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Jeremy Cheng
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Do you guys think the lore reason Zeah isn't yet in RS3 is because it's where Xau-Tak comes from, and is completely under his control? This is why no character mentions Zeah at all, because Xau-Tak intentionally keeps it hidden for his plans. In the OSRS timeline, Zeah is freed from the influence of Xau-Tak because Guthix's Edicts will never be stripped, therefore in OSRS Xau-Tak is forced away from Zeah back into the Eastern sea ocean. Xau-Tak's plans to use OSRS Zeah will never happen with Guthix always alive and sleeping. Perhaps in OSRS Xau-Tak was the god that influenced Xeric to create the lizardmen and made him obsessed with the Dark Altar, as he created the Dark Altar.

But in RS3, with the death of Guthix Xau-Tak erased everyone's memory of Zeah and could come back to the continent. Without the adventurer doing quests in RS3 Zeah, Xau-Tak has regained control of the continent and given new power to the lizardmen, and all bosses in the Chambers of Xeric for his attack on the Elder Gods in a future Elder Gods quest. Xau-Tak is possibly a shadow anima Elder God, and his activities must be stopped when the World Guardian goes to the corrupted Zeah and frees it by helping the Elder Gods in GWD3 and they therefore directly strike against Xau-Tak in Zeah.

Thoughts?

08-Apr-2021 03:02:37

Roland Lyons
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For a simple answer, I just think Zeah doesn't exist in RS3 Gielinor at all.

RS3 and OSRS aren't part of a split timeline, they're alternate universe Gielinors. Not unlike the Dimension of Disaster universe even though the only thing that makes it different was the player character was never born. They share similarities like Anachronia etc. but they have major differences, including but not limited to how certain questlines play out. I think it's safe to assume until ingame dialogue says otherwise, that there's just no continent to the west of the main one.
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08-Apr-2021 16:06:03

Dilbert2001
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Xau-Tau (The Shadow) most likely came from the East alongside the unknown "cosmic beings" according to the Orthen Archaeology journals written by the Ambassador. The Dragonkin also originated in Orthen and subsequently move along the eastern coastline of the mainland. The Lore Q&A Livestream pretty much confirmed it was the case and it explained the existence of Orthen Glass in the archaeology soils along the eastern coastline digsites, as well as the whereabout of the Codex (mysterious monolith).

Zeah is in the west side of the mainland and so not likey to have seen any of the primordial Shadow, cosmic beings and Dragonkin actions. It is not likely Xau-Tak has much to do with Zeah, at least there is no lore or archaeological facts to support such a theory.

As for the theory of Xau-Tak can ignore the Guthix Edicts in the Eastern Sea but not in Zeah, that's really an iffy theory as there is no reason to believe Guthix has no influence in the Arc his edicts held in the other parts of Gielinor.

Actually, I believe Xau-Tak has been either banished or sent to afterlife in an unknown prehistoric war between two supreme races in the mysterious 1st Age that even the most ancient dragonkin didn't know of. It is not likely he has anything to do with 3rd or 4th Age content like godwar and Zeah.

08-Apr-2021 17:54:36

Vengeance of
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Roland Lyons said :
For a simple answer, I just think Zeah doesn't exist in RS3 Gielinor at all.


Yeah, until Jagex says otherwise, that's my assumption too. The last official word on the subject (during the 20 Years of Lore stream back in January is that "If we do a Zeah then we are inviting comparisons [to OSRS] in an unnecessary way." In other words, they're currently not interested in touching the Western lands, which I would imagine means that there's no plans to link any current plot threads to... whatever happens to exist in that direction.

Not to mention that there's so much of the Eastern Lands that we've learned about in Ports but have never visited in person, so I feel like we're a lot more likely to head in that direction (or to the North, to visit Acheron; the Penguins allegedly come from there and the Fremminik have talked about mounting an expedition there once the Dagannoth problem is under control) than to ever visit where Zeah stands.

09-Apr-2021 02:42:27

Dilbert2001
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Vengeance of said :
Roland Lyons said :
For a simple answer, I just think Zeah doesn't exist in RS3 Gielinor at all.


Yeah, until Jagex says otherwise, that's my assumption too. The last official word on the subject (during the 20 Years of Lore stream back in January is that "If we do a Zeah then we are inviting comparisons [to OSRS] in an unnecessary way." In other words, they're currently not interested in touching the Western lands, which I would imagine means that there's no plans to link any current plot threads to... whatever happens to exist in that direction.

Not to mention that there's so much of the Eastern Lands that we've learned about in Ports but have never visited in person, so I feel like we're a lot more likely to head in that direction (or to the North, to visit Acheron; the Penguins allegedly come from there and the Fremminik have talked about mounting an expedition there once the Dagannoth problem is under control) than to ever visit where Zeah stands.


Zeah could have existed in RS3 much like Everlight should still exist in OSRS but only sunken under the sea now.

Who knows may be A Kingdom Divided in OSRS eventually rips Zeah apart and it disappeared from Gielinor and that's why we may not know or care about Zeah in OSRS like it never existed. :)

09-Apr-2021 15:55:07

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