Orestes

Orestes was an old mursaat researcher who was active in Optimus Caliph's group of mursaat during the White Mantle's takeover of Kryta. He was the descendant of mursaat who had been exiled from Nayos to Tyria by their fellow mursaat as a punishment, and lived in Bava Nisos in Janthir. His views on the younger generation of Tyrian mursaat such as Manikaz soured as he witnessed how they began posing as the Unseen Gods to their human White Mantle cult and tried to prevent the dragon Glint's Flameseeker Prophecies—which involved the titans entering Tyria from the Door of Komalie to slaughter the mursaat one day—from coming true at the cost of thousands of sacrifices upon the bloodstones. According to him, the mursaat should not abuse the other races of Tyria as such acts could risk their own extinction. He often retreat to a small mursaat camp on Mount Balrior to reflect on his brethren's actions, finding some solace in the fact that some fellow elders like the head researcher Darda still shared his less warmongering views compared to most of their manipulative kind.

Despite their efforts, the mursaat were unable to prevent the Flameseeker Prophecies from coming true as the titans managed to breach into Tyria due to Vizier Khilbron's manipulations and the human heroes' opposition to the mursaat. Some titans besieged Bava Nisos and ultimately slaughtered most of the mursaat there. Darda and Orestes were unaware if anyone else had survived the slaughter. Not wishing to linger around, the pair chose to cross the Unending Ocean west of the Horn of Maguuma to seek a new life away from the destruction caused by the titans. Neither he nor Darda have been heard from since.

See also

• Bloodstone
• Mursaat