Some questions about ARR

[Iscah]

1. The Echo vision with Cid remains unclear. Implicitly, the Warrior of Light was able to reach back through time to give Cid his trademark goggles - though if I recall correctly it was more along the lines of "speaking with Cid's soul" through the Echo back then, which is possible without some sort of time travel (such as Alexander) since it's essentially a dive into someone's memories. (Or: the Echo literally lets you observe with the memories of others, but they usually remain none the wiser unless they also have the Echo. Cid just happens to be astute enough to have figured it out, though it still doesn't explain the goggles.)

1. This is even more confusing then you think it is. The flashback is of the time when Cid initially escaped the Garlean some 15 years before 2.0. And the WoL somehow showed up and gave Cid his goggles thing. He's wearing them in 1.0. So yeah. What is further complicated matters is that if your character was around in 1.0, Cid doesn't have the amnesia regarding you that everyone else does. So not only does he somehow recognize that you're the one who gave him his goggles 15 years ago, he also realizes your the WoL who defeated Nael and participated in all the 1.0 events. How the WoL did this has never been touched on... yet...

So it's an odd scene even for 1.0 players? And if I remember right from what I've read, it's more clearly established there that the WoL started out as an 'ordinary person' and only gained the Echo recently - is that right?

I just went back and looked at the quest script again. Immediately after identifying you as 'the light', he mentions the Garlean 'third eye' and suggests that it might have helped him recognise you. Or it might just be a lucky guess.

Very strange anyway.

Also while it may or may not count as canon for this, the illustration of twelve-year-old Cid in Tales from the Storm seems to show that he already has his goggles then - they're on the ground to his left.

3. Probably just a joke referring to Rhoswen? Not sure.

That was my best guess, but it doesn't really work - Mordyn specifically says Elezen bride, ie. the bride is an Elezen (at least that's how I would understand that phrasing). Unless that was ambiguous Japanese wording translated the wrong way, it can't refer to Rhoswen.

I remember it seemed a bit odd even when I first started playing - no preconception of the characters, still "learning the setting", just taking the information as it was given to me. Talking to Mordyn is the first time I heard of Carvallain and his bride - then go upstairs, meet Carvallain, and wonder why there's no Elezen woman with him. Assume we'll meet her later if it's a thing worth pointing out.

And since then.... no clarification, no sign she exists, and a kind-of-romantic-subplot with someone else entirely.

Also - I'm sure I've missed some things along the way, but Carvallain doesn't seem all that preoccupied with Rhoswen when they're not interacting. She talks about him a lot more than he talks about her. (From what I can think of: MSQ, Lominsan city sidequests, Hullbreaker Isle, Lv55 CUL quest. I know the Lv65 quest has them too but I haven't quite gotten there yet.)