Guild Wars 2

It’s funny, because in the Destiny’s Edge book, Snaffs inventions seemed more magic based than circuit boards and wires. When he makes Sandy, he gets Eir to carve him out of sandstone, grinds down the both the golem and the power stones, resulting in the magical power of the stones in each grain reassembling him. This seems very magical. No mention of plugs, cables and wires. Even his antagonist in Rata Sum, Klabb (sp?), made his flying puff ball invention out of of bits of milkweed fluff, insect wing scales etc. all cobbled together with spells.

So why such a massive leap from GW1 and the the books to now full tech with a bit of magic thrown in as an afterthought?! Maybe Anet wanted to appeal to a larger fan base. Pull in the Star Trek/Wars fans. Maybe we’ll get x-wing Asura fighters to battle the next dragon with.

So, would killing an Elder Dragon just make the other Dragons all the more powerful as more magic is left for them to consume? The death of an Elder Dragon would also release any magic already stored within it, would it not? You think that would produce a large cataclysm on the scale of the sinking of Orr at least (as Zhaitan basically raised Orr from the depth in his “magic battery drained” state).

Also when the Dragons rose the Gods seemed to fade. I always wondered if there was a magical Ying-Yang element with the Dragons and the Six Gods. The Dragons consume magic and destroy life and when they are finally satisfied, they sleep. I wonder if this is when the Gods wake and absorb the magic that comes from the Dragons, issuing it out into the Earth, using it to create, build and nurture life. Then when the Dragons rise out of hunger, the gods retreat or perhaps “sleep” themselves until the cycle continues again. Thus the amount of magic ebbs and flows, creating some form of “balance”.

The Gods however can be replaced, as we know with the whole Kormir thing. They have an innate indestructibility that has to either be taken on by another or it would explode and take Tyria with it. If the Dragons had a true Ying-Yang with the Gods, their predicament would be the same and the spirit to consume magic and destroy life would have to be taken into another as a replacement.

Hmmm lots of speculation to ponder over. I love theories, often times more than the explanations that are eventually provided by the writers. It really proves the creativity and enjoyment players derive from a lore which gives good foundations but leaves other aspects to mystery.

It’s like a child enjoying the box more than the toy inside.

Got it too.

(15 characters blah blah blah)

I have found them! See screenshots…

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-w6TkpxDgoyE/UKKU5yQTtSI/AAAAAAAAABg/OlLlXXKYY-M/s550/Aiden%2520Final.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0kgoe9OEyO4/UKKU653v36I/AAAAAAAAABo/0JWjrYhCB3U/s551/Devona%2520Final.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ibkH_5dOwNA/UKKU70jV5DI/AAAAAAAAABw/uzORbssqcmY/s541/Mhenlo%2520Final.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wMvt1zgBHf4/UKKU60RlJqI/AAAAAAAAABk/GudbKjkibw0/s504/Cynn%2520Final.jpg

(ps Okay so maybe I’m lying and I actually just made those lookalikes because I was upset that we know nothing about their fate and also because I miss my GW buddies running around, aggroing stuff and getting me killed.)

(pps Would be awesome to get up a group of lookalikes to go running around Ascalon kicking butt and threatening Charr)

I’ve yet to buy anything with real money through the gem store. You bring this in Anet and you’ll get me buying up gems like it’s going out of style.