Guild Wars 2

I heard that the Mursaat may start making their return in this new November patch and It got me thinking on tangets. Just wanted to write out my train of thought somewhere and maybe get some feedback. This is mainly just a thought that came up and there’s a very good chance I may have a mistake or misunderstanding in here, also I apologize in advance if similar tin foil hat tier theory have already been written as I don’t lurk this board frequently.

The Mursaat, a powerful enemy in Guild Wars Prophecies, but what was their real alignment? Their objective seemed to halt the Flameseeker Prophecies that would unleash the titans on the world. The player character was the antagonizing force in this regard, helping the Lich(/Abbadon’s Puppet) open the Door of Komalie. The Mursaat also played a hand in the White Mantles corruption and sacrifice of the chosen, but this act was also an aggressive method of preventing the Flameseeker Prophecies in my eyes. No chosen to complete this ultimate evil and souls to ensure the doors safely locked away. Now in Guild Wars 2 will the Mursaat be a friendly race without the threat of the Titans being unleashed by humans, or will they harbor a grudge for the previous events?

Which brings me to my first tangent, Abbadon, the underlying antagonizing force from the first three Guild Wars campaigns. A god who was outcast by the other five after sharing magic with humans and began his decent to madness. Abbadon who’s influence on Vizier Kilbron lead to the sinking of Orr, the place where the Human gods once lived and had their temples. These now joined Abbadons at the bottom of the ocean.

After Abbadon’s “Death” and then the disappearance of the other five gods the Elder Dragons begin to awaken within Tyria. Well, to be accurate their awakening began relativity right after Abbadon’s “Death”, then the other gods disappearance conveniently followed. Skip ahead to Zhaitan’s rising of Orr, bring back the five God’s temples, while still leaving Abbadon’s temple in the sea.

This leads me to wonder about the connection of the human gods and their connection with the dragons. The Dragons came before the gods, but during the Gods time lay dormant, then awaken after the exiled gods “Death” while the gods again go missing.

After this everything that comes to mind is basically just complete speculation and tin foil hat guesses. Could Abbadon be a force of good that was preventing the dragons return,or was it due to the shift in his power to Kormir that awoken them? Did the other gods want them to return,or are the gods just a different form of the dragons?Could Tyria have been completely deceived by the Gods and are they the primary Antagonists in the entire history of Tyria….

Anyways just wanted to spit out some idea’s instead of just bouncing them around in my head. Thanks for reading if anyone bothered.

I’m a firm believer in coincidence.
So I find it hard that the gods have a correlation with the rising of the dragons. It’s been said that the dragons have a cycle of reawakening, which means they would have woken up regardless of the god’s movements. The gods might have foreseen their return, but I doubt they had any connection in a coexisting way

I just want to know where the gods went. I mean, they’re friggin’ “gods”, right? So gods vs dragons, they should be able to win, right? And if the gods were present at creation and created the worlds, then…should be a cinch to kill the dragons. Or may be I’m missing something.

The phrasing Anet used when first revealing the dragons was something like ‘They have power that rivals the gods themselves’

Nothing states that the gods were around at the creation of the world, in fact they could have had nothing to do with the world of Tyria before the history of them that we know.

The mursaat were one of the five races that survived the previous awakening of the elder dragons, along with the seers, jotun, forgotten and dwarves. They may have valuable information about the dragons, and they may be more inclined to share this information after we killed Zhaitan.

The gods may have fled Tyria to make sure they won’t be corrupted. Or to create live on other parts of the world far away from the dragons.
The world of Guild Wars is gigantic, we have seen only 20% in Guild Wars 1, and there are 5 elder dragons in this tiny continent. Maybe the rest of the world was still a barren wasteland from the last times the dragons woke up, and only Tyria, Cantha and Elona got life working again.

Samuraiken.9581:

I just want to know where the gods went. I mean, they’re friggin’ “gods”, right? So gods vs dragons, they should be able to win, right? And if the gods were present at creation and created the worlds, then…should be a cinch to kill the dragons. Or may be I’m missing something.

Word of Anet states that the dragons are equal if not superior to the Gods.

They also did not create the world if I recall correctly, but they did bring humans to Tyria.

make a return? maybe.

on a november update about an island resort and giant enemy crabs? no.

I hope to see the story of the Mursaat resolved, but as this update seems to revolve around the sea (hence my fondness for my half-serious “UberQuaggan” theory), I wouldn’t look for it here.

Also, didn’t the ancestors of our human characters all but wipe the race out in EotN? Between that and the battles that were waged against them in the “War in Kryta” mini-campaign, they must by now be an endangered species. I hope I’m wrong on that count, though.

As far as history knows, only one Mursaat survived the events of the war in Kryta. However, we know NOTHING of the Mursaat’s homeland, the Isles of Janthir. I personally find it extremely unlikely that such an old race would have sent the entirety of their species into war, especially considering they had powerful weapons in their constructs.

My personal opinion on the lack of the god’s influence on Tyria is simple. The gods and the dragons are, what I would consider, equals. So in the instance that the gods came back, fought the dragons, and won (which is a best case scenario) we would most likely see the death of at the very least 2-3 of the gods. And the devastation that an outright war between powers of this kind would cause would be on the level of catastrophic. I mean we saw what the desolation was like, and that was just 5 gods versus 1. I could imagine much of tyria looking similar to the desolation before any such conflict was over.

No it seems to me that they’ve actually made a smart choice by staying away. Now they’ve forced the humans to put aside their supremacy and join with all the other races in the fight against the dragons. And those who are attempting to fight the dragons appear to be doing so through assisting the pact, as opposed to outright force.