Guild Wars 2

… in that golden city, half way through the trailer?

its the murasat i believe

http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/thumb/0/0f/Mursaat_caster.jpg/209px-Mursaat_caster.jpg

http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/thumb/9/90/Ancient_Seer.jpg/100px-Ancient_Seer.jpg

You be the judge…

Mursaat is the most likely because how much they are involved with the Maguuma jungle, and the helmets are very similar.

Can’t decide, tbh.

But didn’t they all die in GW1… besides they are the bad guys, a selfish race. We’re meeting the good ones? It wouldn’t be the first time for this kind of twist…

It’s mursaat 100%, the doors rytlock opens are with the white mantle sign

agrante.2810:

Can’t decide, tbh.

But didn’t they all die in GW1… besides they are the bad guys, a selfish race. We’re meeting the good ones? It wouldn’t be the first time for this kind of twist…

It was confirmed that at least one survived.

But they look way too different… It’s like they were made of energy or magic like the margonites.

Do you think they have somehow evolved since GW1 or it’s just an artistic redesign to suit GW2?

Or maybe ghost mursaat?

Jade Arkadian.9280:

But they look way too different… It’s like they were made of energy or magic like the margonites.

Do you think they have somehow evolved since GW1 or it’s just an artistic redesign to suit GW2?

Or maybe ghost mursaat?

my initial reaction was that they were mursaat, but that they may have changed over time or evolved into something slightly different (especially considering they appear to be allies, but who knows). Maybe this is part of that ’Glint’s legacy’ thing that was mentioned- if that’s something separate from the egg- mursaat with some sort of heightened empathy? idk. in any case i think it’s partially a change to the mursaat and partially a redesign, perhaps.

agrante.2810:

… in that golden city, half way through the trailer?

Its in the mursaat city, it couldn’t be anything else

Perhaps they are just wearing full body armor. The main difference we see from the old Mursaat is this lot aren’t showing skin. Glowy armor would hardly be unique to the Mursaat.

Jade Arkadian.9280:

But they look way too different… It’s like they were made of energy or magic like the margonites.

Do you think they have somehow evolved since GW1 or it’s just an artistic redesign to suit GW2?

Or maybe ghost mursaat?

redesigns are not foreign for gw assets

dwayna didn’t always have blue skin for example.

All of the white mantle badges all over the silverwastes are a dead give-away of them being mursaat, not to mention all the vague references to them over the last season. Seers have 4 arms, so not them. Margonites are not valid to all the lore and histroy that has been gone over since the beginning. I think it’s a tribute to the original game and adds an awesome level of intrigue and a distrust among us actually behind the character. Way cool!

there have been hints of the white mantle being around since launch actually, mostly in the human lands, so yeah… chances are it’s mursaat

They looked more like the Forgotten to me.

The don’t look similar to snakes. They have to be Mursaat.

Sublimatio.6981:

It’s mursaat 100%, the doors rytlock opens are with the white mantle sign

Yeah, it’s quite hard to disagree with this point.

Though it’s a bit disappointing to me, bc we still have a very mysterious race from GW1 that GW2 could explore, which helped us before; and the direction this is going is to recycle and re-qualify an old enemy that was destroyed and could very well be left to RIP.

Also, I’m curious to find if we will be able to pinpoint where the heck this golden city was hiding in the GW1 map. Can it be completely underground? Or maybe it was founded by that last surviving Mursaat and built in the 250 year gap between GW1 and GW2?

And I wonder if the lore keepers came up with this now or if its a long established feature of the Mursaat universe.

Finally, will we travel back to the Ring of Fire? Maybe to recover some lost Mursaat artefact or information. I wonder if the Titans still roam there…

I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume it’s a branch of the mursaat race that didn’t quite agree with with their GW1 brothers’ and sisters’ ideology and left. Now they’re back and focused on saving their (the “good” mursaat) hides while lending aid in finding the white mantle and to a degree, Lazarous the Dire, the last “evil” mursaat.

Or they could be small parts of Lazarous himself and he’s pretending to be an ally.

It is clearly a bunch of Murseers!

Also, what is the relationship between that Forgotten-locked golden ‘sand-blocked gate’ and this new Mursaat city? How were the Forgotten and Mursaat interacting with each other? Was it through Glint?

And – are the Mursaat like the Pale Tree Sylvari – dragon minions (in this case from Kralkatorrik) that managed to break free from their Elder Dragon creator and hid in an out of phase world when they awaken last time?

DanteZero.9736:

I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume it’s a branch of the mursaat race that didn’t quite agree with with their GW1 brothers’ and sisters’ ideology and left. Now they’re back and focused on saving their (the “good” mursaat) hides while lending aid in finding the white mantle and to a degree, Lazarous the Dire, the last “evil” mursaat.

Or they could be small parts of Lazarous himself and he’s pretending to be an ally.

Yeah, could be either way. The second one would make this story a re-run of the GW1 Prophecies story, where the Lich initially help us to achieve his goals and then turned against us.