Tyria to Elona collection of Lore

[Darakus]

I was in the desert earlier today and decided to pay a visit to our friendly Eloniand there to collect a bit of information here is what I got.

Turai Ossa :

Champion of Elona, Protector and Leader of his people (this would make him a Paragon I believe), his main claim to fame is the defeat at the battle of Jahai of one Palawa Joko scourge of the Vabbi.

Other information we can get from him is that two people followed in the desert after the Elonian came and that they believed they were the ones mentioned in the "Flameseeker Prophecies" (which tends to indicate those are very old as the Elonians of old already knew about them and about the fact they were made by Glint)

Lord Valador :

No indication besides the fact he was beside Turai Ossa at the battle of Jahai, his claim to fame is to have carried him from the field of battle when he died at the hands of the forgotten.

General Mendosa :

General of the Elonian army, he served at the battle of Jahai.

Commander Joziah :

He calls himself the vanquisher of Dragons (which would indicate there are dragons in Elonia) and lover of women.

I'll try to collect more lore while I am in the desert to complete the collection of facts we have in a mini reference.

[Darakus]

http://www.zimagez.com/miniature/elonian-of-ancient-times.jpg (http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/elonian-of-ancient-times.php)

Here's some more i got on my exploration of the desert, these bleached bones seem to be of an Elonian (story of how the grandfather spoke of Turai Ossa with reverence) and would indicate their presence in the desert after the expedition by Turai Ossa failed, it also would give us an idea of what their clothing looked like at the time.

[Art Yi Mor]

He's got three arrows in him. That;s gotta hurt.

I don't recall any monsters nearby that use arrows, so he may have been killed by is own people.

It's the strange brown boxes (chestnuts) that interest me, why are they carrying them and what are they?

I'm hoping Palawa Joko will be given more background information in Nightfall letting us know why he was the scrouge of Vabbi. I'm sure the Elonians must have knew of him for his death to have such vibrant stories.

-Art

[Gmr Leon]

Aren't the chestnuts those things that light up near the teleporters? I'm not sure where that corpse is,but for all we know Devourers could have killed him. They shoot arrows out of their tails like bone fiends.

[choco]

Vabbi is one of the 3 Elonian nations if I'm correct.

[Darakus]

@Art Yi Mor : What is this brown box you are talking about? If you want to know what the corpse is holding it is a book.

Concerning the location of that corpse it is northeast of the area just outside Dunes of Despair.

[Quintus Antonius]

The brown boxes in question are the activators on the pedastals that engage the teleporters throughout the Desert.