Guild Wars 2

Would be nice if Razah is Abaddon chance at redemption.

While we don’t know why Abaddon had Razah imprisoned, it’s unlikely that Abaddon had any plans to become Razah.

First off, Abaddon had been reconstructing his body throughout Nightfall. This is why he appears as just a head and two hands when fought, and why said head and hands looked very twisted, insectoid, and sinewy – he lost his body when he was beaten before the Exodus, and was making a new one out of the Realm of Torment itself (which is very sinewy and insectoid). So if Abaddon was to become Razah, then his newly formed body was pointless. Why not just take Razah’s body from the start?

Secondly, Razah had a clearly defined persona – even if limited in knowledge – while imprisoned. This would no doubt cause a clash, which might result in similar to when Kormir took Abaddon’s power, knowledge, and mind: Abaddon’s death.

It would be interesting to say the least if we found out that Razah was meant to be Abaddon’s insurance policy, in the same manner Trahearne was for Mordy, but he wasn’t able to complete the process before we killed him.

Would I want a redemption story for Abaddon though (even if it means them going back on their word that he’s 100% dead as a doornail)? Probably not. I could forgive a lot of things, but basically the destruction of all life on Tyria being one of the consequences of his mad bid for freedom not so much. It would be like forgiving an Elder Dragon after they have spent centuries of trying to kill you for reasons of “just because”.

Trust me I don’t want to see a character back from death for no reason if they no longer have any rule in the story and have been used as the writer wanted to use them.

Not the first time a writer change his story. Mallyx was supposed to be dead but he is alive and he is not as powerful as Abaddon so there could be a chance he is still around like Mallyx.

Abaddon was already mad and wanted revenge don’t think being imprisoned and tortured for 1000 years will make you want to go back and be friends again with the people who caused it to you in the first place.

His story felt unfinished and there is many things that we don’t know about him like why he insist that the races of Tyria keep their magic and why he didn’t want the other gods to weaken it or take it away to the point he was ready to fight them for it and did he told the gods the reason but they decided to ignore it? We also didn’t hear his side of the story we only know the side of the other gods but is what they told us is the whole truth?

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Not the first time a writer change his story. Mallyx was supposed to be dead but he is alive and he is not as powerful as Abaddon so there could be a chance he is still around like Mallyx.

Mallyx is dead. The only thing living about him is his legend. Which is the thing the revenants has been summoning for powers.

And even that’s not ‘living’, per se- best we can tell, it’s a disembodied imprint of a consciousness that a revenant can draw a watered down version of the original’s power through. We don’t even know if the legends are capable of awareness when they aren’t being channeled.

Rytlock said he can hear many voices in his head trying to talk to him. Doesn’t this mean they are aware?

He doesn’t really specify the number of voices he hears. He just says " I’m still sorting out the voices in my head. This new spell kitten nal of mine comes with…baggage."

So for all we know it’s just two. Either way, they are indeed aware – they’re aware of fighting and they’re aware that their power is being channeled. But that doesn’t specify if they’re aware when not being channeled – Rytlock doesn’t give much into the details of it, and it could be that both legends available are the only ones one hears (but game mechanic ties their voices to skill usage so players can only hear the currently active legend).