Zodiark's Codex entry what do we think about it?

[Lurina]

In all honesty, any answer to why big people turned into catgirls and elves is probably going to sound asinine. I mean they get asked the question and feel responsible to respond with something, but it is almost worse trying to really rationalize it. You will just dig yourself into a hole if you need to explain catgirls and lalafell.

I agree, but they said it, so we have no choice but to try and have it make sense. Or else we might wonder why we're on a forum devoted to obsessing over JRPG story minutia at all and have to question our life choices.

I dunno, I understood it well enough the moment I realized that meant the sahagin were probably the fragments/descendants of the guys who were Really Into Sharks.

I just posted the quote that rebuts that interpretation of how it works! You can't just say it anyway!

...I mean, you can, because none of this is even really important to the rest of the lore anyway and is basically meaningless fluff, but...