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Sepulchre

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Zulkir said :
Sepulchre said :
Zulkir said :
Sepulchre said :
Wahisietel said :
The bearded man is pretty much confirmed to be the Smuggler at this point. And I seriously doubt Xau-Tak has any connection to Daemonheim. I like the idea of something besides Zamorak being at the bottom of Daemonheim, explaining why Bilrach went mad... but Dishonour among Thieves pretty much killed any chance of that happening. I feel like DaT is going to be.. ignored, for the most part. I've been hearing a lot of people say that Nomad's Elegy ignored a lot of the lore it came with.
Have you ever considered that maybe Xau-Tak isn't so much a living being as it is an.. idea?

Do you know how absurdly boring that would be? Well technically Xau-Tak IS an idea... Mod Wilson's idea.

I really am surprised he's not a Raven idea you know.

Who knew Wilson could be so cool. Wilson has been that cool since 2005, apparently.

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24-Jun-2016 06:10:02

Bonzara

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I think it's definitely possible that Xau-Tak isn't the typical 'ascended mortal' type of god. One idea I just now thought of is this: maybe Xau-Tak is like the Deplorable Word from the Na*nia books: a word that has the power to destroy the world if uttered. Other analogies might be to the Funniest Joke (from Monty Python) or the Anti-Life Equation from DC Comics.

To put it more simply, the name Xau-Tak is Xau-Tak. Xau-Tak's name has the power to take over people's minds and make them go mad, as we've already witnessed. Like a meme on steroids, it exerts power over people and uses them to spread its influence. Perhaps the black tentacles and other stuff associated with him are hallucinations brought on by the word as well.

This might explain the Death at Sea incident. A word exists outside of time, and as a result, those controlled by its power might appear to know the future.

It might also explain why Xau-Tak was seemingly unaffected by the edicts and remained on Gielinor, yet also appears to have influenced other worlds as well. Guthix would not have been able to banish a word, and it can easily be in multiple places at once.

Why would a word have so much power? Perhaps it's a fail-safe put into the cosmos by the Elder Gods. Given that they did not want sentient life to evolve, perhaps they made Xau-Tak so that if sentient races did evolve, they would soon discover the power behind its name and destroy themselves with it.

If Xau-Tak is a word rather than a living being, its "godhood tier" would probably be an imaginary number. Tier i gods FTW! Are you ready to enter the Mind of Rutha?

24-Jun-2016 08:25:32

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Sepulchre

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That would be a huge letdown, tbh.

The Death at Sea incident involves items as well, not to mention the people all end up just.. dead, plus the ship is sunk. and the "The spiral of time leads only to the gaping maw of eternity." line seems to suggest Xau-Tak does exist inside the boundaries of time, but is able to traverse time, or allow others to do so.

Also, Guthix had to banish each god one by one, so ***-Tak could simply not have been known to him.

If the word has the power to destroy the world... why has it been said and the world is still here?

Mah was the Elder responsible for making sure mortals didn't become so.. powerful or intelligent, with her stillborn, Xau-Tak couldn't exist. A

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24-Jun-2016 09:31:13

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^That, or, more worryingly, he wasn't able to banish Xau-Tak.

Though I would like to point out that Bonzara's theory is pretty much what we've been doing since we first heard the name; obsessing about it. Newest Disciple of Xau-Tak

25-Jun-2016 02:13:39

Zulkir

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I want Xau-Tak to be a physical being, I want to talk to it, but I want him to be different.

Like, Zaros compared to the young gods different.

Something beyond anything we've been used too, something perhaps entirely different than anything we could've come up with ourselves.

But I'm afraid he'll be a one hit wonder tied to the pirate series. Or worse like V.

With this much foreshadowing in Endgame he better end up being a major player in whatever next year has in store.

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25-Jun-2016 03:11:38

Raleirosen

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Zulkir said :
Like, Zaros compared to the young gods different.
Zaros, as he's presented in FOT* and TLW, is no different from the young gods. Patrolling Lore FC almost makes you wish for a Great Revision.

25-Jun-2016 05:03:52 - Last edited on 25-Jun-2016 05:04:35 by Raleirosen

Ancient Drew

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Zulkir said :
I want Xau-Tak to be a physical being, I want to talk to it, but I want him to be different.

Like, Zaros compared to the young gods different.

Something beyond anything we've been used too, something perhaps entirely different than anything we could've come up with ourselves.

But I'm afraid he'll be a one hit wonder tied to the pirate series. Or worse like V.

With this much foreshadowing in Endgame he better end up being a major player in whatever next year has in store. Which got me thinking he could be a parasite god. The kind which splits itself into millions of spores each of which are weaker than the average mortal, and they affect their hosts and preach its 'philosophy' through mind control i.e. the slugs, which also feature in the Braindeath 'rum'.

In Death at Sea, Sliske hears about how the treasure the Glory of Zaros pulled up had sung to the crew, and crawled out to sea. And Sliske dedicated quite a while of his time into studying Xau-Tak. If anything, a parasite god is hardly going to be a one hit wonder. Some people speculate that it might be Sliske's master, although even if Sliske 'served' anyone it was for his own gain and is currently taking advantage of them now. Prepare for hell on RuneScape in Naval Cataclysm!

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26-Jun-2016 03:31:30

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Sepulchre

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Nolhiir said :
^That, or, more worryingly, he wasn't able to banish Xau-Tak.

Though I would like to point out that Bonzara's theory is pretty much what we've been doing since we first heard the name; obsessing about it. I'd hope Guthix would mention a god so powerful he was unable to banish them.
That sounds like something we'd have to deal with, and we'd need to be.. prepared. IF Xau-Tak was too strong for Guthix to banish, then Xau-Tak would be stronger than Zaros and Seren... A

World Guardian

must learn to find

Balance

in themselves.
Only then can they

Control

themselves and forge their own

Fate .

27-Jun-2016 04:34:42

Ancient Drew

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Sepulchre said :
Nolhiir said :
^That, or, more worryingly, he wasn't able to banish Xau-Tak.

Though I would like to point out that Bonzara's theory is pretty much what we've been doing since we first heard the name; obsessing about it. I'd hope Guthix would mention a god so powerful he was unable to banish them.
That sounds like something we'd have to deal with, and we'd need to be.. prepared. IF Xau-Tak was too strong for Guthix to banish, then Xau-Tak would be stronger than Zaros and Seren... It's probably less of a question of power than one of wits. Even if V wasn't that strong, he was sneaky and managed to glean some information on Xau-Tak, and Saradomin proved his strategic abilities with his amulets. Then we have Bandos who thought up all kinds of war scenarios, Armadyl who I think used psychologically warfare in BatB, and Zamorak who managed to get one over Zaros.

As for Xau-Tak, I would say he managed to evade the Edicts through some means, and uses dreams to communicate. A bit like Freddy Krueger with tentacles. And the World Guardian might be its natural enemy since it makes threats against us before we're even born. Prepare for hell on RuneScape in Naval Cataclysm!

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27-Jun-2016 15:56:07

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