(04-02-2015, 01:43 AM)Kage Wrote:(04-02-2015, 01:28 AM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote: It may have been brought up already but I can't help but note how the Scion's Echo ability was pushed as something viewed with suspicion, fear and falsely attributed as mind control. I do wonder if that is how many people throughout Eorzea see it as is the case with many things unknown to the masses.
I think that is exactly why in 1.0 (from what I've read and inferred) that Minfilia and Echo was on the hush hush. Echo wasn't really talked about in the open except with other Echo gifted.
Exactly this. In 1.0 the Path of the Twelve (precursors to Scions) was a secret, underground organization run by Minfilia with the goal of finding and protecting people who possessed the Echo while they tried to figure out what it did and why they had the gift. No one outside the organization was allowed to know about the Echo powers for fear of the general public turning against them.
But the Archons were not part of the Path of the Twelve in 1.0 and also do not possess the Echo. In fact, after the 2.0 quest "All Good Things" were the Garleans slaughtered everyone in the Waking Sands, the Player Character and Minfilia are the only known surviving Echo users. So the other Scions are merely guilty by association with you and Minfilia.
