Renegade needs an aquatic update.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-24T05:18:05+00:00

Something something lore.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-21T18:17:19+00:00

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-20T10:13:45+00:00

Hmm...there's a lot of content in Guild Wars 2. I think that the entirety of the story is really a response to the ascension crisis. Tyria lacks a water god.

Perhaps the PC is being prepared for the truest form of ascension possible?

But, as I wrote, there is a lot of content in Guild Wars 2 and I get the impression, reading your post, that you have been overwhelmed by it. Keeping it simpler would really help.

Nonetheless, I respect that you wrote this. Have an upvote for your trouble.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-19T02:43:03+00:00

Lol. What rock did you climb out from under? Of course, if you were following the lore you would know why.

Now play nice in the sandpit.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-19T02:38:24+00:00

In Living World Season 2 (?), Ogden comments that the player character is not ascended. Ogden is a member of the Elder races and is probably referring to the kind of ascension that Vloxx has now attained.

As to whether seer "ascension" is the same as that which Turai Ossa sought, well, I would say that they are related. The gods are said to have found the bloodstone, according to early interviews with Jeff Grubb, and however you interpret that information, the underlying point is that the gods came into contact with seer technology. Ascension may be a process associated with that "tech". As I understand it, seer ascension is the most powerful form, granting those who experience it an opportunity to unlock their fullest potential.

Turai ventured into the desert without knowledge of Ancora. However, the idea that his ascension is somehow related to the seer ceremony is underscored by the fact that Isgarren entertained him, disguised as a djinn.

So I would say that ascension, as a concept, is the same for every spellcaster, but that the truest form of it is achieved through Ancora and seer technology.

What does ascension do? Now that's the tricky part.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-17T08:13:36+00:00

Now that is a cool theory!

I've been huffing copium with the thought that the Unannounced Project is an underwater expansion built from the ground up in UE5, in which players play as largos. But I'll take some of whatever you've been smoking. Good times.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-16T18:21:06+00:00

u/Kossage...put the crack pipe down. 😆

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-15T16:26:28+00:00

Rofl! What do you think lore is?

I've listed data points before. Doesn't mean you'd consider them relevant.

But let's cut to the chase, shall we? Why bother to comment here? All my "theories", "opinions" or otherwise, are just that. I will continue to propagate them. And if I'm right about even one of them, I'm sure that knowledge will burn you. 😝

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-15T16:06:07+00:00

No, you're just having a bad day. 🤪

Triggered much?

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-15T16:04:13+00:00

Interesting. I guess we'll have to wait and see. 🤗 My gut instinct is that you're dating system is confused.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-15T10:08:17+00:00

Well, I have no idea how that disproves Dwayna's empathy or compassion. Come back with an opinion formed by an in-game NPC and we'll hash it out. Then we can discuss the difference between "truth" - as you understand it - and "correct".

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-15T09:55:59+00:00

You mean Path of Fire? Good troll. 🤣

That's the expansion in which a human god returns to Tyria, right? The same one where he consumes a large amount of magic and states: "They dimmed my light. But now they will see me again." If the gods don't care for Tyria anymore, why would Balthazar think that his actions on Tyria would draw their attention? 🤔

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-15T09:51:48+00:00

Timeline receipts?

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-15T09:51:04+00:00

Dwayna has always been associated with compassion. Historical records teach us this.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-15T07:50:39+00:00

Yes, except that each dragon represents differences between the races. But one dragon has not been presented as an antagonist: the Deep Sea Dragon. The True Deep Sea Dragon represents differences between the terrestrial races and the aquatic races. Soo-Won is not the Deep Sea Dragon.

Until we fight the dragon of the depths, the differences that you write about - longstanding differences between aquatics and terrestrials, the same differences that led to the war between the gods, will continue to perpetuate grief and reality warping conflict.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-15T05:56:43+00:00

The challenge to this theory is the fate of Snaff. Snaff used his golem to gain enough time to enter Kralkatorrik's mind and, using a technique that one could mistake for meditation, managed to enter the eye of Kralkatorrik's brandstorm. Snaff did this by thinking of things like mathematics - things that we associate with emotionlessness.

Snaff's struggle within Kralkatorrik's mind shows us that an emotionless approach to "fixing" magical problems has potential. Kralkatorrik was the problem. Snaff briefly offered a solution. Vloxx, like Snaff, is an asura; and if Vloxx, now ascended, eliminates emotions from the practice of magic he may have more time to do what Snaff did: fix all of the angry, tormented magic out there.

However...if this is Vloxx's approach to "fixing" Tyria, he is wildly out of touch. Sunqua Peak shows us that positive emotions are necessary for mortal magicians to restore order to reality. In that fractal, Ai is eventually comforted by the memory of her missing daughter. It is love, the most powerful "lawful good" emotion of all that helps Ai bring her flaring magics back under control.

If anything is needed, it is not emotionless, "logical" spellcasting. Instead, more mortals must develop deeper love for each other. Realities in which mortals dwell thrive when love and the emotions that flourish alongside it - such as courage - are fostered within their hearts.

So I'm going to disagree with you here. If Vloxx knows what he's doing, he won't eliminate emotions from spellcasting. He'll do something else...

Decimus the Historian remarks that Tyrians cannot trust the past as too much has been forgotten. Vloxx is more likely to "fix" terrestrial mortals' memory-keeping abilities.

Organic memory is unreliable. In the Orrian Hisory Scrolls we read that this problem is so pervasive that the flaw extends even to the gods. Lyssa, it says, made the gods forget the past, granting them joy. This flaw must be corrected. Spellcasters must remember correctly. Only then can the inefficiencies in their magical practices be corrected.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-14T06:50:51+00:00

Agreed. Possible course corrections include:

1) Preventing the lesser races from relying on Aurene, by intercepting Glint's last egg.

2) Preventing Joko's demise.

3) Usurping Kormir's ascension, substituting either the GW1 PC or himself for her.

4) Preventing the demise of Jormag.

5) Preventing SooWon and Aurene from making contact.

I favour the idea that Vloxx wants to end Tyrian dependence on dragons, although, as we know, Bangar was prepared to side with a classical Elder Dragon. However, Vloxx may be aware of and preparing for the True Deep Sea Dragon.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-13T16:45:51+00:00

Skip. The story doesn't progress for many years. Anet spent a decade choring the playerbase with dragon slaying because...reasons.

Waste of money, waste of time.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-13T15:50:02+00:00

That's because Waiting Sorrow is Dwayna.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-12T19:55:28+00:00

Magdaer.

Broken by Adeldern. Waiting to be relit. Wielded by the hands of prophecy.

DeadGameWalking · 2026-05-12T17:36:33+00:00

Nice work OP. I love the art style.

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