King Moggle Mog is kind of an interesting case.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with your point 3. Tempering turns people into slavish devotees of their Primal and often drives them to become twisted reflections of the principle the Primal represents. Ramuh, for instance, is about fatherly protection and unity, and so his Tempered followers kidnap other Sylphs to "protect" them and unify their people. Ifrit represents cleansing fire, and so his followers kidnap people to strengthen him via Tempering (to better burn away impurities) and attack "infidels." As far as we've seen, the chosen of Hydaelyn and A Certain Other Thing don't exhibit any of those characteristics; they appear to act as they wish through their own free will.
By the by, in the Ifrit cutscene, he doesn't say you've been claimed by another. That's what the Amalj'aa priest says. Instead, Ifrit says, "Yet I smell not the taint of another upon thee... The truth of thine allegiance waxeth clear -- thou art of the godless blessed's number. The Paragons warned of thine abhorrent kind. Thine existence is not to be suffered." To a Primal, at least, the Echo is very much not the same thing as Tempering.
IMO, I'd avoid the Echo outside of its stated, known effects: it makes you immune to Tempering, it gives you a random and uncontrolled ability to see the past, and it allows you to understand languages and idioms that are inscrutable to others by allowing you to connect with the minds of others. It may also allow you to act as a conduit for Hydaelyn's light and disrupt the possession of Ascians, but we only have a single example of that in the MSQ. Beyond that, we'll have to wait for future patches to delve further into the nature of the Echo. Certainly the Ascians feel it's a wicked thing, but consider the source.
The devs may have a curveball ready for us...
I'm not sure I entirely agree with your point 3. Tempering turns people into slavish devotees of their Primal and often drives them to become twisted reflections of the principle the Primal represents. Ramuh, for instance, is about fatherly protection and unity, and so his Tempered followers kidnap other Sylphs to "protect" them and unify their people. Ifrit represents cleansing fire, and so his followers kidnap people to strengthen him via Tempering (to better burn away impurities) and attack "infidels." As far as we've seen, the chosen of Hydaelyn and A Certain Other Thing don't exhibit any of those characteristics; they appear to act as they wish through their own free will.
By the by, in the Ifrit cutscene, he doesn't say you've been claimed by another. That's what the Amalj'aa priest says. Instead, Ifrit says, "Yet I smell not the taint of another upon thee... The truth of thine allegiance waxeth clear -- thou art of the godless blessed's number. The Paragons warned of thine abhorrent kind. Thine existence is not to be suffered." To a Primal, at least, the Echo is very much not the same thing as Tempering.
IMO, I'd avoid the Echo outside of its stated, known effects: it makes you immune to Tempering, it gives you a random and uncontrolled ability to see the past, and it allows you to understand languages and idioms that are inscrutable to others by allowing you to connect with the minds of others. It may also allow you to act as a conduit for Hydaelyn's light and disrupt the possession of Ascians, but we only have a single example of that in the MSQ. Beyond that, we'll have to wait for future patches to delve further into the nature of the Echo. Certainly the Ascians feel it's a wicked thing, but consider the source.
The devs may have a curveball ready for us...
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