Quote Originally Posted by JackFross View Post
If you're referring to the adds they spawn, those are far removed from how the egis are designed. Egis are all balls of colorful aether - they don't really resemble the boss or anything the boss summons at all. Garuda looks like a little green bird - ain't no boobs on her. c:

Basically, those adds wouldn't help in the slightest in the design and modeling of the egi for either.
They clearly are egi, right down to the animation and sound effect when they are defeated.