Guild Wars 2

I have been thinking a lot about the magic and what it actually is but while looking around in game i noticed the exalted have the same ley energy look to them as leylines and the anomilies.

So i was thinking what if the anomilies were failed exalted, we know they aren’t perfect since there are traitorous ones beneath tarir so maybe some failed the ritual and the people didn’t get put in the armour and became these wild anomilies.

Further; because they were failed they will have some thirst for power as they were created using bloodstone magic hence we see them when there are large explosions of energy, such as at thaumanova and the bloodstone. We see the people who were caught in the blast and people who absorbed the bloodstone are seeking more power.

Now i will talk about a somewhat related theory that doesn’t hold much water at all but i like it. The forgotten say the exalted wont be remembered so i am thinking they will perish when they are consumed by aurene to power her up as if they are like the leyline anomilies then they are pure magic which the dragons consume and we know the exalted were the resevoir for magic when a bloodstone couldn’t be used.

Really i don’t expect anything i come up with to be true but more so to give the actual lore people more ideas.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-exalted-pure-dedication/

Read this.

If you’ll read this you’ll realize, that Exalted and anomalies are both the magical creatures, but anomalies was created from the Ley Line instantly. Exalted sacrificed themselves to protect the Egg and the magic, the pure magic helped them survive these 300 years after Glint’s death.

We actually can’t be certain how anomalies are “created”. They do appear where ley lines are overflowing with magic, but aside from the Thaumanova Anomaly none are said to actually be created at that spot.

The Exalted, if you read this instead, as it goes into more detail, are humans who forsook their body to take on a magical entity – less of a sacrifice and more of a transcendence. They’re also killed by tearing off their mask – but what the OP is suggesting is that maybe the anomalies are Exalted who never got put into the armor. That they are “wild” magical entities.

We simply do not know what would be of an Exalted who was failed to be put into an armor casing – who does not have a mask. The Tarnished Traitor that the OP brings up lacks a mask, curiously, which I believe is what sparked the idea.

An interesting conception, but one I’d say is unlikely. Firstly, Exalted are not humanoid in appearance anymore – but are closer to serpentine, as they lack legs. More importantly, the anomalies appear closer in line with the djinn – which are effectively described as “sapient elementals” (which may explain why hopping in the Mystic Forge turns you into an anomaly). The real question in this, however, is about the ‘Shadowstone Anomaly’ that we have going.

(Also, Arden, Glint didn’t die 300 years ago. The Exalted came to be closer to 200 years ago – it happened with the formation of the Zephyrites – and Glint died in 1320, now 9/10 years ago depending on if Anet counts us in 1330 yet or still in 1329).

Konig Des Todes.2086:

We actually can’t be certain how anomalies are “created”. They do appear where ley lines are overflowing with magic, but aside from the Thaumanova Anomaly none are said to actually be created at that spot.

The Exalted, if you read this instead, as it goes into more detail, are humans who forsook their body to take on a magical entity – less of a sacrifice and more of a transcendence. They’re also killed by tearing off their mask – but what the OP is suggesting is that maybe the anomalies are Exalted who never got put into the armor. That they are “wild” magical entities.

We simply do not know what would be of an Exalted who was failed to be put into an armor casing – who does not have a mask. The Tarnished Traitor that the OP brings up lacks a mask, curiously, which I believe is what sparked the idea.

An interesting conception, but one I’d say is unlikely. Firstly, Exalted are not humanoid in appearance anymore – but are closer to serpentine, as they lack legs. More importantly, the anomalies appear closer in line with the djinn – which are effectively described as “sapient elementals” (which may explain why hopping in the Mystic Forge turns you into an anomaly). The real question in this, however, is about the ‘Shadowstone Anomaly’ that we have going.

(Also, Arden, Glint didn’t die 300 years ago. The Exalted came to be closer to 200 years ago – it happened with the formation of the Zephyrites – and Glint died in 1320, now 9/10 years ago depending on if Anet counts us in 1330 yet or still in 1329).

This is exactly the page i was on and i agree all of this is very unlikely, but i have other things that may tie them in such as them using similar abilities as teleporting and using low damaging beams however they may just be because they are both made of leyline energy.

I still struggle to find a reason to why the armour looks a bit similar to mursaat.

vectorfox.6894:

I still struggle to find a reason to why the armour looks a bit similar to mursaat.

Both wear armor, but that’s as far as you can go with similarities: their serpertine aspect actually might be a hint at the Forgotten themselves, who created them as alas Mursaat have a much more rigid stance and pointy armor (also, have feet).

Teleporting is a very, very common mechanic and is barely any way to tie two groups together.

Beam attacks as well – might as well claim every mesmer is tied to the Exalted as well, since they both teleport and use beam attacks. Beam attacks seem to be just general “firing pure magical energy”, really.

As for the similarities to the mursaat – honestly, it’s just the gold armor of the Bastions. Nothing more. Literally. Nothing more. People took the redesign of many creatures such as oakhearts, drakes, centaurs, imps, etc. and thought “this is the way they’re showing mursaat in GW2!” and then Anet just took that massive bandwagoning and made joke references to it.