Foreign Invasion

[Necrotica]

How weird, then. Thought that was Mother's magic, not ours. Smells me a RETCON, I do. No really, actually go back and watch the scene. We put our hand up in an awesome power pose and everything. It was clearly intended to appear as though we were directing the flow of the aether off our unshielded comrades. This "Traveler's Ward" you speak of is not our magick, and cast on us without our foreknowledge or consent. Hardly something we have acute control over.

Wait wait wait wait wait.

What if it WAS the echo this whole time protecting us?
Venat could have been lying. Taking credit for something she did not do in order to try and make us more indebted to her.
Her travelers ward could be a kind of aether protector. And the echo could be a super ultra better version of that.

We show up wearing a suit of armor and she hands us a paper hat and claims that is what was protecting us all this time.

[EaraGrace]

Beyond parody at this point.