Lyse: ...In other words, they were trying to recreate Krile's Echo? Alphinaud: I believe so─which would explain our prisoner's present state. Krile is possessed of an unrivaled ability to hear the whispers of the soul, and it seems probable that the procedure engendered the same acute sensitivity in Fordola. Lyse: The soldiers who guard Fordola...many of them lost friends and family to the Skulls. Lyse: And there's a sentry at her door, night and day. If she can't help sensing their thoughts and seeing their past─ Arenvald: But you don't just see their past─you live it. All the emotions; all the pain. Imagine what it'd do to you. You'd never be the same again. Alphinaud: Indeed. As you may recall, Ysayle was completely transformed by a single glimpse of Hraesvelgr's past. Alphinaud: Fordola has been forced to experience the agony of those whose lives she destroyed. The guilt must be unbearable.
I still feel like this is information on the Echo we needed much, much earlier. It DOES go a long way to why Ysayle could be manipulated into thinking she was Shiva reborn (and who knows, perhaps she did share a soul shard, knowing what we know now).
While it doesn’t contradict anything to get this tidbit of how the Echo visions work--full sensory memory, including the emotional state of the person you’re viewing from--it feels added on with it coming so late; this is Stormblood patch 4.1 “The Legend Returns”, the 3rd expansion/continuation of FFXIV. Either someone realized finally that video games are a primarily visual/auditory medium and they ought to specify the other senses, or it was a story beat determined after considering the Resonant storyline implications, particularly using a sensitive like Krile as the base.
