why during cutscene its always like this ... (small spoiler)

[Delily]

According to the canon of the story, it is only you that takes on these fights. Even in Prae, when you all gather to take down Lahabrea when he's posessing Thancred, you don't see your party with you, you see yourself and the scions. The fact that in story cutscenes you are ALWAYS alone, and are referred to has the the "one" who defeated so-and-so is evidence in it's own. Even Alph says that he wasn't aware of anyone else who could take on the primals, and was shocked to see the WoD do so. Why would that be the case if adventurers like us were a dime a dozen?

Your taking game mechanics too seriously. It's like saying, because our character can survive a spear through the chest in gameplay, that we would be able to do so in a cutscene as well.

I could have sworn that in the Prae, the opening cut scene was you flying on the airship with your party. I believe with the exception of the primal fights, the NPCs usually say "gather your comrades and go forth." Even for the primals, it's always a stretch me to think we did it by ourselves. The Company of Heros all had the Echo, so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect we'd have attracted a core group of warriors who also have the Echo, but are not associated with the Scions.

In 1.0, the Path of the Twelve was Minfilia's organization, where everyone had The Echo. Presumably, most of them were killed during the Calamity, or went into hiding, or were later killed by the Garleans when Waking Sands was attacked. But the echo, while uncommon, is not super incredibly rare.

Personally, I think the Echo is a lot more common than we're told, whereas the Blessing of Light is very rare. I think only the WoL, Shiva, and Krile have it. The cut scenes also mere the 2 together when they seem to be very distinct. As far ask I know, we've only used the Blessing twice?

[KyahAlmasy]

I could have sworn that in the Prae, the opening cut scene was you flying on the airship with your party. I believe with the exception of the primal fights, the NPCs usually say "gather your comrades and go forth." Even for the primals, it's always a stretch me to think we did it by ourselves. The Company of Heros all had the Echo, so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect we'd have attracted a core group of warriors who also have the Echo, but are not associated with the Scions.

And yet, when you arrive in Prae with Cid, what does he say? "You know, a place a warrior of light would go without a thought of personal safety, oh if only one were with us." then looks at us. Well, that would certainly be an odd thing to say to our character should we have a WHOLE group of warriors of light with us, don't you think? And care to explain why we are the only visible opponent when Gaius exclaims "But the Ultima weapon is all-powerful, how does my opponent still stand?" (Note that he's speaking in the singular, "opponent" and not addressing a group of people.) Even when Lahabrea shows up he refers to our characer in the singular, for me he says "It is the blessing of light she possesses that confounds you." In any cut scene of importance we are only ever seen alone. And lastly, since we ALL beat Ultima weapon together, how come the Scions, the leader of each city state and even CID himself outside only acknowledge you, and you are the only one to escape while hitching a ride on your magitek. I guess we left the rest of the adventurer's to die with Gaius? lol And yet, the only evidence that supports this claim of a party of Warriors of light are the short tacked on dialogue boxes asking us to bring along friends? Talk about really pushing the envelope. lol


This reminds me of a tutorial you'd encounter an RPG, where a character in the game goes through how to navigate a menu, or Junction system. While there is no actual menu, or anything, it is a mechanic only included to usher and guide the character in order to help them continue through the content. Honestly, this nit-picking proves no points.