
Originally Posted by
Sotek
the Ascians simply wanted to weaken her so that their God can do as they do and make a host out of Hydaelyn. Primals do require Crystals for summoning, and I really can't think of any better Crystal to summon my God with than the Mother Crystal...
So spoilers don't count towards the word limit? That's nice to know, but also annoying...
That's what is understood from the story about the ascians:
They don't really want to destroy Hydaelyn, they want to create chaos in Eorzea, because it is only when there is chaos in the world that primals can be summoned, since Zodiark is a very strong primal they have to create a lot of chaos. It's just that Hydaelyn is too strong for them, so they don't try to fight the warriors of light directly most of the time because we are stronger than them, maybe they thought that with Thancred's body we wouldn't try to kill him.

Originally Posted by
Kittra
Originally, all the Scions (excluding one notable person...) had the ability to use the echo, including your traveling companion. In 2.0, no one has the echo but you and said notable person.
No, if you speak to the NPC in the waking sand the first time you go there they says that they have the echo too, ( a male miqo te and two others ).