Guild Wars 2

Hello,

So I’ve been doing some digging with the Consortium and I just don’t trust them. They are clearly looking for something. I haven’t been able to figure out what, but it is something that will surely increase their profits. Here are some clues that I’ve been able to find. I believe it is some sort of treasure from many ages ago. Possibly Canthan or from the first humans.

Clues:

Charts and Maps. These maps have some kind of route, as if they are tacking someone. Books like in the first link can be found in multiple places. The arrows suggest something from the south, which is where the first humans set foot on tyria. I tried redrawing the arrows in the bigger map.

http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#4
http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#0
http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#1 Red circle is where southsun is located.

Here is a hidden chest in LA behind the consortium area (fractal portal location). Looks like somebody was digging for it, and a coin is next to it!?!
http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#14

Here is more chest of the same look ON southsun, with digging tools next to them.

http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#12

Ruins on Pearl Island. It has construction covers around it. The NPCs hint they are looking for something.

http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#7
http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#5

Finally some random things that I wasn’t able to translate. A big book, and then some kind of schematics that look like they’ve seen some years. Possible a machine?
http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#2
http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#6
http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#13 Top right corner, that sure isn’t a consortium marker.

An area to the east of southsun that isn’t accessible and has blocked roads leading into it.
http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#11

Now this next part could be a bit of a stretch. I believe I found the location of the next big boss fight. I think Canach is going to lure some big monster to southsun and we’re going to have to kill it. It can be two things, Leviathan the Elder Dragon of the sea or a giant crab. There was apparently concept art release that showed a giant crab with an island on top of it. It looked like Southsun. I looked at Captains Retreat and it looked a lot like a giant crab shell on top of it.

Location of the Boss fight: Did the consortium really need to build a huge wall that is facing a conveniently placed large open area?

http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#8
http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#9

Captains retreat looks like it could be a very large crabshell. Canachs journal is place ontop of it too…as if his plan was hatched there.

http://imgur.com/a/PUXrl#10

Whoa now, what’s this about Canach’s journal being up Captain’s Retreat?

Can you be more specific where that is? I’d like to see it.

Achievements for SoS give us a hint (lol never noticed it was SoS)

Karka queen if I am not mistaking?

athuria.2751:

Whoa now, what’s this about Canach’s journal being up Captain’s Retreat?

Can you be more specific where that is? I’d like to see it.

Called A settlers journal

The queen, possible. Wouldn’t be surprised. Are they going to make her apart of the island? Maybe. Probably not. I expect well be fighting a large boss at the end of this though, canach is going to find some way to stir up the queen.

So I’ve been doing some thinking about the map charts, and I’m almost certain they’re tracking the movements of a civilization before ours. I’m fairly certain it was the first humans. Each one of these arrows leads to an area where there are ruins of an ancient unknown civilization (rata sum) or where current civilzations could have migrated from.
-Kryta
-Ascalon
-Istan
-Orr
-Kourna
-Rata Sum

It will be very interesting to find out what the consortium is looking for. They better expand on it and these aren’t just random props

Nope. The boss fight area can be found in the cave south of point Lion (the one with the event to blow up karka egg clutches.)

Enter the cave, take a left. You’ll notice that behind the first egg clutch location, where there once was a wall, there’s now a vent blocking a passageway. Behind the passageway is a room filled with Eggs. The same room seen on the Secret of Southsun website screenshot of Kiel.

The giant wall around that settlement is largely to keep out animals I’d imagine, as it seems that the central area is the largest of the settler camps.

So… after you came up with the Theory that Captains Retreat could be the a Giant Karka Shell, I wanted to see it with my own eyes. (I was bored)

Me running around that place, trying to see what you saw, but its really hard to imagine that that Island could be a Giant Karka.

A bit dissapointed, I went in there looking for a Vendor to sell my stuff in my inventory and then something caught my attention. A Giant Plant looking like that Karka Shell Tentacles I´m wearing on my back… and that´s not the only one, there are like three of them. (and they´re large!)

Maybe Null did some experiments with the Karkas and Plants on the Island, creating a weird mix of Karka/Plant Creatures or why else should we investigate and collect samples of plants, that doesn´t fit the normal Island setting? (Maybe that Island IS a Giant Karka O: )

I’m with Pope Urban on this. I suspect that the vent wall inside Ember Passage is the route to the SoS dungeon (or a lower level of Southsun) where we’ll battle Canach and Subdirector NULL. Canach’s obviously been aggravating the wildlife of Southsun for some reason. My personal theory is that he’s extremely disgruntled that the Consortium basically let him be the fall guy after the Lost Shores fiasco and he wants to see their resort fail at all costs.

I’m intrigued to hear of this secret cave in LA holding Consortium gear though. Where can I find this cave?

I don’t think the boss fight will be an elder dragon, its way too soon and not enough build up. I think its also gonna be on the island, there are some areas of the map, secret areas, that have been explored on reddit that suggest a boss fight may occur there. I do think you were onto something when you investigated the maps and what not tho.

I had a look at that map for you and did my own dot joining on it, the arrows all go to certain places one goes to where Arah path 4 meets it’s conclusion, another goes to the ring of fire island chain, another heads to sparkfly fen, another to the southern shiverpeaks and I coulden’t help but notice the brown spec exactly where the white mantle where murdering refugees in magumma, they might not be traking someones movement but somethings the locations made me remember the bloodstone fragments and it’s keystone. So I think thats what might be on Southsun. Looking at the new weapon skins aswell they reminded alot of the mursaat, so it’s possible lazerus the Dire might be coming back.

edit: noticed the brown spec was a rip, which makes it even more suspicious.. To me atleast.

I think the arrows mean karka migration from the Unending Ocean to Tyria. With Zhaitan’s destruction, they could finally swim into areas that were blocked by Zhaitan’s navy or otherwise overrun with risen in general (Ring of Fire and Sea of Sorrows were just like such places, and the Strait of Malchor was in risen hands.). If it is true, then the karka are invading shallow waters and the very coasts of Tyria, trying to get as far from the open seas as possible (going even into the flooded parts of the Crystal Desert).

I’m getting really terrified of this Deep Sea Dragon. What sort of monstrosity it has to be to make the bloody karka scared kittenless and have them run with their tentacles between their legs?