Hi, lore forum! I was reading the Loremonger post on Gridania's 1.0 starting quests yesterday (I know the site says it's not fully polished but i really wanted to read it D: ) and even though I've played through its quests several times on several characters, there are still some things I'm not a hundred percent sure about and want to make sure I know before we get an entirely new Gridanian starting scenario on our hands. I hope these don't sound stupid; i just really want to make sure I know what I'm talking about:

-So reading through the Loremonger posts and going through dialogue in non-Echo situations, a lot of the NPCs (namely E-Sumi and maybe Dunstan) still mention Fye as if she were a little kid, or that she's still looking for Dunstan in the present time. I think even the present-time kids talk about her, too? So...why is that? Are they saying that Fye was doing the same thing in the present that she was in the past without your Echo's interference? And that we're actually doing the same for Fye in the present as we are in the past--except for some reason we don't see her in any adult form in the present like we do with Khrimm? (or maybe we do and just haven't figured out who yet?)

-What is the true nature of a wildling? Do they actually exist, or is that solely the term the higher-ups of Gridania use for their secret little anti-Garlean force they plan to use for war (I think that's what it is according to Papalymo and Yda in one of the later quests? correct me if i'm wrong) consisting of Dunstan and Khrimm's parents? I think there was some mention of a "real" wildling in the posts with reference to the Conjurer class quests, but I wasn't able to finish those in time before the servers closed so I'm not sure...if they're real, though, how can you tell someone's a wildling? Just that they have a ton of woodsin on them?

-So...by the end of the story, we set things right with Fye, Khrimm and Dunstan in the past, making it so she knew what to do to save him ten years ago-ish. Does that mean Fye wouldn't be living in the wood with Hermit!Khrimm anymore because we changed the past? But if that's true, why is it that in the present, the Hermit doesn't reflect that and still doesn't believe in the Elementals after what they did to him?

-Going off of the last set of questions, because we were able to impact the past, we had that big headache after the echo-in-an-echo thing. Was it only because echoing in an echo is really fatiguing to those who have the echo, or is it also because (according to the loremonger) we created a sort of alternate universe that includes us in the past and the present has to adjust to that alternate universe?

-And this is more speculation than anything since I don't think there was any explicit reason stated in the game, but why is it that Gridania wants to hide the fact that they're preparing for war with the Empire through the wildling conspiracy? Even Miounne wasn't aware of it at the start, and she knows pretty much everything there is to know about the city-state. Is it just because the Seedseers/Stillglade Fane are generally pacifists and just don't want people to know, or could there be another underlying reason?

i hope those questions weren't too oddly-worded...if they are let me know and i'll try to rephrase them. thanks to anyone who helps out!