Curse

Molock · Mar 15, 2007, 01:55 AM // 01:55

Ardruinna that map is awsome... but about that dark holw you guys we're talking about, its BS. I have protector of Elona (Cantha and Tyria too) and there is no dark "dot/hole" on my map.

Arkantos · Mar 15, 2007, 02:31 AM // 02:31

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Originally Posted by Schwiemer

Could be a prison for some gigantic thing, or the new prison for Abaddon (didn't finish game yet).

(Spoiler)

Abaddon is dead.

Free Runner · Mar 15, 2007, 04:04 PM // 16:04

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Originally Posted by Molock

Ardruinna that map is awsome... but about that dark holw you guys we're talking about, its BS. I have protector of Elona (Cantha and Tyria too) and there is no dark "dot/hole" on my map.

If you would of read you would of learned the black dot no longer appears for people who didnt have it already regardless of Prot titles.

Molock · Mar 15, 2007, 09:00 PM // 21:00

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Originally Posted by Free Runner

If you would of read you would of learned the black dot no longer appears for people who didnt have it already regardless of Prot titles.

I was just curious dude, I beat NF on the second week of its realease.. which is why I was wondering about the black hole. Anyway, I'll just assume its photoshoped

Free Runner · Mar 15, 2007, 10:57 PM // 22:57

Not sure why you assume it is photoshopped. I have the black dot on the map of my Ranger and it has been confirmed by Gaile to have been a small mistake. I also completed Nightfall on the second week of its release though and the black dot appeared.................

Arkantos · Mar 16, 2007, 05:08 AM // 05:08

I beat NF with my warrior on the weekend of NF release, no black dot for me.

WarKaster · Mar 16, 2007, 04:05 PM // 16:05

they fixed the black dot issue with on of the updates....so if you didn't beat nightfall within the first couple of weeks you don't get a black dot.

haika · Mar 18, 2007, 06:34 PM // 18:34

Hey i dont wanna destroy the fun but i dont think u can see mountans in the game from far away. I think its just something they tok in.

jryan · Mar 20, 2007, 04:33 AM // 04:33

ok i checked this mountain out from the first city area and the fact that its big isnt so interesting. what i find interesting is its base... If u follow its base around the horizon its as if you are a tiny island on a land-locked sea. Also graphics wise the landmass has to be like relatively close because the veiwable landmass to the left has too much clarity to be far away. I agree that the mountain is some distance but not the landmass shore. Since the devs wouldnt put a real land mass on the map with out showing it on the big map its safe to say its just out side the elona map to keep with the tradition of not showing one chapters map on another chapters map. Maybe it is the next chapter

If u look harder u will notice other mountain peeks as well not just the big one. My impression of the larger mountain is that u can see the ridge line in front and a ridge line up high on the back which makes me feel like its a depression of some sort wether volcanic or not. the reason u probably dont see snow is a combination of shadow/(snow doent tend to cling to sheer mountain faces) or the volcano theory

The mountain is so detailed u can even see its snow line lol.

I heard that if u stair long enough u can just make out a dwarf with bonoculars

Shadows Assasin X · Mar 20, 2007, 02:22 PM // 14:22

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Originally Posted by Arduinna

So...did you guys just find Chapter 4: Eye of the North or what?

Nice, where did you find this?

Neriandal Freit · Mar 20, 2007, 02:44 PM // 14:44

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Originally Posted by Shadows Assasin X

Nice, where did you find this?

Although I'm personally not support the idea of EotN yet, this is an excellent conception of where it may be, where this mysterious mountain is at and everything else.

Kudos.

Omega Complex · Mar 21, 2007, 08:16 PM // 20:16

Just as a note the "eye of the north dot com" domain was registered using a service called "Dotster". And if you look at the registrar that guildwars.com uses they are quite different. Why would they use a different registrar.

Not to mention it would have been "guildwarseyeofthenorth.com" as thats the same format as the other chapters and I see no reason why they would change it.

