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Keep in mind the place been unguarded for years already since the Human Gods left Tyria region of the Mist. No one is keeping watch on all the very powerful magical things and knowledge they left behind now. It can be anyone or anything that got its hand on whatever is making the new Titans. Only realm that is probably guard now so none of the powerful magical artifacts and knowledge does not get taken is Grenth's realm since Desmina put it under new management when she took over. Either way, we will know who is behind this next update around 2 or 3 months from now.

Honestly, i think one of the issues with Engineer is that Anet has not given Engineer new Kits to use over the life of GW2. Kist are essential part of their Mechanic next to toolbelts but that aspect was never expanded or changed on. Only toolbelts seem to be affected with the expansion additions. As a profession that depends on Kits to act as a main or secondary weapon, new Kits per expansion with new main weapons should have been part of the aspect they consider since day 1 when they began the game and started to consider expansions to expand on each Profession. For example, with HoT bring in Scrapper, they could have added a Scrap Metal Kit where it acts as a new range weapon kit that throws scrap metals that act as traps and range attacks. PoF with Holosmith could have added a Solar charge kit which uses a special gun that fire solar energy attacks that syncs with Holosmith Heat mechanic as a range option next to sword that acts as the melee option when Engineer is on their cooldown stage. EoD with Mechanist could have added a Jade Tech Gauntlet or Jade Tech gun that focus on Jade Tech energy attacks as a range option.

Well that is basically it with this new Saga's antagonists. The enemy this time is not a World Ending threat as their goal is not to End the World but to rule the world. The world will still exist but being "under new management" if the antagonists win. A rather interesting things the side lore provides about this situation rising is that it is a result of multiple factors as a by product of the Elder Dragon Saga. With the Elder Dragons defeat and the new Cycle created, Tyria has become a giant ball of Magical Energy that is affecting everything in Tyria in different ways and acting as a magnet to beings sensitive to Magic from deep in the Mist. We only seen the effects it has on the Mist but there are hints that the increase in magical energy is maybe affecting things that already exists in Tyria as well slowly until it is maybe made apparent later in a future expansion. Another is that with the Human Gods gone, they left a very big power vacuum that now may have the attention of beings trying to fill it. This also left everything in their realms unguarded so all the powerful magical artifacts and knowledge is up for grabs by anyone or anything. Then there are the lands that was affected by the Elder dragon corrupt as the Prologue provides small details that the lands that were once corrupted has become safe enough to explore despite some small amount of corruption left. Place such as Orr and Elona have already been set as future locations we will return to in a future expansion to see the aftermath of our actions since they already set up groups as advance expedition teams but something is maybe going on there as a result of the increase in magic as well.

Honestly, the journal makes him sound more like he was excited to find whatever Saul found in the Mursaat City rather than a believer. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/A_History_Most_Violent:_Part_2 Caudecus believed that whatever Saul found when he discovered the Mursaat city may make him the next Saul for the White Mantle. Thus solidifying his position of power and identity as some great chosen one. I say it is consistent with his state of mind about making the White Mantle his and wanting to rule Kryta as he believed himself to be under some kind of divine destiny to be the ruler of Kryta with the White Mantle as his royal guards. Though as the journal entries get older, Caudecus became more obsessed and shows signs of what looks like insanity due to constant failed attempts. His constant attempts to enter the City by trying to get past the mental attack defenses and the bloodstones in himself are most likely what lead him to be such a unstable state when he died.

Considering their political situation Charr wise, they may need a new Khan-Ur that is more up to the times. The past Khan-Ur was more like that in the past because of how the Charr at the time was but events in GW2 through the years has put them in a crossroads to stick to their old ways or change by adjusting a few things while keeping most of their original policies to be less demanding on spending their entire life causing and fighting wars.

Yep, the mount skins are skins but they do have lore to them. Most cases, they are basically different species of these mounts located in different regions of Tyria. Anet only began developing these Mount skin lore around the time of SotO pre-release starting with the Skyscales. Though they made Skyscales very short lore being that all Skyscales skins are canon because the appearance of a Skyscale is based on what they eat so they physical forms change as a result of their diet. So yes, something like the plush skyscale and Synergetics are canon because these skyscales ate very specific things that have high magical energy. Plush Skyscale being obviously magical enchanted plushies but this does raise a lot of questions involving where did a Skysclae find enough Plushies with magical energy to change its form into this. The other mounts have been mostly the result of certain magic or corruption affecting them or a species found in specific regions.

