The SpellStones and Force Point Temples served a difference purpose lore-wise in Dinosaur Planet than in Star Fox Adventures. After their intergalactic war with the Kamerians, the weakened Krazoa settled on Dinosaur Planet (Sauria), which housed the universe’s richest magical energy. To heal and enter stasis for the next billion of years, they built the Force Point Temples to concentrate this energy, which the dinosaurs later used to power their world.

Following the fall of the last great Kamerian war dragon on Sauria, the SpellStone Guardians were formed to protect the SpellStones. If the planet was threatened, these Guardians were to place the SpellStones into the Temples to shut down magic extraction. Drakor, a surviving Kamerian, plotted to seek vengence against the Krazoa and revive his ancestor using Sauria’s magic by aiding General Scales and the SharpClaw with advanced tech, enabling them to take control of the Temples and funnel the energy into the Kamerian heart at Dragon Rock. Sabre and Krystal’s goal was to retrieve and activate the SpellStones to stop this.

The condensed Dinosaur Planet story, as well as unused text found within the files of Star Fox Adventures, indicate that at one point, there were to be five guardians:

• Garunda Te, the leader of the SnowHorn Tribe.
• Shabunga, the Willow Grove mutant.
• The leader of the ShadowHunter Tribe from BlackWater Canyon.
• Two unknown guardians found with in the Walled City and CloudRunner Fortress.

By the December 2000 build, this was reduced to four:

• Garunda Te
• Shabunga
• King EarthWalker (aka "Albada")
• A BoneHead (or "Gradabug" as he's called in Star Fox Adventures) imprisoned within CloudRunner Fortress

By this point, the ShadowHunters were rewritten as mere scavengers within BlackWater Canyon, and Krystal was to use the Tree of Souls to activate the area's SpellStone instead. Her final SpellStone at Krazoa Palace would require time travel, as it had disappeared due to several tears in time and space occurring because of the huge quantity of magic energy being extracted.

In Star Fox Adventures's version of the story. The Krazoa still built the Temples and SpellStones, but now to prevent dark magic from tearing the planet apart. General Scales stole the SpellStones and returned them to the lands they were forged in (DarkIce Mines, CloudRunner Fortress, Walled City, Dragon Rock), breaking the planet into floating pieces. The Guardians became “GateKeepers,” charged with opening portals to these lands:

• Garunda Te, retaining his role from Dinosaur Planet.
• The Queen CloudRunner, taking over the BoneHead/Gradabug's intended role.
• The King EarthWalker, retaining his role from Dinosaur Planet.
• A generic quiet ThornTail, taking over Shabunga's intended role.

Fox’s mission was to locate the GateKeepers, use their power to reach the floating lands via the Arwing, retrieve the SpellStones, and return them to the Temples to restore the planet. These changes were likely done to justify including Arwing segments in the otherwise adventure gameplay framework previously established by Dinosaur Planet.