Conjecture Question..Any evidence to support/reject this theory concerning Echo?

[Mjollnir]

Also, still rabid about how Y'shtola even made it off of that situation unscathed and not even bring it up. She has some superpowers... (that telekinetic bullet stop, making copies of herself to surround you, surviving tidal wave, etc.)

I disagree about superpowers. She's shown she can cast Globe of Invulnerability (for want of a better name), which is presumably a 50+ Conjurer spell. No reason to think that her other powers aren't similar Conjurer protection spells; Stoneskin to catch an axe, Protection from Bullets... etc. Survive Tidal Wave? Reraise at the very least.

The copies thing was quite cool, but I think that's just creative use of the Echo by one who knows how it works. At the end of your conversation with a single Y'shtola, she Echoes back a few minutes off you to the start of the conversation so it appears to your memories that there are more than one of her; rinse and repeat five/six times. All it would take would be her sat down for ten minutes beforehand planning out exactly which instance of her needed to say what for it to make sense from your perspective - a flair for the dramatic certainly, but superpowers I don't buy (past lv. 99 CNJ).

The other possibility that's been playing in the back of my mind is that Y'shtola is more than one cat from a larger litter and the identical sisters go under the same name to misdirect their enemies. Maybe some of them have died.

By the way, the *whoosh* that occurs when you're talking to Urianger at the beginning of that scene is just him moving super-quick behind you isn't it, and not you Echoing into a past confrontation in the same spot between him and Y'shtola.

My Echo paranoia has now increased to encompass *whoosh* paranoia.

Also, for now I'm pretty much satisfied with my current revision of my post. Might tweak it later.

So anyway, if the power of the Echo is just to mess with people's memories to change their perceptions of what has happened, how come there was a Balloonfish, dropped by one of the Frenzied Aurelia during the first Echo, in my backpack when I arrive in Limsa Lominsa?