Quote Originally Posted by Toranja View Post
They don't just have memories. They have "conversations" while in the aether. Ifrit makes it clear.
Possibly. They clearly do have memories, but this conversation with the Paragon could have simply been during a past summoning. This quest is almost identical to its Version 1.0 equivalent, but in that version we didn't know what the echo was or who gave it to us or what ascians were. We were simply investigating the "sighting of a paragon" in the Amalj'aa's domain. They might have simply had the conversation earlier.

My theory definitely lacks some of the specifics I'd call required, though. Mostly, I'm just musing :P