Lore question?

[Kiyouma]

So in a cutscene before encountering Garuda for the first time Cid is recalling his memories and in the memory a spirit/light of our character gave Cid the goggles that he wears now. Soooo what? Can anyone explain what's going on?

[Fevelle]

So in a cutscene before encountering Garuda for the first time Cid is recalling his memories and in the memory a spirit/light of our character gave Cid the goggles that he wears now. Soooo what? Can anyone explain what's going on?

Maybe something to do with 1.0.

[Averax]

it seems that while the echo cannot change history, it does have the ability to add a few small details.

[Enkidoh]

It's a metaphor - you're not actully going back in time when you enter the Echo, but simply view another's memories of that event - the past is immutable, but a person's perception of how events played out can be slightly tweaked to feature that Echo user within them, because an Echo scene is, quite literally, a very lucid daydream.

Up to that point, Cid has no memory of who he was or where he came from, but the player's Echo-tripping into his mind removed that 'veil' that was obscuring it (the same amnesia that affected everyone in Eorzea in regards to the identities of the original Warriors of Light), symbolized by a recollection of when he, Biggs and Wedge first fled to Eorzea which was then changed by having us materialize and hand his goggles to him, symbolic of us handing him "his memories' back.

This is why afterwards he says, "I remember, everything!" - he literally got all his memories back.

[Vandril]

But doesn't he also say something along the lines of, "So that was you..."?

I could have sworn he did.

Wouldn't that imply that something miraculous like a vision of your character did happen, and that's why he decided to stay in Eorzea?

[Grayve]

His lines change depending on if you are a legacy character or not.

[Canadane]

He can keep those new goggles.
I still use his old pair.

[Odds_Ends]

But doesn't he also say something along the lines of, "So that was you..."?

I could have sworn he did.

Wouldn't that imply that something miraculous like a vision of your character did happen, and that's why he decided to stay in Eorzea?

He did that to me, but I have not played from 1.0

But as far as I understand the story, the HOL was at the end of 1.0 sendt 5years into the future, to the start of 2.0

[Vandril]

But as far as I understand the story, the HOL was at the end of 1.0 sendt 5years into the future, to the start of 2.0

As far as I'm aware, that's only true if your character was around in 1.0.

If you were not, such as is my case, then you were some sort of traveler from other lands yet to be specified (probably outside Eorzea).

And yet (unless my memory is flawed), Cid still seems to say something regarding having seen you before after that vision in the cutscene in question.

To anyone around from 1.0: By any chance, did Cid have the Echo in 1.0? Because that would certainly explain a lot in regards to this scene.