Gods of Tyrie

This article describes the various beliefs and divinities in the fictitious universe of the Video game Guild Wars. Several of these principles have a direct influence on the play, its environment and its mechanisms.

Gods of the Human ones

Although there exist some local religions, the majority of the human kingdoms of Tyrie, Cantha and Elona venerate the same Pantheon of gods.

Former Gods

These gods reigned a long time on the world before withdrawing themselves in the Îles of Fire . They hid their secrecies besides there before leaving the world. But they always observe Tyrie, in particular the engagements between mortals for the control of the the Pantheon of the Heroes . It is not rare that they grant their favor when players were characterized by their achievements concerned (obtaining titles at the maximum level).

When the Faveur of the Gods is granted, or prolonged, a general message is posted in the main cities and temples and the furnace bridges present through the country become animated various effects. According to the hiring of a furnace bridge if a character kneels by using the Emote S /genoux or /kneel , a Avatar or a messenger of the god appears then offering services such as fates of protection or improvement.

In the places devoted such as the Temple of the Ages , the Corridor of Zin Ku or the Vault of the Secrecies , the Misadventures of Balthazar and Grenth also make it possible to reach new fields, zones elites, located in the Fogs , out of the normal dimension of the play.

Balthazar

Balthazar is the god of the battles who is often venerated by the warriors, certain monks, as well as the elementalists who turned to the elementary school of Fire. Through the country one often sees his statues representing a large austere, holding an immense axe or sword, and wrapped warrior in a heavy coat which ignites when the Favor of the Gods is granted; at this time one can go in his kingdom, the Fissure of Misfortune , while speaking with his Misadventure in the devoted places.

Dwayna

Dwayna, goddess of the life and the air, directs the Pantheon of the Tyriens Gods calmly. She is mainly venerated by the monks healers, the paragons and of the elementalists specialized in the elementary school of the Air. Its representation, a winged woman, to lie generally broken in thousand parts on the furnace bridges; but when the Favor of the Gods is granted, it rises then majestueusement in the airs in a column of light.

Every year, when the night the longest approach and that Hivernel is done rigorous, Dwayna begins a competition against Grenth to allow the return of the life. Its Misadventure then appears in quoted the most populated and encourages the population to give its support to the goddess to allow the return of the Printemps. She gives also gifts to the small children.

Grenth

The god of died and the cold Grenth is naturally venerated by the nécromants, the elementalists specialized in the elementary school of Water, as well as the ritualists and part of the assassins. He is often represented by a great man with the skeletal face being held in the middle of emaciated bodies which seem to fear it or on the contrary to want to seize it. When the Favor of the Gods is granted, the representations of Grenth start to emit opaque white fogs and its Misadventure makes it possible most valiant to enter in addition to-World .

At the coldest time of the Hivernel , Grenth appears and sending its Misadventure in the most populated places of Tyrie and Elona. Indeed he hopes to obtain supports it population to prevent that Dwayna does not allow the return of more lenient days; he however always failed to date. He also has named creatures Grench which are made a malicious pleasure to destroy the gifts that the goddess offers to the children.

Lysed

The double Goddess of the Beauty and the illusion, Lysed, attracts the envoûteurs but also certain Canthiens assassins. According to the places, it incarnates the paradox of the existence but can also be a representation of the chance and bad luck. Its statues showing two beautiful young women either back with back, or intertwined, invite to contemplation.

Melandru

Melandru is the Goddess of the ground and nature. It is the divinity of the prowlers and the elementalists specialized in the elementary school of the Earth. Its statue represents a winged dryade posed or forming a unit with a dead tree; moreover this one buds and made sheets when the Faveur of the Gods is granted, thus marking the cycle of nature.

Its importance is less in Cantha because a good part of the population, mainly members of the Luxones factions and alive Kurzick in the zones devastated by the death of Shiro Tagachi , thinks that she perished in the catastrophe. However its worship is still long-lived in Tyrie, in particular in Ascalon, which however suffers from a similar devastation. Each one knows indeed that nature always ends up taking again its rights….

Sixth God

Abaddon

Abaddon is 6th God, now forgotten of Tyrie, formerly divinity of water and the knowledge. Abaddon spread terror and dead on Tyrie by giving the magic to the men. Margonites, its most enthusiastic followers, took the control of the temple of the 6 gods, then were given like objective to embank the 5 other gods, so that only Abaddon can reign. After a long battle on the Crystal Sea in the north of Elona, generated carnage gave birth to the Desert from Crystal with the place of the sea, a desert and dangerous place. Abaddon then was exiled and connected in a prison especially built for him in the Fogs : the Kingdom of the Torment . Now, the fanatics of this god feel his presence. Preparing in the Shade, fanatics of Abaddon awaiting the Twilight, when the sun finishes in the Shade and when the end of the world comes.

