Blaine Winslow[speculations]
He’s really a bear that wants honey.
Doubt it. He acts as though the others in the Bazaar know him well. I doubt they’d be so welcoming of an undead.
And in Tyria, eating undead doesn’t make one undead (probably would just make you sick) – if you’re thinking of the Sparkfly Fen heart where wildlife ate risen fish washed ashore, that’s because risen aren’t undead, they’re dragon minions.
And it’s not like they hid his model – you wouldn’t be able to interact with him if they made him appropriately down the well, so they had to make him not visible so you can interact.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Wouldn’t Blaine being undead break lore? I can’t think of any naturally occurring undead beings in GW2.
Wouldn’t Blaine being undead break lore? I can’t think of any naturally occurring undead beings in GW2.
It doesn’t mean it can’t happen in the setting. There seemed to be a few in GW1.
(Although this theory seems like a very long shot indeed.)
The only thing that would be remotely lore breaking about an undead in Kryta would be its intelligence.
With the exception of Joko’s undead and liches in general, undead seem to be mindless or nearly so, with the most vocabulary being but growls; most “intelligent undead” from GW1 were ghosts or in Joko’s army.
But in GW1, there were plenty of “naturally occurring undead” (as in, not risen) throughout Tyria – Kryta had most due to Khilbron, but the now-called Blood Legion Homelands, Ascalonian catacombs, and Depths of Tyria had their fair number of undead. Every case, however, had some powerful necromancer (living or undead, such as a lich) at the head of such undead though.
And that would make solitary undead very, very, very uncommon. But not impossible.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
The only thing that would be remotely lore breaking about an undead in Kryta would be its intelligence.
With the exception of Joko’s undead and liches in general, undead seem to be mindless or nearly so, with the most vocabulary being but growls; most “intelligent undead” from GW1 were ghosts or in Joko’s army.
But in GW1, there were plenty of “naturally occurring undead” (as in, not risen) throughout Tyria – Kryta had most due to Khilbron, but the now-called Blood Legion Homelands, Ascalonian catacombs, and Depths of Tyria had their fair number of undead. Every case, however, had some powerful necromancer (living or undead, such as a lich) at the head of such undead though.
And that would make solitary undead very, very, very uncommon. But not impossible.
This got me thinking back on GW1 undead. What do you think the origin of Rotscale was? With GW2 and Zhaitan in the picture it is tempting to look at Rotscale as some form of champion of Zhaitan, but this would have been way before Zhaitan woke up. Some other necromancer found some dragon bones and reanimated them?
Rotscale was raised from the dead by the Stone Summit in the Shiverpeaks (although originally from the E3 alpha, this lore seems to have been kept by the Scribe’s lore of Rotscale saying it originated from the Shiverpeaks). It’s just a very powerful Bone Dragon that went rampant.
No more ties to Zhaitan then the other Bone Dragons.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.