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*Sigh* Alright then, let's begin the dissection:

1. It is not a fact that Wen is in two pieces. That is a theory. There is the alternative theories that Wen is simply so massive that she stretches between the two mountain ranges or that Wen is active below Gielinor's surface.

2. It was never established that parasites can control gods, only that Guthix allowed them to connect to his nervous system in order to communicate with them.

3. We know that Mah is supposed to play an active role in the creation of a revision (she inhibited sentient life), so it would make no sense for them to return and find Mah still born. Rather, Zaros's interpretation, that they left Mah for stillborn from the beginning.

Beyond that, the fact that the Dragonkin came from the previous revision strongly suggests that Mah's corruption originates at some point near the end of the previous cycle. And because the corruption would have had to occur while the others were creating the universe, this would mean that, despite not playing an active role in creation, Wen travels with the others while the universe is being created.

4. There is nothing in the surrounding geography that suggests that White Wolf and Ice Mountains were created by a large object crashing into the surface (no impact crater). For example, the Wilderness has a crater that is very clearly meant to have been caused by the explosion that woke Guthix at the end of the 3rd age, Tuska's crash landing left bits of her strewn about the surrounding area, Tumeken's explosion left the Kharidian a desert, the Poison Wastes exist because of the processes the gnomes of Arposandra utilize, etc...

03-Apr-2017 19:23:44

Wahisietel
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Xau-Tak likely has no direct connection to the Elder Gods, although I theorise Xau-Tak may originate from the previous cycle. You never were our brightest star, Khazard. 'Vermin slaughtered like lambs'? What does that even mean?

03-Apr-2017 19:38:45

Uncle Harper
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Hguoh said :
*Sigh* Alright then, let's begin the dissection:

1. It is not a fact that Wen is in two pieces. That is a theory. There is the alternative theories that Wen is simply so massive that she stretches between the two mountain ranges or that Wen is active below Gielinor's surface.

2. It was never established that parasites can control gods, only that Guthix allowed them to connect to his nervous system in order to communicate with them.

3. We know that Mah is supposed to play an active role in the creation of a revision (she inhibited sentient life), so it would make no sense for them to return and find Mah still born. Rather, Zaros's interpretation, that they left Mah for stillborn from the beginning.

Beyond that, the fact that the Dragonkin came from the previous revision strongly suggests that Mah's corruption originates at some point near the end of the previous cycle. And because the corruption would have had to occur while the others were creating the universe, this would mean that, despite not playing an active role in creation, Wen travels with the others while the universe is being created.

4. There is nothing in the surrounding geography that suggests that White Wolf and Ice Mountains were created by a large object crashing into the surface (no impact crater). For example, the Wilderness has a crater that is very clearly meant to have been caused by the explosion that woke Guthix at the end of the 3rd age, Tuska's crash landing left bits of her strewn about the surrounding area, Tumeken's explosion left the Kharidian a desert, the Poison Wastes exist because of the processes the gnomes of Arposandra utilize, etc...


As I stated, it was a theory based on assumptions. As most of things in RS are. Very few things are verified. Xau's very existence may never come into play with Mod Wilson no longer at Jagex.
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03-Apr-2017 19:55:49

Uncle Harper
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Wahisietel said :
Xau-Tak likely has no direct connection to the Elder Gods, although I theorise Xau-Tak may originate from the previous cycle.


It is highly unlikely that he has any connection with them at all. I came up with the theory based on Sliske going from having no working knowledge of him, to being quite aware of him by Endgame. There are many ways this could have happened but I decided to connect it to Sliske coming across an Elder God.
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03-Apr-2017 19:57:31

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Okay I cba to go through everything I've missed but here we go with what I did read.

That thing about the engram is interesting. Personally, part of it makes me think of Mother Mallum, especially the "finding a new host" part. The likelihood of a connection to Xau-Tak is pretty high otherwise, though it gives a whole new twist to his story. If he was indeed the Corruption at the center, how did... it get there in the first place? I have a theory I'm working, but it's way too long for me to type out right now.. maybe later?

As for the connection to the Elders... that fits into my theory as well...
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04-Apr-2017 14:41:17

BarryManilow
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It could be possible that Xau-Tek isn't a god at all. If we were to draw comparisons from Cthulu, C2lu wasn't much of an elder god either. Instead, he was the priest to beings far greater than him.

It could be that Xau-Tek is an incredibly powerful extradimensional being that's only a herald to an Elder God or an even greater extradimensional being. Imagine him as an antithesis of a World Guardian that corrupts instead of protects, and travels to different realms to herald the arrival of something greater than it.

That could be a reason why he wasn't seemingly affected by the Edicts.
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12-Apr-2017 15:19:22

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Here's hoping there are eventually some solid concrete answers, yet that they aren't so solid as to inevitably be massively underwhelming in comparison to what amounts to years of speculation.
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24-Jun-2017 09:49:26

Inque
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Random thought: maybe Xau-Tak's the sixth elder god!?

On a more serious note, I personally think that Xau-Tak is somehow unaffected by the rules of reality of this world. So the concept of time has no meaning to it, or it has a different definition of time. Which means that a possessed sailor can speak directly to us thousands of years before we were born, before we even existed. Xau-Tak can simply do that.

Also, I heard of some players explaining Gustav by saying the player simply used the Amserdryws, or the enchanted key. I laugh at that idea, because it's waaayyy too simple an explanation - Xau's a lot more than that!
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22-Jul-2017 07:47:40

Uncle Harper
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Hopefully Mod Raven chimes in to this question: With all the build up in the Sliske's endgame series (Nomads elegy, Kindred Spirts, Children of Mah, and endgame), why hasn't there been any new Xau content released lately? We are peppered with all kinds of Xau references in the years big Arc and then...nothing. I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim;
Where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name.

28-Jul-2017 19:45:32

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Uncle Harper said :
Hopefully Mod Raven chimes in to this question: With all the build up in the Sliske's endgame series (Nomads elegy, Kindred Spirts, Children of Mah, and endgame), why hasn't there been any new Xau content released lately? We are peppered with all kinds of Xau references in the years big Arc and then...nothing.
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