Guild Wars 2

Just wondering if the legendary sword Magdear (sister sword to Sohothin) will ever been seen again. Eir brought the shattered sword out of the Ascalonian Catacombs and gave it to a norn weaponsmith to have it reforged for Logan. Ever since then no one else have seen the sword.

Emiko.3217:

Just wondering if the legendary sword Magdear (sister sword to Sohothin) will ever been seen again. Eir brought the shattered sword out of the Ascalonian Catacombs and gave it to a norn weaponsmith to have it reforged for Logan. Ever since then no one else have seen the sword.

It belongs to the dragon now…

Eir died never telling who she gave it to, now the blacksmith has one of the most legendary swords and doesn’t have the obligation to share it with the world.

It disappears forever, as the blacksmith keeps it for himself.

/loosethreadclosed

can we not assume she gave it to beigarth due to him being the most well known norn blacksmith aswell as the only one to figure out deldrimor steel after the dwarves went under.

I think that’s a safe guess, but we’ve had a fair amount of story with him since then (for a minor NPC, anyway) and it hasn’t come up. Add in that little addition Rytlock made in S2 that Magdaer isn’t actually useful for getting rid of the ghosts, and I doubt we’ll be seeing it in the foreseeable future.

Whoever currently has it, it will get stolen when ArenaNet needs a villain to have a powerful sword.

This is probably something that will be left dangling for all time. Same as the multitude from GW1.

It’s now residing in an ultra exclusive spot in the Wizard’s Tower armory.

Erukk.1408:

It’s now residing in an ultra exclusive spot in the Wizard’s Tower armory.

Nah more like at the hands of palawajoko

I’m still trying to figure out how Rytlock got Sohothin back. He barely explains the Revenant abilities and the sword not at all.

And let’s have no more of this “later, cub” nonsense, Rytlock.

Tanith.5264:

I’m still trying to figure out how Rytlock got Sohothin back. He barely explains the Revenant abilities and the sword not at all.

And let’s have no more of this “later, cub” nonsense, Rytlock.

i recall logan say he loot it from ascalon but rurik died at fire ring -

Brokensunday.4098:

Tanith.5264:

I’m still trying to figure out how Rytlock got Sohothin back. He barely explains the Revenant abilities and the sword not at all.

And let’s have no more of this “later, cub” nonsense, Rytlock.

i recall logan say he loot it from ascalon but rurik died at fire ring -

Well, Rytlock states during the LS that the sword “came into his care” some years ago. However, he refused to elaborate. In Edge of Destiny he tells Logan “the sword’s mine now” and this is in Ascalon.

So apparently someone brought Rurik’s sword back to his homeland at some point. I’d like to know…the rest of the story.

In the PS, Logan also says Rytlock looted the sword from Ascalon.

So either the sword Rurik had with him leaving Ascalon was just a Fiery Dragon Sword and not Sohothin – which given he was banished would make sense, but Adelbern still thinks Sohothin’s presence = Rurik’s presence which implies this was not the case. Or someone brought it back and died before it reached Adelbern (or did so after the Foefire, no doubt with the intent to fulfill that legend but being killed before reaching Ascalon City).

Still, would be nice to know the story. But Rytlock is ArenaNet’s story blocker. Anything tied to him remains behind a sealed door. Much like Scarlet, until her big reveal that left almost everyone hating her.

Or Logan didn’t know what he was talking about. Even at their closest, Rytlock was still standoffish about his past- there’s no reason to believe that he didn’t stonewall Logan like he has every other character.

Or, alternatively, a mythical human sword belonging to a great Ascalonian hero in the hands of one of Ascalon’s greatest foes could well be said to be “looted from Ascalon” wherever Rytlock may have picked it up- it’d just take meaning Ascalon the nation, not Ascalon the location. Doubling up on that, the words were said in a moment of emotional heat, intended as a barb to draw blood- not exactly circumstances under which people are known to speak with great precision.

We can assume the same people that made King Adelbern tomb brought Rurik’s sword back to Ascalon xD (somehow)

(I kinda saw what logan said in AC as more of a light insult)

Adelbern doesn’t have a tomb, afaik.

It is quite possible that Logan doesn’t know where Rurik died, as in lore, our GW1 characters (or Mhenlo’s team) were the ones who defeated him in the Ring of Fire. It has been 250 years and details will get blurred, misinterpreted, or lost. For instance, in one of the human personal storylines it is revealed that the White Mantle are just stories used to frighten children. We, as the players, know that they were a very real threat. This is the difference between character knowledge and player knowledge.

I have to admit that I am very curious as to where Magdear ends up. If Beigarth has the sword, where is it now? Considering that Beigarth was part of the Pact and the fact that we could revive him in the Prisoners of the Dragon instance (for an achievement), was Magdear lost when the Pact airships were torn out of the sky? Or is it still safe in Hoelbrak?

I believe there were many NPC dialogues – some even in DR – which mentions Rurik dying at The Frost Gate/in the Shiverpeaks.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I believe there were many NPC dialogues – some even in DR – which mentions Rurik dying at The Frost Gate/in the Shiverpeaks.

Do they know he was raised as an undead and had his final death in the Ring of Fire, though?

My gut feeling is that Sohothin got spirited away much like the Scepter of Orr did. It could be a natural property of those artifacts that they teleport themselves to a particular location when under threat of destruction (or even just being lost…) – in which case, Sohothin would likely have teleported to somewhere in Ascalon. Alternatively, if might have been Glint that pulled them both away… and then Glint might have arranged for Rytlock to find it.

The idea that they just spirit themselves away when they come under threat of destruction doesn’t jive well with the destruction of the Staff of the Mists that we dealt with in Nightfall. I mean it was supposedly sister to the Scepter of Orr, so he idea that it could not do the same and save itself from destruction seems unlikely. I think it is far more likely that there was something else, Glint perhaps, that ended up saving those artifacts.

Do keep in mind though that the Staff of the Mists had to be taken to a very specific location in order to be destroyed – the Hallowed Point.

Beat me to it. Why that location specifically wasn’t explained. Powerful artifacts being able to teleport themselves out of danger, and that location being one where that teleportation ability was somehow prevented, is as good an explanation as any.

True, I guess that is also a possibility. I guess there is no point debating this any further seeing as until ArenaNet gives us more information on the subject it is nothing more than speculation.