User blog:SsVivid/What I Learned From Campfire Q&A 4-17-14

Points displayed in brown  are purely mod opinion or speculation, and are not actually to be taken as definitive canon because there's a chance they may be changed in the future or contradict content in the works by another mod.


 * We can expect to see future content revealing more specifics about how to achieve godhood, whether Zaros/Seren can actually do it, and if they can, whether the rest of the gods can do it, too.
 * Sliske was not working with Guthix and is not a guardian of Guthix.
 * Skargaroth and Loarnab were likely both borne of long-dead races we have ever heard of.
 * ??? The elder gods are the source of magical power and by extension the source of divine power in the universe of RuneScape, so their nature is very vaguely similar to that of the ascendant gods.
 * ??? Guthix had been in possession of the Stone of Jas for quite a lot of time; even if he wasn't directly using it, he did seemingly absorb some of it's power just by proximity. - So, simply close proximity to the Stone can alter a being, but we already knew that, didn't we? See: Moonclan.
 * ??? As a result, Guthix was a uniquely powerful being who was willing to sacrifice some of his own divine power in order to ward the World Guardian against those who shared his divine nature. This had a larger effect on the ascendant gods, but acts as a small spanner in the works to Elder Gods.
 * The Measure was created by the previous cycle of elder gods.
 * Zaros is probably not powerful enough to repair the Elder Sword.
 * The reason we have such mixed messages about whether or not an elder god can "die" (see: the definition of an elder god dying on the official wiki, versus Mah's crappy husk-like state) is because we're trying to apply very mortal terminology to something massively alien and powerful. More understanding of what exactly is going on can be expected in future content.
 * Elder energy and divination energy are two entirely different things.
 * Zaros is composed of pure elder energy.
 * Guthix used the anima mundi and his own power to create the barrier around the world that nullified god magic. That magic is very similar to the one used on the World Guardian. In a sense, the player is a pocket Gielinor!
 * Guthix used the anima mundi and his own power to create the barrier around the world that nullified god magic. That magic is very similar to the one used on the World Guardian. In a sense, the player is a pocket Gielinor!
 * ??? This could well be what happened in TWW with respect to Azzanadra's actions.
 * We know Elder Gods can diminish/power down... which is actually what they do after their "eggs" are laid. It's emthing like returning to their source.
 * ??? Guthix also imparted some of his knowledge with that power, but what exactly will only become clear as and when it needs to be - e.g. things like just 'knowing' the names of things and elder artefacts on sight. There are a couple instances of this in Fate of the Gods.
 * Regarding our established definitions of "stonetoucher" and "false user": it's just Sliske's belief, but he thinks a false user is someone who has drawn power from the Stone of Jas, whereas a stonetoucher is just anyone who has touched the stone (or has only used it to draw knowledge). It's not exact, and there's probably some overlap. It likely just comes down to how annoyed the dragonkin are with you.
 * ??? On the subject of gods having souls or not: 'Soul' can mean many things. Do they lose all vestige of their old race? No. Do they have give up on the right to travel to their race's afterlife? Very possibly.
 * Divination memories are a complex mesh of god energy and anima mundi
 * Mahjarrat would not consider Moia (a half-) to be Mahjarrat. Zamorak might, though.
 * ??? Gods utilize a completely different form of magic than mortals. God magic has different "DNA" so to speak.
 * The "rune essence" in runespan is not really the same stuff as rune essence on Gielinor; on Gielinor, essence is rock that was exposed to the Stone of Jas for a long time. This is not the case in runespan.
 * Souls are composed of anima, but not all anima is soul.
 * The Stone of Jas is not an egg from the last cycle.
 * The Idol of Many Heads is totem-esque and connected with pirate lore, so probably does not have anything to do with Loarnab.
 * Armadyl bashed Bandos's skull in because he'd just won the war and it was a bit of catharsis. Bandos was already dead, so it wasn't really a barbaric act. The boring answer is likely just as a way to clearly state that, yes, Bandos is really dead, not as any sort of character insight.
 * At the bottom of Floor 61 was the resting place of Zamorak, which was outside Gielinor (a form of dimensional rift). So, no, it would not be the quickest way to reach Gielinor's elder halls.
 * Dragonkin are not the only surviving race from the previous cycle.
 * While there aren't any Aviantese seen residing on the surface of Gielinor after the conclusion of B&tB, it's possible that there are still Aviantese, just in places we can't access at the moment.
 * It's very likely that Brassica ascended just by complete freak chance.
 * ??? It's possible that Brassica absorbed some of the energy radiating off of the Stone when it rested on Gielinor in combination with some of the anima mundi. Once he was linked with anima mundi, the cocktail ascended him. He has grown stronger over the years and was able to get around the edicts because he is so tightly tied to the anima mundi (which he calls deliciousness).
 * Demons are not demons as in the biblical creatures from Earth religion. They are a separate race that functions differently from the demons of theology. There is no hell from which "demons" originate, just another plane that is their homeworld.
 * Demons are also not pure evil, they're merely another faction of people; the Avernic just happen to be very chaotic.
 * It's very probable that "Misthalin" was used as the name of a geographic region before the Kingdom of Misthalin took its name.
 * You can teleport out of Freneskae because the teleport somehow routes back through the World Gate, like call forwarding or something. Though the actual answer to this question is, "Look, it would have been obnoxious if you couldn't use teleports to get out, so just don't read into it."
 * The race of the Mahjarrat is now officially "Dreams of Mah." Mahjarrat specifically are "Children of Mah." It's not official yet, but Chelon-Mah would be like "Beloved of Mah" and Mahserrat something similar.
 * Elder gods are not inherently evil or moral. Mortal life are like ants to them, they really just aren't interested. This aligns them pretty naturally as true neutral creatures.
 * ??? The spiders' word for the Spider Realm is their equivalent of 'the world'. Their society is feudal and hierarchical, with spider lords ruling huge webs that contain the webs of lesser spiders. A spider without a web of their own is a low-status outcast. None of this was previously defined; Mod John A just made it all up.
 * Juna and Fiara are both unique creations. There are not others like them.
 * The humans that Guthix took to Gielinor were one of the colonies of Teragard.
 * When Guthix moved them, they had likely been away from Saradomin for long enough that their culture moved away from the worship of gods to something more specific to their world.
 * Saradomin is often both misunderstood and misinterpreted by the playerbase, particularly those who often attack him as a viciouos, wing-ripping, double-faced god.
 * Ascension does not work the same way for all deities all the time. However, reliably, becoming a god seems to make you "more." More of your essential nature - so, Tuska exemplifies the beast and thus became more of a beast.
 * This is why Tuska didn't sprout sentience like Marimbo did.
 * Apmeken and Marimbo have met and they got on fairly well.
 * Loarnab is so dead
 * While it's not absolutely impossible, because there were so many of them and they've been dead a very long time, the possibility of Saradomin bringing back the Naragi with the Wand of Resurrection would be so difficult that it's effectively impossible.
 * With the exception of the Dorgeshuun who were physically separated from the others, the goblin tribes have intermingled so much that they no longer really exist as separate entities. The descendants of the tribes that were sold to Saradomin and Zarmorak now worship Bandos.
 * (Mod Osborne says) "We know exactly who the Dark Lord is. I would suggest that it's unlikely to be Zaros or Zamorak."
 * Zaros actively dislikes when people are controlled by him just because of his loyalty-instilling power. It's a useful tool, but loyalty brought on by mystical means lacks the stability of true loyalty.
 * The other gods are not able to simply detect Zaros's presence. Azzanadra only picked up on it because he was actively looking and Zaros specifically reached out to him.