Talk:Pygmy's Throne/@comment-39905378-20190623084229/@comment-31664784-20190623133003

I think the key here is not so much time itself, but time relative. When Filianore is approached she is a young woman. When warped to the Throne, she is an exceptionally aged corpse. Before approaching Filianore, the Ringed City is pristine (albeit overgrown with foliage). After the warp, the city is not only in ruins, but has been almost completely ground to dust. At the Throne, the pygmys have aged to the point that their very blood has dried into nothing. Furthermore, when Shira appears in the area she says she has been searching for an extremely long time for us to get revenge for violating the King's Decree.

On top of all that Gael likely entered the area just minutes before we did, as he has yet to completely slaughter and consume all the pygmys. So we have to either believe we were literally minutes behind Gael on our journey, or the system itself is specifically designed to bring whoever interacts with Filianore to the end of time.

As for the egg itself, it is a reference to the movie "Angel's Egg" which is a story about losing faith. Long story short: The egg may contain an angel, but we'll never know unless we crack it open; but if we crack it open, we kill whatever was inside.