Guild Wars 2

Lately, I was looking for an answer what happened with titans after they were released from behind the Door of Komalie and killed so many mursaat?

Most of them went on to attack Mineral Springs (on the way to Droknar’s Forge), Lion’s Arch, or the Henge of Denravi, or joined with the charr for the assault on Ascalon.

One remained in th charr homelands to be destroyed in Eye of the North.

It’s possible that there were some other stragglers left over, but if so, they’re not in parts of the world we can access in GW1 or GW2. I wouldn’t imagine they’d be in large numbers, though – Glint seemed pretty determined to mop up any significant concentration of them.

(EDIT: For completeness, there were of course more still behind the Door of Komalie that we encounter in Nightfall, but I’m presuming you’re not asking about those.)

We know Titans come from concentrations of tormented souls, there were many inside the Foundry of Failed Creations because the Fury was somehow “twisting” the souls into Titans.

That does not exclude natural formation of Titans wherever there are large amounts of lingering, tormented souls. We have good reason to believe Gorseval was formed in a similar manner, and we could probably run into more Titans as LW3 goes on (bloodstone powered Titans from enslaved souls?).

So, while we clearly killed every single Titan we ever went into contact with during GW1, they seem to be naturally occurring to an extent, and we could count from them existing around somewhere, even if it’s some backwater waste inside the Mists.

maxwelgm.4315:

they seem to be naturally occurring to an extent,

Eh…

Even if the Fury wasn’t doing something elaborate to create them, like you said, it’d still require a heap of tortured souls in close proximity, and I don’t think that’ll happen naturally. I’m on board with the Gorseval-as-quasi-titan theory (although he fell short of the full deal), but he wasn’t naturally occurring. He came about as a result of a very specific set of circumstances brought about more or less by design, which only happened to mirror certain other aspects of the Foundary and the Realm of Torment as a whole. It’s not like we’re going to be able to see titans spontaneously forming whenever and wherever the story decides it’d be cool to have them back.

Honestly, with the whole “certain types of souls go to point a, and certain types of souls go to point b” I’d imagine that there could be many places that serve as a birthplace of titans (or quasi-titans like Gorseval) without anyone overseeing rituals like The Fury.

And with how tormented souls have a tendency to remain where they were killed (see the Brisban Wildlands ghosts), if enough souls remain they could form a quasi-titan or a titan as well.

Both of those cases I would consider to be “naturally occurring” because you don’t have someone going through and putting the souls together with the intent of making a titan.

To such an extent, I’d say Gorseval is a “naturally occurring” one too, if he can be classified as a titan, because while the White Mantle were killing people for a long time in place, it was Mordremoth’s death that shook them free of the Bloodstone allowing them to remain in the Spirit Vale. The White Mantle had no intention for them to be free like that. So while the White Mantle created the circumstances for Gorseval to form, they didn’t intend it.

I guess “unintentionally occurring” would be a better classification than “naturally occurring” though.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

And with how tormented souls have a tendency to remain where they were killed (see the Brisban Wildlands ghosts), if enough souls remain they could form a quasi-titan or a titan as well.

I guess it depends on where the cut-off for ‘tormented’ is. The ones in Brisban seem confused, and lost, distressed even, but even the violent ones don’t appear to be in agony. That sort of thing always, to me, seems to be the result of an outside influence- the combination of sacrifice and magic-addiction linked to the bloodstone, the nature of the Realm of Torment, the shades in Godslost Swamp, the Foefire ritual, and so on. I guess there’s the Lady in White, too, but she seems much worse off than the Brisban or pirate ghost concentrations.

The same can really be said for those that make up Gorseval though. They honestly come off as hostile as the White Mantle ghosts in Aurora Remains or Demetra, but more confused, like the non-WM ghosts in Aurora Remains or in Hidden Lake.