Golden Orb in Melchor's Leap

[Innocent.3861]

No idea if this has already been discussed somewhere else, but what's the deal with the giant glowing orb in the Wealwood? 

[Sajuuk Khar.1509]

All we know is that its a giant glowing ball of energy that no one knows the source of.

Edited November 10, 2021 by Sajuuk Khar.1509

[Konig Des Todes.2086]

The glowing orb has remained a mystery. What we know is that it alters the nearby landscape and seems to repel the Risen, or at the very least the risen just straight up ignore the golden orb. When the Inquest use it as a power source for a golem, said golem goes haywire and says a curious phrase:

Must—protect—Orr.

And that's the extent of what we know.

There's two commonly occurring theories about the orb:

One ties into the Krait Orb aka Blue Orb from the personal story, suggesting that both of these, due to their dragon minion repelling traits, are dragon eggs. This falls apart a bit when you consider that the presence of dragons, dragon minions, or dragon eggs doesn't reject the presence of other Elder Dragons' corruption. And as we see with Aurene's Egg specifically, mordrem and destroyers go after it very willingly.

The other theory, which I personally subscribe to, is that it is remnant Forgotten magic. The Forgotten are very firmly established as having magic that is incorruptible by the Elder Dragons for still unclarified reasons. Among this magic is their Exalting Rituals which turns things into a gold-like state in order to make it immune to dragon corruption. In Season 2, Braham notably and quickly identifies it fake gold (and curiously the only one to do so - everyone else just comments on how the place is overflowing with magic), which possibly labels it as Fools' Gold aka Pyrite... Which is what the golden orb turns things into (hence the elementals named Pyrite Elementals nearby). Given that we know the Forgotten had a presence on Orr at one point, and the Six Gods had collected and held various Forgotten artifacts, the plausibility of the golden orb being Forgotten in origins isn't unlikely.

 

 

[Aedil.1296]

On 11/12/2021 at 3:20 AM, Konig Des Todes.2086 said:

The glowing orb has remained a mystery. What we know is that it alters the nearby landscape and seems to repel the Risen, or at the very least the risen just straight up ignore the golden orb. When the Inquest use it as a power source for a golem, said golem goes haywire and says a curious phrase:

Must—protect—Orr.

And that's the extent of what we know.

There's two commonly occurring theories about the orb:

One ties into the Krait Orb aka Blue Orb from the personal story, suggesting that both of these, due to their dragon minion repelling traits, are dragon eggs. This falls apart a bit when you consider that the presence of dragons, dragon minions, or dragon eggs doesn't reject the presence of other Elder Dragons' corruption. And as we see with Aurene's Egg specifically, mordrem and destroyers go after it very willingly.

The other theory, which I personally subscribe to, is that it is remnant Forgotten magic. The Forgotten are very firmly established as having magic that is incorruptible by the Elder Dragons for still unclarified reasons. Among this magic is their Exalting Rituals which turns things into a gold-like state in order to make it immune to dragon corruption. In Season 2, Braham notably and quickly identifies it fake gold (and curiously the only one to do so - everyone else just comments on how the place is overflowing with magic), which possibly labels it as Fools' Gold aka Pyrite... Which is what the golden orb turns things into (hence the elementals named Pyrite Elementals nearby). Given that we know the Forgotten had a presence on Orr at one point, and the Six Gods had collected and held various Forgotten artifacts, the plausibility of the golden orb being Forgotten in origins isn't unlikely.

 

 

Remember the story step where we meet the shadow of the dragon and we kill it? That's the first time where we see terrain and vegetation turned "gold" by forgotten/exalted magic. The plants and the terrain has exactly the same textures as the one in orr. So I believe its safe to say the orb is fruit of forgotten magic. Forgotten always acted as protectors of tyria, so maybe that orb could be part of a defensive system for orr? Maybe that's why the inquest golem said “must protect orr“.