Talk:Crystal Desert

I'm working on my Wiki skills here, and I'm taking note of all of the things that are being changed about my work (thank you!). Should the Cities and Outposts section go as subcategories of Areas? Maybe we can work on expanding the template for Locations.


 * Join the discussion at Talk:Locations --Karlos 09:42, 27 Sep 2005 (EST)

I noticed your edit there Skuld...maybe the Elona Reach/Dunes of Despair/Thirsty River redirects need work? It looks kind of silly with three different formats on the exact same list. - Lunarbunny 03:07, 8 Oct 2005 (EST)
 * Skuld, I reverted your edit here because it made no sense to me.
 * I have a suggestion though, instead of having it listed the way it is now what about this:
 * Elona Reach (Mission)
 * Thirsty River (Mission)
 * Dunes of Despair (Mission)
 * That way clicking on the name takes you to the location entry and clicking on "Mission" takes you to the mission entry. I haven't done much/anything to region entries, so I'm not going to make this change as I don't know what formats have been discussed, but this is my suggestion.  --Rainith 03:35, 8 Oct 2005 (EST)
 * /me goes and copies that. Thanks for a little sense Rainith :) - Lunarbunny 03:45, 8 Oct 2005 (EST)

I tried Photoshopping some icons in .gif for IE (yuck) compatibility. I would like to know if you object to me uploading what appears to already be here in .png. I'll see if I can link them to show them. - Lunarbunny 21:00, 8 Oct 2005 (EST)
 * Alright, all of my examples sans Guild Hall here. I do also see that there are .gif versions of these, but they seem quite messy and have no standard size. - Lunarbunny 21:17, 8 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * We have some already. Used at Locations.  If you can make some that look cleaner, that's fine.  --Fyren 00:10, 9 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * I should probably stop trying to hijack stuff... - Lunarbunny 11:29, 9 Oct 2005 (EST)

Timeframe for becoming 'Desert'?
The Ghostly Hero tells us that the Margonites came "hundreds of years ago" at which time the desert was under water. The lore book says: "Legends tell of a time, thousands of years ago, when the Crystal Desert was covered in water. These legends claim that it was the gods who raised the land, leaving it bare and empty". That's a slight mismatch in timeframes :) Of course we know that humans didn't exist thousands of years ago, so the physical evidence points to the legends being wrong.


 * The entire history of humans is ~1300 years ago, during which some human civilization came and found water, so yes, the thousands doesn't seem right, UNLESS the Margonites were not human. Do we KNOW they are human? --Karlos 07:18, 28 October 2005 (EST)

According to the Nightfall Mini Strategy Guide:

"Civilized nations recognise revere [sic] the Five True Gods. But heretics speak of a sixth god...a fallen god. A thousand years ago, the spiritual ancestors of these heretics, the Margonites, fought an epic battle on the northern plains of Elona. The resulting carnage created a vast wasteland - the realm now known as the Crystal Desert."

So the legend of the Gods raising it out of the water would appear to be just that, a legend. ....Maybe. Given the timeline, they could have raised it "thousands" of years ago, and it went from simply sparse plains to a complete desert after the Margonite war one thousand years ago. Either way, someone (not me :) should incorporate this into the article. Arshay Duskbrow 15:13, 26 September 2006 (CDT)


 * According to the Thirsty River dialogue the area that would later become the Crystal Desert was partially covered in water when the Margonites arrived. Unless I missed something, we don't really know who was on the other side of the epic battle, it could've been humans, forgotten, dragons, skales or even rebel margonites. -- Gordon Ecker 04:02, 18 October 2006 (CDT)

How do I beat these things??
Most beast articles have mesmer tactics, I'm E/N so i'm thinking of adding those class tactics. I'm starting with Crystal Desert beasts... So, make suggestions for elementalist or necromancer skills and spells that work really well and i'll try 'em out and organize 'em.

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returned to the rift???
I don't remember any lore stuff saying most of the Forgotten returned to the Rift. I thought ALL of them went to the Crystal Desert. Does anyone remember where the info is from or can prove/disprove otherwise the statement that most of the Forgotten returned to the Rift? - 07:28, 3 September 2006 (CDT)
 * This may be my missinterpretation of the entry in the History of Tyria: "174 AE: Serpents leave the world of men." In my understanding the Crystal Desert is part of the "world of men". --[[Image:TurningL sml.gif|Tetris L]] 11:23, 3 September 2006 (CDT)
 * If that is the source then I'll call it a misinterpretation then. "Seeing that the world has changed, and preferring not to fight a war over control of the continent, the serpents retreated from teh world of men.  They left the coasts adn the jungles.  They abandoned their settlements in teh highlands and in the mountians. Leaving the newcomers be, the serpents went to live in the only playce where we humans did not--or could not: the Crystal Desert."  Top of page 28. - 14:17, 3 September 2006 (CDT)

elite skills of the crystal desert
Is there a page of elite skills found in the crystal desert? How would one know what elite skills can be found here? --69.231.115.101 05:21, 1 October 2006 (CDT)
 * See skills by capture location (Prophecies). -- Gordon Ecker 04:02, 18 October 2006 (CDT)