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    Definetly for me it was EW's silly retcon of the Blessing of Light being what protects against Primal influence/tempering rather than the Echo despite the game constantly stating and proving it was the Echo doing the protecting for a decade. It's a clunky attempt to fix a minor plot hole that appeared in SB (how to explain the 'tempering shielding' ability the WoL used during the 'Return of the Bull'), and only snowballed in ShB (where the Ancients/Ascians were revealed to be tempered by Zodiark and yet still had the Echo).

    But saying it was the Blessing as 'Venat's traveller's ward that protects against aetherial influence' rather than the Echo doing the protecting opens up more plot holes where there's been plenty of characters who have the Echo but not the Blessing, still being immune to tempering (such as back in 1.0, where the Blessing didn't even exist), so the whole thing just ends up collapsing under it's inconsistancies. Hence it's something I've just ignored throughout EW and continue to ignore.

    Also the whole Etheirys/Hydaelyn thing - where even Yoshi said "use what you feel comfortable with, as they're both correct." Yeah, tell that to the Sharlayans then (for me it's not "ignore that lore" but more it just depends on the context/situation as to what name to use, rather than simply adopting the Ancient name as the modern name as a retcon - for me I use 'Etheirys' when referring to the Unsundered world, and 'Hydaelyn' when referring to the modern sundered world.).
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    Last edited by Enkidoh; 01-23-2023 at 01:17 AM.
    Quote Originally Posted by Rannie View Post
    Aaaaannnd now I just had a mental image of Lahabrea walking into a store called Bodies R Us and trying on different humans.... >.<

    Lahabrea: hn too tall... tooo short.... Juuuuuust right.
    Venat was right.

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