Cealin De Rythia
02-05-2006, 20:16
******POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR FACTIONS******
Here's all the info I gathered on the Temple of Tahnnakai Inductees--took Screenshots of the stone pedestal, but instead of uploading the shots (which would not be nice to MY connection or 56k users) I typed it all up. Which took a while. So I hope this gives you some insight. (As an Elementalist, and a Ritualist...Teinai and Kaolai are awesome. And I'm not biased at all <_<)
Information/Lore
Kitah’s Stone Pedestal (Mesmer):
Three hundred years ago, when the thriving Cantha port of Dinfang was invaded by the people then known only as “naitahlen” or “pirates,” the Canthan Army sent a small force stationed at nearby Fort Fu to put down what they saw as nothing more than a pack of rabid dogs.
When young Kitah arrived with her troops, she discovered that an organized invasion was underway, led by the naitahlen admiral, Appollonia. Severely outnumbered and out-gunned, the Mesmer created a cloud of illusion that made her squadron appear to double in size, then redouble, then redouble again until her force appeared as a great army. As she ordered the charge, the naitahlen scattered in terror, many running into the sea and drowning themselves.
In the midst of the chaos, Kitah found Appollonia, a Warrior, and the two fought until both fell down dead on the battlefield. Dinfang was ultimately saved, and Kitah inducted into Tahnnakai Temple.
Game Guide Entry: Three hundred years ago, Kitah the Mesmer sacrificed her own life to defeat a Warrior princess. Both are enshrined in Tahnnakai.
Naku’s Stone Pedestal (Necromancer):
Brash and impulsive in his youth, Naku was a known criminal in his home village in eastern Cantha. When the Tengu wars began, Naku joined the Canthan army in an effort to protect his family and his shady business interests.
Years of war gave him a new perspective on the nature of life and death, and eventually, Naku became a respected general, using his Necromancer powers against the Tengu who resisted Canthan rule.
When Kahnmaatu, the village of his birth, was destroyed, Naku returned home and created a vast army of minions from the corpses of his relatives and childhood playmates, then sacrificed his life to drive them directly into the enemy. This action shattered enemy lines and pushed the Tengu back far enough that the Canthan army was able to overcome them.
Game Guide Entry: The most recent inductee to Tahnnakai used every last piece of Necromancer magic including his soul to destroy the Tengu who murdered his hometown.
Teinai’s Stone Pedestal (Elementalist):
One hundered years ago, a demon came to Cantha. He was called Mang, and he found himself flesh after a foolish young Necromancer named Juedo attempted a forbidden ritual and succeeded against all odds. For years Mang terrorized the countryside despite the best efforts of Cantha’s premier mages to outsmart him.
One winter day, Teinai, then a bold young student, approached her headmaster with a plan. The next day, Teinai herself lured Mang to the shore of a great lake, the surface of which was frozen solid. She walked out onto the ice, and Mang followed, eventually reaching the center while Teinai continued on to the other shore.
As he did, Teinai raised her hand, and fire rained down upon Mang, melting the ice beneath him. He plunged into the icy lake, and Teinai shrieked a command; the lake froze solid around Mang’s thrashing form, and he was trapped. Now lightning and boulders finished the job only Teinai had known how to begin, and Mang was returned to the underworld.
Teinai, after a long and successful life as an Elementalist, was ensconced in Tahnnakai temple.
Game Guide Entry: Teinai was once an Elementalist of great renown. She is believed to have inducted herself into the temple on the strength of her magic alone.
Karei’s Stone Pedestal (Monk):
Karei was a powerful healer who lived several hundered years ago. For most of his life he tended a small village in northern Cantha, curing ills and setting broken bones, refusing pay and only accepting food and basic supplies from the community.
One day, a wealthy Canthan noble and his small entourage passed by Karei’s village and were attacked by bandits in the nearby woods. The noble suffered a grievous wound, and after killing the bandits, his guards brought him to Karei, who healed him easily.
When the wealthy man attempted to pay him in gold, the Monk refused. Next the noble offered Karei employment on his lavish estate; again, the Monk refused. Finally, the noble offered to give the Monk great powers that would make him a god among men, but Karei would not be moved. Smiling, the noble stood and let his cloak fall away, and as he did, he was transformed into a beautiful woman.
