I think it’s just teasing, cuz some players believe they’ll still return. :P
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That “comeback” was actually just Linsey stating in 2007 that there were “cool plans.”
Note: these “cool plans” could have been intended for War in Kryta, as the prelude to it (Zinn’s golems) which screamed (to me at least) Lazarus’ dealings occurred after the fact, and the WiK content included 7 mursaat, with a brand new kind of jade construct.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
I feel kinda conflicted about that easter egg, since any news on the mursaat is good news. They have said already that they “have really cool plans for them” a long while ago, but it kinda ruins their (or at least Lazarus’) surprise return with such obvious dark foreshadowing.
They might as well put up a sign in Lion’s Arch saying: Warning! Mursaat Inbound. Do Not Touch!
Or a big button … Triggers mursaat apocalypse. DO NOT TOUCH.
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I think it’s possible that they could make a return. Didn’t Saul D’Alessio require help from the Mursaat to retake Kryta from the Charr? Kryta being the human home land now, the Unseen ones may very well make a return. I don’t think we exterminated them in the first game? We killed a few but not all of them and they do think they’re Gods so why not? It’s been 250 years, they could have rebuilt? We have a condition called Agony? Perhaps infusions and ascended armour will play a role in this?? Be interesting to see how those wasp people look after all this time.
You do need to check out the “Saul’s Story” details in the first game.
The thing is, Saul somehow or another happened upon the Mursaat’s hiding place while down and out, and came back preaching about them to Kryta. He gathered enough people around him who believed his message, but he possibly was genuinely interested in the well-being of Kryta.
We will never really know what his long-term plans were because the charr invaded and he was lost while fighting them. What happened was that he was overtaken during a combat with the charr and the Mursaat sent a few of their number to protect him. For some reason. when they left, they took him with them and left a few others in charge of the fledgling White Mantle.
The Mursaat weren’t interested in saving Kryta. They were interested, apparently, solely in Saul and to a lesser extent his followers. We know later they had an extreme interest in keeping the Door of Komalie shut tight and the White Mantle was a useful tool to work with it.
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Pretty sure they know they aren’t gods, they’re just very intelligent and malicious.
No, I’m pretty sure they know their limitations. I’m also sure they’re not entirely malicious, they just perform a very dirty task to keep the Door of Komalie shut. The act is completely unacceptable to us, since it is sacrifice . . .
But it brings to question how in the heck they were keeping it closed before that sacrificing Chosen was the preferable alternative?
Seeking assistants for the Asuran Catapult Project. Applicants will be tested for aerodynamics.
No, I’d say they’re malicious. They’re explicitly stated to have betrayed the other races and fled the world during the last ED rise when their magic was effective in fighting the Elder Dragons.
Both then and during GW1, what they did was only to save their own hides.
They’re malicious, but they’re not proactively asserting themselves in others’ lives. Instead, they’ll leave everyone else high and dry and kill whomever they need to remain safe – be it an entire race called the Seers or thousands within two years called Chosen.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
