This thread is intended to discuss The Echo, The Resonant, and what the 5.2 meteor shower could mean for the future. Also I would like to discuss Zenos's dream of the final days of Amaurot, and the little uhh, white robed fellow's words thereafter.
So as far as I understand it, The Resonant were created by the project headed by Zenos and Aulus mal Asina to create soldiers infused with The Echo so that Primals could more easily be battled. In any person that the projected succeeded in, the result was a super soldier capable of superhuman feats and aether manipulation. As we now know, this imparted a stronger form of The Echo to The Resonant, allowing not just resistance to soul enslavement from a Primal, but the ability to instead enslave a Primal. Zenos told us we could do it, and then promptly took control of Shinryu at the end of Stormblood.
This "artificial" Echo is also shown to be permanent and tied to the soul, given that Zenos has become Ascian-like after killing himself.
I'm here to claim that it's not artificial at all, but rather, a more true representation of the Echo that the Ancients possessed originally. In 5.2 we learn that it's a separate and distinct characteristic belonging to humanity, and that the Echo we have as players and NPCs get naturally from seeing the meteor rain is, "...just that an Echo of a far greater thing, like a symphony."
I wonder if Emet-Selch knew about The Resonant. If he, in any measure aided in the project in an attempt to give the memory of Amaurot to the entire population of sundered man. I also wonder if Zenos's claim, "I've always had this dream." is a translation gaffe or if that means because of him sharing blood with Emet-Selch, he had it naturally from birth. I interpreted the scene to mean he'd has it since his Resonance procedure. If that's the case though, what of Fordola? Does she now dream of Amaurot? The little white robed guy wonders if Emet-selch found a way to impart the memory? Hmm...
I speculate that Elidibus is giving the Echo to people on The First, so that he may rip it from their bodies and bestow the Resonance onto a chosen few, so that they may battle us to the death. Maybe Emet-selch didn't know about the Resonance, but surely Elidibus does, having taken in Zenos's memories by possessing his brain. Maybe he intends to gain the Resonance himself? I know this isn't the grandest articulation of thought, but what do you think?
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So as far as I understand it, The Resonant were created by the project headed by Zenos and Aulus mal Asina to create soldiers infused with The Echo so that Primals could more easily be battled. In any person that the projected succeeded in, the result was a super soldier capable of superhuman feats and aether manipulation. As we now know, this imparted a stronger form of The Echo to The Resonant, allowing not just resistance to soul enslavement from a Primal, but the ability to instead enslave a Primal. Zenos told us we could do it, and then promptly took control of Shinryu at the end of Stormblood.
This "artificial" Echo is also shown to be permanent and tied to the soul, given that Zenos has become Ascian-like after killing himself.
I'm here to claim that it's not artificial at all, but rather, a more true representation of the Echo that the Ancients possessed originally. In 5.2 we learn that it's a separate and distinct characteristic belonging to humanity, and that the Echo we have as players and NPCs get naturally from seeing the meteor rain is, "...just that an Echo of a far greater thing, like a symphony."
I wonder if Emet-Selch knew about The Resonant. If he, in any measure aided in the project in an attempt to give the memory of Amaurot to the entire population of sundered man. I also wonder if Zenos's claim, "I've always had this dream." is a translation gaffe or if that means because of him sharing blood with Emet-Selch, he had it naturally from birth. I interpreted the scene to mean he'd has it since his Resonance procedure. If that's the case though, what of Fordola? Does she now dream of Amaurot? The little white robed guy wonders if Emet-selch found a way to impart the memory? Hmm...
I speculate that Elidibus is giving the Echo to people on The First, so that he may rip it from their bodies and bestow the Resonance onto a chosen few, so that they may battle us to the death. Maybe Emet-selch didn't know about the Resonance, but surely Elidibus does, having taken in Zenos's memories by possessing his brain. Maybe he intends to gain the Resonance himself? I know this isn't the grandest articulation of thought, but what do you think?
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