Originally Posted by Gray Ghost
At least the guardian frames it around giving us power to solve the immediate problem in front of us.
The guardian is just empty talk at this point. The emperor tells you you need the tadpole power, but this doesn't correlate to anything in the game. Using the tadpoles doesn't solve anything, and neither does not using them. Even the narrator lines about using them now seem to refer to nothing.
Honestly, the guardian/ emperor rewrite seems so pointless to me.