Tyria Mysteries

Have you ever found when exploring, a strange place/thing not working, or without any sense? I make this thread to speak about all these mysteries around tyria, and I have discovered many of them. But this list isn't exhaustive, if you found some, tell it there! Note that players should be able to locate them.I will class them into categories: Buildings / Asuran Gates / Doors and holes

Buildings1"Aquabase Terror Seven" -> Mount Maelstrom at the south-eastA giant Underwater Lab-Complex made of Corridors and Huge Rooms but no Entrance. Severely guarded by Inquest. Strangely, Corridors are characters sized and rooms are huge enough.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566101-aquabase.jpg

2"Sorcerer's Castle" -> Kessex Hills at the south-eastA floating beautiful castle. Unaccessible, at proximity: an Arcane's Council Secret Base hidden in the mountain, but only exploitable through an instance. So the castle is one of the arcane's council HQ? Or simply a sorcerer.... Note: You can find another castle in the same style near Mad King Lab.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566169-sorcerercastle.jpg

3"Rata Sum Empty Cell" -> Rata Sum Pacificator HQAll of the cell are full apart one! You have to trigger an event to get in it as the last prisoner. Rata Sum is the only city where you can be jailed. Try things...https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566142-ratasumcell.jpg

4"Infinity Coil Blue Area" -> Mount Maelstrom at the North-EastAll colored Areas are finished; but the blue one is still under development: If you wait enough, you will see two guys from Inquest checking for malfunctions/Design errors of the area.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566104-blueareainfinity.jpg

5"Hexfoundry's ceiling" -> Sparkfly Fen, South-EastThe only spot in the whole tyria where Inquest/Asura Square and Hexagonal platforms are reversed to make a ceiling and light particules are used like this. A mysterious creature escaped, a breach in containment happened. But what creature?https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566137-hexfoundrysparkfly.jpg

Asuran Gates6"Broken Inquest Gate" -> Brisban Wildlands, fort VandalIf you ask the engineer near it, you will learn that Inquest Tried to copy an Asuran Gate but, they are no destination for this portal, strangely.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566106-brisbanwildlands.jpg

7"Never Finished Polymock Gate" -> Rata Sum, middle floorPolymock arenas are actually empty, no NPC, no objects, just collisions like gorr's lab. And so the gate isn't functional too, a poor asura is on it since 5 years! He should be fired!https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566161-ratasumpolymock.jpg

8"Abandoned Gate" -> Metrica Province, the anthillAt the extreme right, on the path, totally unusable one, like a ruin, with no NPC around to tell you what happened. Just a skritt.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566130-gatemetrica.jpg

9"Mysterious Twin gates" -> Metrica Province, at the right of Thaumanova ReactorTwo Blue Gates, accessible with springer. Functional, but no Teleport set. So can't use them. Behind them an useless flat black rectangle. Guarded By Inquest. Maybe an non-Referenced Inquest secret Lab, or linked to thaumanova.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566171-twinbluegates.jpg

Doors/Holes10"The Third Dorm" -> Rata Sum, Deeper floorEach college have a Dorm, Synergetic and Static ones are guarded by a monitor, who will told you why they are closed. But the Dynamic One have nobody in front of him. And have a strange black-transparent cube around the entrance.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566108-dynamicdorms.jpg

11"Golemical Institute" -> Metrica Province, southCan only be discovered with springer: You can see behind the golem holograms a hole which look like a corridor, but inaccessible.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566134-golemicalinstitute.jpg

12"Reinforced Door Always Closed" -> Metrica Province, southA door with nothing behind her or maybe not?https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566139-metricaprovincedoor.jpg

13"Rata Sum Inquest Lab" -> Rata Sum, harbor.Impossible to access to the deeper room of the lab.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566145-ratasumharbor.jpg

14"Closed Lab 2" -> Rata Sum, Deeper floorTotally modelised inside with collisions, but always closed without NPC.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566155-ratasumlab.jpg

Reacting to some things f your numbers.2: this is the oldest mystery. It was one of the first things designed in GW1 (a quest leading there bares the magical number 1 in the dat-file), but never open for public. For gw2 the new owner relocated it, but still it remains a full mystery. I really love this one as it is the oldest mystery in Tyrian lore and imo should always remain a mystery.

4: the corners are linked to elder dragons. This one is reserved for the mysterious deep sea dragon. We only know his or her name starts with an s.

7: there is an assumed asura gate linked to it in the polymock arena. Due to jail time it is hard to visit. Unless you go to the asura council and bring some resurrection orbs to get below rata sum without going to jail.

