Launch Trailer Hype Thread

[Enkidoh]

If I remember right Minfillia was able to see into the future. Not far future to my understanding but if that part when Zenos just curbstomps everyone is a future Echo vision Minfillia probably could have seen it if she were around right now. Its possible we have that same power just that it doesn't activate nearly as much as being able to see the past. That said it probably isn't an Echo thing but us actually getting our butts kicked.

Not that I don't believe you, but it's my understanding that the Echo cannot see into the future because that is not how it works - it's not actually viewing the past or future, but breaking down the boundaries of the soul, it views 'the past' because it's viewing someone's memories of a past event that has already happened, not the actual past itself (this is why Echo visions were changed in ARR to a grainy washed out video-feed style).

For that reason, the Echo cannot view the future because the future has not happened yet and thus, no memory yet exists of it. Of course there was that ambiguous 'dark Hydaelyn' Echo image we saw in the 'stinger' scene at the end of the original 2.0 storyline, but it had no context or explanation, and it's unclear whether it was meant to be the 'past' or 'future' (nor was it ever mentioned or referred to again, so personally I believe it was a possible story idea that the writing and lore teams were toying with only to quietly drop).

Also this does not take into account actual time travel though, but that is a whole different barrel of moogles.

Either way, I think it's a little rash to judge the events being depicted in the Stormblood trailer as actually chronologically true to the expansion - the Heavensward trailer after all had scenes mixed and matched all over the place with little context to the actual order they appeared in the expansion (such as showing the player relighting all the Crystals immediately after the padjal magically evoking the elementals to bring Y'shtola from the Lifestream, despite those scenes being at totally different parts of the storyline). We'll find out soon enough anyway after all.

[Dualblade]

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Honestly it might be best to just toss out everything I said about the Echo and Minfillia there, I think I'm just confusing it with something else.