The goddess Dwayna herself stood before Karei and placed a hand upon his head. “Thrice have I tempted you and thrice you have resisted. I choose you.” Called by his goddess, Karei could not refuse his new appointment as Master of the Kaziin Monastery, where he lived out his days training young Monks and healing any sick or broken who came his way. Upon his death, Dwayna herself inducted him into Tahnnakai temple.
Game Guide Entry: This legendary Monk was made Master of the Kaziin Monastery about seven hundred years ago. It is said that Dwayna herself ensconced Karei’s soul in the Temple as a reward for his boundless generosity.
Jaizhanju’s Stone Pedestal (Warrior):
Jaizhanju was an exceptionally strong and tall young warrior who lived over three hundred years ago. Orphaned at birth and self-trained, Jaizhanju traveled Cantha and single-handedly defeated bands of monsters that threatened villages all over the countryside.
When the emperor invited her to visit him in the Forbidden City so he could reward her, she arrived days late, having stopped to defend an orphanage against a skale invasion. Standing before the emperor’s throne, she refused his proffered reward, and instead offered her sword and her life in exchange for the insult of tardiness.
The bemused emperor refused her offer, and Jaizhanju continued to defend the weak until her death five years later, by which time legends numbered her kills in the tens of thousands. The emperor himself petitioned the oracle to give her a place in the Tahnnakai temple, and so it was.
Game Guide Entry: A selfless Warrior who once offered her life to the emperor to atone for the insult of tardiness, Jaizhanju slew thousands of enemies defending the weak and powerless before falling in battle.
Zojun’s Stone Pedestal (Ranger):
Five hundred years ago, Canthan forests began, one-by-one, to shrivel and turn black, all life within them sucked dry. Zojun, a legendary Ranger even then, sought to discover the cause of the forests’ destruction and eventually discovered that an evil wizard, Magadore, was sucking life from the Canthan forests and converting it to magical energy, which he planned to use to power a great magical war against the Canthan emperor.
Zojun called upon his fellow Rangers, and they swept through Cantha’s remaining forests, charming every beast of any size that crossed their paths. Legends tell of a great bestial army that thundered across the land and grew in size until every creature in Cantha had joined its ranks.
When the Rangers and their allies reached Magadore’s lair, the sheer weight of their numbers collapsed the earth, and Magadore was crushed beneath them. The life he had stolen rose up out of the ground and returned to the forests, which instantly flourished once again.
Game Guide Entry: This bold and charismatic Ranger famously led a bestial army against a dark wizard five centuries earlier and saved the forests of Cantha from destruction.
Kaolai’s Stone Pedestal (Ritualist):
Although the stories are sketchy, the rumor is that a thousand years ago, when the gods walked Tyria, the Ritualist Mao (Kaolai?), and old man even then, challenged Balthazar to a game of Mui in exchange for sparing a village that had offended the god through some long-forgotten breach of etiquette.
Balthazar laughingly accepted, and the game began. Seven days later it ended with Mao the winner, and the villagers were spared. But in a fit of anger, Balthazar slew Mao. Afterwards, in a rare gesture of sportsmanship, the god ordered Mao inducted into Tahnnakai Temple.
Game Guide Entry: If not for Vizu’s skill and quick wits, Shiro Tagachi might have well succeeded in becoming all-powerful two hundred years ago. But how did she stop him? And can she do so again? Freeing Vizu to share her knowledge is the ultimate goal of this mission.
Vizu’s Stone Pedestal (Assassin):
Two hundred years ago, a young but talented Assassin named Vizu gave her life protecting the emperor. While attending the Harvest Festival, Vizu chanced to lock eyes with the emperor’s main bodyguard, and what she saw there chilled her to the bone. Acting upon a premonition, she began to make her way through the tightly packed crowds and closer to the temple.
Before she could reach it, however, an alarm was sounded and she heard the sounds of a fight from the tower where Angsiyan was to have made his blessing to Dwayna. Using the tools of her profession, she shadow stepped to the tower, where she saw Shiro standing over the Emperor’s body, feeding off of his life force. She called to him and then, using the last reserves of her energy, shadow stepped behind him, digging her daggers into his shoulders.
Vizu’s brave move provided the Kurzick and Luxon champions the time they needed to get to the tower, and they finished off the Betrayer using his own blades, which he had dropped when Vizu attacked. Unfortunately, Vizu was killed when Shiro’s death wail washed over the lands in what has since become known as the Jade Wind.
