Crystal Shard



Crystal Shards are fragments of the Vision Crystal. Only three shards are known to exist.

The history of the Crystal Shards is one of pride, envy, and distrust. When the ancient Elonians came to the Crystal Desert to ascend, they created the Vision Crystal to focus the gaze of the Old Gods of Tyria on the Chosen standing atop the Throne of Pellentia in the Temple of Ascension. Unfortunately, the three main Elonian priests couldn't agree on who should be charged with keeping the Crystal, and so decided to divide the crystal and the charge. This, perhaps, led to their fall. Hehmnut, the oldest of the priests, believed that the charge should be solely his; he plotted relentlessly to obtain the other two Shards, even to the exclusion of the well being of his followers. Kahdat didn't particularly desire the charge, but, fearing the danger of any one faction having a majority of the crystals, he instructed his disciples to jealously guard their third. Nahtem and his disciples lost faith in themselves as their brethren fell to the elements and the feuding; on a bleak night they prayed to the Gods to end their misery, and the Gods granted the wish.

Now the Shards lie in Elona Reach, in the ruins of the Elonian camps, guarded over by the Forgotten and Enchanted. In the Elona Reach mission, the Ghostly Hero Turai Ossa leads the players to the camps, wherein they extract the Shards from under their Forgotten guards. Ossa reassembles the Vision Crystal, and the players get another step closer to Ascension.