Dessa and Arkk (Spoilers fractals)

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Posted by: vier.1327

vier.1327

Let me ask you something. In my opinion, this is what is happening in the fractals.

-Desa and her team star their researchs in the mist.

-Desa and her team die in the mist.

-The ecos of Dessa become what we see as the fractals. They form the fractals and the observatory. So they are not real, just some time loops that we can visit and leave, unable to finish them.

-Something is trying to destroy the fractals.

-Dessa and her team try to stabilace the fractals, here we help.

-It is revelead that Arkk is the one that is breaking the fractals with his DDR.

-We destroy the DDR in the Chaos fractal, so Arkk needs a new power source. In the fractal of nigthmare it obtain it, that blue orb.

-Im the New Fractal we discover that Arkk is trying to destroy the time loops that are the fractals. He wants to save Dessa, his mother. But then, it discover that they are not the real ones, just ecos of the mists of themselfs.

-Thogeter, they stop the DDR, because if they distroy the fractals, they will dissapear. So, the time loop stars again since the stabilice the fractals.

Is this timeline correct? Or i am missing something?

Mejor músico de Bahia de Baruch.

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Posted by: maxwelgm.4315

maxwelgm.4315

That is pretty much what we can gather from the newest fractal trilogy yes. But only with a small addendum to your first two points: if I recall, the Fractals can contain manifestations from either past, present and future, so it might be that there’s still some real Dessa and Arrk out there. Also I’m interested in whether or not the Challenge Motes play any part in this, since they went out of their way to develop a whole new character (the Harbinger) instead of simply having a mote put there.

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Posted by: Konig Des Todes.2086

Konig Des Todes.2086

I’ve not played the new fractal yet but I don’t think the original “need to stabilize” can be attributed to Arkk. Dessa explains in the lobby that stabilizing is the act of removing hostiles so that her team can study the fractal, but eventually the fractals reset (hostiles respawn) thus needing someone to rekill all hostiles. Hence why Dessa’s “massive instability” tends to refer to the fractal’s end boss.

Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.

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Posted by: Kabansky.9160

Kabansky.9160

First of all, all existing fractals prior to the Arkk storyline are set in the past, i.e. it all has really happened at some point in time, including the Uncategorized Fractal that is also confirmed to be an asuran city other than Rata Sum. This is what I’d like to talk about specifically. We’ve never heard of a whole city being destroyed, and that’s not something easy to look over. This must’ve happened in the last 40-50 years or so for reasons I’ll mention later. The Raving Asura says something along the lines of “You can’t be here! You can’t be real!” — exactly what we’re told by some NPC in the Mistlock Sanctuary. Is he aware that he’s stuck in the Mists with only echoes of the past surrounding him? Could this whole city be some secret research project gone wrong much like the Thaumanova reactor?

Secondly, Dessa’s own timeline. She must’ve gone into the Mists at least 30 years ago as she doesn’t recognize Sylvari players. She’s not fond of the Consortium and says she’s “lost her boyfriend” to them. You can look at it in different ways, ranging from “he chose the Consortium over her” to a more literal “Consortium is invovled in her boyfriend’s death”. The Raving Asura has written a letter specifically for Dessa that you can deliver for one of the Legendary collections. This whole fractal seems to invoke some extremely unpleasant memories in her in general. Could it be Arkk’s father? Could it be the reason Dessa started researching the Mists in the first place, trying to undo the tragic accident?

And lastly, Arkk himself. Up until recently he’s been living in our physical world, working with the Inquest (at least partly) and trying to find a way to bring his long-lost mother back. One of his journals mentions that “an inexplicable surge of potent magic” (Mordremoth’s death) allowed him to successfully penetrate the Mists. Ever since then he’s been trying to locate his mother and sort of rip kitten through the fabric of the Mists (resulting in sabilized fractals’ destruction) to bring her back to the physical world. It’s been decades since he’s last met Dessa so she doesn’t recognize him, but he himself has been in the Mists for about a year max. That may very well mean that even if Dessa is beyond saving, the real Arkk might still be somewhere out there, searching for her, and we players only encounter an echo of him.

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Posted by: SpeedFiend.4521

SpeedFiend.4521

I’ve not done any fractals since fractured came out but I think I can explain the uncategorized fracrtal here though. It’s part of the skritt research lab you do in the guild challenge. It was a consortium project to evaluate the use of skritt as labour and the test subjects got loose. This is where the cat golems are from, as well as the reason for all the security measures. The fate of the other researchers is unknown, but the Raving Asura has cut himself off in the “control room”, if you will, hence his quote about us not being real/there as there is simply no way that he knows of to reach this part of the lab anymore.

He could be Dessa’s boyfriend and she might be one of the researchers who escaped, but that’s a whole other can of worms I know very little about.

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Posted by: Konig Des Todes.2086

Konig Des Todes.2086

It’s very clear the Uncategorized Fractal is not the Proximety Lab in Brisban. The shape of it alone is vastly different (cube versus underground maze), but there’s the distinct lack of skritt in the fractal, distinct lack of local harpies in Brisban, and there is no Consortium relations to either for that matter (that we can even guess about at least).

Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.

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Posted by: OriOri.8724

OriOri.8724

That is pretty much what we can gather from the newest fractal trilogy yes. But only with a small addendum to your first two points: if I recall, the Fractals can contain manifestations from either past, present and future, so it might be that there’s still some real Dessa and Arrk out there. Also I’m interested in whether or not the Challenge Motes play any part in this, since they went out of their way to develop a whole new character (the Harbinger) instead of simply having a mote put there.

The harbinger, as his name implies, was probably formed due to Arrks experiments disrupting the fractals themselves. I doubt he plays any more role than that, especially since this particular storyline is now concluded

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Posted by: Alga.6498

Alga.6498

Such a sad story, But yeah I think you got it correctly.

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