[Speculation] It's all part of Glint's plan?

[Speculation] It's all part of Glint's plan?

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Posted by: locoman.1974

locoman.1974

WARNING: Contains spoilers for the novels and previous releases.

One theory I have about Caithe’s stealing of the egg is that maybe she’s acting on instructions from Glint in the first place. Some things about it:

Glint was able to see the future, she compiled the flameseeker prophecies about the searing and the titans almost 800 years before it happened, so it wouldn’t be farfetched to think she foresaw her own death at the hands of kralkatorrik and all that would happen afterwards. Also she was able to communicate telepathically, so there’s no reason she couldn’t have done it with Caithe when they were getting ready for the fight against her former master.

When the novel Edge of Destiny ends, all former members are back on their respective cities except for Caithe, that remains in the dragonbrand picking up green crystals (crystalized dragon blood), and ends with her thinking that while the others weren’t friends anymore “they would be friends again. Someday, they would join her. Someday, they would fight the dragons again.”… maybe it isn’t her just hoping but actually knowing it because Glint might have told her what would happen in the future.

Glint might have known she might die, but could have manipulated events to give Tyria a fighting chance against the dragons. Maybe she saw that if Logan hadn’t run away, for example, they may have killed kralkatorrik (may) but also the world might have been destroyed by the other 5 dragons. If Logan hadn’t convinced the Charr prisoners to defend ebonhawke, Queen Jennah wouldn’t have realized that it was actually possible for humans and charr to work together against the dragons. Later she is an important factor for the creation of the Vigil, and the mission to recover the Claw of the Khan-Ur from the ruins of Ascalon, which was then presented as a peace offering to the Charr cementing the peace between the races, following to the forming of the pact which was formed from all the races to fight the elder dragons, and that so far has been successful in killing one.

In the current events, if the zephyrite ship hadn’t crashed in Dry Top we wouldn’t have gone there to help, wouldn’t have found Ceara (Scarlet)’s lair and it wouldn’t have led us to the ley lines cave and deep into Mordremoth territory in time, so maybe even that was foreseen or even manipulated into happening. We wouldn’t have gone deep into the silverwastes either if we weren’t following the Master of Peace, so maybe all that was also part of the grand plan (the zephyrites are Glint’s followers, after all). Caithe wasn’t interested in following us until we mentioned the bit about the dragon egg, so maybe she recognized that it was something Glint told her to do as well.

It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.

[Speculation] It's all part of Glint's plan?

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Posted by: Sarasv.8962

Sarasv.8962

WARNING Spoilers:

I believed this too. That Glint knew and prepared a backup plan for her demise. Ogden even said: "In time she (glint) could become an elder dragon. I believe that is also why, in GW1 Ogden did not stay with the rest of the dwarves, he was perhaps told by Glint to stay behind and continue with their fail-safe plan. There is an shrine of glint in the dwarves area in GW1 for the brotherhood of the dragon. He, the Master of Peace, the Zephyrites, and Glint were all in on it.

There is more than one altar in the lore but we only know of two. Naming them the altar of the forgotten simply because they had no other name.

There are two known altars of the forgotten, even the forgotten did not know where they came from and the altars predate their knowledge. They used the spell/enchantment to free Glint (then called Glaust). They were her attendants and perhaps they foresaw the future as well and was their reasoning behind freeing her? Perhaps even Glint then Glaust knew that she was under her master’s control, I’m sure high tiered minions have some “sense” of self awareness after a moment’s time especially from receiving magical energies.

The master of peace was running to the altar in magnuma wastes. The other altar is in Orr, the altar of Glaust.

The cutscene when the Pale Tree tells us she wanted us to see the vision – people speculated that those are Mursaat towers. They are not. It’s the altar and the ritual being performed to free a minion of an elder dragon’s influence.

Quote:

The Altar of Glaust is a large Forgotten altar that is required for an ancient ritual capable of giving free will to Elder Dragon minions. It was here that Glint was freed from Kralkatorrik’s control when she was known as Glaust, which the altar bears the name of. When the ritual is cast, beams of light* break through the unnatural clouds above and through the circular architecture surrounding the altar. Though it predates the Six Human Gods arrival on Tyria and is of Forgotten make, the altar is of the same design as the rest of Arah and most Orrian structures, which are said to be made by the Six Gods or modeled off of the gods’ designs.

*beams of light – the “towers” of light we see coming through the clouds with the shadow of the dragon trying to get at the egg. Mordremoth is very well aware of what it is that the Zephyrites are doing. That is why he is trying to stop us.

I also think that the Skritt know something is wrong. They are (re) building an “ark” lol. I believe that those massive tenticals all around the wastes are actually sucking up water to probably feed that enormous plant boss behind that closed off area. If we defeat it the water will probably come gushing back out to fill the lower underground chasms first before flooding back up and taking the boat with it.

They’re trying to push the old boat where its placed, flooding the chasm and pushing the boat up.

As far as Caithe’s involvement in everything. I wasn’t shocked about what she did since Caithe has been very suspicious since the very beginning of the game. Why, of all other Sylvari that could have shown up to aid the PC or even a projection of the pale tree herself – even your cycle mentor could have shown up. She of all people comes to help you. While I understand Anet may have done it for reasons being she’s a destiny’s edge member. I just thought that set up was initially weird in the beginning of the game.

But we shall see at the finale!

/spoiler.

[Speculation] It's all part of Glint's plan?

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Posted by: Sarasv.8962

Sarasv.8962

Adding to this post:

I also believe magic is immaterial. Meaning it does not simply disappear, there is no such thing as missing power. Magic must go somewhere, or it flows out.

I think that’s what Zhaitan is trying to do with Tequatl. He’s buffing him up perhaps so another one is reborn? And if we kill Kralkatorrik, what happens then? The Shatterer buffs up? Abaddon also took his power from a previously disposed god. Grenth from Dhuum, even him being a halfgod was almost no match for him needing the PC’s help in the underworld, Kormir taking on Abaddon’s power herself (because they didn’t want to kill of the GW1 PC; because then your PC would become a god? Breaking the story? idek).

But these are all theories.

We’ll see.