(06-16-2013, 02:20 PM)Rhio Wrote: Instead, I favor a disconnect. Â Ellaire remembers her daughter, Rhio, and she remembers that Rhio went... somewhere. Â She can't remember where. Â She doesn't know where. Â And she should know, and it needles at her, but just like the year after Dalamud fell, everything gets hazy. Â She knows that there was a miqo'te at the battle, and it could have been Rhio, but... was that it? Â No, that couldn't have been.
Sure, there's still a disconnect. Â Rhio could show up at Ellaire's door and Ellaire wouldn't fully recognize her daughter. Â But it at least allows the people to be remembered without violating lore.
This is the easiest way to do it. It allows for the confusion that the lore is going for but it doesn't completely erase past relationships.
Uther was in Ishgard for the entirety of 1.0 so he won't really have to deal with this, but it'll be interesting to watch how this fuzzy memory thing plays out with everyone else.
Another thing I'm wondering is if for some people it'd just be easier to ignore this problem. I know that sounds a little like lore blasphemy, but it's not too uncommon. For instance, how many of us actually are from "somewhere else" or have the Echo? In Uther's case, I replaced "somewhere else" with Ishgard, and any time he's referred to as "special" or "different" I sub in either being damn good with a spear, being from Ishgard, or that inner-dragon thing from the Dragoon story arc. It's worked out so far.
