Guild Wars 2

Massive unblocked spoilers ahead, you have been warned!

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So, in the latest couple episodes, we have seen Balthazar has somewhat fallen from godhood and now seeks power to fulfill some plot of his own. Thing is, he is more than willing to do so at the spent of Tyrians with no care at all for whatever the gods have done for humans before (the bloodstones, the exodus, the whole of Nightfall, etc.). Basically he has turned a complete 180 degrees on what we believed he (or at least the five gods in general) meant for Tyria. And now we have to stop him from killing a dragon (bonus plot twist!) whether we are atheistic Charr or previously devout humans (Livia kept saying praise the Six even after our character sees Balthazar depraving all of the Crystal Desert).

And, in all of this time, the only god who didn’t quite go along the way we believed, was Abbadon. During the period where magic was sealed into the bloodstones, he was the only one to refuse and revolt. Given the recent events (most of GW2 actually), we could maybe even claim he knew better somewhat, or at least he knew that the magic the other five were drawing from was dragon magic (as per the Orr explorable dungeon) and perhaps had other plans for it. Whatever it was, Abbadon either knew something the others god didn’t or the other gods refused to listen to his reasoning about the magic in Tyria.

Nevertheless, we now have one of these gods attempting to do exactly what they prevented before altogether (releasing magic into Tyria, Abbadon’s original objective). Abbadon’s motivation for this (I think) was never really explained in GW1 and really didn’t need so: that was an event so back in time and Abbadon was lost for so long that it ceased to be important. But if Balthazar is trying to do something analogous in order to absorb the magic into himself, it once again begs the question of why would he do this and why would the other five have fought Abbadon before. And now getting more straight to it, for the more lore oriented people around, what do you think the whole Balthazar thing will mean for Abbadon? Is there any chance he was actually trying something “better” (insofar as preserving Tyria) than the other gods, or has Balthazar fallen into insanity like Abby apparently had soon before being banned to Torment?

Balthazar is not trying to release magic into Tyria. He is trying to steal magic for himself. Huge difference.

Truthfully given what we know now, Abaddon was in the wrong because releasing magic into the world would have woken the Elder Dragons sooner. However, something you seem to miss is that all the gods were releasing magic into the world – Abaddon had just given the largest amount, which sparked wars. Abaddon’s rebellion wasn’t solely because of the amount of magic in the world, but also due to the actions of the Margonites and Forgotten:

The Margonites, then a human nation, had held Abaddon as their patron god and defaced statues of the other gods in the famous Temple of the Six along the Crystal Sea’s edge. Because of this, the Forgotten waged war with the Margonites, nearly wiping them out. Abaddon saved them and wiped out a bunch of Forgotten, and this drew the gods’ attention. Abaddon is also credit with wanting to have ruled the world, exiling or killing the other gods to do so, and waged war on the Gates of Heaven.

It wasn’t only about magic, that was just one of the many things that built up to the war and rebellion.

Also, what Balthazar is doing now is clearly being shown as not good for Tyria, so just because he’s now doing something “similar” (though not really) as Abaddon doesn’t mean Abaddon might’ve been in the right – it rather means Balthazar is now in the wrong, where he was in the right before.