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

[Ouen]

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.

It's possible that they were able to "manufacture" Sin Eaters, but that would mean many volunteers chose to give their lives to become monsters, they were converted by force, or they were using wildlife and mangling them to suit their own ends. I always got the impression that, as healers, and of the "light" they were about virtue and kindness, so the latter options two seem very unlikely. If they performed any of those actions, it still wouldn't really explain why their golems look like Sin Eaters and there's no evidence that there were ever any of them present. If they could make the real thing, why protect their most valuable areas with stone golems and not Eaters? The core of the city's towers and sanctums are perfectly preserved and seemingly undisturbed, so what we come up against in Amdapor should be exactly as it was thousands of years ago. We find nothing but statues, zombies of the Mhachi and Amdapori soldiers, and some insects/wildlife.

Tesleen's transformation was different from the other sin eaters, that may have been down to her being instantly transformed by a more powerful sin eater rather than the lesser ones that take days to slowly transform.

Tesleen's circumstance was different, yes, but those winged eaters are among the most common we find (although only? Tesleen has the crying face variant). They all look very distinct; nothing like the statues in the Lost City like you would think. They share arm and leg features but that's where it stops. My first reaction looking at the statues was of confusion... the only thing we know that looks like that are voidsent. Why would Amdapor have statues venerating the enemy they're at war with? Conversely, they don't look like the similar eaters on the first when you examine them. I'm confused about that whole thing.