Guild Wars 2

Why is it that Blimm final resting place resides underneath Divinity’s reach? Also do you think that we will ever get to go down there? Also what What could be down the giant sink hole?

Blimm seems to have renounced his belief in the Eternal Alchemy at some point in his life and was later buried according to human traditions rather than cremated as most asura are.

We may or may not be able to visit it. As I recall from Ghosts of Ascalon, one would require some sort of royal permit given by the queen to enter the crypts. It may become accessible in the future but I do not foresee that happening any time soon.

As for the Great Collapse, I think the Shining Blade might have some information that isn’t currently available to the general public. They seemed to know the collapse was going to occur and evacuated most of the district in time while citizens didn’t know and to them the collapse was rather sudden. I wouldn’t be surprised if the bandits/White Mantle were behind it, possibly as a way to sway public opinion of Queen Jennah away from her and into Minister Caudecus’ favor. It’s known that he has connections to Separatists and bandits in Kryta and possibly with the White Mantle by extension, and it is known that he wants Jennah’s power as ruler of Kryta.

I’ve been hoping ever since I saw the cave down icon at the Skull Plaza (the entrance to the Divinity’s Reach crypts) that we’ll eventually go into there.

As for the Great Collapse, I’ve been suspecting that its related to the bandits – the lore about it is that it collapsed during the night one day, it was formerly the arts district (and design wise was a Canthan district, possibly in lore too as per something Ree Soesbee said, but its not ever mentioned in-game) – the Shining Blade claim to have evacuated everyone just in time, but Riot Alice from the street rat storyline said her fathered died in it. The Shining Blade also blame poor foundation, but there are citizens who say they hear noises from down there – making them think of the rumors of drakes in the city sewers (which is obviously a reference to alligators in New York City sewers but still).

An interesting thing to note about the Shining Blade members around the Great Collapse – their story about the evacuation night doesn’t match the nearby citizens who were rescued’s stories. The Shining Blade claim they worked with Seraph and begun evacuating after the first signs of cracks, while the citizens said the Shining Blade were alone and evacuated before any signs were seen.

The facts remain for the Great Collapse as thus:

1. The Shining Blade knew it was collapsing, and they lied/are wrong about the casualties.
2. It contained the arts district, possibly Canthan.
3. People hear noises at the bottom of it.
4. Bandits are seen mucking around the Grenth’s Spokes area (near the Plaza of Grenth – which is access to the water system of Divinity’s Reach, and, iirc, sewers too).

@WarriorOfAsgard: Actually, the separatists are against Caudecus as well. Uzolan was a Separatist, but they were going to kill Caudecus as well as Jennah during the dungeon. But he does have ties to the bandits, who are led by the White Mantle.

I always felt that Jennah saying that the Separatists were aiming to kill Caudecus was her way of feigning obliviousness and at the same time putting Caudecus in a place where she could watch him. It would make sense that the Separatists would join in with Caudecus as long as he promised them to destroy the treaty with the charr as soon as he got the throne.

It seemed to me that they were targeting him due to him hosting the party celebrating the treaty.

Of course, it could go either way. But the only relation there is at all of the Separatists being tied to Caudecus is a possible interpretation of the dungeon’s events.

Jennah really has no reason to feign obliviousness, nor is that notion needed to put Caudecus under effective house arrest.

In my mind it was her feigning obliviousness towards the fact that he was the one that had orchestrated the whole event. Now if Jennah had stated outright that she knew what he was doing and put him under arrest he might find certain legal loopholes or something to get out of his situation, or she could have him executed (and possibly lose information on people higher up than him that want her out of power A.K.A White Mantle). Jennah pretending to not know about his role in the events of that day can put him under “protective custody” directly under the eyes of the Shining Blade, and this is something he cannot remove himself from by any legal means because it is a “for his own protection” situation. Because of the way that he was stumbling on his own words and such near the end of the dungeon just made it seem more likely to me that a plan of his backfired and he was stuck dealing with the side-effects.

Or she could feign obliviousness towards it, not make up a lie by claiming that Caudecus was a target, and still put him under protection of the throne because his mansion was attacked and damaged.

His stumbling on his own words to me read that he knew Jennah’s plot – to keep a close eye on him so he couldn’t work with bandits, and possibly investigate his mansion (which she had done afterwards, Shining Blade being there and all). It didn’t seem like it was a back-fired plan, just that Jennah was doing something which getting out of – at least immediately – would harm his public image. The stumbling, to me, was him hesitating on trying to figure out how to get out of being put under what was obviously house arrest without making him look suspicious – like there was something in his mansion -coughbandithideoutssndsecretpassagestoHarathiHinterlandscough- he didn’t want to be found.

If the claim that Caudecus was a target was indeed a lie, then the only real purpose it held was keeping Logan from strangling the old man then and there – which she could have done by just shouting “sit!” Inuyasha style since Logan’s so whipped by her (I suspect he enjoys her using Domination Magic -coughs-).

I don’t know, in the end that was just my own personal reading into the situation, and it still is. Nonetheless I have not played Caudecus’ Manor in explorable, so I do not know if there are more clues as to what happened found in looking through his manor or not. I mean, I know they find the connection to the bandits in Harathi Hinterlands through the path, but whether or not the separatists come into the picture again is an unknown to me.

All three paths in explorable deals with bandits – one deals with their alliance with centaurs, one deals with their alliance with Inquest (though only implied), and one deals with their plots against Divinity’s Reach. The last one has the bandits using the “Separatist Camp” from the story mode (where the charr was captive), while the other two deal with a series of caves with bandit bases in them that lead to Lake Doric.

There’s no hide nor hair of the Separatists in explorable.