Guild Wars 2

So in the new fractal the one we should not talk about said: "At least they helped identify the network of magical channels that crisscross the globe. That was a breakthrough. "

Is this the same as the one on the glob in the wispers HQ? Is there a hidden hint what it is which I missed?
I haven’t checked the globe but i believe I remember its lines match the discription. One being right under thaumanova but not being under CoE.

Omg, gonna check it now, i’m really intersted in what’s going on!

Tho i don’t think the order would have the technology to identify that kind of energy, considering not even scarlet knew it before the thaumanova explosion.

I’m also concerned by the fact that the Anomaly boss uses galactic energy and has 6 eyes (like a margonite)

Are you sure? I only saw three eyes, in a triangle formation.

Anyway, I know since Angel’s interview the idea has floated around the the globe depicts this network. Would be pretty cool if true.

I took it as the magic ley lines, too.

She goes on to say that they built the reactor on top of an area where they cross, and that’s what caused it to go haywire. That’s how I understood it, anyway.

Either way, Scarlet seems to be aware of where they are in our timeline. How she’s using that information…? We can only discuss.

I’m guessing she’s going to use other key areas where they cross in Tyria, or maybe already has.

We don’t know what the globe in the Chantry represents with those lines. They could be the ley lines.

This is the first in-game mention of the ley lines, but second mention overall. The first mention was in an interview with Angel McCoy.

As to the anomaly – I don’t recall seeing any eyes. It was just a lightning-based human throwing lightning spears by what I saw. But I didn’t get that grand of a look.

I went into the chantry of secrets, but that globe didn’t seem to match up. There are no lines going over to the thaumanova reactor at all. They don’t even connect to Orr.

Edit: After looking a bit more, they do seem to cross into Orr. Nevertheless, they don’t go into Maguuma/Kryta at all, which is where we would expect at least one more dragon (jungle). Honestly hard to say anything concrete at this point, but it definitely is fun to speculate

Is it possible that the locations of the Elder Dragons could be tied to ley line paths and/or convergences? Since they are basically alpha predators and supposed magically balancers, it would make sense for them to stay around the general vicinity. It is where they would eat after all.

It would also give a possible explanation of why Zhaitan didn’t really leave Orr, even facing the threat of death. The Artesian Waters seems like a likely location of a convergence of two or more ley lines. It radiated enough magic, even into the Mists no less, to draw the attention of the 6 gods in the first place, after all.

Here is the GW2 map with the Chantry of Secrets globe markings overlaid. The circle is actually filled on the globe. It’s reasonable to assume that this is the source of whatever those channels are, but it’s honestly not clear. Ultimately, we don’t know what these channels represent.

Clearly, none of these channels trickle into Maguuma. And so, based on these markings, if we assume they are dragon energy, they don’t fit with Scarlet’s description of the Thaumanova Reactor being on a ‘convergent’ zone. However, it’s possible that these markings do in fact indicate dragon energy, but a new dragon has appeared, and a channel has been opened in the fairly recent past that we didn’t know about before.

Another possibility is that the OoW globe shows where the major lines are, but not the smaller ones. Like a travel map that shows the major highways, but where you need to switch to the local maps to see all the smaller side streets.

I also wouldn’t be so quick as to denigrate the OoW’s ability to locate fault lines just because the asura have only just discovered them. Regardless of what the asura may think, they’re not the only ones with brains – the OoW has access to secret knowledge, a network of agents that extends outside of Tyria, and a long history of dealing with threats of mystical nature. It’s possible that they’ve determined means of tracking sufficiently intense channels of magic that gasp do not involve asura technomagic.

Mind you, with one of the lines passing through the Shiverpeaks, it’s also possible that what the lines really represent is known continental boundaries…

The Artesian Waters held natural magic that attracted the Six Gods (according to the Cathedral of Silence personal story step). Even if the OoW showed only major lines, it should have something over Orr. It would be hard to believe that a location of magic so powerful it drew the Six Gods from across the Mists is not only not a ley line location, but not an intersection of ley lines.

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Another possibility is that the OoW globe shows where the major lines are, but not the smaller ones. Like a travel map that shows the major highways, but where you need to switch to the local maps to see all the smaller side streets.

I also wouldn’t be so quick as to denigrate the OoW’s ability to locate fault lines just because the asura have only just discovered them. Regardless of what the asura may think, they’re not the only ones with brains – the OoW has access to secret knowledge, a network of agents that extends outside of Tyria, and a long history of dealing with threats of mystical nature. It’s possible that they’ve determined means of tracking sufficiently intense channels of magic that gasp do not involve asura technomagic.

Mind you, with one of the lines passing through the Shiverpeaks, it’s also possible that what the lines really represent is known continental boundaries…

The continental boundaries may not be incompatible with dragon energy. Over many thousands (millions?) of years, the dragon energy can have atmospheric effects, to the point of creating these types of natural boundaries. This channel splits the climates, but it also conveniently leads through the major waterways.

The chantry map combined with the Tyria map appears to show tectonic plates. I see nothing to suggest anything to do with ley lines especially since there are no lines anywhere near the only known ley line location, the Thaumanova reactor.

The tectonic plates may be relevant to fighting Promordius.