Quote Originally Posted by Warlock View Post
In Gridania side i didn't notice an Echo going that far ..what i DID notice is that from the start till you do a full pass out Echo and right after you are told you have this gift at the White Sands you experience the Echo repeatedly , a lot more often than after you are told you have such gift. In all CSs there is a woosh sound that goes together with a change of music and right after it the person you are talking with says something like "huh?, wut were was i? ah! yes as i was saying" you are jumping in and out of Echo constantly the line is lost when you are in and when you are out...so what is this supposed to mean?
The Gridanian one is also rather confusing. There are two sets of kids, one containing Powle and Sansa (always out of echo), the other containing Krimm and Fye (always in echo), but the two groups don't seem to know each other that well even though they both hang out at the acorn orchard. You get the feeling there has been a seperation of at least a few months, if not up to 10 years (it's hard to tell, but I'm betting about six months because you DO see Powle and co arriving at the echoed version of the festival as well, meaning they are alive and of kid-age), but this all gets turned on it's head with the ceremony at the end of the last quest.

You meet Dunstan out of echo prior to him being cleansed or meeting Fye. O-App-Pesi encourages you to make sure Fye meets Dunstan in the upcoming cleansing rites, since you have been the only person reportably being able to find her as she roams the woods searching for Dunstan. (They just don't realise you've been doing it in the echoed past, not the present.)
You then observe the cleansing rite inside an echo, make sure Fye meets Dunstan inside it and, by the power of that affection presented to the elementals at the ritual, everyone lives happily ever after. The wierd paradox leads me to the only possible conclusion I can think of:

You were rattled by the echo, not because you had an echo-in-an-echo, but because you managed to change history, which is something that normally isn't supposed to happen. A paradox mid-echo would likely knock you out as history re-aligns itself.

Any chance people can apply this concept to the Limsa or Ul'dahn stories?