Mursaat:Tengu as Exalted:Human?
I like your imagination, but no, there are really no ties like that.
And exalted aren’t necessarily ‘good’ people, just people who worked and agreed with Glint’s methods, so more ‘just’ people in that sense.
Mursaat are as old as the other elder races
I’ve always liked the idea my PC’s from GW1 became Exalted. I’m sure there’s all sorts of reasons to disprove that theory, but it feels like a fitting end to some of their stories.
The henchman Herta became one. Her head is available as a gobbler.
I’ve always liked the idea my PC’s from GW1 became Exalted. I’m sure there’s all sorts of reasons to disprove that theory, but it feels like a fitting end to some of their stories.
I think that’s not entirely impossible, but nothing to support it either.. I guess you’re free to go with it for now
Mursaat are flesh and blood creatures, so no they are not constructs powered and controlled by souls like the Exalted. The Exalted are effectively just enchanted armors that are controlled and houses the souls of humans chosen by the Forgotten for the role they’re performing.
Not to mention that tengu and mursaat are so drastically different in culture and history that there’s clearly no relation. And they’re so drastically different in physiology as well that shows there’s no biological relation either.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Weren’t the Mursaat one of the elder races, the last 5 races that survived the last time the elder Dragons awoke? The other 4 weren’t Tengu, so the Tengu must have devoloped sometime when the Mursaat already existed.
But, on the other hand, we know those five weren’t the only ones- they were just one alliance. The kodan were around back then too, and the djinn, and there is some evidence to suggest the tengu as well.
There are plenty of reasons to doubt a connection between tengu and mursaat, but the timeline isn’t one of them.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
But, on the other hand, we know those five weren’t the only ones- they were just one alliance. The kodan were around back then too, and the djinn, and there is some evidence to suggest the tengu as well.
There are plenty of reasons to doubt a connection between tengu and mursaat, but the timeline isn’t one of them.
But I don’t think Djinn count as a race, aren’t they more of the peak of evolution when it comes to elementals?
It’s been said they are to elementals what other races are to animals. In my book, that puts them down as separate ‘species’. Besides, as far as the ‘evolution’ of an individual elemental goes, they seem to get larger and stronger, but not smarter, whereas djinn are no larger but much smarter. Greater elementals seem to essentially be stationary storms of elemental energy.
Regardless, though: we know that djinn are sapient entities who seem to have been around during the last dragon rising, and weren’t counted amongst the five. Besides them, kodan, and tengu, other possibilities include the charr (they have legends about the G.L. and the dragons, but its unclear if it’s something their race witness, pieced together from evidence after the fact, or inherited from an older civilization), krait (a lot of people speculate the prophets who they believe will flood the world are linked to Bubbles, and the obelisks have been noted to have similar properties to bloodstones), ogres (said to be distantly related to jotun and similarly old), and at a great stretch, hylek (the first hint we got in-game that killing dragons may destabilize the world was from the metaphor of a conveniently timed hylek parable, but that admittedly may have just been coincidental).
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.