Guild Wars 2

I saw this structure west of Brisban Wildlands and i wondered what it could be. Because it is not an explorable area i cannot see for myself, is there some or any lore and or information behind it?

The physical location matches Dry Top a circular, plateau area. Interestingly enough, the zone has what look like large animal burrows and the ruins of some settlement:

Cool! Thanks for sharing the info with me.

I think that Dry Top is also one of the speculated locations where the sylvari seeds come from.

I played GW1 for about five or six years before I first entered Dry Top. Was there any reason to go there at all? Why would people guess seeds come from there?

Shiren.9532:

I played GW1 for about five or six years before I first entered Dry Top. Was there any reason to go there at all? Why would people guess seeds come from there?

It was a fairly cool zone. Other than that… no, not really. I doubt very much that the seeds come from anywhere we see in GW1, but even if they did, Dry Top has no caves and only Thorn Stalkers as plants.

The zone itself is unremarkable; no bosses and nothing of real interest besides the ruins. No story takes place there, no NPCs, no outposts. There’s a valley running through it that’s green like all the lowlands in Maguuma. I’ll admit that I had a few “what if Mordy is down there” thoughts, but I couldn’t see anything in the valley that would suggest as much, and certainly no cave where the seeds might have been.

The “cave” that people have speculated about is the formation in my first picture, which can be found in other places around Maguuma. Frankly it looks like an animal nest to me.

I do intend to go scouting through Maguuma for possible Mordremoth locations, but since the dragons were only added with Eye of the North I don’t expect to find any real evidence for him there. The Falls seems like a good place to start.

The hive thing? I always marked those down as thorn devourer nests

Divinity’s Reach has a similar texture when it is unexplored. My best guess would be that it is a planned location for a main hub as soon as an expansion for the maguuma jungle comes out.

Shiren.9532:

I played GW1 for about five or six years before I first entered Dry Top. Was there any reason to go there at all? Why would people guess seeds come from there?

It was one of the more desolate zones, just a transitional place.

People guessed the seeds came from there because there were a lot of caves – most being small and looking like they could be devourer or scarab nests – and there was some fairly active plants (mainly stalkers).

Kalarchis.8635:

I do intend to go scouting through Maguuma for possible Mordremoth locations, but since the dragons were only added with Eye of the North I don’t expect to find any real evidence for him there. The Falls seems like a good place to start.

The Falls is actually my guess for where Malyck’s tree is. If you follow the unexplored map of the Maguuma, you see the river texture of the one in Brisban going south into Metrica, then west stopping near the end of what was Tangle Root in GW1 – but the river in GW1, I believe, continued on until The Falls. Anet’s not really good with consistency with river flows (each one more or less has each end being a “where water comes from” or ending on the zone’s border via blocked off underwater cave spring). And lastly, Malyck says that his tree is along the river to the west. If the tree isn’t in The Falls, it’s in Tangle Root but that’s too close, imo, to be unknown.

Mordremoth’s location I suspect to be further north or west (or both) – not in the Wastes, but near it. But it’d be impossible to tell really, given how little we know of it.

Konig that’s a really good thought on Malyck’s tree; I’ll follow the river the best I can and see if I can’t find a good potential spot for it. Tangle Root does seem a little close, I agree.

As for Mordy, the question is: is he in the lush or dry parts? We know the jungle has been drying up; is he the cause? If so, then he’s probably in the Wastes. Or would he more likely be where all the magic in the region is? That is, the water sources. Besides the Falls I’m going to check Bloodstone Fen and Mamnoon Lagoon as well.

The first question to ask is: is he even on the present map?

The Maguuma does extend further west – even if not by much – before the shore. And just because Colin said that he’s tied to the Maguuma Jungle, doesn’t mean he’s in there. Kralkatorrik was tied to the Crystal Desert (his blood being in there) while he hibernated, after all.