Random thought about being ilvl synced.

[BillyKaplan]

And echo isn't particularly common or anything, but it's not as rare as you make it to be. It's more that people with any degree of control or mastery over it are rare. Warrior of Light is so powerful exactly because he/she have a high degree of control over it, not for having it altogether. Apparently only Minfilia had greater skill in it.

Actually, we're one of the characters with the least amount of control over the Echo. I don't remember too many instances other than 4.1 where we used it proactively. Most of our usage of it is passive protection from Primals and flashbacks, meanwhile Fordola seems to have a better grasp over it and the Ascians have basically been on our case about it since ARR, complaining how if we had better control over the Echo, we'd probably see things their way. We can't fuse with other people like at the end of ARF, for instance, and again, our control over timing has been nonexistent. So I really wouldn't say we have any control over it, least of all that we're so good with it. The opposite has actually been a running plot point for most of the game. It's just that our control of the Echo, or lack thereof, doesn't change the end result of us being monsters. I always took that comment Arenvald made about how we're stronger with the Echo, which could mean any number of things from frequency of visions to strength and length of them, but that really doesn't imply control.

That means, that it is not entirely without merit to assume

Some people assume their characters are actually Garleans. You can assume whatever you want about your character, but the game disagrees.

And it was a big thing with how many losses were in the dragonsong war that the player was supposedly personally knowing many of the victims.

I'm going to have to ask you to quote that because I don't remember anything along those lines and the cutscenes before and after the fight with Nidhogg, again, imply no other people there with you as far as I remember.