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[fatedfinality]

[ Today is a... complicated one for Ardyn, to say the least. No one but him knows why though and he'll likely keep it that way.

He has, however, gotten extremely drunk about it and that lends itself to him asking a query on the Etrayan network: ]


What does fate mean to you?

[ He appreciates now more than ever the auto-correct feature. He should probably invest in some reading glasses eventually, but that'll be a problem for Ardyn-with-a-headache-from-squinting-in-the-dark-at-a-small-screen and not the Ardyn of now. ]

Comments

[oblige]

Cruel gods and chosen ones seems a trend as well.

Echo may be no god, yet I couldn't argue with that comparison.

[fatedfinality]

So it seems. Maybe Echo simply likes tales of tragedy?

And while it's not a deity, exactly, it is something close enough to be just as frustrating.

[oblige]

That does seem entirely possible.

It would make a certain sense of prior missions, as well.

[fatedfinality]

I've only been on a couple of them so far but there does seem to be a certain trend among them.

Dying or decaying worlds, things not quite as they seem under an idyllic surface... Makes me worry about how our worlds might have changed even if saved.

[oblige]

Do you suspect they will be altered in some manner?

[fatedfinality]

My case might be unique, but Eos was already fated to be brought to the brink before being saved.

It didn't need to prove anything more to be worthy of salvation in the first place. So why is Echo demanding that of us now? What changed?

Or, the other consideration I had: Echo is running on faulty parameters. Perhaps near-deaths of worlds still trigger its intervention and pulls people here from them unnecessarily. Even if things would ultimately resolve on their own, it doesn't recognize that and only senses the danger beforehand and feels it needs to assist.

[oblige]

My world was also facing its own existential threat.

I could believe this system is deeply flawed, given all that we do see often seems arbitrary, or meant for some onlooker's amusement.