As a god his spheres of power were water and knowledge. The pantheon was called The Five until Nightfall, wherein the existence of Abaddon was revealed as he tried to drag himself back into the mortal plane. The destruction of Abaddon’s temples and relics was intentional. This proved disastrous and the other gods reduced and compartmentalised the magic, and Abaddon went on a whole attempt to overthrow them and become one, single god of all. This happened because Abaddon, who was actually the most powerful of the Six and the leader of the group, wanted humans to share in the gift of magic. The Desolation, a map that covers only a part of the sulfur desert, is completely uninhabitable because Abaddon was destroyed there. BUT.Īs Kormir explains to you, the weakness of the human gods is that their excess of power keeps fucking up the world.
Other than being reflected in three major environments, he doesn’t have a role in the plot. This is reflected again later on in Siren’s Landing on the other side of Orr, where the Five, and Abaddon, each have a personal reliquary, and Abaddon’s is central, connected to all the others, and still intact.īuilding on that refresher on human divinity, in Path of Fire you visit the actual place Abaddon was defeated by the other Five gods and pushed into a side dimension to keep him out of the world.Īnd when you visit the archives of the Durmand Priory, they have an imposing Abaddon statue towering over the stairs. It’s also nudging you to notice that there are no Orrian temples to Kormir, because she replaced Abaddon only two centuries ago. The base game story makes you detour through a sunken temple dedicated to Abaddon, while the Orrian temples to the other five gods are still intact on the surface. They’re in statues, temples, personal shrines everywhere. Let’s just go over where he appears in-game if you start off in GW2. But I keep thinking about him because Abaddon is probably the most influential character Tyria ever had. As a deposed god he doesn’t seem relevant to the Guild Wars timeline after Nightfall.