Quote Originally Posted by MistakeNot View Post
The Echo was never all that rare, and certainly not unique. Minfilia started her organization (back in 1.x) to gather people who had the Echo and to study it.
When we first visit the Waking Sands it is very likely that several of the people there have the Echo, even though only two of them (Minfilia and Arenvald) are confirmed as having it.
Well, then everyone forgot, because most of the story was going on about how you as the Warrior of Light were the only one capable of being around Primals because of the Echo.

Fast forward to late into HW and it's like *Meet a random person for the first time* "Oh, hello there adventurer, isn't the Echo wonderful. My whole family has the Echo. Look I can come with you to the primal because I have the Echo! Should I invite all my friends? They all have the Echo too!"

It went from being only a few people having it (With Minfillia using it to track down those that had it in order to recruit them into the Scions) to pretty much 90% of the people you meet seeming to have it.

Like, if it was SOOO common back in the day, why wasn't Minfillia recruiting a bunch more people all the time? Why couldn't we have formed the Crystal Braves out of people with the Echo and let them go deal with Primals instead of relying entirely on the WoL (You know, with the whole disaster that was not in question)?