Here's all the info I gathered on the Temple of Tahnnakai Inductees--took Screenshots of the stone pedestal, but instead of uploading the shots (which would not be nice to MY connection or 56k users) I typed it all up. Which took a while. So I hope this gives you some insight. (As an Elementalist, and a Ritualist...Teinai and Kaolai are awesome. And I'm not biased at all <_<)
Information/Lore
Kitah’s Stone Pedestal (Mesmer):
Three hundred years ago, when the thriving Cantha port of Dinfang was invaded by the people then known only as “naitahlen” or “pirates,” the Canthan Army sent a small force stationed at nearby Fort Fu to put down what they saw as nothing more than a pack of rabid dogs.
When young Kitah arrived with her troops, she discovered that an organized invasion was underway, led by the naitahlen admiral, Appollonia. Severely outnumbered and out-gunned, the Mesmer created a cloud of illusion that made her squadron appear to double in size, then redouble, then redouble again until her force appeared as a great army. As she ordered the charge, the naitahlen scattered in terror, many running into the sea and drowning themselves.
In the midst of the chaos, Kitah found Appollonia, a Warrior, and the two fought until both fell down dead on the battlefield. Dinfang was ultimately saved, and Kitah inducted into Tahnnakai Temple.
Game Guide Entry: Three hundred years ago, Kitah the Mesmer sacrificed her own life to defeat a Warrior princess. Both are enshrined in Tahnnakai.
Naku’s Stone Pedestal (Necromancer):
Brash and impulsive in his youth, Naku was a known criminal in his home village in eastern Cantha. When the Tengu wars began, Naku joined the Canthan army in an effort to protect his family and his shady business interests.
Years of war gave him a new perspective on the nature of life and death, and eventually, Naku became a respected general, using his Necromancer powers against the Tengu who resisted Canthan rule.
When Kahnmaatu, the village of his birth, was destroyed, Naku returned home and created a vast army of minions from the corpses of his relatives and childhood playmates, then sacrificed his life to drive them directly into the enemy. This action shattered enemy lines and pushed the Tengu back far enough that the Canthan army was able to overcome them.
Game Guide Entry: The most recent inductee to Tahnnakai used every last piece of Necromancer magic including his soul to destroy the Tengu who murdered his hometown.
Teinai’s Stone Pedestal (Elementalist):
One hundered years ago, a demon came to Cantha. He was called Mang, and he found himself flesh after a foolish young Necromancer named Juedo attempted a forbidden ritual and succeeded against all odds. For years Mang terrorized the countryside despite the best efforts of Cantha’s premier mages to outsmart him.
One winter day, Teinai, then a bold young student, approached her headmaster with a plan. The next day, Teinai herself lured Mang to the shore of a great lake, the surface of which was frozen solid. She walked out onto the ice, and Mang followed, eventually reaching the center while Teinai continued on to the other shore.
As he did, Teinai raised her hand, and fire rained down upon Mang, melting the ice beneath him. He plunged into the icy lake, and Teinai shrieked a command; the lake froze solid around Mang’s thrashing form, and he was trapped. Now lightning and boulders finished the job only Teinai had known how to begin, and Mang was returned to the underworld.
Teinai, after a long and successful life as an Elementalist, was ensconced in Tahnnakai temple.
Game Guide Entry: Teinai was once an Elementalist of great renown. She is believed to have inducted herself into the temple on the strength of her magic alone.
Karei’s Stone Pedestal (Monk):
Karei was a powerful healer who lived several hundered years ago. For most of his life he tended a small village in northern Cantha, curing ills and setting broken bones, refusing pay and only accepting food and basic supplies from the community.
One day, a wealthy Canthan noble and his small entourage passed by Karei’s village and were attacked by bandits in the nearby woods. The noble suffered a grievous wound, and after killing the bandits, his guards brought him to Karei, who healed him easily.
When the wealthy man attempted to pay him in gold, the Monk refused. Next the noble offered Karei employment on his lavish estate; again, the Monk refused. Finally, the noble offered to give the Monk great powers that would make him a god among men, but Karei would not be moved. Smiling, the noble stood and let his cloak fall away, and as he did, he was transformed into a beautiful woman.
