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A seer practicing magic.
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We are the stewards of this world, Tyria's masters and protectors. We've no need of gods or spirits to guide us; we rise to godhood ourselves through our rites, through our own strength.

— Stone Tablet Fragment

The seers were an enigmatic and magical race who were responsible for creating the original Bloodstone and the Shadowstone. They briefly allied with the other elder races of the dwarves, Forgotten, jotun, and mursaat to oppose the Elder Dragons during the previous dragonrise. The seers were ultimately killed off in a war against the mursaat, leaving behind few potent artifacts and ruins.

Physiology[edit]

The ancient seers were genderless[1] but did often choose a preferred gender to be addressed by. They had four arms, grey skin, and could levitate.

History[edit]

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Early history[edit]

The seers once dwelled in the city of Stellis Quor on Castora and dedicated themselves to studying crafting and the arcane arts in its conservatoires under the leadership of their doyen Sidony the Shadowkeeper, the Immortal Leader. At some point they invited representatives of the elder races of dwarves, Forgotten, and jotun to visit and study in Stellis Quor although some seers voiced doubt about whether these races, especially the mursaat, could be trusted at first.[2] As time passed, however, some mursaat were allowed to study under the seers' finest architects in Stellis Quor, and the former would implement seer-inspired designs into their architecture while building the mursaat city of Apavim.[3]

The seers specialized in mastering magic and were known to have created potent blessings and curses. One of their notable accomplishments was the difficult Rite of Divinity, or "Divitium Nava", which involved using the magical staff Ancora at a specific well of power on Castora to attune chosen seers to the very flow of magic in Tyria and ascend them as immortal and magically powerful beings. "Divcia nava," a lesser version of this rite which did not involve Ancora, would later be used by Isgarren to ascend non-seers as immortal wizards.[4][5] The seers also created Legavo, later known as the Scepter of Orr, as well as Mulmund, later known as the Staff of the Mists, as defense against extraplanar invaders although the staves did not prevent the Six Gods' arrival with humans from the Mists.[6]

Seer-mursaat war[edit]

Seer bloodstone ghosts in the Valley of Agony.

During the previous rise of the Elder Dragons, the seer doyen Sidony rallied the elder races of dwarves, Forgotten, jotun, and mursaat to form an alliance to fight back against the Elder Dragons.[7] However, prior to the assault on the Elder Dragon Zhaitan which the Forgotten and mursaat had been preparing for, Sidony suddenly decided to withdraw seer support,[8] while the dwarves and the jotun neglected to join the assault as well. The resulting battle led to the deaths of many Forgotten and mursaat, and the latter never forgave the seers for this perceived act of betrayal.[9]

The seers focused on forging the Shadowstone which they used to amplify their own magical abilities. Using the power of the Shadowstone, they created the original Bloodstone to contain all untainted magic to hide it from the Elder Dragons.[10][11][12]

Feeling betrayed by the rest of the alliance's lack of assistance, the mursaat refused to give up their magic into the Bloodstone and instead abandoned their former allies by using their shadowcraft to shift themselves beneath the skin of the world, out of phase with Tyria via a shadowed pocket of existence, as a way to escape the Elder Dragons.[13][14][15]

During this time, the Forgotten discovered a great spell that granted Glint, champion and scion of the Elder Dragon Kralkatorrik, a will free from control by the Elder Dragon. Glint in turn concealed many of the elder races, including the seers, from the Elder Dragons who gradually fell into slumber to wait for the next dragonrise.[14] Some time after the dragons had returned to slumber, the mursaat returned and waged a war against the seers for millennia despite the seers heavily outnumbering the few hundred mursaat at first.[8] During this conflict the seers were able to develop a defense against the mursaat's Spectral Agony magic. However, it was created too late in the war, and the seers lost. The seers went all but extinct although the mursaat also suffered significant losses in the conflict.[16] The mursaat built their new capital, Bava Nisos located in Janthir, on the battleground where the seer-mursaat war had ended.[13]

Last conflicts[edit]

Thousands of years later in 1072 AE, one of the few surviving seers aided some Ascalonian heroes in fighting the returned mursaat and, intentionally or not, releasing the titans. During the Krytan Civil War in 1079 AE, the asuran golemancer Zinn was experimenting with a seer's corpse to develop the Spectral Infusion.[17] Seer magic became an instrumental part of the Shining Blade's plan to defeat the White Mantle and counter the remaining mursaat during the Battle for Lion's Arch.

