, isn't it obvious? It's Susan Calloway giving the player the Echo.

Seriously though, I assumed it was supposed to be whatever member of the Twelve granted the Echo to the player - an interesting retcon to this was those few lines of Answers were similar to the 'Dalamud Answers' version that much later replaced all BGM in the lead up to the game's original shutdown (maybe that singing was that deity singing through the Echo?). Or maybe I'm just reading to much into it.

#3: well, the last you hear about them is that they retired to the Alchemist's Guild to heal their wounds after their run in with Gaius during Future's Perfect, so anything could have happened to them really. In any event, I really hope Yoshi-P brings them back in ARR, as I really liked the idea of having an NPC along for the ride in those quests.

[Vilhem]

It actually wasn't Susan Calloway's voice in those spoken parts >.> Not that I've obsessed over her awesome voice or anything like that...nope, not me. <_<

[Lady]

Questions 1 and 2 can be answered by reading the CG Midlander thread. It's quite extensive to explain along with the background events leading up to it, but perhaps Moosy or Catapult can give a condensed answer.

Too much conjecture in that thread... Was hoping for in game answers that I actually missed.

[Vilhem]

Too much conjecture in that thread... Was hoping for in game answers that I actually missed.

In-game it was never really explained..thus the need for the CG Midlander thread in the first place. After Yoshi took over, the Echo-based stories kinda got put on hold..and we'll probably see some kind of conclusion or explanation about them in ARR, but as far as 1.0, a lot of what we have managed to establish was dissected, then confirmed by Ferne in the CG Midlander thread, not ingame ; ;.

I'll try to find Ferne's post in that thread to see if it'll make some sense to you.

[Enkidoh]

Too much conjecture in that thread... Was hoping for in game answers that I actually missed.

Yeah, although after reading that, I saw there was a few things answered/confirmed/denied by Ferne, but much of that thread is just rumour, and personal theories (some downright weird) which have little more than circumstantial evidence at best, so until proven otherwise, I'd take anything mentioned in that thread with a grain of salt.

But then, this is FF after all - where would the series be without weird theories which have no evidence at all to back them up? (Aeris 'revival'/Cheese Weapon/Holy Kills Humanity/R=U/Squall's Dead etc, to name a few of the most famous fanmade 'theories' from the FF series)