Re: The Echo
If I'm remembering correctly everyone in the Path of the Twelve had the Echo, but the trick was that "The Echo" meant a lot of different things. Everyone was privy to visions, maybe, and everyone was able to speak beast tongue, maybe, but it didn't manifest in the same way in every person. It's plenty possible to have the Echo and the effect to simply be that you never get sick; We're so unclear about what "Echo" constitutes it's silly to weigh in on one side or the other.
It's also true that, in a shared community like Balmung, having every single functional roleplayer being The Chosen One makes for a very... Well, the environment quickly becomes the royal dick-waving contest amongst power gamers. Maybe. I think people tend to gravitate away from super powers because they make more trouble than they're worth.
If I'm remembering correctly everyone in the Path of the Twelve had the Echo, but the trick was that "The Echo" meant a lot of different things. Everyone was privy to visions, maybe, and everyone was able to speak beast tongue, maybe, but it didn't manifest in the same way in every person. It's plenty possible to have the Echo and the effect to simply be that you never get sick; We're so unclear about what "Echo" constitutes it's silly to weigh in on one side or the other.
It's also true that, in a shared community like Balmung, having every single functional roleplayer being The Chosen One makes for a very... Well, the environment quickly becomes the royal dick-waving contest amongst power gamers. Maybe. I think people tend to gravitate away from super powers because they make more trouble than they're worth.
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