Quote Originally Posted by Kalise View Post
As I recall, the canon for this is our Echo.

When we wipe to a boss/trial/raid, we're not actually doing that. Our Echo is merely showing us a possible future, one where we fail. Which we then learn from and change how we fight.

Kind of like how we use the Echo to explore people's pasts, like Ysale could. Only we have the seemingly unique ability to see into possible futures (Which if you think about it, creates an innumerable amount of alternate timelines...)
This is a fan idea with no evidence in any official material. It's entirely based off the fact that we get an "Echo" buff after wiping after a set amount of time in certain encounters, but that ignores the facts that:

A) In many cases the Echo buff is retroactively added to fights a patch or two after they are released--so what, are we supposed to believe that the Echo was unable to help us until the game mechanic was retroactively added?

B) The buff is most likely called that because the Japanese name for the Echo is "the power to surpass/transcend". The game is adding the buff to help you surpass the fight.

Basically, it's just something people say on Reddit which doesn't actually gel well with lore, like, at all.