Guild Wars 2

After watching the trailer, and reading Reddit and the forums on the matter, I’ve developed a theory as to what it was that Rytlock was doing in the trailer.

There is a book in Entangled ‘Magical Grounding versus Magical Flow’ by Scholar Abel.
That says": “The theoretical treatise discusses the control of magical energy as it applies to ghosts. Scholar Abel of the Durmand Priory theorizes that ghosts are just magical energy constructs. Because of this, they can be grounded as lightning can, or channelled as electrical surges can. The entire second half of the work is his complaint that no one takes his theories seriously."

So my theory is this. A champion of Mordremoth appears in Ascalon, being drawn to there by the magical energy of the ghosts, as well as the magic of the flame legion. Mordremoth decided to tap into that energy, as well as strike a blow to the Charr, as their magitech/tech was instrumental in taking out Zhaitan. So he sends his champion to deal with it. Our band of heros, DE and DE 2.0 discover this, and head to Ascalon to see whats up. Using Scholar Abels works, and his theories, it’s discovered that Rytlocks sword, Sohothin, can act as a lightning rod of sorts that can be used to channel the magical energies of the ghosts in Ascalon and directed at Mordremoths champ. So thats what see Rytlock doing in Duke Barringtons tomb. Using the sword to channel/harness that energy. The sword being a powerful Orrian artifact, it just might be capable of doing such things.

Now Rytlocks words, “Ascalon, I free you from this curse”, don’t have to refer to The curse of the Foefire. But could in fact refer to the corruption/curse of Mordremoth effecting Ascalon. Or it could be that by channeling the ghostly energy, it would be removing the ghosts from Ascalon. However, for the sake of continuity, after the energy was used, and dissipated, it would revert the ghosts back into their forms once more, as an unforseen outcome. Rytlock, and everyone else, would think that after using the ghosts energy Ascalon would be freed from the ghosts, hence his statement about freeing Ascalon from the curse, but in fact, it didn’t.

Ok well I was partially right in my theory. Mordy was making a move on Ascalon, and the sword was used to channel the ghosts energy. But it would appear the the “rightful king of Ascalon” would be whoever wore the crown. And collecting the crown would allow Rytlock to remove the foefire curse. Just wasn’t expecting what did happen. Dont know what to think about that.

I find it unlikely that anything will change from normal zone appearance (ie ghosts all over the place). Maybe rytlock fails and blow up :p

Yeah I’m leaning more towards his failing to cleanse the Foefire as well. Or at least not fully cleansing it. I don’t think they would remove one of the main mechanics of an entire region covering several zones. Look at the cleansing of Orr. In the story it was cleansed, but there are still risen everywhere, operating as normal. The main reason is that the open world is generally locked in a state BEFORE the events of the PS. Althought they could have Rytlock succeed, but we won’t see the effects of it as players, unless it was in an instance as part of the LS, which takes place AFTER the PS. Also it would be cool to go back to Orr and begin to see it cleansed as part of the LS, but not in the open world. It would totally ruin the continuity.

pdavis.8031:

Mordy was making a move on Ascalon, and the sword was used to channel the ghosts energy.

Actually, at the Outpost in front of the roots in Iron Marches you can speak to two Priory members who go on ranting about how their dolyak was struck. They say the roots came out of the ground reaching up to snag it and it was wounded severely. Guess what it was carrying…. artifacts. They even mention they sent someone on ahead with whatever the artifact was in order to continue the journey.

Ronin.7381:

pdavis.8031:

Mordy was making a move on Ascalon, and the sword was used to channel the ghosts energy.

Actually, at the Outpost in front of the roots in Iron Marches you can speak to two Priory members who go on ranting about how their dolyak was struck. They say the roots came out of the ground reaching up to snag it and it was wounded severely. Guess what it was carrying…. artifacts. They even mention they sent someone on ahead with whatever the artifact was in order to continue the journey.

Pre episode 3? Hmmm I guess I missed that…