God Statues - Not Correct?

Lol...I haven't posted a new thread in so long, I almost feel as if I don't have a right too :P

Anyway, on topic.

I was wondering whether anyone has actually seen the god's statues with all their full adornments in either Tryia (Continent) or Catha. The small peice missing from the Tyrian statues are Balth's Dogs of War, but in Catha, the "unique Cathan flair" to the statues is never actually shown (eg, Grenth is still shown with worshippers clamouring towards his body, whereas the manuscript defines him as having dead piled at his feet looking away from the god.)

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Mularc|||This is one thing that puzzled me for awhile as well. It also seems like melandru's lower body is not encased in quartz in Cantha..|||I dont think it is so much of a thing of extreme lore. But I think it is just how each culture saw these gods. Maybe it would be disgraceful in cantha for their dead to be clawing at grenth.|||Quote:








I dont think it is so much of a thing of extreme lore. But I think it is just how each culture saw these gods. Maybe it would be disgraceful in cantha for their dead to be clawing at grenth.




you can say it also otherwhise.

The might off Grenth is a might not to look at.

Or is it that ugly that all turned away from him... |||he's saying teh statues should be different in cantha than in tyria...but that they're not|||Yes, it was actually a question of why the models don't reflect the Lore, or whether I've just got the Lore of them wrong, or of course, if they are there I just haven't seen them.

Mularc|||Mularc, the only parts where you really see Canthan versions of the gods is in the Trailer of Shiro's Betrayal, the murals in the Harvest temple were very interesting.

Besides that you are right, the strategy guide and other things state details that are actually not shown on the usual god statues.|||I once theorized that the statues are mass-produced by one company. If this is true, as Cantha modernized (think Asia around the late 18th century), they adopted these mass-production statues to replace the statues that were removed as Kaineng expanded.|||hmmm...

Quintus, i think they introduced them also to tyria... |||Yes, Tyria is where they'd first have been introduced.

My modern world comparison is the Crucifix of Christ. Even though it is highly inaccurate (He couldn't have hung from the wrists without support, and the Bible says He was beaten beyond recognition), it is still the most adopted form of Catholic and Christian imagery of the Passion. When Christianity was spreading to places like China, they had pictures of an Asian Jesus hanging on a cross, instead of a Arabic Christ, like history suggests. But more or less, the same image has been adopted by Christianity everywhere.

So, it isn't so unlikely that the statues are all the same. Someone wants a statue, so they call up Statues-R-Us says, "Hey, gimme a gold plated Balth" and it's shipped out.

To those who says "nah, that kind of corporation isn't likely in Tyria", consider the Xunlai Agents, and also the fact that the game has a dynamic intertwined in-game economy. I don't think it is too farfetched.