Quote Originally Posted by Lium View Post
Well, I could be wrong, but it's not that those who possess the Echo are immune to tempering as it was once believed. But that the Echo means you are tempered by Hydaelyn. That's the new theory anyway, based on what Emet-Selch told us and other clues we've gleaned from the game over the years.
That's what I thought originally, but Elidibus makes it sound like the Echo was something a "whole" person always had, way before Hydaelyn and Zodiark were ever around, and we unlock but a fraction of it with what we call the echo sort of like a DNA memory. Is it just now that you can't reawaken this ancient power WITHOUT also hearing Hydaelyn, automatically tempering you? I wonder why this is.