I have to wonder, do you think that the story would suddenly work if the guardian was a seducer type of character? What makes you think that anything else would have changed? Who the dream visitor is, is the same regardless of what form they're taking. Once you know that, it sort of makes this conversation moot, as we don't have any proof that the entire story was changed that drastically during EA. The story you're hoping for has never really existed.
You say this with completely unjustified assuredness when it's really obvious that the dream visitor from EA had very little in common with the one we ended up getting in the full release. They are pretty much diametrically opposed. The story I was hoping for was the one that was implied by the content they showed us in the early access. That's pretty much it.
The fact that the Emperor character only gets revealed very late into the game and has little to no interaction with anything in the world apart from your little self-contained conversations makes it at least plausible that he was a later addition or at least rewritten to be congruent with the dream visitor. Or do you think it is in character for the Emperor to tell you things like "Your enemies will fall. The world will bow." while showing you visions of burning cities? Come on.
