Yet another post-Avowed completion lore discussion [Complete Spoilers for All Three Games]

Avowed, on face value, kinda demolishes the Pillars lore in that either there were no natural gods, or if they did, they are long gone, and Engwithans created an artificial pantheon so they didn't have to deal with a world without gods. Beware, traveller, for a wall of text follows.

Sapadal is apparently a natural god that appeared within a broken section of a massive Adra network under the Living Lands. It is not confirmed when it happened, but when the Engwithan ascended gods made first contact, it was a baby still, trying to gather its thoughts and make sense of the nature of its existence. It was at times benevolent, at times tyrannical dictator of sorts to the Ekida, the first known Kith residents of the Living Lands, who had varying attitudes towards it at different times in their history, sometimes worshipping, other times hating it. While most of the Engwithan gods debated what to do with the new apparently natural god, Woedica made a move with a massive army of maegfolcs to exterminate the Ekida (kind of like the inquistions but this time no tortures, just straight up extermination) and imprisoned the baby god to prevent it from establishing its own power.

While still imprisoned, some essence of Sapadal still leaks out their prison and over the centuries they create Godlikes, most of whom never learnt of Sapadal and made no contact with them except two (that we know of): Nnandru, a Pargrunen Dwarf, born in Living Lands and the Aedyran Envoy (I have no idea how this happens when the Adra section of the Living Lands is broken from the Adra section of the rest of the larger world including Aedyr).

So first point: Was it just a coincidence that no natural gods appeared for tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of years of Kith existence until around a couple thousand years ago, which, suspiciously, is around the same time the Engwithans ascended to Godhood? Or was Sapadal's appearance a side effect, a consequence of Engwithan actions? Remember how throughout the first two games the Gods insist that they don't intervene in the matters of the material world because their touch invites catastrophe? I can understand that some of the more benevolent ones like Eothas and Hylea would refuse to intervene because they truly care about the Kith but what prevents Woedica, Skaen, Rymrgand and Magran from doing so, since they tend to be more utilitarian, ends justify the means, type of gods? I am inclined to believe that direct divine intervention at some point in the past, but soon after the Gods' creation (something similar to Ondra pulling Ionni Brathr down to Eora) caused the creation of Sapadal. Through some latent leftover essence in some Adra thing-a-magic from direct divine intervention resulted the appearance of Sapadal as a divine baby. This brush with unintended consequence was what truly scared the Engwithan gods from direct intervention. This also means that while Sapadal is a natural god per se, thy still owe their existence to the actions of the artificial Engwithan gods, and would not exist without them.

Secondly, this vindicates Eothas' philosophy still that Kith should get to define their futures instead of being the gods' playthings and pawns being shepherded around.

Thirdly, does the living lands have its own independent, smaller wheel that's still intact? I am kinda confused on that part.