CG Midlander

[Hestern_Nestern]

I dare not stay in this thread for too long, for fear of being lost within it...but I come quickly now to say to Enki:

What you are referring to reminds me a lot of psychometry and retrocognition (which are sometimes said to be related). Or, I guess, retro-remote viewing? He he. Carry on. I just wanted to say that much.

/flee

(It should be noted that neither psychometry nor retrocognition involve being physically present for the event relived but rather involve a downloading of information previously calculated by other hands).

[Enkidoh]

I dare not stay in this thread for too long, for fear of being lost within it...but I come quickly now to say to Enki:

What you are referring to reminds me a lot of psychometry and retrocognition (which are sometimes said to be related). Or, I guess, retro-remote viewing? He he. Carry on. I just wanted to say that much.

/flee

(It should be noted that neither psychometry nor retrocognition involve being physically present for the event relived but rather involve a downloading of information previously calculated by other hands).

Well, your idea is actually very logical Heste - especially when you take into account how those with the Echo are actually perceived by others in the present day during an 'Echo episode' (for lack of a better word) - although not specifically shown it seems that an Echo user who is experiencing the Echo seems to be in a trance or dream state (in other words, time is continuing at it's normal pace in the present), when all of a sudden they 'snap out of it' when it ends.

The original 1.0 opening hinted at this: when Derplander suddenly snaps back to the 'present' after his Echo trip to the Battle of Silvertear Falls his elezen pal sarcastically quips: "Look who's returned from his reverie?" - after checking my old pocket dictionary 'reverie' is stated as being a 'daydream' or 'absent minded state', seeming to suggest that Derplander was physically still in the present, just completely unresponsive nor lucid while his mind jumped back 10 years into the past.

So yeah, psychometry or clairvoyance is a good enough 'real-world' label for the Echo as any (it should also be noted that the other side effect of the Echo - being able to understand any language in Hydaelyn) also has a real-world equivalent: xenoglossia, although it should be noted that the purported incidents of xenoglossia in the real world usually are far less extensive than what Echo users have (xenoglossia evidently only manifests as understanding of a single 'unknown' language, where as the Echo gives apparent mastery over all Hydaelyn languages, even those of the beast tribes).

But I think I've gone off on an Echo-trip of my own here so I'm going to stop now.