Something doesn't add up regarding the connection between Amdapor and Norvrandt...

[Bright-Flower]

This is my problem with the "Amdapori statues are based on sin eaters" logic too. The timing just doesn't add up unless the Amdapori could view the future or someone sent a sin eater way back in time.

Also... you can get around the 3k character limit by editing your initial post and adding in the rest of it.

Personally I don't think they're based on sin eaters but it is possible that the white magic they used lead to them encountering something similar.

I mean sin eaters take on a ton of forms. Some look look like bears. So those two bosses looking like a couple variants of sin eaters when there are TONS of variants of sin eaters isn't a very concrete connection for me.

[Ouen]

Personally I don't think they're based on sin eaters but it is possible that the white magic they used lead to them encountering something similar.

I'll post the quote that is in my OP again.

Q17:
In the Eorzea Encyclopedia II it mentions that the statues found within Amdapor were made in the image of transcendent beings from yet another plane. Was this referring to the Sin Eaters from the First?

A17:
In the sense of "if you look back at the Lore book, you notice certain things," we did this intentionally.

I'm not using their coincidental appearance to come up with a guess. Yoshida's response is confirmation. If it was not true, he would not have given the answer he did. Here's a rephrasing of the quote that might make it clearer.

"In EE2, we indeed purposefully wrote that Amdapor's guardians 'were made in the image of transcendent beings from another plane,' and we deliberately wanted players to return to the lore book after Shadowbringers and make 'certain' connections."

[Atamis]

I'll post the quote that is in my OP again.



I'm not using their coincidental appearance to come up with a guess. Yoshida's response is confirmation. If it was not true, he would not have given the answer he did. Here's a rephrasing of the quote that might make it clearer.

"In EE2, we indeed purposefully wrote that Amdapor's guardians 'were made in the image of transcendent beings from another plane,' and we deliberately wanted players to return to the lore book after Shadowbringers and make 'certain' connections."

In all fairness, you are interpreting that quote that way (I am also hoping the translation wasn't off)
That quote, to me, says when they wanted to make a light flooded world, they looked back into the lore book and seen ampdapor had loose threads they could build off of. Not that one thing preceded the other, simply they had these wonderful assets and lore connections they could build off of. They purposely used ampdapor as a connection as light based things, not necessarily that the flood happened before or after ampdapor made them chronologically.