(02-02-2017, 12:10 PM)Moonlit Wrote: Lorewise there's no real reason you couldn't have the echo. Roleplay wise, you need to have permission to know a characters history in order to see clips of it, anyway? So it's not really difficult to play. Some people even include special parts in their wiki for those with the echo to see.
That's just it, though. That bit of Echo ability seems to be unique to the WoL - Minfilia and Krile don't have it, and yet they still possess "the Echo." And if I'm remembering the Sahagin-Having-the-Echo thing... then it had an ability that even the WoL didn't have - the ability to jump from body to body. It just seems that there are various aspects to the Echo that a person may or may not have. The given one is the immunity to tempering, I think, but the others are not guaranteed.
That said, there's nothing keeping something being revealed down the line that makes it far more special or harder to have. Like, I dunno, that the Echo is actually the manifestation of having an Ascian in your bloodline or something, and thus it's just what Ascian powers you get. And the WoL just happens to have the most concentrated Echo-blood so they have access to everything. But that's a lot of maybe and for-fun conjecture.
As it stands, it seems to be a rare trait, but not a unique one.
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