Destruction of the Bloodstone
1) If Lazarus was going after the bloodstones, I imagine we’d have met him at the Door of Komalie rather than in Tarir. I think Bloodstone Fen ended up how it did for the reasons just as Lazarus said: the White Mantle had meddled with it for too long without keeping it in check. There’s no reason to destroy the bloodstones at the moment, and the others are pretty out of the way, so they are (hopefully) safe for now.
2) Maybe? That would probably be seen in specializations. But magic is a little different than it was back in GW1, when we had 4 primary magic professions. I currently have 5 classes highly tied to magic, and I don’t think all of them were drawing on the bloodstones from the start. I think the dragons death will be more responsible for magic becoming “unfiltered” than the bloodstones shattering.
3) The gods are a mysterious group, and who can say what their intentions are at this point. Even back in the days of Nightfall, the gods were somewhat distant, even if their avatars would sometimes respond to prayers. But outside of DR and a few select human settlements, their shrines have degraded. They might be quite upset over that. I think they’ll be kept out of the storyline for the most part, unless we run out of allies and desperately need to call for their help. I know the charr will love having to do that.
To clear up a few questions, it might be important to know that the Gods didn’t create the Bloodstones. The seers did, but human history from GW1 incorrectly claimed it was their gods.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodstone
Also, I asked a similar series of questions in another thread. Maybe some of the responses there will help.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Spoiler-Schools-of-Magic/first#post6274446
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So, the first of the bloodstones has been destroyed.. what does that mean?
Well the bloodstones were originally made by the gods to limit the power of magic one could access (so you could only practice under one school at a time basically).So I was wondering a few things….
1) Is Lazarus going to go after the other 4 bloodstones? I mean if he is a bad guy after all that would make sense and if he wasn’t a bad guy it would make sense to do it anyway as that will power him up and with 2 elder dragons on the move we will need all the help we can get.
2) Now that one of the Bloodstones is gone, will we be having more intermingling of magics? Possibly having new skills and more blurred lines between professions (Like when necros became tanks with reaper)
3) Will the Bloodstone’s destruction act as a beacon to the human gods who created them in the first place possibly bringing them back to the mortal realm?
The original bloodstone was created by the seers as a way to starve the Elder Dragons back into hibernation, not by the human gods. The gods simply split it into the five pieces after they saw the wars caused by releasing magic back into world. They also seem rather disinterested in the affairs of mortals since the Exodus and have had no direct contact with their followers since Nightfall and Kormir’s ascension.
Lazarus strikes me as an opportunist, waiting for the right time to strike. He swore vengeance upon future generations for what was done to him, and used the explosion as a means to fully repair the damage that was done to his soul. He conveniently shows up to help us defend Aurene from Primordus’ destroyers and uses the fact that our characters know very little, if anything, about him or his motives to gain our trust. He may have truly changed, but more than likely he’s going to wait for us to get too comfortable around him then make his move, whatever that may be.
1) If Lazarus was going after the bloodstones, I imagine we’d have met him at the Door of Komalie rather than in Tarir. I think Bloodstone Fen ended up how it did for the reasons just as Lazarus said: the White Mantle had meddled with it for too long without keeping it in check. There’s no reason to destroy the bloodstones at the moment, and the others are pretty out of the way, so they are (hopefully) safe for now.
2) Maybe? That would probably be seen in specializations. But magic is a little different than it was back in GW1, when we had 4 primary magic professions. I currently have 5 classes highly tied to magic, and I don’t think all of them were drawing on the bloodstones from the start. I think the dragons death will be more responsible for magic becoming “unfiltered” than the bloodstones shattering.
3) The gods are a mysterious group, and who can say what their intentions are at this point. Even back in the days of Nightfall, the gods were somewhat distant, even if their avatars would sometimes respond to prayers. But outside of DR and a few select human settlements, their shrines have degraded. They might be quite upset over that. I think they’ll be kept out of the storyline for the most part, unless we run out of allies and desperately need to call for their help. I know the charr will love having to do that.
We have some indication that the bloodstones have weakened over time as magic seeped back into the world.
I’m not sure that they weakened- it might be that the seeping is the stones behaving as intended. In the new tablets it’s mentioned that the Seers started the process of returning magic, presumably before the gods started meddling in it, and the White Mantle journals mention that all they could get the shards to do is slowly diffuse their power, which is why they turned to the extreme measures they did. In that case, it’s not that the stones or their protection is weakening- but when their faucet’s been dripping for 1000+ years, it’s made a bit of a puddle.
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@Aaron I doubt the seeping was intended: we know the Seers had artifacts capable of retrieving magic from the Bloodstone on demand; also, the seeping, even if extremely slow, goes against the Bloodstone’s intention. If not Abaddon (since, being the god of secrets, he could have known how to handle the Bloodstone), the other human gods might have weakened it by fragmenting it.
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