Guild Wars 2

These are just random thoughts from someone with a mediocre understanding of the lore, if anyone sees holes (and you will) please correct me. Everything is unsubstantiated and wild speculation.

I’m presuming gods leak magic the same way elder dragons do, so they need to distance themselves; the gods leave Tyria and then eventually stop associating with it to avoid leaking their non-Tyrian-origin magic collections to elder dragons and having the them go banana-pants with double magic strength.

Abaddon has a deeper understanding of the process and perhaps is more benevolent. He decides that humanity needs a fighting chance against the upcoming dragon storm. Perhaps he wants to distribute much of the magic and have humanity wind up at similar power levels to the ancient races, who are clearly wildly ahead in terms of personal magic. (Magonites are very powerful? Hard to tell since it’s game mechanics and not “lore”.)

Perhaps true balance is not the ebb and flow of magic into 6 spheres, like stars being born and exploding in a fiery death, but an even distribution for all time.

The Five are like benevolent dictators that dole out wealth during plentiful times but are harsh when times get tough. Abaddon is proposing democracy. They jail him for political reasons; they want to keep their power as much as possible.

Abaddon’s fractal tying into the current plot makes sense in that it’s vaguely related to magic being released and absorbed by entities. We don’t know what exactly is going on so it’s hard to speculate, but I suspect he would have had a line at the end of the fractal giving us a clue “they need magic for the battles to come!” or something less cheesey.

Related unsubstantiated wild speculation: Perhaps Dhuum didn’t want undead and resurrection because he wanted to hold onto all possible magic. Basically he was frugal and wanted to “soul battery” himself.

If I recall, the whole downfall of Abaddon as god came about due to the diluting his gift of magic to humans with bloodstones, so I imagine something related to that considering the current game? Wouldn’t be too far-fetched anyhow