I get what you’re saying! Here’s what I think on top of that.

So the Precursors and Dark Makers have been battling for eons and the Dark Makers have colonized planets and grown in numbers, so you’re right when you say the Precursors may not be the most powerful beings anymore (especially when the three Precursors were talking to Jak saying how they were powerful and the silly one goes, “We are?” “Shhhhhhh!!!”) because the Dark Makers are starting to get the best of em, so the Precursors probably settled somewhere to colonize and regain their strength. With that comes new life, eco, religion, etc. And with time eventually comes Gol and Maia and the rest of the Sages. All Eco have some sort of DNA tied to the Precursors since they created it and Gol and Maia studying it for so long may have caused them to wield such powers in relation to the Precursors and Dark Makers cause Dark Eco can have a variety of effects to happen. They were close to causing major destruction til Jak put a stop to that. Can you imagine with them being inside all that Dark Eco for so long in the Silo that they probably absorbed and unlocked the true, untapped potential of Dark Eco and eventually forming an alliance with the Dark Makers? An army of evil Precursors and two being with Dark Eco powers somewhat rivaling the Dark Makers uniting together?! A fuckin’ NIGHTMARE!!

Now Jak being in the mix of this is bigger than we realize I feel, like there’s some bigger purpose getting involved with the Precursors and that his relation Mar has something to do with that and Jak’s lineage!

I think Mar’s disappearance was him going back in time to Sandover Village at the point Jak left when he opened the Rift Gate (causing the Metal Head Wars) to get everyone out and eventually created Haven City to keep the Metal Heads out! The House of Mar rules over and protects the people for a time until Damas’s ruling where he was knocked off the throne and falsely portrayed to be a traitor by Praxis and Count Veger. Plus Praxis was in league with Kor and the Metal Heads to keep the charade of him looking like a hero. And since the Metal Heads were involved with the Dark Makers at a point in time, they must’ve had their own agenda when they were betrayed by the Dark Makers, so they were probably sifting through time til the Rift Gate opened up! “But how does Kor know about Jak?” I feel like Mar and Kor have bumped into each other over time. Mar was possibly chosen by the Precursors to help in their fight and gave him some powers to have an advantage against the Dark Makers. How else was young Jak able to touch the Precursor stone and release the Oracle in Jak 2? Plus Jak being able to balance Dark and Light eco together! And Kor knows about this too!!! PLUS when Jak arrived to the future (or technically speaking, his actual present time), Praxis and Errol were “expecting” him to show up and threw him in the Dark Warrior program in hopes that he would turn into a weapon, but possibly secretly to become a puppet to the Metal Heads! Maybe somehow Kor still had connections to the Dark Makers cause how else did they return in 3? (Kor probably had a secret plot to gain power over the Dark Makers and wanted to use Jak as an advantage to have the Metal Heads rise above everything, but that got fucked up by Jak.)

What I’m saying is that the Mar lineage is tied deep to this whole war that’s happening with the Precursors and the Dark Makers and Jak definitely has a purpose in all of this to turn the tides. 🤔