[RPG] Is an Echo Knight fighter’s “echo” a tangible object, for the purpose of physical interaction

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The Explorer's Guide to Wildemount sourcebook contains a new Fighter subclass, the Echo Knight. Echo Knights have the ability to summon an "echo" of themselves; per the overall subclass description (p. 183):

the Echo Knight has mastered the art of using dunamis to summon the fading shades of unrealized timelines to aid them in battle.

The Manifest Echo feature also describes it as follows:

This echo is a magical, translucent, gray image of you […] It is the same size as you, and it occupies its space.

In this unofficial tweet from March 2020, Jeremy Crawford confirms that an echo is an object.

Is an "echo" a tangible object, for the purpose of being interacted with (e.g. a giant picking it up from the ground like a large bottle of beer)?

Best Answer

The echo is intangible

A plain English reading of "This echo is a magical, translucent, gray image" indicates that this is not a tangible phenomenon. In English, an "image" is intangible, therefore unless you add some adjective that necessitates it being tangible, it's intangible.

Your DM should make rulings

Since the rules don't explain what to do, you should rely on your DM. If a hostile giant tries to pick up the echo, it probably makes sense to play it as an attack roll and have the echo destroyed if it is picked up.