The goddess Dwayna herself stood before Karei and placed a hand upon his head. “Thrice have I tempted you and thrice you have resisted. I choose you.” Called by his goddess, Karei could not refuse his new appointment as Master of the Kaziin Monastery, where he lived out his days training young Monks and healing any sick or broken who came his way. Upon his death, Dwayna herself inducted him into Tahnnakai temple.
Game Guide Entry: This legendary Monk was made Master of the Kaziin Monastery about seven hundred years ago. It is said that Dwayna herself ensconced Karei’s soul in the Temple as a reward for his boundless generosity.
Jaizhanju’s Stone Pedestal (Warrior):
Jaizhanju was an exceptionally strong and tall young warrior who lived over three hundred years ago. Orphaned at birth and self-trained, Jaizhanju traveled Cantha and single-handedly defeated bands of monsters that threatened villages all over the countryside.
When the emperor invited her to visit him in the Forbidden City so he could reward her, she arrived days late, having stopped to defend an orphanage against a skale invasion. Standing before the emperor’s throne, she refused his proffered reward, and instead offered her sword and her life in exchange for the insult of tardiness.
The bemused emperor refused her offer, and Jaizhanju continued to defend the weak until her death five years later, by which time legends numbered her kills in the tens of thousands. The emperor himself petitioned the oracle to give her a place in the Tahnnakai temple, and so it was.
Game Guide Entry: A selfless Warrior who once offered her life to the emperor to atone for the insult of tardiness, Jaizhanju slew thousands of enemies defending the weak and powerless before falling in battle.
Zojun’s Stone Pedestal (Ranger):
Five hundred years ago, Canthan forests began, one-by-one, to shrivel and turn black, all life within them sucked dry. Zojun, a legendary Ranger even then, sought to discover the cause of the forests’ destruction and eventually discovered that an evil wizard, Magadore, was sucking life from the Canthan forests and converting it to magical energy, which he planned to use to power a great magical war against the Canthan emperor.
Zojun called upon his fellow Rangers, and they swept through Cantha’s remaining forests, charming every beast of any size that crossed their paths. Legends tell of a great bestial army that thundered across the land and grew in size until every creature in Cantha had joined its ranks.
When the Rangers and their allies reached Magadore’s lair, the sheer weight of their numbers collapsed the earth, and Magadore was crushed beneath them. The life he had stolen rose up out of the ground and returned to the forests, which instantly flourished once again.
Game Guide Entry: This bold and charismatic Ranger famously led a bestial army against a dark wizard five centuries earlier and saved the forests of Cantha from destruction.
Kaolai’s Stone Pedestal (Ritualist):
Although the stories are sketchy, the rumor is that a thousand years ago, when the gods walked Tyria, the Ritualist Mao (Kaolai?), and old man even then, challenged Balthazar to a game of Mui in exchange for sparing a village that had offended the god through some long-forgotten breach of etiquette.
Balthazar laughingly accepted, and the game began. Seven days later it ended with Mao the winner, and the villagers were spared. But in a fit of anger, Balthazar slew Mao. Afterwards, in a rare gesture of sportsmanship, the god ordered Mao inducted into Tahnnakai Temple.
Game Guide Entry: If not for Vizu’s skill and quick wits, Shiro Tagachi might have well succeeded in becoming all-powerful two hundred years ago. But how did she stop him? And can she do so again? Freeing Vizu to share her knowledge is the ultimate goal of this mission.
Vizu’s Stone Pedestal (Assassin):
Two hundred years ago, a young but talented Assassin named Vizu gave her life protecting the emperor. While attending the Harvest Festival, Vizu chanced to lock eyes with the emperor’s main bodyguard, and what she saw there chilled her to the bone. Acting upon a premonition, she began to make her way through the tightly packed crowds and closer to the temple.
Before she could reach it, however, an alarm was sounded and she heard the sounds of a fight from the tower where Angsiyan was to have made his blessing to Dwayna. Using the tools of her profession, she shadow stepped to the tower, where she saw Shiro standing over the Emperor’s body, feeding off of his life force. She called to him and then, using the last reserves of her energy, shadow stepped behind him, digging her daggers into his shoulders.
Vizu’s brave move provided the Kurzick and Luxon champions the time they needed to get to the tower, and they finished off the Betrayer using his own blades, which he had dropped when Vizu attacked. Unfortunately, Vizu was killed when Shiro’s death wail washed over the lands in what has since become known as the Jade Wind.