Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
So hypothetically if that observation had significance, the resemblance between those two would not have any direct bearing on whether or not Old Sharlayan looks the same as Idyllshire, because of course those are likely to resemble each other. But at the same time it would strengthen the theme of all Sharlayan architecture echoing a style used by the Ancients.

I feel like you are missing my point. I am not talking about what we know now; I am talking about what we speculated back then.
That’s a lot of “potentially” and “what-if”. I just see the colors as a greater part of visual storytelling than anything to do with conspiracy theories about Sharlayan origins and cork boards with pictures connected by string.

Both Anamnesis and Gubal are abandoned magical libraries that look similar and have jazzy soundtracks with enemies being summoned out of their own society’s equivalent of books and were originally home to a scholarly non-interventionist people. I saw them as parallels and the style of one dungeon reflecting the other to establish that, but parallels don’t necessarily mean a true connection.

It’s just like how Anamnesis’s theme also borrows heavily on Sastasha’s theme because both have to do with Sahagin/Ondo. The developers are designing things to help us make connections in our head but that doesn’t necessarily mean “Sharlayan is ruled or influenced by an Ancient” and reading too into things and letting your hypotheticals grow wild out of check is how you end up being disappointed with the result.