Character throughline

Mursaat

5 moments on the timeline — from Age of Beasts to The Age of Prophecy.

Appearances, in order

  1. UndatedContested

    Five elder races ally against the Elder Dragons

    Central Tyria

    As the Elder Dragons awoke and began consuming the world, the five elder races — dwarves, Forgotten, jotun, mursaat, and Seers — set aside their differences, formed an alliance, and shared their hoarded magic with one another.

  2. UndatedContested

    The assault on Zhaitan fails; the mursaat feel betrayed

    Central Tyria

    The mursaat and Forgotten throw armies of jade constructs and enchanted armors against the Elder Dragon Zhaitan, but the Seers withdraw their forces to forge magic-storing artifacts instead. The attack fails with heavy mursaat and Forgotten casualties.

  3. UndatedContested

    The mursaat slip beneath the skin of the world

    The Mists

    Refusing to surrender their magic into the Bloodstone after their allies' desertion, the mursaat use their shadowcraft to phase out of Tyria into a shadowed pocket between the world and the Mists, escaping the Elder Dragons.

  4. Age of Beasts (centuries; dates unknown)-8,490 CC-8,800 DRContested

    The Seer–mursaat war nearly wipes out the Seers

    Central Tyria

    A centuries-long war erupts between the Seers and the mursaat, once allies of the elder-race alliance. Though heavily outnumbered, the mursaat triumph with the invention of Spectral Agony and decimate the Seers, leaving only a few survivors.

  5. ~1067 AE1,577 CC1,267 DRApproximate

    Saul D'Alessio founds the White Mantle after meeting the Mursaat

    Kryta

    An exiled Krytan gambler, Saul D'Alessio, is saved in the wilds by godlike beings — the Mursaat — and returns to found the White Mantle, whose followers rally a Kryta beset by the Charr and the human guilds.

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