Guild Wars 2

It seems ley line energy is able to create a completly new forms of life when it leaks out. The coalescences are clearly alive like sparks. The latest living world events revealed to us beings very similar to Vale Guardian – Ley Line Anomalies.

Well they are not exactly like Vale Guardian.
One significant difference we can easily observe is that Ley Line Anomalies use to roam like crazy all over the maps. While Vale Guardian doesn’t want to leave his boss area. Or does he? They also consume magic, but later about that.

Why doesn’t the Vale Guardian simply do the same?
It seems that Vale Guardian is none different than anomalies we can fight currently in Gendarran Fields, Iron Marches and Timberline Falls. Except it is unable to roam freely. Let’s start the speculations! Every time we get the boss down to 66% and 33% it disappears. Well, I would say it tries to escape. After the CC phase Ley Line anomalies clearly appear to be scared. They use /cower emote, then they run, they don’t want to fight stright on. Let’s go back to the Vale Guardian. Later its energy is manifested as the Blue Guardian, Red Guardian and the Green Guardian. So does it split intentionaly or maybe its energy is being stopped by the three different pillars we can see placed around the boss area. Vale Guardian is basically forced to fight. When we destroy the boss we also break the pillars and allow the ley line energy to flow freely. It’s no longer trapped in the area.

What about the trash mobs before the boss?
It seems that energy which leaked from the pillars outside of the ring creates a lesser ley line anomalies.

Who did build the pillars?
We know exactly that White Mantle members did it a long time ago. Bandits want to rebuild them but they don’t know how so they want to ship some extra barrels of bloodstone shards to buy this knowledge.

Is defending the Vale the real role of Vale Guardian?
Bandits think that Vale Guardian is there to protect them. It’s kinda true But is it all?
Hey you know we have our master Lazarus here and he needs a lot of magic so… we don’t want any anomalies to drain it. It might be a little silly from my side because anomalies are made of ley line magic and we also can see ley lines all over the Forsaken Thicket, but it might have a little sence. Not only they captured an anomaly to protect them, but they also prevented it from suking up the magic they need for Lazarus.

Well one thing I don’t know is why we are even fighting the ley line anomalies?
At the begining Priory, Consortium and Inquest wanted to make reserch on coalescences, but now we are simply killing the anomalies. They don’t seem to be hostile though. And what’s the point of killing them? We kill the anomaly, it released the magic and then another anomaly will be created from this magic. That’s pointless.

Edit: One more thing. Are ley line anomalies protecting the natural order?
Do they try to stabilize the ley lines after the death of Mordremoth? Is it a safety mechanism… maybe we shouldn’t be killing them then. Well Vale Guardian was the first known anomaly and it appeared in the Forsaken Thicked because this place was already imbued with high amount of magic. It was trapped inside the pillars. But now lesser anomalies appear all over the world to consume magic which leaks from the ley lines.

(..)These anomalies don’t appear to be hostile, but their presence is causing a lot of damage.(..)

- Ela Makkay
The event description says

Defeat the Ley-Line Anomaly to disperse its destructive energy before it overloads

So i guess that if the anomaly overloads it will release all that energy in a similar way that regular explosion does, and since it is traveling around habitated area, it is dangerous. So if we would disperse it ‘less violently’ (by bashing the hell out of it) the damage will be prevented.

Assic.2746:

Well one thing I don’t know is why we are even fighting the ley line anomalies?

Mystic Coins

I’m more interested in the plant back item that the Anomaly has. It’s related to nature obviously. But to what kind of nature? Mordremoth? Or just default nature.

Assic.2746:

Edit: One more thing. Are ley line anomalies protecting the natural order?
Do they try to stabilize the ley lines after the death of Mordremoth? Is it a safety mechanism… maybe we shouldn’t be killing them then. Well Vale Guardian was the first known anomaly and it appeared in the Forsaken Thicked because this place was already imbued with high amount of magic. It was trapped inside the pillars. But now lesser anomalies appear all over the world to consume magic which leaks from the ley lines.

They are Anomalies. There’s no natural order to them, they are a result of magic going haywire, because the natural order has already been tampered with, by Scarlet, Inquest, Consortium, The Six, and who knows who else.