The last of the seers lived long enough to witness the aftermath of the Krytan Civil War and was aware of the disappearance of the last known surviving mursaat, Lazarus the Dire, who had vowed to return to avenge his fallen brethren. Before dying, the last seer bestowed the Shining Blade organization an ancient weapon of seer origins, which became known as the Shining Blade, and a duty to destroy the last surviving mursaat should he ever return to threaten the world.[18]

Legacy[edit]

Personal story

Seer ruins existed in the world long after their creators' passing, but those who found the ruins did not know of their origins.[19] During the Pact's campaign against the Elder Dragon Zhaitan and its Risen minions in Orr in 1325 AE, Scholar Randall Greyston of the Durmand Priory led an expedition into the Ruined City of Arah in search of shards of the seer Bloodstone which the Six Gods had sundered there into five pieces in 0 AE. In 1329 AE, Historian Tranton uncovered the secrets of the Shadowstone which the Priory had found during their expeditions.

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The Valley of Agony in Mistburned Barrens, located in the outskirts of the ruined Bava Nisos, ended up being filled with agitated Seer ghosts originating from the ancient battle between mursaat and Seers.

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Members[edit]

See also: Category:Seers
Other mentioned members

Creations[edit]

See also: Seer constructs
Notable weapons and artifacts
Constructs and elementals
Defense systems

Gallery[edit]

See also: Category:Seer screenshots‎

Notes[edit]

"Nightmare Court Commander - Seer" by Carlyn Lim.
  • The name Seer has been written with both uppercase and lowercase letters when referring to the race. The uppercase uses have been the vast majority in game and in out of game developer blogs prior to Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity which has preferred using lowercase instead.
  • Several aspects of the Mordrem boss Stavemaster Adryn's design are reminiscent of the seers, such as the two additional arms folded over the chest. A concept art piece for the boss by Carlyn Lim was titled "NIGHTMARE COURT COMMANDER - SEER", suggesting that the similarities are intentional and also implying the existence of a connection between the Mordrem Guard and the Nightmare Court that evidently did not make it into the final cut of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns.

See also[edit]

Associated items

References[edit]

Gwwlogo.png The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Seer.
  1. ^ Bobby Stein's User Talk page on Guild Wars Wiki
  2. ^ Weathered Scroll
  3. ^ Lost Basilica ambient dialogue
  4. ^ Mabon's Journal (Item)
  5. ^ Seer Curses and Rituals
  6. ^ Archival Records: Legavo, the Binding of Wills
  7. ^ Legendary Sidony the Shadowkeeper
  8. ^ a b Isgarren
  9. ^ Mursaat Lore Tablet
  10. ^ A Study in Gold
  11. ^ Historian Tranton
  12. ^ The Ruined City of Arah (explorable) Seer path
    Randall Greyston: The seers were a magical race, once close allies to the mursaat.
    Randall Greyston: When the Elder Dragons first awoke, they gathered the unspoiled magic in the world and locked it within a great artifact—the first bloodstone.
  13. ^ a b The Unseen Ones: A Primer on the Mursaat
  14. ^ a b The Ruined City of Arah (explorable)
    <Character name>: How do you believe Glint was freed?
    Warden Illyra: The Forgotten discovered a great spell that granted Glint a will free from control by the Elder Dragon. She then concealed many of the elder races from the dragons. [...]
    <Character name>: What is your theory?
    Scholar Yissa: I believe they used their spellcasting to slip beneath the skin of the world, out of phase with Tyria.
  15. ^ The Ruined City of Arah (explorable) Mursaat path
    Scholar Yissa: What legends I have uncovered say they used powerful magic to shift themselves out of phase with this world.
    Scholar Yissa: I believe they used this as a way to escape the Elder Dragons. [...]
    Scholar Yissa: The races gathered together to fight the dragons, each contributing something.
    Scholar Yissa: Hmm. Yet the mursaat took their knowledge and fled into a half-world, out of phase with our own.
    Scholar Yissa: They would have let the rest of the world die just to save themselves. Huh. Just like the Inquest.
  16. ^ Researcher's Record
  17. ^ Comment by Linsey Murdock, Reddit.com
  18. ^ The Shining Blade Manual (complete)
    Section 7: Zinn and the Shining Blade: The Blade fought mursaat tyranny from the shadows until we found the allies needed to wage war and retake Kryta. We hunted down the mursaat that the Titans spared, killing all but one: Lazarus. Afterward, a gift arrived: the sword we call the Shining Blade. As the last lay dying, the Seers bestowed us their ancient weapon and a duty to destroy the last mursaat, should he ever return.
  19. ^ GuildMag issue #1 Q&A with Ree Soesbee, GuildMag.com
  20. ^ Taken from seer ghost when the effect is loading.

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