Guild Wars 2

It bugs me a while now. I understand that the game has taken a new artistic direction and therefore, we have more detailed statues of the gods, BUT:
There are the old statues, too. The Balthasar statue in Ascalon, the old Temple of the Ages… so my question is:

Who had the time during the 250 years of war, turmoil and suffering to go up to Lornar’s Pass and break down the hidden statue of Grenth to replace it with the Malchor interpretation?

That’s not the Malchor interpretation, technically, just Orrian. Well, it might be based on Malchor’s sculptors, however that’s unproven (but the same can be said for the GW1 statues, in fact). At the Cathedral of Zephyrs (aka Temple of Dwayna in Orr), we see a different style statue completely – a similarly styled statue of Balthazar exists at his temple in Straits of Devastation too. In Malchor’s Leap we can also find a sunken area called “Malchor’s Anguish” which holds “imperfect” statues of Dwayna – the GW1 model, specifically.

Point being, though, of the “true depiction of the gods” statues, we only see two: Dwayna (which seems to be heavily corrupted, with it looking undead) and Balthazar.

As to the change – yeah, it also bugs me a bit, as there’s really no point behind changing it. But it seems to be a retcon of sorts.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

…In Malchor’s Leap we can also find a sunken area called “Malchor’s Anguish” which holds “imperfect” statues of Dwayna – the GW1 model, specifically….

Oh lord that place is DEPRESSING. If you read a tablet or plaque or something that’s located there, you see just how much Malchor was driven to madness by his love for Dwayna.

Occam’s razor: Someone built it over the old one.

As easy as some priests getting there to revere it, later upgrading it for whatever reason.

Lonami.2987:

Occam’s razor: Retcon.

Fixed for you. :P

Chessrook.8643:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

…In Malchor’s Leap we can also find a sunken area called “Malchor’s Anguish” which holds “imperfect” statues of Dwayna – the GW1 model, specifically….

Oh lord that place is DEPRESSING. If you read a tablet or plaque or something that’s located there, you see just how much Malchor was driven to madness by his love for Dwayna.

It’s strongly implied that this wasn’t one side, and that he actually copulated with Dwayna, as it’s said later on that Grenth’s mother is Dwayna and had a mortal scupltor for a father.

Sajuuk.5706:

Chessrook.8643:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

…In Malchor’s Leap we can also find a sunken area called “Malchor’s Anguish” which holds “imperfect” statues of Dwayna – the GW1 model, specifically….

Oh lord that place is DEPRESSING. If you read a tablet or plaque or something that’s located there, you see just how much Malchor was driven to madness by his love for Dwayna.

It’s strongly implied that this wasn’t one side, and that he actually copulated with Dwayna, as it’s said later on that Grenth’s mother is Dwayna and had a mortal scupltor for a father.

….but….I was under the impression that the five Gods showed up to Malchor at around the same time…there’s no way that it could be Malchor.

You also have to consider that it might have been Dhuum to present himself at the time, and that later those statues would have been replaced with those of Grenth. It’s not impossible that Malchor would have been the father of Grenth.

Chessrook.8643:

….but….I was under the impression that the five Gods showed up to Malchor at around the same time…there’s no way that it could be Malchor.

Six Gods*

Technically, there was six gods prior to Grenth, so it may be that Malchor sculpted Dhuum. Furthermore, we don’t know how much time had passed between Dwayna first meeting Malchor and him sculpting Dwayna (she was the last god he made a statue of before losing his sight). Furthermore, it’s implied that Dwayna at least knew of Malchor prior to requesting sculptors from him – so there could have been a relationship prior or during him sculpting the gods’ statues. If prior, then Grenth could have been part of that as decades could have passed between Grenth’s birth from a relationship between Malchor and Dwayna, and Dwayna requesting Malchor to make sculptors.

It’s also said that Malchor had to rest between each sculptor made – but how long was these periods of rest? Hours? Days? Months? Years?

Then, as said, there’s the possibility he made a statue of Dhuum – rather than Grenth – and the inscription at Divinity’s Reach could be either altered, falsified, or about Grenth before he was a god (as when he was a half god, he still represented mortality).