Guild Wars Lore : The Defeat of Optimus Calith

Part of Wooden Potatoes' ([link]) Guild Wars Lore summary videos ([link]).

Wooden spoke about this, and it seemed kind of important, so I volunteered to draw it. It's a shame the game itself didn't find it very important.

Basically, it's assumed by players that Optimus Calith is the leader of the Mursaat because 1) he's the last one you fight before mucking about with Titans and 2) his name in latin kind of implies he's a leader, or the last one, or something. The game never actually has Optimus talk or be leaderly in any fashion. He's just a named enemy at the end of the mission you fight, along with another randomized boss. Considering the whole game ends up being about defeating the Mursaat, you'd think this would have been of some importance. You'd think that this guy would be like, THE boss of the whole game up until you learn about the Lich. But no. Just a Mursaat Elementalist boss you have to kill.

I obviously took some liberties with dramatizing this. I imagine if ANet was asked about this scene they'd say something about not giving it any details makes it more interesting for the player to discover, and it dramatizes it, and then ramble about how in fantasy the importance is on the player, or how it sums up the error the characters were performing in not analyzing their actions, or something about Tolkien or... something. Again, ANet is better at talking about writing than actually, you know... writing. Which is true of most fantasy writers, or avid readers, in general. Then again, it's not like the book I wrote ever got published.