13: this is accessible during an asura story (lvl 30) forging permissions. You’ll learn a lot bout it there.14: this one was accesible during living world season one. I forgot all details (maybe it was something with the SAB)

@hugo.4705 said:Have you ever found when exploring, a strange place/thing not working, or without any sense? I make this thread to speak about all these mysteries around tyria, and I have discovered many of them. But this list isn't exhaustive, if you found some, tell it there! Note that players should be able to locate them.I will class them into categories: Buildings / Asuran Gates / Doors and holes

Buildings1"Aquabase Terror Seven" -> Mount Maelstrom at the south-eastA giant Underwater Lab-Complex made of Corridors and Huge Rooms but no Entrance. Severely guarded by Inquest. Strangely, Corridors are characters sized and rooms are huge enough.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566101-aquabase.jpg

2"Sorcerer's Castle" -> Kessex Hills at the south-eastA floating beautiful castle. Unaccessible, at proximity: an Arcane's Council Secret Base hidden in the mountain, but only exploitable through an instance. So the castle is one of the arcane's council HQ? Or simply a sorcerer.... Note: You can find another castle in the same style near Mad King Lab.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566169-sorcerercastle.jpg

3"Rata Sum Empty Cell" -> Rata Sum Pacificator HQAll of the cell are full apart one! You have to trigger an event to get in it as the last prisoner. Rata Sum is the only city where you can be jailed. Try things...https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566142-ratasumcell.jpg

4"Infinity Coil Blue Area" -> Mount Maelstrom at the North-EastAll colored Areas are finished; but the blue one is still under development: If you wait enough, you will see two guys from Inquest checking for malfunctions/Design errors of the area.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566104-blueareainfinity.jpg

5"Hexfoundry's ceiling" -> Sparkfly Fen, South-EastThe only spot in the whole tyria where Inquest/Asura Square and Hexagonal platforms are reversed to make a ceiling and light particules are used like this. A mysterious creature escaped, a breach in containment happened. But what creature?https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566137-hexfoundrysparkfly.jpg

Asuran Gates6"Broken Inquest Gate" -> Brisban Wildlands, fort VandalIf you ask the engineer near it, you will learn that Inquest Tried to copy an Asuran Gate but, they are no destination for this portal, strangely.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566106-brisbanwildlands.jpg

7"Never Finished Polymock Gate" -> Rata Sum, middle floorPolymock arenas are actually empty, no NPC, no objects, just collisions like gorr's lab. And so the gate isn't functional too, a poor asura is on it since 5 years! He should be fired!https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566161-ratasumpolymock.jpg

8"Abandoned Gate" -> Metrica Province, the anthillAt the extreme right, on the path, totally unusable one, like a ruin, with no NPC around to tell you what happened. Just a skritt.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566130-gatemetrica.jpg

9"Mysterious Twin gates" -> Metrica Province, at the right of Thaumanova ReactorTwo Blue Gates, accessible with springer. Functional, but no Teleport set. So can't use them. Behind them an useless flat black rectangle. Guarded By Inquest. Maybe an non-Referenced Inquest secret Lab, or linked to thaumanova.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566171-twinbluegates.jpg

Doors/Holes10"The Third Dorm" -> Rata Sum, Deeper floorEach college have a Dorm, Synergetic and Static ones are guarded by a monitor, who will told you why they are closed. But the Dynamic One have nobody in front of him. And have a strange black-transparent cube around the entrance.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566108-dynamicdorms.jpg

11"Golemical Institute" -> Metrica Province, southCan only be discovered with springer: You can see behind the golem holograms a hole which look like a corridor, but inaccessible.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566134-golemicalinstitute.jpg

12"Reinforced Door Always Closed" -> Metrica Province, southA door with nothing behind her or maybe not?https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566139-metricaprovincedoor.jpg

13"Rata Sum Inquest Lab" -> Rata Sum, harbor.Impossible to access to the deeper room of the lab.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566145-ratasumharbor.jpg

14"Closed Lab 2" -> Rata Sum, Deeper floorTotally modelised inside with collisions, but always closed without NPC.https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2017/49/3/1512566155-ratasumlab.jpg

Great post. I love it when people share what makes this game special

Ok thanks you too for answering ^^ and remember if you found some more you can post here ^^

Ghost event on ascalonian catacombs Explorer mode and that jumpping puzzle in same dungeon

2 at one time was going to become another Dungeon, but that was before ArenaNet abandoned Dungeons.

8 is part of an event chain that eventually repairs it and then allows you to enter an old lab belonging to long dead Asuran.

@Zaklex.6308 said:2 at one time was going to become another Dungeon, but that was before ArenaNet abandoned Dungeons.

8 is part of an event chain that eventually repairs it and then allows you to enter an old lab belonging to long dead Asuran.

If you mean the one with the Destroyers, I think that's a different gate you're thinking about.

@Zaklex.6308 said:2 at one time was going to become another Dungeon, but that was before ArenaNet abandoned Dungeons.

8 is part of an event chain that eventually repairs it and then allows you to enter an old lab belonging to long dead Asuran.

I'd love some source for the statement they were planning a dungeon in the Wizard's Tower.

And that gate isn't in the Anthill - that gate is close to Desider Atum, SE past the potato farm.

Oh they have planned a good thing about the floating castle! But that is sad they don't work on dungeon anymore, I love them more than fractals.And about 8, The gate is clearly at the right of anthrill in a cavern see picture, I'm not talking about the one you have to rebuilt and travel to collect data crystals.

@Tanner Blackfeather.6509 said:

@Zaklex.6308 said:2 at one time was going to become another Dungeon, but that was before ArenaNet abandoned Dungeons.

8 is part of an event chain that eventually repairs it and then allows you to enter an old lab belonging to long dead Asuran.

The source...I don't know, I think I'm still beholden to the NDA I signed when I was part of the Alpha team back then.Forget 8, I didn't look at the picture and just went based on the description...which apparently I somehow completely misread.