Yes I disobeyed the lore
And yes it was intentional
The current lore with the AG didn’t work with what I had in mind and unlike the last time what I had in mind conflicted with the lore, I decided to run with it with a few changes.
The last time resulted in me throwing away a storyline that I had spent a while developing and was the ENTIRE original plot for the 5th Sea. It was a complicated process.
I was unwilling to do that again so I just ran with my lore this time.