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Ruins of Orr - let's find the location of Trahearne's favourite poem. Can it even be found?

OKAY SO! when i cant play rein because it's night, I relog to other characters and do whatever. Today I was writing some trammander when it struck me. Just where in actual Orr was the tower where Trahearne had found his favourite poem?

The plate with the poem is currently held by Priory in their headquarters in Lornar's Pass, so you can't find the actual poem in ruins of Orr (sadly! it would be such a nice touch!).

Let's first look at Jahai!

Map screenshot - the PoI is the Vizier's Tower.

Airell's back is facing the Abaddon mural. With their back to the mural, they are facing the tower with Trahearne's poem. The poem plate is located on the "first" floor of the tower, so to speak.

Now, let's go to Orr.

On the map the towers are located slightly differently, they're all around Shark's Teeth Archipelago.

As you can see on the screens, Airell is yet again back to the mural, and thats what they see. There are no tower ruins in sight. The only tower ruins I've found in the similar direction are the ones marked by my Personal Map Marker. However, according to LWs4e4, these ruins can't be that tower because... Taimi tells us this in A Star to Guide Us:

The tower must be North. After diving, the only ruins of something tower-like are quite far away, completely submerged.

So, the Displaced Vizier's Tower in Jahai must have been rotated, somehow. Love me the anomalies.

Now, I do not think that Trahearne dove into the waters of Orr. Why, you may ask? According to lore presented in GW novels, and you have to believe me just like that without refs, because I can't remember whether it was Sea of Sorrows or Edge of Destiny or both of them, but, supposedly Orrian waters are so cold that people used them to keep the provisions fresh/frozen during long journeys until iceboxes were invented (or maybe my brain just connected those dots somehow (you didn't connect shit--)). If the waters are that cold, I do not think Trahearne would dive in. And following that thought, I have to also discard the legibility of the tower south from the Vizier's Tower - it's nearly entirely sunken! You can only get there by swimming (which, again, isn't recommended). Unless

You would approach on boat from south (behind Airell), get on the rocks, use grappling hook (I'm talking pure fantasy journey equipment here, outside of the game's limitations). to get onto the ruins and carefully climb around and find the plate. I am not sure Trahearne would do that.

Counter point: He would do that. That asparagus is desperate to complete the Wyld Hunt.

I choose to ignore the counter point for my own convenience.

Counter point 2: But we do go underwater in Personal Story and there are events underwater and lots of exploration!

I am choosing to ignore this counter point too, again, for my own convenience.

This leaves us the final tower to check, east from the Vizier's Tower on an "island".

I think this "tower" is the most legible of them all to contain the poem plate. It's accessible, it's climbable, I just think this one's it.

My conclusion: Displaced Towers are super displaced and Taimi is wrong, it's the eastern tower, thank you for your time and attention.

Please be aware that my brain often connects wrong dots because I think too fast and miss out details sometimes, so take this with a grain of salt ;w;

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Cain by José Saramago translation by Margaret Jull Costa

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Vibe check 👁👁👍👎👍👎

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Apparently today is National Internet Friends Day! So happy there's a day to acknowledge the love and gratitude you have for the friends in your phone and across the world 💜💞

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[ Guild Wars 2 - Beautiful Places - Dreamdark Enclave ]

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OH MY GOODNESS THANK YOU 💜‼️‼️‼️

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The first drawing is ready!!! 🩵

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NA artparty done!!! from left to right Rionnagg — @inkyfrosty Aisdryn — @vampiredaytrader Azilab - @scourgeblooms

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Forgot to say this but if any of you have added me ingame and I didn't add you back it's probably because you got lost in my 10+ years worth of followers, please Do Poke Me about it

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....Rock type and

Why. Why would you do this to me

pokèmonize yourself!!!!

spin this wheel to see your pokemon type

spin this one to see how you'll look like

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"Hush, Commander of the Pact. The Dawn will not come this time. But, ah, who needs the light..? Fear not your Night."

A piece I've been wanting to do ever since @commanderteag made his for Maolmuire - right here. Juxtaposing Maelmordha's younger, Valiant self and his current lich self.

As the heir to Riannoc's failed Wyld Hunt, Mael spent his early days researching forbidden necromancy as well as anything else that could possibly help him take on Mazdak the Accursed. Little did he know the path of Pact Commander would lead him to turn to his darkest side and become a reflection of his people's very first nightmare - a necessary evil, to claw a shadow of his life back from the ashes and take on a rampant god.

His death traumatically severed him from the Dream, rendering him completely Soundless - without Mother's songs and guidance, he was left to lead the Pact through both their and his own darkest times. Even Caladbolg itself burned his hands, eventually leading him to give up the mantle of Knight of Thorn.

"Take a good look, boy, because this is what we'll be."

"...How so? What for? What caused us to fall this far?"

"The love we yet had for this world."

"That's impossible. Monsters don't know what love is. You don't - you are not me!"

"I'm sorry. You've yet to learn there isn't a clear divide between the righteous and the monstrous."

"....Was it worth it?"

"...Yes."

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hey man i think your twink is disturbed. On a very deep fundamental and psychological level

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Numen, scion of Jormag, @lady-quen's beautiful character! It as been such a great joy for me to work on this piece since I haven't got the chance to work on anything Jormag related for such a long time, and this baby is just sto perfect and well designed 🥺💙 Artwork sponsored by Arenanet

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I slept all day and I'm a bit late here, but seeing the /blowkiss in the black lion chest is really lame. They wanna do sales for Valentine's and adding the /blowkiss is great, but putting it in the BLC so ppl can gamble for it? Absolutely lame.

I'll get it eventually when it pops into the statuette vendor, but honestly that should've just been a Gemstore item :/

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Excuse the text post in the vsartparty tag but I can't remember whose character Johnny Silverband was. Anyway someone needs to draw him in the "fish want me, women fear me" shirt

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Absolutely gorgeous work, thank you so so much for the opportunity to commission you!! My lovely ice baby! No matter how many times I look at them, they're just beyond amazing in your style 🥹😭

Numen, scion of Jormag, @lady-quen's beautiful character! It as been such a great joy for me to work on this piece since I haven't got the chance to work on anything Jormag related for such a long time, and this baby is just sto perfect and well designed 🥺💙 Artwork sponsored by Arenanet