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Stockholm · Jun 01, 2006, 03:42 PM // 15:42

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Originally Posted by Unkemptwolf

Do we know that the Mursaat dont worship the old gods? Being natives of Tyria, they would've been created by the old gods, and since they clearly rely on their abilities, it would make sense that they maintain at least some connection to the old gods, even if this is kept secret from the mantle. The gods do not seem to be above vengance (especially true of balthazarr and greneth) so the Mursaat would run a great risk by no longer paying them at least some respect. Just a thought.

The seer in the infusion say's the Mursaat is an race from another planet, correct me if wrong.

cup-o-noodles · Jun 13, 2006, 04:25 AM // 04:25

Yeah, that's how I remember it. Reading through this thread I thought maybe I was making it up in my head.

arcanemacabre · Jun 13, 2006, 05:06 AM // 05:06

I think the Centaurs are the best bet. Just because they're all nature-y like the druids doesn't mean that Melandru is their patron god. Think about it, the humans acknowledge all the gods, why wouldn't all the other races?

clarianaeneas · Jun 27, 2006, 12:22 PM // 12:22

On other forums people have speculated that it might be the Eye of Janthir (http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Eye_of_Janthir).

I wouldn't totally shut out the idea that the forgotten might be responsible for all the scattered yet surpisingly similar temples. According to the Manuscripts, the Forgotten were placed on Tyria by the gods to take care of everything else, before humans were able to do it.

You wanna know what I really think? All this crap is completely unrelated, and GW artists just cheated and re-used skins in alot of places (forgotten armors and mursaat, anyone?).

samcobra · Jun 27, 2006, 06:18 PM // 18:18

Seems to me that since the temple is cut out of the cliff, that it was originally much older and then had recently been renovated.

Take the situation as this:

The temple was built as an homage to Balthazar by an ancient race (possibly the forgotten or Seers). It was built to house the powerful artifact we call the Eye of Janthir. However, as the years passed, the jungle grew and covered the temple.

This is where our good buddies the Mursaat come in. They were known to have wandered the forest, as attested to by Saul D'Allessio finding them there. It is quite likely that the Mursaat found the Eye of Janthir, and recognizing its connection to the bloodstones they used to keep the door of Komalie shut, they picked up on it and regarded it as a divine being. As with any divine being, one must respect its house, and so the Mursaat renovated the decrepid temple with their own metals and jade materials (hence the shiny nature of certain parts of the temple).

As for the eye figurine itself, I have reason to believe that it was placed there by the original builders to mark the temple as the location of the magical eye.

When the Zaishen began trade relations with Tyria in 221, they probably also happened to come upon the large ring of fire island chain, home of the Mursaat and the new home of the eye. The Zaishen were a lost order of canthans, remember? They probably got lost and ended up at the ring of fire islands where they had interactions with the mursaat. However, unlike saul, they did not believe the mursaat were gods and instead went on their way after absorbing aspects of mursaat design and architecture. The eye being a remarkable thing, it probably allured the Zaishen and got burnt in their memory, being translated to the Heroes Ascent architecture when the zaishen went on to guard the rift that led to the Hall of Heroes.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Vlad Mortuus · Jun 28, 2006, 04:28 AM // 04:28

Just because it seems like the temple has been renovated, does by no means mean that it was renovated recently. It could have happened 20 years after it was created hundreds, maybe thousands of years ago.

Makaelthos Solcry · Jul 29, 2006, 05:21 PM // 17:21

A ot of things in guild wars are meant to for mystery ,and a lot aren't but anet oversees our fantasies and makes em reality.

Algeron Zolo · Jul 29, 2006, 11:00 PM // 23:00

Well, i was in North Kryta Province (near Giants Basin) Ettin farming and found this sticking out of the ground.

As u can see, it looks to be a wall, bordered with a shiny, relfective material!

I really dont know what this means, so any speculation would be nice.
(Maybe the temple builders were more widespread than previously thought!)

saneo · Jul 30, 2006, 02:22 AM // 02:22

could it be a bloodstone? and, it seems more likely related to the hall of heroes. maybe one of the portals old what's his name created before the spirits killed him.

Cherrie · Jul 31, 2006, 10:38 AM // 10:38

Firsl of all, I'd like to point out that the fact we have Balthazar's Statue standing there now doesn't mean the structure was ment to be his temple - or any temple - at all, let's not forget that proceding civilisations often preformed a "take-over" of monuments they came across, especially, if they were somehow special.

But in this case, I think there's a structure very, very similar in Shiverpeaks (entrance to UW in Lornar's Pass I think, I'll link screens when I come back home). My vote is, that they both are monuments build by the Forgotten to mark enterances to the outer realms. Balthazar's would be hmmm, Valhalla? Singing fat Valkyries, anyone? ^^