Guild Wars 2

I was killing that fooker Hablion and I remembered something from guild wars 1. How did the player initially avoid detection as the chosen, especially with the eye of janthir?

Either the whole “Eye detects the Chosen” thing was a complete fabrication by the White Mantle and/or mursaat (not unlikely given that the Chosen are only relevant to the Flameseeker Prophecies so thousands of people could not have been the Chosen to open the Door of Komalie), or it had something to do with the PCs washing themselves in the Fountain of Truth which is said to “cleanse people of their sins” so that the Eye could follow them (the fountain could do something that “stealths Chosenness” from the Eye to allow the Eye to follow it – this way, the White Mantle see no need to kill their own).

A third possibility is that the Eye is said to detect potential powers, which implies a case of “not using it, but could” – and our characters were using their power.

Good thoughts. I had always assumed that it was the fountain of truth that caused us to not be noticed, but I’m fairly certain that it’s never explained.

Personally, my guess is that the Fountain doesn’t ‘stealth Chosenness’ so much as it allows the Mantle handlers to fake it. The detection mechanism the Eye uses is literally to knock any non-Chosen near it on their kitten , and that would get really old for the Eye’s escorts really fast.

As Aaron said: I’ve always assumed that the Prophecies heroes avoided detection because the Fountain of Truth effectively overrides the test. They avoid being tested because the Eye registers them as people to be followed rather than people to be tested.

(It is worth noting, however, that it’s possible that Hablion did realise that the Prophecies heroes were Chosen, but didn’t want to make anything out of it at the time. The following mission, after all, has an air of being either a suicide mission or a test of loyalty – odds are the White Mantle didn’t sacrifice Chosen that were loyal members of the White Mantle, so if the PCs had continued proving their loyalty to the White Mantle rather than joining the Shining Blade, their being Chosen might never have been mentioned.)

kitten , so essentially the game doesn’t really explain it. So it one of those plot convenience sort of thing.

Thanks for the answers.