Guild Wars 2

So, not sure if this has been brought up at all, but I did a search on the forums and couldn’t find any discussion about this at all. So here goes…

I was exploring Divinity’s Reach this evening on my fourth alt, which would make this my fourth time exploring DR, and I JUST NOW noticed that the big ol’ stone sitting up behind the throne in the throne room, and at that moment tonight, it somehow screamed bloodstone to me. After this thought I looked up on wiki to get a refresher as to what the one in Maguuma from GW1 looked like, and this one definitely doesn’t match the markings on that one but I know there are several scattered throughout the world, so who knows?

I have yet to play through the human story so maybe the stone’s origin is explained via that story arc, but if not, I would lean towards it being a possible bloodstone….. maybe, and here’s my thought process for it….

Even though I have not yet played the human story, I do know that the White Mantle is still around and about. And we all know that they used the bloodstone back in GW1. And lately, with the story of Marjory Delaqua on this site, about the shady stuff that’s happening in the upper echelons of Divinity’s Reach, why couldn’t it be a bloodstone? Maybe the White Mantle have more power there than we realize?

Once again, I have yet to play the human story yet, so this entire thread may be making me sound stupid, as all of this may be explained through that arc, but it was just a thought and I wanted to share it.

Bloodstones are red – all three found, red with black or gray to them, and the bloodstone shards in GW1 are similarly red (and in fact use the Bloodseeker exotic focus skin).

That stone’s white and gold.

Though iirc, there was a comment somewhere that it was designed to be reminiscent of GW1, I don’t think anyone’s ever figured out what it was. It isn’t explained in the human story arcs though – I’ve played through them all. :/

An issue with your reasoning: If that was a bloodstone, it’d be in the power and possession of the Krytan throne. The White Mantle have some connections (directly or indirectly) to the Ministry, and are outright rivals to the throne.

Edit: I just realized what it looks like. There are some designs in the Maguuma Jungle, where you can place a seed to summon the druids’ spirits. It’s also used in some of the resurrection shrines. The patterns seems similar from my memory alone. Would have to go into GW1 to see for sure though. But this would be a massively large version if so.

Just one correction to your post, http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Bloodstone there are still two Bloodstones not accounted for. Not saying the one in the throne room is one haha but there are two MIA, if you will.

I’ve always thought it would be rather symbolic to have the keystone of the bloodstone nestled right there behind the Krytan throne. You know, because of the legend that only an heir of (stupid censor) King Doric could put the bloodstone back together. It’s a long shot though, I believe we’re told that the keystone was the one that fell back into the center of Abaddon’s Mouth (the volcano), and it would be very fun (sarcasm) to extract that to put it behind the Krytan throne. Still, from a basic looks standpoint, I’d say anything’s possible. I wouldn’t put it past ArenaNet to change the look of the bloodstones to make it more of what they envision it to be.

webtoehobbit.4201:

Just one correction to your post, http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Bloodstone there are still two Bloodstones not accounted for. Not saying the one in the throne room is one haha but there are two MIA, if you will.

Erm, how is that a correction to my post? Never made mention of the number of bloodstones. Either way, whatever that stone is from, it was moved from its original location. Moreso if it’s a bloodstone since that’d be the furthest reaching bloodstone reached.

What I said is that the stone in the throne room couldn’t be a bloodstone because the colors – and for that matter, materials (bloodstones are more like a blood-red glimmering gem encased in stone presumably made from the lava of the Ring of Fire as the color matched RoF’s stone) – are different.

Given how all the bloodstones come from the same thing, they’d all be of the same material and, unless the thing was practically rainbow colored (which given how 3 of 5 bloodstones, and several bloodstone fragments are not), all the stones would be made of the same material and color.

Narcemus.1348:

I believe we’re told that the keystone was the one that fell back into the center of Abaddon’s Mouth (the volcano)

Player speculation since day 1. Nothing and no one says which bloodstone is which.

Narcemus.1348:

I wouldn’t put it past ArenaNet to change the look of the bloodstones to make it more of what they envision it to be.

Explain the bloodstone shard in Arah seer path, which is of the same color and material as GW1’s bloodstone’s red portions. Which again shares the Bloodseeker exotic focus model.

Or explain the red icon for the Bloodstone Shard’s icon bought from Miyani.

As said above, the bloodstone was once a single, albeit very large, stone. So the color and material of the Bloodstone Shards would be that of the larger fragments.

You have a point. I have not personally seen the Arah bloodstone shard.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Bloodseeker.gif

It’s basically just a human-sized (or slightly smaller, maybe asura-sized) version of that.

Interesting. The stones themselves (at least what we saw of them in GW1) didn’t really have anything like that to them. Although, as you stated, what we saw could most likely have been merely a volcanic rock coating around what is the actual bloodstone. The shard itself is similar to the mursaat soul batteries that are attached to them though. I wonder, personally, just where mursaat technology ends and the Bloodstones’ natural form begins.

I don’t know. I seems to me that what queen Jennah has on her back is just a piece of Echovald stone wood.

Narcemus.1348:

Interesting. The stones themselves (at least what we saw of them in GW1) didn’t really have anything like that to them.

Er… you don’t remember the crimson red spikes coming out of the sides?

Sure, they didn’t have circuling red mist, but otherwise that stone looks like the red parts of the bloodstones perfectly. Same with half of what we see of the Shiverpeaks bloodstone.

Narcemus.1348:

The shard itself is similar to the mursaat soul batteries that are attached to them though. I wonder, personally, just where mursaat technology ends and the Bloodstones’ natural form begins.

Mursaat stone is purple or orange (in some cases for the latter; and green in fewer cases).

Bloodstone is red.

Though their materials do seem the same, and I’ve thought such since day one, the stone seems to be naturally formed in the Ring of Fire islands – unless the bloodstone there took up most of Abaddon’s Mouth (the mission area, not the volcano) and further out.

Well with the size of the 3 pieces we’ve seen your later statement might be the case…