Was this ever explained?

[LlenCoram]

2: I'm always surprised by how little people manage to put the Limsa storyline together. The captain in Limsa's opening CS is the Barracuda leader in your echo cutscenes which actually take place over 10 years ago. You were copying his firing stance from the first CS, which freaks out the Barracudas because (obviously) it's just like his. Furthermore, the deadbeat pirate you meet in the storyline is the same guy. I'd assume he got demoted or kicked out, or even left after the Ascian got away with the horn which is supposed to control Leviathan.

It also looks totally boss.

[faris]

It also looks totally boss.

That too.
/Totally guilty of making an alt at limsa just for capping that.

[Catapult]

Ok, here we go...

Feel... Hear... Think...
What is it?

This is the cliffhanger from Futures Perfect. Simply put, we don't know and the Sharlayans (Thancred, Y'shtola, Papalymo & Yda) are still trying to find out after ten years of searching. However, it is suspected that this voice comes from whoever or whatever gave you the echo. The most prominent theories to date regarding this entity's identity are:
- The primal, Siren (Ferne likes to troll us on this subject);
- The Twelve, or at least one of them, possibly Althyk as master of spacetime;
- Some other entity yet to be introduced in any capacity;
- The Lodestone itself, also known as the Mother Crystal.

Your guess from here on out is as good as mine. Personally, I think it is the Lodestone. A lot of others are hell-bent on the Siren theory.

Musketeer Firing Stances
What the hell is going on?

The trick to understanding this is understanding how the echo works, which the player is not expected to understand when they witness these scenes for the first time.

You start by being tested in the current day guild and are lent a firearm. As you pose, the Guildmaster and Commodore of the Knights of the Barracuda, Reyner, recognizes your chosen firing stance as that of Rostenstahl, a Roegadyn formally known as Stahlmann who has fallen from grace.

This triggers an echo-induced memory where you travel back in time to when Stahlmann was himself Guildmaster. In your interactions with the memory, you are recognized simply as a bystander, one who has no reason to be holding a pistol. Sergeant Mannskoen confiscates it accordingly.

When you leave the echo, you no longer have the pistol with you, hence the fuss about what happened to it - you left it behind in history, although you won't recognize it as history till much much later (Fade to White). You claimed to have "handed it back to the Sergeant". You mean Sergeant Mannskoen, but they assume a different Sergeant. After all, Mannskoen is dead in the present day. Everyone gets confused and no one finds the firearm.

Nasty business, all that. At least you made it out in one piece.

Path Companions
I miss the poor lass.

Path companions will not have a role to play initially in the reborn realm, but time and plot advances may change that. Watch this space.

[Valmonte]

I can answer #2 for you: You were holding your gun like a 'pirate' does, the Barracudas are trying to keep 'pirates' out of their ranks.

Actually no, the pirates don't use guns.

the whole jelly fish scene was an echo, actually Stahlman only shows up during the echo the entire limsa storyline the commodore and the man you see swatting the jelly fish are one in the same. during the barracuda CS you aim your firearm the same way Stahlman did during the jelly fish scene. if you follow the story all the way through Commodore Stahlman betrayed limsa to the sahagin to get the horn and he's supposedly dead or in exile.

so in simple terms you used the gun form of a man thought to be dead, that betrayed all of limsa, to get his hands on a powerful horn artifact. anyway the horn artifact in the present time had made its way to uldah, how the shadowless elven sahagin servant managed to lose it is never explained.

[Vilhem]

It's not in Ul'dah, because the scenes happening in the Ul'dah storyline are also in the past/Echo. The Goobbue horn was last seen with Courgevais, who disappeared with it in the past.

They are different horns...though if they are linked in some way, remains to be seen

[Gramul]

1) What was the voice we heard in the begining cutscene: Hear... Feel... Think...

Your mother over your busted family linkshell. She meant to say: I want you to get back HERE as soon as possible. I need you to pick up some VEAL for dinner and INK for writing.

But you where too high on adventure to notice.

2) In the Limsa Lominsa story, there was a big freak out in a cutscene because you held your gun all gangsta style... what was that about?

Being the badass hero.
In spite of everyone else doing the same thing.

3) What happened to my companion? Any word about getting our companions back in ARR? Or do we assume they died at the end .... ;_;

Went on extended vacation after realizing how one-dimensional and overall pointless they where.

[Vilhem]

Gramul being Gramul

Oh you.. <3 Sometimes your posts just brighten my day