Quote Originally Posted by Ouen View Post
I'll post the quote that is in my OP again.



I'm not using their coincidental appearance to come up with a guess. Yoshida's response is confirmation. If it was not true, he would not have given the answer he did. Here's a rephrasing of the quote that might make it clearer.

"In EE2, we indeed purposefully wrote that Amdapor's guardians 'were made in the image of transcendent beings from another plane,' and we deliberately wanted players to return to the lore book after Shadowbringers and make 'certain' connections."
In all fairness, you are interpreting that quote that way (I am also hoping the translation wasn't off)
That quote, to me, says when they wanted to make a light flooded world, they looked back into the lore book and seen ampdapor had loose threads they could build off of. Not that one thing preceded the other, simply they had these wonderful assets and lore connections they could build off of. They purposely used ampdapor as a connection as light based things, not necessarily that the flood happened before or after ampdapor made them chronologically.