After the death of Balthazar?

Kormir explained how the death of Abbadon released so much magic that it triggered the awakening of Primordus and the Elder Dragons. Now we killed another god, and Aurene and Kralky seem to have absorbed his powers: but if Abbadon's death caused such drastic events, what does imply the death of Balthazar?

Well, Primordus and Jormag, who we just sent sleeping, might wake up again. Kralkatorrik, who was closest to the magic released and absorbed the majority of it, will obviously be an overcharged pain in the ass.

Also magic instability in Tyria is getting worse. Whatever that means. We know from cutscenes that the magic balance is breaking apart, but aside from ley-line anomalies we have yet so see the backlash from killing Zhaitan or Balthazar.

Wasn't Balthazar stripped of his power as a god? Certainly the power released was immense, but I don't think it was equivalent to a god's power. Thinking about it, though, we are told that it was the release of Abaddon's power that stirred the dragons rather than Abaddon's power itself. This makes sense as Kormir, presumably, would have absorbed most/all of Abaddon's power. So, could mere transfer of power awaken dragons? I wonder if this distinction was intended. :/

I think the epilogue of the expansion and the start of the season 4 give pretty big hints as to what the death of balthazar brings.

Balthazar didn't have the same power as the other gods. Not really. You could tell by the lack of the visible aura Kormir had when we saw her. They did a good job making her look blinding, just as the gods are supposed to be, but Balthy had none of that. It could be just a matter of him not being part of the Six anymore, but my money's on "not in the same league" in regards to power. And then Kralkatorrik ate most of it, of course.

@"Necrosven.4068" said:Kormir explained how the death of Abbadon released so much magic that it triggered the awakening of Primordus and the Elder Dragons. Now we killed another god, and Aurene and Kralky seem to have absorbed his powers: but if Abbadon's death caused such drastic events, what does imply the death of Balthazar?

Well first off, Balthazar was no longer a god. Unlike Abaddon who was never usurped and retained all his power by the time of Nightfall, Balthazar had been stripped of his power; Balthazar was in the same situation as Dhuum, basically. A former god, rather than a fallen god like Abaddon.

Balthazar was not near the level of a god even in the end. So the magic that Abaddon unleashed, a god who was as strong as two other gods, would be pretty much four times more powerful than the magic Balthazar unleashed.

Both times, the magic got contained. But not only was there a lot less magic in the world during Nightfall than during Path of Fire, there wasn't as much magic being released by Balthazar's death as there was by Abaddon's death. So the spike would not only be smaller, but more diluted due to the higher levels all around.

In addition, Abaddon's magic did not directly wake up Primordus, but rather spiked magic levels enough to catch Primordus' sleeping attention. Aside from the recently-comatosed Primordus and Jormag, there are no Elder Dragons to sense a spike of magic to cause a change of events, beyond Kralkatorrik's power boost and the DSD going "hey there's something going on over there", but in all honesty, Zhaitan and Mordremoth released more magic into the world, and more permanently, so if anything would be catching attention of magic-eaters, it'd be the deaths of the Elder Dragons, not Balthazar.

There's the possibility of Primordus and Jormag waking again, but this was always a possibility because magic in the world is high - they just need their minions to gather enough magic again, and allow themselves to recover any injury being met with their weakness instilled upon them.

@"Feanor.2358" said:Balthazar didn't have the same power as the other gods. Not really. You could tell by the lack of the visible aura Kormir had when we saw her. They did a good job making her look blinding, just as the gods are supposed to be, but Balthy had none of that. It could be just a matter of him not being part of the Six anymore, but my money's on "not in the same league" in regards to power. And then Kralkatorrik ate most of it, of course.

Technically it would be both. We're told both in and out of game that Balthazar is no longer a god. He was stripped of his divine power, this is why we do not start to go blind looking at him but we do looking at Kormir.

Because he lost his divinity, he is no longer "in the same league" as the gods.