Yep, the Tyrian Alliance is basically this world's version of a United Nation. Though as I said it is still very underfunded and very low on support right now because each Race and country are having personal issues they need to deal with first before they can actually invest in it properly. First is the Sylvari being they are having issues with the Pale tree as her condition is getting worse and no one found a cure yet. Caithe hopes that the ancient knowledge of the Astral Ward may lead to a cure. Another is that their people are more scatterned now due to the identity crisis that Mordremoth left them. As a result a large amount of Sylvari have gone on a self discovery journey into the open world of Tyria and possibly into the lands we have not explored yet. If the Pale Tree is not healed than the Sylvari cannot provide proper support to the Tyrian Alliance. The Charr are about to hold the Trials for Bangar but at the sametime all the current leaders agree that a new Khan-Ur is needed to truely unite the Charr. Bangar still has supporters hiding among their people and the leadership for the Charrs are being put into question without a Khan-Ur uniting them. With the Titan's return this most likely may push the Charr to get a new Khan-Ur and may lead to Bangar's supporters to act so they can make him the new Khan-Ur by using the return of the Titans as a excuse for him to be the "right" leader the Charr needs. If a new Khan-Ur is not chosen that supports helping the other Races to establish a organization to help defend Tyria from large scale threats long term wise than the Tyrian Alliance cannot see any support from the Charr. Asura is going through internal reorganization due to the return of Cantha into Tyria's politics. Their technology originates from Asura technology but has began to expand into common daily life use for everyone. The Asura not only see this as a challenge but also a example that they as a society have become stagnated by their policy to not share their technology with the other races. As a result they are now making new policies to sell and share their technology and even open up their colleges to other races. However, there is resistance happening in their own government by majority of the Asura Council to keep their old ways of not sharing their technology. They need to deal with their politics and get the Asura to change their way of life. Other wise no support for the Tyrian Alliance will happen because the Asura maintains their No Share to "inferior" races policies. Cantha is dealing with internal issues as well from the Puritans. There is a strong resistance from them for opening up Cantha and they want Cantha to return to their isolation policy way of life again. If they are not dealt with than Cantha cannot invest any proper support into the Tyrian Alliance so they can help defend their country from long term threats from the Mist. This is obviously leading to a expansion where we focus on the northern side of Cantha that remained unexplored but we known since EoD that Puritans have been doing something there. The Norn are right now preparing for expeditions into the Northern Shiverpeaks to retake their old home land. They are also dealing with the remains of the Sons of Savnir as the small amount of survivors are losts and going through a identity crisis now Jormag is gone. They are more focused on retaking their old homeland now but they know the external threats from beings in the Mists can be a issue due to their history with the Mists through their connection with the Spirits. However, this a opportunity they have waited generations for so they are investing more into the upcoming Expedition into the North while hoping the small amount of support they have is enough to protect Tyria so they can focus more on reclaiming their old home. As a result they won't provide decent support until the Northern Shiverpeaks are reclaimed. Elona has mostly gotten their politics together but they hope to start reconnecting to losts locations in Elona so they are preparing expedition teams into locations we have not explored yet. Braham plans to join so he can have some self discovery for his new job as the leader for Cragstead. With the Dragonbrand by Kralkatorrik now disappearing, they hope to retake homes they lost during Kralkatorrik's attack on Elona back in PoF. This a massive undertaking for Elona so they cannot support the Alliance properly until they finish their work back in Elona.

Not only that but Forde and Ishgarran also said they took heavy casualties in the war against the Kryptis so the Astral Ward forces are now greatly reduced. They do not have many people now for any larger operations. The Tyrian Alliance also just formed around the beginning of this new expansion in response to the sudden invasion of Kryptis attacks through the course of 1 year (which means SotO only lasted for 1 year timeline wise) and getting people to support the formation of the Alliance is shacky right now since a good amount are either not in support of the Alliance or too busy dealing with their own personal Race politics and issues to send people to support the Alliance. Janthir Wild expansion right now is partly focus on establishing the Alliance by establishing their first real successful support for the Alliance being the Janthir Kodan so they can help build up defenses against the new dangers created as a result of Tyria now becoming very cendense in Magic that it is attracting beings from the Mist and also maybe causing other things that exists in Tyria to act up in different ways.

Yep it is a Bloodstone and appeared to be the first created by the Mursaat during early stages of development on trying to create the bloodstones that Seers made so it was not as good as the ones we knew about since GW1. We actually meet the Mursaat that lead the project to created these Bloodstones being Manikaz as one of the Ghosts that was sacrificed to that bloodstone. Funny how he is the one who created them and yet the other Mursaat decided to kill him after he finished his Science Project. Though it is karma in my opinion considering he was very proud of his creations both as a scientist and a artist.

My bet is still on the Charr side of things being next considering we also just got the Titan back and the return of the Titans being reported is going to obviously rile up some Charrs which may cause them needing to push for a new Khan-Ur as soon as possible to unite the Charr for certain. The Sylvari side of the establish possible upcoming expansion is more flexible with when they want it to happen since they set it as a Unknown factor on how fast and slow the Pale tree condition worsen due to how this is constantly fluctuating between suddenly getting worse faster to her condition is stable but still getting worse slowly.

