What I plan on showing is that whomever this outcast is, he or she is actively moving against the Old Gods by attacking their respective powerbases.
I will break it down by god, and how each has been effected. Remember, it has been confirmed that Nightfall will finalize the story which spans through Prophecies and Factions. As such, elements of both will be seen here.
Balthazar: Balthazar is currently engaged in battle with the Shadow Army and Menzies in the Fissue of Woe. Furthermore, if my theory is correct, and Balthazar is in fact the Great Dwarf, then his worship base has been effected by the Stone Summit betraying worship of said dwarven deity. Still, Balthazar remains strong, despite this.
Dwayna: Dwayna has taken a blow in the main area of the White Mantle banning the worship of the Old Gods. Also, with the appearence of the Undead Army, an affront to both Dwayna and Grenth has arisen.
Lyssa: Lyssa has actually taken very little of a blow, or at least, I am unable to find a connection at this time.
Grenth: Grenth, like Balthazar, has had a direct assault on his realm. Beyond this, with the Undead Army roaming Tyria, Grenth has been "denyed" his right to claim the dead. Furthermore, the strongest source of necromancers in Tyria, namely Ascalon's cult of necromancers, has been destroyed, largely effecting Grenth's worship base. His reapers have been imprisioned, and his worshippers have been delievered a serious blow.
Melandru: Melandru is probably the goddess who has taken the most serious smack. With the destruction of Ascalon and Orr, as well as the Jade Sea and Echovald Forest, Melandru has suffered greatly. Being the goddess of nature, it must certainly be painful for her as her mainstay continues to take incredible beatings. The Kurzicks feel that Melandru has abandoned them, I feel that it is simply a matter of her power being diminished.
As a whole, the Old Gods have taken a serious blow with the destruction of Orr and the banning of Old God worship in Kryta. It is almost as if the Outcast has been striking directly at the pantheon of gods by affecting their various spheres of influence through manipulations of the events in Tyria during the last 200 years. Perhaps by weakening them, he or she has finally been able to break through enough to corrupt the Hall of Heroes and expell their power onto Tyria, bringing about the events of Nightfall.|||I like where this is going. Good job on the info.|||The question I have, then... is what do the old gods think of this? Balthazar and Grenth have admited mortals to their realms to help in the fight against invaders, but other then that? How do/will they combat the other threats to their power?
The Gods choose to leave the mortal world ages ago. And yet, what is there stopping them from taking a more direct hand in things? Will we see the old gods in nightfall, or perhaps a more vigorous avatar, charging us with not only stopping the new threat for nightfall, but pushing back to the source of the threats to the mortal realms and the influence of the Gods?
Perhaps the old gods, or their avatars more likley, will appear to us in a cutscene united, and charge us with the removal of the upstarts.|||I have a question:
Aren't the new professions Elonians, which in Prophecies, are supposed to be wiped out? (check Crystal Desert) So, wouldn't Nightfall be more of a past kind of thing. I may be wrong, but that's my question.|||No as far as i am aware only the colony of elonains that traveled to the crystal desert were wiped out by being greedy and trying to become ascended. Only a small colony of elonians actaully went to the crystal desert and the rest of the population stayed in elona and still exist.|||The Elonians who tried to ascend in the crystal desert weren't all of them. They were just a small group. In Nightfall we're visitng the lands of Elona, where they came from (and still many many Elonians are alive and kicking). So this ain't in the past ;)|||Quote:
The question I have, then... is what do the old gods think of this? Balthazar and Grenth have admited mortals to their realms to help in the fight against invaders, but other then that? How do/will they combat the other threats to their power?
The Gods choose to leave the mortal world ages ago. And yet, what is there stopping them from taking a more direct hand in things? Will we see the old gods in nightfall, or perhaps a more vigorous avatar, charging us with not only stopping the new threat for nightfall, but pushing back to the source of the threats to the mortal realms and the influence of the Gods?
Perhaps the old gods, or their avatars more likley, will appear to us in a cutscene united, and charge us with the removal of the upstarts.
It truly appears like the Old Gods are just backing off. Were we admitted to their realm by them, or by their spirit guardians? Also, I wonder if the dervish's avatar form can be considered direct intervention by the gods. Perhaps they are just powerless, who knows.|||By reading this topic i thought about the envoy in Faction. They asked us to defeat shiro cuz he was disturbing the realm... So can we say that those envoy are kinda like some old god's avatar?
|||The Envoys are like the riverman of the river Stix (the river into the Underworld in Earth mythos), Charon. They ferry souls to their proper place and pretty much buffer between the realms of the living and dead.|||I also think that Lyssa has taken a fairly big blow too. During times of war, art takes a lesser place in priorities compared to self-preservation. In times of war, people send a prayer to Dwayna, not Lyssa, to protect their loved ones. Though there have been times when art was created, it was not for the sake of art and beauty, but rather for propoganda. Perhaps people are slowly losing their inspiration? Beauty is also an innate part of life, for their is a certain beauty in existence. When Melandru lost the lands to the Searing and the Jade wind, almost all of the natural beauty was lost as well: birds stopped singing, the rivers and springs went silent, and the sky was covered with ash.
Manmade beauty was also affected, seeing as how the architecture of Ascalon was lost to the Searing, leaving a barren waste land in place of the grand castles, and buildings found in pre-searing. I believe that many works of art were also lost in the Searing.
Class time now, but those are my two cents. ^_^
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