Guild Wars 2

Ehh, this is really just a concern more than anything discussion related, but I’m going to continue with it anyway. I’ll start by stating that I really loved the Mursaat in GW1, they were my favorite villains, and still are as far as GW villains go. My concern is that with the White Mantle plot seemingly resolved, the mystery of Saul resolved, and Lazarus’ true identity being Balthazar I’m concerned we never will see the return of the real Mursaat(Lazarus anyway). Just something that has me a little down about the latest story release.

Well lazarus’ return and the whole white mantle return was out of the blue when we first started with raids. If the writers want the can re introduce the Mursaat.

zealex.9410:

Well lazarus’ return and the whole white mantle return was out of the blue when we first started with raids. If the writers want the can re introduce the Mursaat.

I’m not sure it was that out of the blue. The WHite Mantle were introduced to be aligned with bandits long ago at launch. Then they started seeding bandits sniffing around the Maguuma Wastes, with letters around the fort leading into SW indicating a mysterious higher ups. It was also long suspected Caudecus was aligned with the White Mantle too.
Where there are White Mantle, introducing the Mursaat is fairly natural from there. Lazarus was the next logical step based on GW1 events. So I’d say that particular procession of events was fairly natural (and pretty well told imo)…right up until the inexplicable reveal..

So, it wasn’t heavy handed, but the slight signs were there. It does feel though they only introduced the Mursaat just to keep people happy though, with no real intention to use them again or properly. Certainly the White Mantle arc feels fully closed.