I am however curious on what the big mountain is. Even if it is a skybox it seems a bit to prevalent, in all texture settings, to be just that. (If you turn down your textures does it disappear?)

xshadowwolfx · Mar 22, 2007, 04:28 AM // 04:28

...are people skill questioning eye of the north? The name is comfirmed in the lastest PC Gamer article, take a trip to General Chat forum.

pintpointfive · Mar 29, 2007, 07:01 AM // 07:01

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Originally Posted by BenO_Under

after further analisus (I can't speel) I found out its not a mountain. It looks more like a volcano to me.

*Insert pic from this thread beacause its 11:00pm and im tired*

If it was a mountain there would be snow on the side i circled, dont you think?

I'll get rid of this post if you don't want me doing this.

Uhh... Yeah... Looks like there's a giant steak on the mountain.

Samurai-JM · Apr 12, 2007, 03:57 AM // 03:57

Hmm interesting thread here. Heres a few things I've looked at after reading:

The mountain is distinctly West, and slightly north of Elona, and from several maps it is very possible that a frozen area could stretch around in the drawn map posted earlier, and connect with the Shiverpeaks to the east. This would easily tie in with the Norn characters from GWEN. Keep in mind there were various quotes to what "lie across the sea to the west" and this could very well be it. Also remember that GWEN isn't JUST about the north, but about the catacombs that stretch all over the world of tyria, and not just the continent of tyria(same name). And with the picture above, it could simply be because the sun is to the south. The darker side would be harder to see the snow, but it is still there, you can see the texture vaguely. Just like the moon!

BTW, the black dot thing IS real, just beat Nightfall and zoom out on the full map while in elona. Its there. It looks like one of the designers put black, soft pixel brush spot on the map and forgot to clean it up. Probably just a design mistake, but that would've been easily fixed in an update. I seriously doubt it means anything though.

Chronos the Defiler · Apr 16, 2007, 11:37 PM // 23:37

may be speculation to me...but even if all in all its just a Skybox...i highly doubt it was a merely computer generated Skyboz...the designer KNEW they put it there, and must have made it to begin with. So why would they do that just to bring up controversy?

I am gonna run around some of the continents to see if there would be any tie-ins.

ADGrady · Jul 14, 2007, 03:00 AM // 03:00

I think i may have found somthing. I did some in and out of game reserch and this was the best thing I can find. This is a quote form Prince Menthu the Wise,

"My library is a wonder of the world, young one. Ancient scrolls, text from Tyria, ancient Orr, Istan and Kourna, and all the strange places throughout the world can be found within its walls. I even have stone tablets that were found on an island far off the coast... an island that mysteriously disappeared thereafter. Ha! I see I have your attention. Yes, my library is magnificent. I encourage you to come and see for yourself."

perhaps this is what we see?

Onarik Amrak · Jul 14, 2007, 10:01 AM // 10:01

Sounds like he's describing Atlantis.

Beta Sprite · Jul 14, 2007, 03:36 PM // 15:36

Hmm... I wonder if it is considered SPOILER to talk about something that is in one of the video interviews.

http://trailer.onlinewelten.com/videos,id1425,guild_wars_eye_north_praesentation.h tml
and
http://trailer.onlinewelten.com/vide...ntation_2.html

The guy who's talking mentions Orr rising out of the sea and becoming a floating land, due to... I don't remember why, but it's a big, floating place. And my connection here isn't good enough to load the videos again within an hour to find out what the reason for its floating state was.

Could it be Orr?

ADGrady · Jul 14, 2007, 04:09 PM // 16:09

So just to recap, we know that it can be seen from Fanur facing northeast, and from jahai bluffs in the same direction. where are the other known locations?

also, can we verify if that truly in the mountaion in nightfallen jahhi? i sapose you could see it like a big purple (nightfallen) mountian, but it also looks like clouds