Guild Wars 2

With all the speculation I think this would be the most plausible explanation. Both the seers and mursaat have similar magical power. The seers also forged the original bloodstone, which would explain The imposter lazarus’ ability to absorb its power.

The seers were also the enemies of the mursaat, which would have explained why it would know so much about Lazarus. In gw1 the seer was helpful in mysterious ways. Impersonating Lazarus to divide the white mantle, protecting aurene, etc. This all seems to fit the behavior of the ancient seer (manipulating events toward some greater outcome).

In the original guild wars you get the sense that the seers were driven by a greater goal (which imposter Lazarus refers to when the speaks of a greater purpose before frying the mantle under caudecus through his meteor shower). The ancient seer also seem a bit manipulative, which fits the MO of Lazarus the imposter.

If this is in fact the ancient seer from the first game, all the pieces add up. It would makes sense as to why it knows about the bloodstone and aurene due to being alive during the flaneseeker prophecies.

Calling this now.

Welp, if we’re just guessing, I’m going to say that a follower of Abaddon swapped out part of Lazarus with some remnant of Abaddon, and now the entity is a hybrid of both mentally, though physically still Mursaat. No illusion magic required, not that Abaddon would be above it.

The bloodstone dates way back to 10 thousand years ago during the previous dragon rise. Mursaat back then had an alliance with the seers, forgotten, dwarves and jotun, so they would obviously have some sort of historical knowledge about the bloodstone (since they worked so hard to not place their magic within it).

All current evidence points to seers and mursaat not having similar magic. By and large, mursaat have some inherent magical connection to the mists (which is why they can slip between worlds and can use spectral agony with ease whereas we players can only use spectral agony while on deaths door/in the downed state), and no other race has such an inherent connection. Seers on the other hand had the ability to create the bloodstone and at least one shadowstone. Seers also had the ability to protect themselves against spectral agony using a specific ritual, but as far as I remember the ritual has no ties to the mists. The only similarity between the seers and mursaat is that they both float, which we see with certain spellcasters using specific spells, so at BEST it’s an indication of magical talent/capability, NOT what those magical abilities are or where their source is from.

The mursaat are also known liars, and seeing as the mursaat portrayed themselves as deities to the White Mantle (who revered them as such), using the word ‘virtuous’ falls in line with anything a mursaat could possibly say. So that’s more evidence against your theory.

The pieces do not add up. Considering current evidence, Lazarus can’t be the ancient seer from GW1.

Lazarus is more likely to be a white bunny with vast mesmeric abilities than a seer. Lazarus has a better chance of existing in the real world than being part Abaddon (considering both in game lore and dev talks about how Abaddon was absorbed wholesale by Kormir).