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So, something interesting happened in a thread, and since we're taking a kind of "why not!" approach to things, we're going to try running with it.
You know how sometimes in these sorts of games, the timeline gets a little screwed up as you play in different threads using the same character? Well, now you have the option of explaining those snarls as an echo.
Basically, in this strange Fade/not-Fade, sometimes an echo of a character can appear. This echo is exactly like its original self and says/does everything the original would have done. This means that, for instance, Neria can be in a scene with Varric and have written in the journal on one hand while having run across Cullen and Alistair with no knowledge of the rest of the castle or the journal on the other.
One of those Nerias is an echo. It will eventually dissipate, most likely when she is alone. Whichever Neria is the original version won't know or remember anything about what happened in her echo's scene until she goes to sleep. When she wakes up, either:
1) The memories merge and she remembers both scenes, or
2) The memories try to merge and she forgets both scenes, or
3) The memories of the echo fade and she only remembers the original scene.
This gives you a lot to play around with with memory and self and general spookiness of this place. It also detangles some of the threads that accidentally overlap!
You know how sometimes in these sorts of games, the timeline gets a little screwed up as you play in different threads using the same character? Well, now you have the option of explaining those snarls as an echo.
Basically, in this strange Fade/not-Fade, sometimes an echo of a character can appear. This echo is exactly like its original self and says/does everything the original would have done. This means that, for instance, Neria can be in a scene with Varric and have written in the journal on one hand while having run across Cullen and Alistair with no knowledge of the rest of the castle or the journal on the other.
One of those Nerias is an echo. It will eventually dissipate, most likely when she is alone. Whichever Neria is the original version won't know or remember anything about what happened in her echo's scene until she goes to sleep. When she wakes up, either:
1) The memories merge and she remembers both scenes, or
2) The memories try to merge and she forgets both scenes, or
3) The memories of the echo fade and she only remembers the original scene.
This gives you a lot to play around with with memory and self and general spookiness of this place. It also detangles some of the threads that accidentally overlap!
