Guild Wars 2

So… I have a hypothesis about the floating fellow in the expansion trailer.

Some are saying Mursaat, some are saying Seer, some are saying Margonite.

Here is a different angle to look at it.

What if this is none of the above?

At first I thought Mursaat, I never considered seer but I did consider Margonite.

However, looking at the architecture and the locale I begin to ponder three other possibilities it could potentially be, considering there is a lot of room for expandability in this universe.

1.

A member of the lost human civilization, The Druids.

We have never encountered the Druids to date and they have been mentioned in the lore previously as Humans that, well, became something more.

Its not impossible this fellow could be a Druid, the strange golden glow contradicts this but the odd green glow might also reinforce the remote possibility.

2.

A Kurzic.

This one is a big stretch, but I noticed a hanging bridge and a lot of mountains and high peaks, could this kittenovald Forest unpetrified?

3.

In the canceled guild wars Utopia expansion they created a proto race that would have been the Sylvari known as the Sidhe, based on actual mythology these are Fae like creatures that have an otherworldly connection to spirits, nature and fortune.

It could, be a Sidhe.

And of course number 4.

We have to consider that the entire lore is not just a linear book with a start and finish but a meld-able clay with new opportunities on the horizon.

We could be encountering a race we have never met, before.

Thoughts?

1) druids are spirits, cutscene entity did not look like spirit
2) we are fighting Mordremoth in the jungle then suddenly we hop across the ocean to Cantha? That doesn’t make much sense.

I think it’s a Mursaat.

Reasons why I think it is:
The golden building in the mysterious cave is a Mursaat building.
The figure looks like it is floating, which Mursaat are known to do.
The figure looks like it has the “feathers” coming form it back, although the are not erect like that have been shown in GW1.

I had a more wild thought, considering the golden land near him – He’s Palawa Joko, and we’ll have to travel to the Crystal Desert to become fully Ascended so we can use powerful magic like the flame in the story so we can combat the Mordrem. The Order of Whispers apparently know the only way to safely reach the Crystal Desert so it wouldn’t be too difficult to explain how we avoid Kralkatorrik and reach the area dominated by Palawa, and we end up either working with or fighting Palawas forces on our way to ascension and upon gaining our new strength go back to fight Mordremoth etc.

I can state with 100% certainty that it is not a Margonite. The Margonites were once human followers of Abaddon. In the realm of Torment where he was imprisoned they become demonic entities. We killed all of them when we killed Abaddon. Margonites don’t exist anymore.

As other’s have pointed out, the druids became spirits and we did actually meet some druid spirits in Guild Wars 1. So you can safely cross that off your list.

The thing is either a Mursaat or a Seer. There’s not really any question about that.

It’s a mursaat, the helm shape is the same as those in GW1, albeit a bit larger. It looks like the mursaat went through a bit of a redesign, with the feathers being more like streamers than stiff pieces coming out of their back. Saul D’Alessio is said to have found a city of golden towers when he encountered the mursaat. This fits everything we saw in the trailer.

It’s not a margonite. It’s not a seer (they have more arms). It’s not Palawa Joko, he doesn’t fly and lives in Elona. The druids look like Oakhearts. The Kurzicks live in Cantha. Their architecture is entirely different. The Sidhe are entirely unrelated and their concept art looks nothing like the mursaat in the trailer.

EDIT: from Saul’s first encounter with the mursaat: “They were tall and thin with strange wing-like appendages that waved about in the slightest breeze. When they walked, their feet seemed not to touch the ground” this fits the trailer description more accurately than the depiction of mursaat in GW1, even

Generally speaking its the more obvious answer with Anet. Lots of wonderful speculation about things over the last 18months – Abaddon, Rurik being the ghost in the recent episode, going to crystal desert etc…all have been fun theories, but not really meeting the more obvious line of logic Anet tends to use. That doesn’t 100% rule out Seer, but pretty much indicates Mursaat would be the mostly likely.