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.
(edited by Assic.2746)