Magic is very chaotic in Tyria, but perhaps that’s not how it originally was. Countless years of experimenting, manipulating, and tampering with it has cause many, many issues with it.

Or perhaps just the cycle of ED slumber/wake has gone to kitten. To quote Head-Six from Battlestar Galactica: “Mathematics. Law of averages. Let a complex system repeat itself long enough, eventually something surprising might occur.”

If Thrulnn and other accounts of magic prior to the Elder Dragons’ hibernation in the last dragonrise holds any truth, then magic was wild and chaotic back then.

If Ogden’s claims of what happens when magic builds up too much is true, then it becomes chaotic.

I don’t think the Inquest, Scarlet, Consortium, Priory, or the Six had done anything – or enough – to make it all chaotic. Scarlet just redirect magic as far as we know; the Six only stored and released magic (again, redirecting but in a different manner); and the other three groups have just been studying it and its properties rather than tampering with the ley lines’ overflowing magic.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

and the other three groups have just been studying it and its properties rather than tampering with the ley lines’ overflowing magic.

I’m surprised that the Inquest haven’t tampered with it yet.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

If Thrulnn and other accounts of magic prior to the Elder Dragons’ hibernation in the last dragonrise holds any truth, then magic was wild and chaotic back then.

If Ogden’s claims of what happens when magic builds up too much is true, then it becomes chaotic.

I said “perhaps” it was not chaotic to begin with. If these two are accurate, then that’s not the case and magic has always been wild, which is how I like my magic, anyway.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I don’t think the Inquest, Scarlet, Consortium, Priory, or the Six had done anything – or enough – to make it all chaotic. Scarlet just redirect magic as far as we know; the Six only stored and released magic (again, redirecting but in a different manner); and the other three groups have just been studying it and its properties rather than tampering with the ley lines’ overflowing magic.

Redirecting or rerouting is tampering with it; just think of it as a river. If you kitten (Bloodstone) or channel it through a different path, or even drill into it, you’re altering its natural state. So magic IS altered after all.

Urosh Uchiha.9732:

I’m surprised that the Inquest haven’t tampered with it yet.

Honestly, they probably have…

After collecting it. So their tampering wouldn’t affect the ley lines themselves if so.

Rhaegar.1203:

Redirecting or rerouting is tampering with it; just think of it as a river. If you kitten (Bloodstone) or channel it through a different path, or even drill into it, you’re altering its natural state. So magic IS altered after all.

You’re altering its natural position, but not its natural composition and state of being.

The most altered magic would be is the four schools of magic, which have apparently become null and void thanks to the Elder Dragons leaking magic out and the Bloodstones weakening over the centuries.

In your analogy, the water isn’t changed because it goes through a new channel – it’s still water. It’d only change if it runs over something that seeps into the water (be it garbage, rust, poisons, toxic waste, etc. etc.)

Honestly, that’s just semantics. We don’t really know how magic works. Followin gthe analogy, we don’t know if magic works one way in spot x, and a different way in spot y.

I’d argue we can say that it does work the same. Mount Maelstrom, Blazeridge Steppes, and Snowden Drifts are all in three different environments and far away, yet the ley line overflowing magic functions the same.

Same with the anomalies in Gendarran Fields, Iron Marches, and Timberline Falls.

Probably due to game mechanics, this is not portrayed in-game, but lore wise, Magic does change (or sometimes cease working )in the Dragonbrand.

Now this may be a totally awful analogy buuuuttt
I like to think of the Ley Line energy in the same way that we think about global warming today. It doesn’t take too much extra Carbon in the atmosphere to begin catastrophically changing the earth, ice caps melt and sea levels rise, as well as global average temperatures. In this sense I’d say Elder dragons are like massive trees, breathing in the carbon (or in our case magic) so that a natural balance is kept, and life can flourish. And so, like on Earth, there was a time before trees or ozone where the earth was hot, and the air much thicker, but because of our elder dragons, or massive forests, the oxygen was released, and the bad stuff (chaotic magic) was absorbed. Cutting down elder dragons may or may not return Tyrua to a prinordal state, where chaotic magic is so prominant and powerful that life can not survive on its surface. That’s my two cents at least

I’m new to the lore, please don’t murder me if I messed something up