Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone~ I’m someone that’s very interested in the lore of Gw2 and would like enlightenment as much as the rest of you all! So I’m here to find out more about the “God of death” , Dhuum.

Anet doesn’t do much of a good job as to explain lots about Dhuum. All we know is that ; Grenth and his seven heroes defeated Dhuum and sealed him in the hall of judgement, and frequently Dhuum would escape his imprisonment. ((Gw1 underworld run.)) Oh, he also had minions that sided with Abaddon during ‘Nightfall’.

That’s it. That’s all there is to him. Some speculated he would return in GW2 during a Chapter of the living story. And people claim this because of ‘godslost swamp’. Some people think Dhuum is summoning creatures there because, come on, why would Grenth summon creatures to kill people?
The creatures being summoned aren’t undead, they are demons. ((Which I should note, Dhuum is against the living of undead and ressurections.)) So seeing demons are being summoned through portals of the underworld, facts do kinda point towards to Dhuum.

So does anyone here wish to know more about Dhuum like I do? Maybe get some Mods and Admins to answer a few questions, hrm?

Anyways, thanks for reading my thread~

Dhuum was once the cruel and unjust God of Death. During his reign, Dhuum ruled from his tower in the Underworld, and tolerated neither resurrections nor the existence of the undead, and he hunted down all those who escaped death, having promised “death undeniable.”

Long before the Exodus of the Gods, Dhuum was challenged and usurped by Grenth and seven heroes who followed him and was struck down in the ossuary of the Cathedral of Eternal Radiance in Orr. Dhuum’s tower wkittentered, creating the Chaos Plains, and his power was transferred to Grenth, who sealed him within the Hall of Judgement behind enchanted doors and layers of divine magic as he was unable to destroy Dhuum. There, Dhuum bided his time, gaining power every time a creature dies in the Underworld. Sometime before the Flameseeker Prophecies could be realized, the upheaval in Tyria allowed the army of Dhuum to launch an assault on the Underworld, imprisoning Grenth’s Reapers and taking control of large portions of the realm. Other agents of Dhuum allied with servants of Abaddon when they attacked the Tomb of the Primeval Kings, disruption to the 1585 CC Dragon Festival was led by the Fury, one of Dhuum’s generals, and later to bring about Nightfall with Menzies’ forces.

Years later, Dhuum was able to accumulate enough power to break free of his bonds, but forces led by King Frozenwind were able to defend the Reapers long enough for them to perform a ritual to return him to his dormant state. However, since then he has managed to repeatedly break free.

Quite a bit more than what you summarize, really.

Also, while Dhuum is against undead, he’s been seen summoning and utilizing skeletons himself as his most direct minions – in short, he’s a hypocrite there by all appearances (hence him being unjust). And Nightmares are not demons per se but give all indications of being hostile, twisted souls.

In Dhuum’s defense, we don’t know the nature of his complaint against the undead, or exactly what meaning the term “undead” even has in the afterlife. As long as they remain in the Underworld, it’s possible there’s nothing inconsistent about Dhuum using such minions.

Hence why I said “by all appearances” (meaning that there may be some mumbo-jumbo exceptionalizing rule about those there skeletons).