We know the Trial for the Khan-ur selection is going to happen but the condition still remain unclear. Situation wise, I think resolving the Foefire may end up becoming part of the Khan-Ur selection trials or atleast a event that unintentionally becomes a part of it due to some unpredicted situation caused by Tyria becoming very condense in Magic now. I suspect there are maybe other unforseen consequences that is involved with the rise in Magic and considering how Mist beings are so sensitive to it that it is attracting them from deep in the Mist, other things that have Mist origin that already exists in Tyria may also be affected in unforseen ways such as maybe the Foefire influence getting enhanced to a point the Ghosts of Ascalon can now attack the Charr homeland right when the trial for the next Khan-Ur is happening. Resulting in events needing them to resolve the Foefire issue but first need to learn more about Mist origins for it.

There are other ways they can continue the Foefire storyline without needing to affect old maps or make a separate instance of a old map. Anet always have GW2 maps set in a time lock in the timeline but they manage to show progress through creating new Maps and through Main story instances. Right now the Foefire story been at a very big cliffhanger since Rytlock's last attempt to deal with it. A cliffhanger that left a lot of questions involving what did Rytlock see in the Mist and why did Sohothin go to the Mist. I suspect we may get the answer to this and conclusion to the Foefire storyline in this Mist Saga in one of the Expansion involving what Rytlock saw and found in the Mists due to Sohothin and the mysterious powers of Sohothin and Magdaer have that Balthazar used to create them from the Mist. With the Foefire being Mist related, it maybe involved in the future expansions but most likely the Charr expansion. I won't be surprised if they make up a lore stating that the rise in Magic has also increased the Foefire's influence to the point that the Ascalonian Ghost can now invade the Charr Homeland so they set up the Ascalonian Ghosts as one of the antagonists for the Charr expansion. Along with having the Charr expansion also focus on exploring the nature of the Foefire due to its Mist origin. I think he is confusing the old lore about how Sohothin and Magdaer need to be return to Ascalon City to break the curse. A old lore I think most have forgotten about considering it was the established ingame rumor for NPCs who believed that was the way to break the curse of the Foefire before GW2. It was never follow up on of course since Rytlock went on to attempt ending the Foefire with Sohothin alone and we never seen Magdaer after Eir took it to be repaired. Magdaer was originally meant to go to Logan as Eir way to reforge Logan and Rytlock's friendship but they never follow up on it. If this rumor end up being true ingame then the only way the Foefire can be reduced (though obviously not completely removed) to a point most Ascalonian Ghosts are gone but some remain due to their personal hatred, then we may see the Charr expansion also involve Logan obtaining Magdaer finally to help Rytlock resolve the Foefire Crisis. Not to mention with it being a gift from Balthazar to Ascalonians, I won't be surprised if Sohothin and Magdaer play a important role later in the Mist Saga storyline. We never did learn how Balthazar had these sword created.

I am not surprised that Anise and Mabon had a thing since Mabon personality appeared like it will be Anise type. The only issue that kept them from making their relationship offical was just Mabon being a Mursaat so Anise could never fully accept it. Of course she regrets it now after Mabon is dead. That aside, I have no doubt Jennah does know about Mabon. It is probably why Isgarran has a easier time approaching her and Anise since Mabon most likely updated Isgarran on potential recruits for the Astral Ward within the Mesmer Collective or anyone the Mesmer Collective finds interesting enough. It may have been a side project for Mabon but it is still a very useful resource for information within the more shady side of the world.

I will not say Foefire may not be out of the question at some level for the future Charr expansion they set up. My best guess is that part of the Charr expansion may involve reducing the influence of the FoeFire but not completely removing it. Most likely like the Kryptis situation, they mostly resolve the FoeFire issue by maybe freeing the Ghosts from the brainwashing the Foefire has on them but certain small groups still remain hostile to the Charr and continue their war while most are at peace and move on or unable to move on but remain in Ascalon creating a new issue about what to do with the Ascalonian Ghosts that are seeking to move on with their "after"life as Ghost now free to find new life in the world. They will be completely leaderless unless one of them steps up to lead if the Ghosts are free from the Foefire brainwashing. Magdaer plot still remain in a big cliffhanger and Rytlock still has not figure out how to get Magdaer and Sohothin to work so they can resolve the Foefire issue. However, the interesting little detail I think most people may have forgotten is what happened when Rytlock last time tried to resolve the Foefire issue being it went into the Mist instead of ending the Foefire threat. There is maybe a connection to the current situation with the Mist or some kind of involvement that may tie in the Foefire to the current growing issue with the Mist in this new story arc. I suspect Rytlock may know something related to the Foefire and the Mist but he never told anyone.

I cannot say he was lying since it sounded like this was before his madness took over. The last journal entry was from another person which was a White Mantle that stayed behind to continue to look for Bava Nisos. Most likely some time after Caudecus last journal entry the madness may have started taking over due to countless attempts to enter the city but mental attack defenses was always forcing them to retreat. These mental attacks may have been the cause of his madness since it sounded like he had a very strong obsession with trying to get through the defenses and enter Bava Nisos himself. Either way, it sounds like the remaining White Mantle that stayed behind maybe still around but in the next region. Ulrich, Tatyanna, and Judge are currently the most noticeable in these notes. Most likely we may meet them outside the defenses of Bava Nisos.