Quote Originally Posted by Mjollnir View Post
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?
My personal belief was that it was a developer's oversight. The city-state quests and events get so convoluted with all the Echo-jumping, it'd be hard to keep plotholes like that at bay.

Maybe when Minfilia says you can interact with objects when Echo-jumping you can also somehow manifest them when you come back? But nothing concrete has ever been stated about it.

Which is why the style of story telling is more direct in ARR and a while back last year it was mentioned that the original city-state plotlines were essentially scrapped (most likely referring to the style of story telling). It's not saying that they didn't happen, it's just that since it literally happened years ago, a good amount of it is no longer relevant in post-Calamity Eorzea.