Curse

Heloniar · Dec 06, 2008, 04:47 AM // 04:47

imho the keystone will probably play a role along with EOTN in containing the powers of the dragons. I bet anet will send us all over to find all the bloodstone pieces, activate them, and when we reach eotn, the bloodstones reassemble and gives us the power to put the dragons back to sleep or something. and that'd be the "ancension" ceremony for gw2.

Neo Atomisk · Dec 08, 2008, 05:20 PM // 17:20

Thx for kicking my ass azrael.
And the eotn was madeby abaddon to combat the ancient dragons

And I still side with you on the seers.

Free Runner · Dec 08, 2008, 09:27 PM // 21:27

The Eye of the North seems to have a mind of its own. When i look at its effects and role in the game i realise that its constantly pushing the hero forward. Once something relevent to the destination is complete it will "call" the hero back in order to push them further.

On it being made to combat the dragons - in actual fact it does nothing to combat them. True, it does hold them up but what is 200 years to something that has been sleeping for longer than 10,000 years. Also looking at the location of the dragon isnt exaclty going to help - chances are your going to know where the dragon is due to the amount of destruction.

My theory is that the Eye was made by something or some race to act like a Prophet. Perhaps even a mighty weapon to glance into the enemies land.

carnage-runner · Dec 08, 2008, 09:43 PM // 21:43

Kinda like a seeing stone from LotR... Maybe there are multiples and maybe another race, the constructor/user will be introduced as an enemy that has been spying on us?

Would be a neat twist. This thing has nothing to do with the Dragon's imo. Dragon's are basically the top of any food chain. The eotn does seem to impose missions on the hero. What do they accomplish? I would imagine it wasn't created for spying though, since it clearly implies that you should go somewhere and do something in order to stop some evil entity.

Seers help us with the Lich, sort of. They indirectly guide us. The eye is more direct, I don't think it's seer. The eye is also combatting the Great Destroyer by telling us to go do things to help strengthen our numbers. Who's an enemy of the destroyers? That's our creator(s). I think this could almost be classified as an ancient weapon, seeing as it seems to know alot about everything the enemy does. Just a thought.

Konig Des Todes · Dec 08, 2008, 10:01 PM // 22:01

I doubt the building has a mind of it's own. As for the "call" I think it is more of a game mechanic to prevent people from going "ok, I did that, now what?" and get lost in what to do.

As for the "pushing us forward" part, it only, and slowly, directs us to the Great Destroyer. At first it's indirect (just showing one destroyer, then multiple, then the great, then finally basically slapping vekk in the face with the statue). And then there is the fact that the Destroyers is what our character was thinking of, where they are. And the more uses of the Scrying Pool, the more obvious the hint.

I think that if the Scrying Pool was found during Prophecies, that it would have pointed us at Kryta/Shining Blade/Mursaat *depending on which part of the story* instead of the Great Destroyer.

In other words, to me the Eye of the North is the housing pool of an ancient "television" set that is tuned in to show what we want to see.

Gmr Leon · Dec 08, 2008, 10:08 PM // 22:08

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Originally Posted by Azazel the Assassin

The Keystone wasn't there when the gods left. The volcano erupted and sent the bloodstones in different places. That one Bloodstone just happened to not go far.

Yes, it was, all of the Bloodstones were within the volcano. Dropped one by one, as the Manuscripts say if I'm not mistaken.

I agree with Konig (Azazel) on the Eye of the North, it doesn't so much as have a mind of its own as it is a tool. There's something about our characters, perhaps Ascension or Weh No Su, that allows us to activate it and then it's just a matter of learning how to use it. Towards the end of Eye of the North, we finally get the hang of it by focusing in on what we're after, then it's just a matter of locating it and traveling there.

Neo Atomisk · Dec 08, 2008, 10:35 PM // 22:35

gmr, I use the eye with lvl 10 in ascended chars to get to gunnars hold for Kilroy grinding. Ascension has nothing to do with it.

Free Runner · Dec 08, 2008, 11:02 PM // 23:02

Ascension and Weh No Su are out of the question. An Elonian who has done nether is able to commune with the Scrying Pool. It could simply react to those who are "neutral". By neutral i mean those who have no actual intentions for the device. Gwen is incredibly unstable and would use it against the Charr, Langmar would no doubt use it the same way. The hero simply activates it with no intentions (until he/she finds out more about the Destroyers).

Or it could activate based on heroic deeds - but then i would have to ask how it knows about deeds done.

Konig Des Todes · Dec 09, 2008, 12:07 AM // 00:07

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Originally Posted by GmrLeon

Yes, it was, all of the Bloodstones were within the volcano. Dropped one by one, as the Manuscripts say if I'm not mistaken.

What I meant was that it was within the volcano, not in the exact spot it is now. Although that might not necessarily be the case, as it could have been where it is now the whole time and the other four in the volcano itself, it is just as likely that the Keystone - seemingly much bigger then the others - was not sent very far at all.

And now that I have a tad bit more time, I'll expand on what I said before - and responses:

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Originally Posted by Neo Atomisk

Thx for kicking my ass azrael.
And the eotn was madeby abaddon to combat the ancient dragons

And I still side with you on the seers.

You're welcome, and as I stated before, it does nothing to the Ancient Dragons, but shows us the path to the Great Destroyer.

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Originally Posted by Free Runner

My theory is that the Eye was made by something or some race to act like a Prophet. Perhaps even a mighty weapon to glance into the enemies land.

A mighty weapon (without a mind of it's own) to view enemies, I can agree with. But that would be just the Scrying Pool, not the whole building.

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