Some quotes to back this up: "I? I am a monument to all your sins."
"There is much talk, and I have listened, through rock and metal and time."
"Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness, a father's sins, passed to his son."
"Do I take life or give it? Who is victim, and who is foe?"
"Resignation is my virtue; like water I ebb, and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed."
"All life dies, all worlds too, and if there is guaranteed perpetual existence, after that - what does it matter how the end comes?" To me, the Flood IS Precursor.