I hadn't put all of this together myself but the timeline of the game was troubling me more and more, starting in Act 2. It really seems unarguable that the insertion of the Emperor character just borks the narrative, possibly beyond repair.
I don't think so. It mostly doesn't fit the cinematic but if they would change it (maybe in a later definite edition) it would already help a lot. And there are other open questions and issues with the timeline that aren't tied to the Emperor (the whole Shadowland/Curse topic). But of course - they did a late rewrite (although the Emperors VA said he came in 2021 or so which doen't sound so late so maybe the Emperor in some form already existed but they changed Daisy to Guardian and tied it to the Emperor later) and that shows. There wasn't simply enough time to clean everything up (including the cinematic) with a late change. So I hope they correct things in a later edition and I don't think they need to rewrite the whole game to make it work.
