Guild Wars 2

The other day I was exploring through Mount Maelstrom and came across the Priory exploring the ruins of “Rata Pten”. The name and architecture seemed kind of Asuran, but I could find no reference to what the ruins actually were from the NPCs.

As an Asura player, I got kind of intrigued. Anyone know what this ruin was? Was it an old Asuran town?

I think it’s an old asura town. First I thought it was from unknown origin , like Rata Sum (mursaat are speculated to be their creators), but then I realized the architecture is purely asuran.

you have to remember the asuran use to leave underground and when they came up the Rata Sum was a perfect place for them because of the magic that surround that place. i have a good feel that Rata Pten and all the asuran claim territories use to belong to mursaat.

Seeing as Ratan Pten is right next to Mt. Maelstrom which is Destroyer infested, it’s logical to assume that’s one of the cities abandoned by the Asura.

I havn’t seen rata pten, but if it’s on the surface like it sounds, then it wouldn’t be one of the original Asuran cities, which were deep underground.

But Mt Maelstrom is relatively close to Sparkfly Swamp, which was Asura controlled surface territory in GW1, it doesn’t seem unlikely the Asura may’ve built a surface city there which got over-run by dragon minions in the time intervening.

We’ve seen glimpses of the original Asuran cities in cut scenes and they have the same architecture as the surface ones (Angular, geometric shapes and patterns that vaguely appear mesoamerican)- we’ve also seen Mursaat architecture and this is entirely different (grown from mursaat “jade” crystals like their golems into large smooth crystalline surfaces, and appears to shimmer), if the Asura claimed any Mursaat structures they’ve long since torn down any of the original designs.