The Twilight

The Twilight announces the end of humanity, when Abaddon is of return and that the Major Gods will be close to the anguish. Margonites await the sign of Abaddon to launch the process of Twilight.

Kormir

General in the past of the Lancers of the Sun and the new goddess of the truth. With fought against winds and tides to unify the people of Elona, to reveal the plans of Varesh OSI at the great day and to fight against the arrival of the Twilight until sacrificing itself for the good of all during the fall of Abaddon. It thus absorbed the capacity and the knowledge of the former god while keeping his own beneficial personality. The Misadventure and the statue of Kormir are accessible to the Vault from the Secrecies on Elona by the players having finished the play and give access to the zone elite of the Domaine of the Anguish , a subfield of the Royaume of the Torment to the rather high difficulty.

Minor gods

There also exists of other gods of importance less who are mentioned in the folklore and the writings, thus Balthazar fights against Menzies , his half-brother, for the possession of the Crack of Misfortune and Grenth has to kill Dhuum to adapt the In addition to-World . However their worship is much less long-lived and widespread.

Dhuum

Dhuum was the god of died and chaos but was overcome (and supposed destroyed) by Grenth which adapted its field. Echoes of its presence are however always carpet in in addition to-World and it always has many being used for its orders. Thus the Forces of Chaos corrupted the Tomb of Kings Primitifs in Tyrie in Guild Wars Prophecies and tempted to invade the island of Shing Jea during the Festival of the Dragon in Guild Wars Factions. Dhuum is a god who is auxiliary with the forfeiture of Elona in Guild Wars Nightfall.

Menzies

In addition to his combat the opponent with Balthazar, this god also bound his forces to those of Abaddon and the control of its army of the shades gave him. Its soldiers control and keep key positions in the Kingdom of the Torment supports forces margonites of them.

Canthiens hero

Cantha has a multitude of local or minor divinities; indeed Canthiens are accustomed to raising with the row of gods their ancestors, their great men or the heroes who were particularly distinguished during their life. Spirits of largest of these heroes resident to the Temple Tahnnakai from where they protect largest of them: the woman assassin Vizu who carried a destabilizing blow to the traitor Shiro Tagashi thus allowing the hero Luxon Archemorus and to the hero Kurzick Viktor to complete it. She perishes however, like the other combatants present, in the explosion which gave rise to the Vents of Jade .

Moreover them Luxons venerates the Lance of Archemorus, while Kurzicks venerate the Ballot box of Viktor Saint. These two relics are infused with the heart of Archemorus for the lance and ashes of Viktor Saint for the ballot box. Each faction is thus proud, according to its own point of view, to venerate and hold the remainders of the " SEUL" hero who killed the traitor…

Invisible gods

Recently a sect of Kryte called the Blanc-Manteau started to venerate new gods called the Invisible Gods and tries to spread this religion through the steps of the western borders of the kingdom by meeting a strong resistance.

Gods of the Dwarves

The Large Dwarf

The Nains of Deldrimor do not venerate the Former Gods of the human ones, he venerate the Grand Dwarf which takes care on them since the Large Forging mill and of created their race on the Rocher of the Anvil . The Tome of Rubicon describes its final combat against the Grand Destructor , when the Dwarves are transformed for always and, some is the exit of the combat, will disappear forever from the surface of Tyrie.

The Large Destructor

With opposite of the Large Dwarf in their Pantheon is the Large Destructor of which it is interdict to pronounce the name. The Nains of the Summit of Pierre already tried to awake it first once in the middle of the Fournaise of the Lamentations . The Destroying , of the made creatures of lava, form an entity common functioning to the manner of a hive under the central control of the Large destructor.

The Large destructor and its servants are in fact of the agents of the old dragon Primordus , their defeat during the countryside of Guild Wars Eye off the North delayed the alarm clock large dragon of several generations.

Beliefs of Norns

The Norns of the half-giants who live in the North of Tyrie do not believe non-plus in the gods of the human ones. He venerate the spirits of the animals, more particularly that of the Ours E which made them the gift be able to transform into a hybrid creature semi-bear semi-man.

Beliefs of Ensured

The Asuras do not venerate non-plus the gods of the men even if they are shown very intrigued by their existence. They believe in the Eternal Alchimie which includes all the universe (mortals and gods included/understood), allowing at the same time its existence and its operation. Their principal goal in the life is to find and solve the great equation of the existence.

Beliefs of Sylvari

The Sylvari a young race, are all born from a tree which germinated starting from a seed planted by Ronan , a human soldier of the Brilliant Lame , on the tombs of its families in the ruins of her villages destroys by Mursaats. They follow with dedication the lesson of the centaur Ventari engraved on a stone shelf and that this last left with the foot of the tree to its death

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