Quote Originally Posted by kidalutz View Post
Okay so the thing is you got to look into the war of the magi for the answer as to why there were striking similarities between the guardian Angel Statue and the Sin Eater we killed in the first Shadowbringers dungeon. and really it has nothing to do with any time gazing shenanigans or pulled from the first hijinx. We already know that Sineaters were normalbeings that had thier Aether suddenly corrupted to pure light aspected aether thus causing transformations that eventually ended with a painful change into a full blown aether consuming sin eater.

Now during the war of the Magi Amdapor and Mhach were at war with each other as well as against Nym. One thing about war is it is the father of invention as the Mhachi were coming up with new and terrible ways to lay low thier enemies with demons they pulled from the void the Amdapori wielders of white magicks likely would have invented new ways to harness white magick including twisting light aether in ways that it simply wasnt meant to be Sineaters as we understand them would have surely been the result but without such a HUGE flood of light their damage would not have been as widely spread it was mentioned through the scholar quests that the Amdapori were not friendly to Nym and jealously held their white magicks in secret,I offer the supposition that it wasn't just the magicks they held and guarded but the Sineaters that were created through their experiments.
That sort of makes sense. There was a great flood as result of abuse of white magics that it's entirely possible that their dabbling inadvertedly created sin eaters.