Guild Wars 2

I’m not as experienced in the lore as some (or most) of you but I’m just curious if the gods even are real. The humans are supposedly an alien race, and is it possible that they came here as colonizers bringing a religion with then which they used as justification for their conquest, similar to the late Roman empire? Or is there documented proof of the gods coming in physical form and aiding the men. Could the silence of the gods just be misfortune of mankind, or is there evidence that they actually exist?

Well, they certainly are real. If they weren’t, then the events that took place in the original Guild Wars games would have to be one of the biggest, most elaborate hoax in video game history.

Yeah in gw1 I definitely killed a god and watched an undeserving kormir become one too. (Wish I could have pushed her aside to become one myself)

Okay, I didn’t play gw1 so I didn’t know, thank you.

Human gods are just incredibly powerful wizards.

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Human gods are just incredibly powerful wizards.

Just as Mursaat. Didn’t stop the humans from calling them gods. It’s really just a matter of perspective.

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Human gods are just incredibly powerful wizards.

That’s not really accurate. Their power isn’t magic, not as defined by the Tyrian setting, and goes well beyond what magic is capable of. We don’t know anything about their past before coming to Tyria, so we can’t say that they were ever human, or even mortal (with one exception). They’re no more “just powerful wizards” than any god in any setting. The only way they differ from your average god is A.) They played no (known) part in the beginning of the universe or the creation of life, and B.) Some, perhaps all, weren’t around at the time either began. You could argue the inclusion of a third point, that they can be killed, but that is not uncommon in polytheistic religions/settings. None of those things really detract from their divinity.

The Six Gods, and humanity, come from a world with little to no magic “(”Humans (including Canthan humans) were brought to Tyria (from…no spoilers!). They are not native to Tyria and did not come with much magic of their own.) . And the Six Gods – or at least three of them – came to the world as gods. So they cannot simply be “powerful wizards.”

Besides, they hold divine magic which cannot be destroyed and goes rampant upon their death (which is different than the just-as-powerful (roughly) Elder Dragons who are also full of magic).