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I don’t think so. Excerpts from the diary of Skiad Ops Endow and the Zoah bible were used to introduce the background story for Panzer Dragoon Orta at www.sega.com
But that mini-site itself was littered with inaccuracies and translation errors. I’m not sure if it was put together by Smilebit members or not, but it had either been translated in a non-canonical way, or it had been put together by a person (or people) who were only generally familiar with the PD world.
The fact that whoever made the site chose to use the English translations of those things doesn’t really mean that they were necessarily accurate translations… it was an English-language site after all, so these versions would probably be used regardles of how faithful they were to the original Japanese.
And if I remember correctly, that book did say some things that seemed odd in context…[/quote]
But if someone from Smilebit did piece together that information then it speaks volumes about the veracity of the said information.
Who knows?
The page devoted to the introduction of Panzer Dragoon Orta was taken offline ages ago.
From what I remember, the way the information in the books was used on that site made it seem like the Ancients were not the Gods. Instead, the Ancients would only have appeared long after the Gods had left the world. That would be strange, since the description of the Gods mentioned in the books really seems to point towards the Ancients.
AFAIK it was a US site made by Sega of America to introduce Panzer Dragoon Orta. There was apparently no Japanese-language version of it - which there is with Smilebit’s own PDO website. I’d say it’s reasonably likely that it was put together by an English-speaking person (or persons) who would only be working with the English-language translations themselves.
Either way, most of the info in the site was pretty vague, and it had some noticeable information discrepancies. I think it’s just as likely that it was simply dodgy information and dodgy choice of information, rather than an enlightening look at the true nature of the PD universe…
I remember the site contained summaries of the previous Saturn games, and even included some information from Panzer Dragoon Orta (such as how the 7th Emperor heroically sent his flagship to purge the Tower of Uru of monsters because the death of his people at the hands of the Tower weighed heavily on his conscience – LMAO).
It was strange how the gods were said to have poured their knowledge into the souls of humans who then used the gods’ knowledge to kill one another, and how the gods left the planet but not before bio-weapons were taught to devour human flesh. The gods were probably Abadd’s masters who weren’t real gods, but highly evolved sentient beings (perhaps more so than regular humans).
Panzer Dragoon Saga’s questionable English translation notwithstanding, I believe there is at least some truth to the Zoah bibles.