Curse

Malchior · Sep 22, 2007, 04:24 PM // 16:24

I have a small discovery...Kind of, lol.

In the explorable area in GW:EN, Drakkar Lake, you may know there seems to be a frozen sea creature beneath the iced over lake, however this is hard to see for some due to near-opaque dark blue ice. Well with me, my graphics card is lame, so it doesn't pick up on the details on the layer of ice; making it clear as glass. (As close as I can figure at least )

As a result, I can see perfectly below everything and I have pretty good screen shots of the creature as proof, lol. I would like to add them to Guildwiki, however I'm a newbie at wiki because I've never done it before so I was hoping that someone could take this content and add it for me?
I don't know if anyone has posted such a thread before, so my bad if there is. =P

(Forgive the page stretching, I'll replace the screens with URL links if wanted)

Here are some of the screen shots:

Added 27/09/07:

Added 28/09/07:

The text reads: "In Eye of the North, players can find a couple of dragons resting in hibernation. The idea was to have a dragon sleeping under the ice of a frozen lake, as if he'd been there since before the area went frosty."

So, Drakkar was sleeping there and the world changed around him over hundreds of thousands of years, and now we know they're in hibernation, and not put there by the gods. So a jeepers creepers style thing is more there.

rong626 · Sep 22, 2007, 04:29 PM // 16:29

good pitures

Sora267 · Sep 22, 2007, 04:30 PM // 16:30

This is gonna sound corny, but the creature reminds me of the Pokemon Lugia.

Nice find.

Malchior · Sep 22, 2007, 04:30 PM // 16:30

Thanks. I was quite obsessed with the thing, because no one else knew what I was talking about, and I didn't understand why until my friend gave me some of their screens of the lake, which showed only a layer of ice.

Quite frustrating at first

Malchior · Sep 22, 2007, 04:31 PM // 16:31

Now that you mention it, it does look kinda like it XD

Thanks

mazey vorstagg · Sep 22, 2007, 04:34 PM // 16:34

OMG! Nice work there, well done

OlMurraniKasale · Sep 22, 2007, 04:36 PM // 16:36

I am slightly confused by such a huge giant in such a small lake. Given of course that the landscape changed significantly and oceans became deserts and vice versa, its still a stretch that such a beast occurs here way up in the mountains. That's one massive upheaval in what is geologically a short time span of GW lore! (lol isn't it funny to apply logic to a fantasy game?)

But yes, finally the mystery beast is solved! Its a beast! Swallow you whole. I wonder if the beast is what caused a certain Norn to go . . . whacky?
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Storytelling by the fire at Gunnar's Hold? You bet!

Malchior · Sep 22, 2007, 04:46 PM // 16:46

Thank you! ^__^

And yes, I had thought that myself seeing as it would need a vast open space to grow that large and a big food source to survive on, which deffinatly isn't in the lake (i've heard the ice golems taste a big odd and give you gas). My theory is that it was like free willy (Only ironic) and did some huge jump from balthazar-knows-where and landed in that lake, smashing the ice and becoming trapped! XD

Or it's a doomsday thing made by the Norn. =o

EDIT: You might be right thinking there's a link between that and the curse of the Nornbear, too

anshin · Sep 22, 2007, 04:57 PM // 16:57

it looks like Lugia's body and Salamence's head :P

very, very nice finding...

perhaps it's a secret beast imprisioned by the Gods... or perhaps the ride of the Great Destroyer?

Malchior · Sep 22, 2007, 04:59 PM // 16:59

Hahaha, maybe...

But someday it will be mine! And then I'll use it to maybe take over Istan and the fire island chain!

Hunter Freeman · Sep 22, 2007, 05:02 PM // 17:02

Nessie, totally GW's nessie

Steboy93 · Sep 22, 2007, 05:03 PM // 17:03

Nice pics, i think is is:

SPOILER

I think it is a creature, like the dragon Primordius, that will awaken in GW2. Just a thought.

And yes, it does somewhat remind me of Lugia.

anshin · Sep 22, 2007, 05:08 PM // 17:08

ah! i knew it wasn't Lugia it looked like! it looks like the body of Latios and the head of Salamence! it doesn't have a tail.

the first picture though, if you look closely it seems as if it isn't even a living being but a spaceship. at least it seems to me.

Malchior · Sep 22, 2007, 05:08 PM // 17:08

If I could own that in GW2 it would pwn.

Perhaps the lake i s named after it? Drakkar is the name of a viking longboat (says guildwiki), so perhaps at some point this was used as such by the Norn?

It's pretty long in my oppinion, and moves through water.

Malchior · Sep 22, 2007, 05:10 PM // 17:10

Aliens on GW, lawl. XD

It does have a tail. You can see it in the 2nd last screen. (My bad if you meant the other thing doesn't have a tail)

Archaic · Sep 22, 2007, 05:10 PM // 17:10

Doesn't it look oddly like a dragon?

Malchior · Sep 22, 2007, 05:13 PM // 17:13

Hmmm, could be. though I was thinking a Leviathan, but I've never seen one before so I wouldn't know, lol.

Maybe it's some kind of Norn grand prize defeted and captured by an old Norn?

anshin · Sep 22, 2007, 05:13 PM // 17:13

Drakkar also resembles Draken which are look alikes of Dragons and the thing does look like a huge dragon. it's even bigger than Glint.

now i want to fight that creature!

"Raise From Your Underwater Grave! Oh Almighty Draken, The Most Powerful Of The God's Carriers!"

... im so bored right now...

Silly Warrior · Sep 22, 2007, 05:14 PM // 17:14

10,000 BE: Early Pre-Imperial Era:Last sign of Giganticus Lupicus--true giants--on Tyrian continent (best guess)
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http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Water_dragon

And there appear to be 3 or more frozen or buried Dragons in GW:EN.

This one, Primordius, and the Water dragon, all of which I assume will arise in GW2.

3 Serpent gods perhaps? All of these dragons are MASSIVE!

Malchior · Sep 22, 2007, 05:15 PM // 17:15

lol, That would be cool to fight, but I think aNet would make it some near-impossible creature to defeat O_o