Guild Wars 2

Zommoros….I know he’s the djinn that gives us all the goodies and baddies from the mystic forge.

Can’t he alone take on all the ancient dragons or at the very least protect Lion’s Arch single-handedly?

All the stuff he produces and the requirements he needs for really good stuff make him on the level of a god?

Is anything being done to release him from his prison?

What or Who was powerful enough to imprison a djinn!?!?

Can’t he make an appearance every festival or so?

Where in the world are these GODS we do so much for?

Anyone able to answer these questions?

TY in advance

A.) No. Djinn have power, but not that much power. I’d put them more or less on par with the stronger magic users of the playable races. The only thing they really have going for them is their (rare) ability to grant wishes, but even that’s more along the lines of just magicing up wealth.

B.) No. Just… no.

C.) Apparently not. Maybe nothing can be done, or maybe people figure his value to the community trumps trying to figure out his freedom. I’d lean towards the latter, though- there’s some reason to believe djinn need to be bound to something.

D.) Quite a few people, actually. In the distant past, it was apparently a fairly regular practice among the more powerful and rich mages in Vabbi, and maybe elsewhere in Elona. Nothing beyond human capabilities, at any rate. We don’t know specifically who bound Zommoros, though.

E.) No. You’re thinking Mad King Thorne. Zommoros can make an appearance whenever he likes- and he did so to help us during the karka attack- but he doesn’t like to often. He’s not very, ah, sociable.

F.) Not in the world, but what do we do for the gods? At all? There’s one quest in the personal story, I suppose, but we get fair payment for our trouble.

Djinn are just sapient elementals, when you get down to it. Some of the more powerful djinn have the ability to grant wishes to a limited degree like Aaron said, but djinn are very commonly enslaved by humans – nothing on par to the Elder Dragons or gods would be so easily enslaved in large numbers like the djinn.

Zomorros would have as much ease fighting the Elder Dragons as any member of Destiny’s Edge going solo against them – if not far far less.

Don’t confuse wealth and craftsmanship with unlimited cosmic power – this isn’t Aladdin.

Power-level wise, incidently players fought djinns left and right back in original Guild Wars; of all elements and some influenced in name by gemstones (ruby, sapphire, diamond, etc.). They were moderately powerful mobs, apart from certain bosses that of course were significantly boosted to be more dangerous; Kormab, Burning Heart, being one of the notables.

But as Aaron and Konig both state about the nature of djinns; they are nothing like the dragons and would perish going alone against them as much as a single human character would.

As for whereabouts of the Gods; since vanishing about 250 years ago, no one knows the definite answer do they? As much as question for Aaron and Konig too, and whether this battle with the Elder Dragons will ultimately end in their (the Gods) return, or some other cataclysmic event with all the “uncontained” magic?

Are the Gods currently prevented from returning to Tyria due to the Elder Dragons – whether it’s imprisonment of sort or being a spectator on the outside with the magic of the EDs blocking the Gods from intervening? Other than being revered by the humans and invoked as skills to take on the form of their avatars?

Considering the Gods created the Desolation+Crystal desert just fighting one of their own.
id imagine a Gods vs Dragons fight would leave Tyria in a unlivable Ruin no matter who won the fight
(leaving prolly was the best option for the humans to have a future)

I’m with Deleena. The devs have been a little vague about the gods’ departure- no doubt it is yet another story thread that’s ‘on the table’- but between what they have said and my own feel on the blanks, I’m thinking the gods had come to see their help as causing more harm than good, both in terms of widespread devastation and in human over-dependence. They might come back if it comes down to that or the human’s certain destruction (in Cantha and Elona as well; remember they didn’t step in to save Ascalon or Orr), but so long as we show we’re handling things, however poorly, I expect they’ll keep their distance.