Echo Vision Frequency

[Vyrerus]

That's just you speculating bro.

For Echo visions we have where we aren't directly focused on a person. Most recently, the scene in 5.0 where the Exarch comes to checks on us, and then leaves. We go to bed. In our sleep we have an Echo vision of his past, set in the future, of him reading Count Fortemps memoirs.


The Echo vision we have of him and Urianger, prompted only by us entering into his private chamber in the Crystal Tower where they discuss the ruse.

Part of the Echo vision we have, regardless of nationality, at each nation's send off ceremony, where we're focused on the leader, and we get their dialogue at Carteneau, only for the vision to switch over to the perspective of the Ascians, who the alliance leaders were not communicating with at all, likely marking when we fell unconscious due to the severity of that vision's pull. Which I suppose is actually the first time in the game that we have visions while unconscious.

The vision we have outside of the Ul'dahn adventurer's guild when we save the refugee woman from slavers. She is our focus, but the vision focus is set on two Ul'dahn noblemen, who were closeby, but out of her earshot, while she is bartering/talking to the dodo tenderloin salesman.

The Echo vision we have at the end of ARR while we are focused on the Scions, City State Leaders, and the jubilation, we have a vision of a dark version of the mothercrystal right before the quake and Bahamut screech or whatever.

There are more, but I think you get the idea. We don't have to be directly focused on anyone or anything to get an Echo vision of said person or thing. We just usually do.


As for how the Aetherial Siphon works in that fight, do the fight again. Every time she reactivates her Resonance, the screen flashes and the room becomes illuminated just like Ardbert when the WoDs use the Echo to restore their HP in that fight. The debuff she gets when we use the Siphon is, "Aether Sickness." Its description reads, "Overexposure to highly concentrated aether is preventing Resonation." Further, she literally casts a spell to activate her Resonance. It has a cast bar and everything. The spell name is, "Resonating Echo." So yes, we do turn them off. You're recognizing the mechanism for how we turn them off, but the point is, she loses her powers and must reactivate them consciously in order to use them.

As for your supposition that the Resonant must work on the same limitations as those whose Echo they borrow... well, no. Just look at Zenos. He may or may not have Krile's Echo, but he does more with the Echo than literally anyone else we know. Fordola's Resonance has allowed her to do more than just what is showcased in 4.0. In 4.1 she also uses it just like WoL and Arenvald to stop Tempering energy, and further than that, it allowed her to erect an aetheric barrier comparable to a very powerful version of Collective Unconscious. This idea is shown again with Zenos when he does combat against Gaius and Estinien. The Resonance allows him to create magic barriers with his hand, something he hadn't done before. I mention this because when Fordola activates the barrier she gains the buff, "Resonant."