With Balthazar’s return we must meet with Randall because in Arah Path 4 we learned that he is about to find the Gods.
In the end of P4 he said that he heard their voices from the Bloodstone.
Perhaps this is why Balthazar’s first target was Bloodstone, but it turned out it did not have enough power to rebuild weakened Balthazar.
Jeff Grubb said that the Bloodstone’s thread will return in future expansions so we saw it just after HoT so it is most likely we will hear about them in PoF especially because of Gods. Because the Gods created it- created 1 bloodstone and the people could not handle its power so it was broken into 5 pieces.
I hope Randall will return to the story and he will tell us how ‘searching for Gods’ worked.
We should talk to him not to a Priest of [Chicken Sounds] Balthazar.
Randall disappears at the end of Arah seer path. He doesn’t seem to be on Tyria at all anymore. It may not even be that he is alive anymore. During that final fight, he turns into a red-translucent version of himself, kind of like a ghost, and his voice even changes ever so slightly. And his voice change definitely became monotone, indicating some sort of mental change.
This is why for Burden of Choice achievement, we go to Randall’s apprentice on Seer culture and history, rather than Randall himself.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
That’s not 100% accurate though. While there is a historical connection, the magic comes from Tyria itself, and the original Bloodstone was created by the Seers not the Six Gods (albeit the Seers used “divine resources” – which the Forgotten had no access to, despite being devout followers of the Six). When they split the Bloodstone, they even strengthened it using Zhaitan’s magic (without realizing they drew from an Elder Dragon, according to Randall), rather than their own.
There’s no connection between the Bloodstones and the Six Gods’ magic – the magic within the Bloodstones is pure Tyrian. The closest connection is just the Seer’s resources for creating the Bloodstone being divine just as the Six Gods themselves are divine. Whether that divinity is connected or not is unclear though.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
This is why we must learn more about the Bloodstone. Also this is suspicious that Balthazar’s first target was the Bloodstone. So it will have its tale.
Yes, origins are Seer’s but it might have the connection to the Gods as you said.
It’s honestly not that suspicious, depending on how weak Balthazar was. Even after absorbing the Bloodstone, he was obviously not on par to an Elder Dragon – he couldn’t even kill Marjory after exerting himself (though he could kill a dozen White Mantle mooks when not exerting himself first). Before that Bloodstone, he was probably far too weak to confront even a dragon champion let alone an Elder Dragon. So he needed an immediate, lesser defended magic source – and a Bloodstone would be perfect for such.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
