SPOILER How Corruption Affects People

You never know the son they’re talking about is bob.

It’s likely but not certain. If it is, I’m assuming she was reanimated by corruption, and is still human.

Also about corruption and exposure to it, it seems it takes a long time if exposure. In the quest with the root of corruption is says that corruption affects humans much slower, and mainly affects their mind.

One could reason that after death it simply becomes much faster and becomes physical quickly, completely controlling them.

It also seems that the exposure has to be all in one go, because when you blow up the corruption spike the effects immediately disappear

 

Not all the corrupt are undead.

Theorick Twain and Garoth are examples of corruptess that didn’t die before corruption. Simply going into the portal was enough to corrupt them, but the effects were different on each mage. Theorick became physically corrupt, unable to control his body but retaining his mind, while Garoth became mentally corrupt, and went insane, while his body kept its mostly human exterior.

Living beings aren’t only corrupted through exposure to the portal, however. The angry village houses many humans that went mentally corrupt simply due to exposure to corrupt mobs and the corrupt spire. The more time spent near corrupt beings, the more mentally corrupt you become.

All undead are shown to be both physically and mentally corrupt. Their bodies are damaged and corrupted along with their minds. These undead are probably revived by the presence of corrupted land nearby, as seen in the case of the farmer’s father and Saylero’s brother.

As for the player, who really knows. In the quest “The Realm of Light”, you are told to be “hanging in the balance”, but the Heliolux leader also asks you if you’re not corrupt yourself. In the Aldorei’s Secret questline, you are referred to as a being of great light, yet to be corrupt, or even to be hanging in the balace, you must also be a being of great darkness

As the game progresses, something else changes too- as a Ragni recruit, it is practically impossible to kill a citizen because of their high health and regen. Villaers’ high health presumably symbolizes the player’s reluctance to harm them. However, as you progress further in the game, you get access to weapons that can kill villagers in towns at your level. Over time, villager health does not correlate directly with weapon damage, and eventually, killing villagers in towns at your level becomes easy. Perhaps the player really is becoming a corrupt, evil entity due to exposure to the corruption. After all- power corrupts.

 

1. I never said all corrupts are dead I simply said it takes control of them
2.overall I agree although the thing with the citizen health may be a stretch

 

exactly my point

Garoth did NOT keep his human exterior, he became this badass dragon sort of thing.
He didn’t become fully insane, he kept his desire to examine and study the unknown. However, his ambitions became too great, and he began experimenting on other creatures, resulting in all their deaths.

 

I mean, you're probably thinking too hard into this. The fact that villagers are hard to kill in the beginning is most likely just because you're just a new adventurer that lacks experience. Later on, after you gain levels and defeat insanely powerful mobs, you then sort of notice it's easier to kill a villager. If it's not easy to kill a CITIZEN that SHOULDN'T BE TRAINED IN COMBAT (at least not very well) while being able to effortlessly kill the strongest beings alive, something's seriously wrong.


The whole "something in between" business is probably just to that the player can make their own decisions. Whether it's in a quest or interactions with others, there are often "good" and "evil" choices that someone can make in situations. It'd be a hassle to track a player's quest completion (what quests he/she did, what decisions he/she made during the quest) in order to change up the dialogue. Also, you can't track each player's decisions that are made when interacting with other players.

 

One thing I just realized I don’t really understand... how does corruption form / spread. It’s clear that corruption occurs where light and dark meet, but like where did the portal come from? The portal isn’t itself corruotion, but it’s the source of corrupted mobs in Wynn. They come from the portal, and possibly corruption comes out of the portal? Like are the roots of corruption and the portal synonymous? Did the roots of corruption come from the portal? I know gavel is light and dern is dark so that makes Wynn corrupted, but like... what corruption is exactly created by it... did them being so close create the roots of corruption or the portal? Or both??

 

I believe the nether was not always corrupted - it was destroyed long ago by corruption, which escaped into Wynn when the portal was opened. The Roots of Corruption seems to just be the name of the corrupted ravine the portal's in, although it possibly refers to the spikes. So the portal predates the corruption. Of course, that only moves the problem further back. Why is the Nether corrupted? How did it get there?

 

The roots of corruption are PHYSICAL roots... they grow and everything spreads from there. There’s a discovery for it.

Overall I’d like to know more about the roots and the portal. I’ll do some digging ingame when I get on.

 

Oh yeah. They're the spikes, and they seem to come out of the ground heavily corrupted areas in general and not specifically the portal. There are some in the nether, and they look straight but point in many directions. Of course, the most heavily corrupted place in Wynn is the area around the portal, so that's where most of them come from.

 

The spikes in Wynn all grow underground from the roots. The roots of corruption spread. The thing I’m wondering is does corruption in other areas spread. For example in the realm of light, the seeds of darkness came into contact with the pure realm of light and created corruption. Does this essentially create a new system of roots that spreads independently or just small patches of corruption that don’t spread.

Most of these questions will probably be more clear when they fix gavel lore, but it’s still interesting to try and figure out now.

 

there’s something like light + dark = corruption but idk
but i think it was that yeah

 

??? This comment answers nothing and makes no sense... I already established corruption is created where light and dark meet based on the Wynnexcavation Site D

 

Oh I did a theory similar to this a while ago, but not exactly like this. I like this. Nice post.

The only thing I have to say is that CoW is part of the “corrupted via entering the Nether” group

 

Still I’m wondering about the portal and the roots of corruption itself. Where did the portal come from? And why is the nether realm it leads to corrupted? I’m going to assume the roots of corruption were created because of close proximity of gavel and dern, which sandwich in Wynn, leading to corruption, and is the main corruptive “entity”, yet the informations about the portal itself is still little.

 

but when you die would you get reset to a normal person?

 

no you just die. I'm pretty sure that's what happened to Theorick.

 

I think it’s meant for us to just say the portal just appeared? Like light and dark got too close, made corruption, and when that happened it tore open a hole between the realms, the portal?

 

I mean you die and respawn.. and you end up completely fine. Unless that as the "hero" you don't get affected as much? not sure

 

Why would it tear a hole. When light and dark get to close they form corruption, not tearing holes in realms

 

True, but when’s corruption is formed, so to is the Nether. Maybe when a new Realm is formed, it needs a door