The Battle Isles were once located in the Unending Ocean between Tyria and Cantha, acting as a natural resting point for human naval routes between Cantha, Elona, Central Tyria, and beyond, although these routes were sometimes waylaid by the krait. The krait expected the prophets to return and drown the surface of Tyria beneath one massive sea one day, and they began sacrificing slaves to show reverence to the prophets and to ensure that the prophets would have servants in their mystical "other world." Krait legends state that all the races living above water were driven out of the sea by the prophets and forbidden to return. They came to believe that each of these obelisks was raised upon the site of a krait prophet's ascension into a mystic world, a world beyond Tyria, where these nameless abyssal prophets would be building an army great enough to eradicate all other species. įollowing an ancient doctrine interpreted by their oratuss priest caste, the krait based their religion on massive obelisks of a unique, dark stone that could be found exclusively and rarely on Tyria's ocean floors. Quaggan tales claim that the krait seemingly slew the quaggan goddess Mellaggan, and either slaughtered, ate, or enslaved the markissios and the rest of the quaggan royal family.
The krait fled through the domain ruled by the southern quaggan kingdom, and the krait slaughtered or enslaved any quaggan they came across. According to the Durmand Priory's theories and testimonies from quaggans, the deep sea dragon seemed to have begun forcing the aquatic species out of their homelands and into Central Tyria. According to the saltspray dragon Kuunavang, all those of the sea-whether she meant the Jade Sea or the entire Unending Ocean-felt the Water Dragon's rise as it was a presence powerful enough to drive back the shadows in the depths. Soo-Won, the Elder Dragon of Water, awakens in the depths of the Unending Ocean.Ĭirca 200 years ago, Soo-Won, the Elder Dragon of Water, awoke in the deepest parts of the Unending Ocean. The Five True Gods' battle against the rogue god Abaddon and his Margonites led to the Crystal Sea boiling away and turning into the Crystal Desert, connecting the Tyrian continent with Elona in 1 BE. Over a thousand years ago, the human Margonites were said to have ruled the Unending Ocean until they lost their humanity, though they were centralized around the Crystal Sea and Elona's shores. Most of them did not appear in shallow waters at the time, so humans remained unaware of their existence at first.
Thousands of aquatic species of varying intelligence resided within the Unending Ocean during this era, including the karka, krait, largos, and quaggans. The Kurzicks and Luxons sailed to Cantha later under unclear circumstances, and Luxon legends refer to a distant homeland across the Unending Ocean. Humans would eventually spread across the globe, sailing to the continents of Cantha, Elona, and Tyria on multiple occasions over the centuries and eventually settling Orr as well with the earliest known recorded historical date on human settlement being Cantha in 786 BE. Įarly history Human voyages Īt an unknown point in time after the previous rise of the Elder Dragons, the Six Human Gods brought humans from the Mists to the world of Tyria before transporting them elsewhere while the gods turned Orr habitable. Saltspray dragons would come to call her the mother of the sea in reverence for her nurturing role.
Spoiler alert: The hidden text contains spoilers relating to Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons.Īfter the Mother Dragon Soo-Won had split the six domains of magic in the All between herself and her five Elder Dragon scions and became the Elder Dragon of Water while the world of Tyria was still forming, she began acting as the protector of the Unending Ocean.
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