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{{otheruses|for the object encountered in [[Bastion of the Penitent]]|the amulet|Eye of Janthir (amulet)}}
{{spoiler|[[Bastion of the Penitent]], [[Living World Season 3]], ''[[Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure]]'', and ''[[Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds]]''}}
{{NPC infobox
| location = Bastion of the Penitent
| race = Construct
| rank = Legendary
| requires = lws3, soto
}}
{{quotation|[[Exemplar Mehid]] in [[Shining Blade Secrets]]|It was a tool of the mursaat and White Mantle, associated with the people of Janthir. It was a magical construct that could see a person's gifts.}}
The [[Eye of Janthir]] is an ancient artifact of great power, used by the [[White Mantle]] and the [[mursaat]]. It originates from [[Janthir]], being tied to the people who once lived there. During the White Mantle's reign, it was used to discern who were [[gww:Chosen|Chosen]], beings with [[magic]]al potential, so that they may be sacrificed atop the [[Bloodstone]]s. The Eye disappeared with the White Mantle's fall from power in 1072 [[Mouvelian calendar|AE]], and various theories have risen to speculate on its fate since.

== History ==
=== Early history ===
[[File:Mursaat Glyphs.jpg|thumb|A [[Mursaat Monument|monument]] depicting the Eye of Janthir in the [[Mabon's Quarters]].]]
{{spoilers|Prior to founding the city of [[Bava Nisos]], descendants of the [[mursaat]] faction exiled from [[Nayos]] to [[Tyria (world)|Tyria]] maintained an outpost near [[the Golden Lake]] on one of the northern isles of [[Janthir]]. The lake's enchanted waters had been well suited for the crafting of scrying eyes, the eventually infamous Eye of Janthir being one of these scrying constructs.<ref>[[Dusty Tome]]</ref> |''[[Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds]]''}}

The Eye served as a [[magic]]al [[construct]] that could be used to see a person's gifts for magical aptitude.<ref name="Mantle Knight Franklin">[[gww:Mantle Knight Franklin|Mantle Knight Franklin]]</ref><ref>[[Shining Blade Secrets]]
:'''<Character name>:''' What do you know about the Eye of Janthir?
:'''Exemplar Mehid:''' All I know is what is in the history books. It was a tool of the mursaat and White Mantle, associated with the people of Janthir. It was a magical construct that could see a person's gifts.
:'''<Character name>:''' So it serves the White Mantle?
:'''Exemplar Mehid:''' And the mursaat, yes. It's hundreds of years old, but it was recently rediscovered in Bloodstone Fen and has been seeking its masters ever since.</ref> It also possessed the power to defend itself, sustain the life of multiple beings and thus extend their lifespans as long as the construct itself remained active, as well as peer into the minds of its targets and use their weaknesses and regrets to break them down.<ref name="Scholar Glenna">[[Scholar Glenna (Bastion of the Penitent)|Scholar Glenna]]</ref> In its presence, beings recognized with having the [[gww:Gift of True Sight|Gift of True Sight]] dormant in them could see otherwise invisible mursaat.<ref>[[The Last Chance]]
:'''Exemplar Kerida:''' Excellent. It didn't kill us. It must have seen the True Sight dormant in us. Now, it will lead us to the last aspect.
:'''Exemplar Kerida:''' We are Chosen, you and I. In its presence, we'll be able to see Lazarus when he re-forms.
:'''<Character name>:''' Otherwise, Lazarus would be invisible?
:'''Exemplar Kerida:''' That's what you take away from that? Yes, it's a mursaat thing like floating and immortality. Used to be impressive.</ref> The eye could receive messages from afar,<ref name="Bloodstone Book">[[Bloodstone Book]]</ref> and had the ability to show visions of specific locations and people if the person accessing it asked it such questions and touched it afterwards.<ref name="The Last Chance">[[The Last Chance]]
:'''Livia:''' Wouldn't you rather ask the Eye of Janthir about Balthazar?
:'''<Character name>:''' What? I can do that?
:'''Livia:''' Better hurry. I don't know what will happen to it now that its masters are gone.
:'''<Character name>:''' What should I do?
:'''Livia:''' Ask your question and touch it. I'll stand ready—just in case...you know.</ref>

=== [[Guild Wars|Guild Wars Prophecies]] ===
As time passed, the Eye of Janthir came to be regarded as an ancient artifact of great power originating from Janthir and was believed to be tied to the enigmatic people who had once lived there. It had an intelligence of its own and was selective of who it would follow. According to the [[White Mantle]] cult who worshipped the mursaat as the Unseen Ones, the cult's founder [[Saul D'Alessio]] had traveled to Janthir and returned to [[Kryta]] with the Eye to identify [[magic]]ally gifted [[gww:Chosen|Chosen]] among the Krytan population each season. Since at least 1067 [[Mouvelian calendar|AE]], all of the White Mantle knights who had been promoted to the rank of zealot or justiciar had used the Eye of Janthir to administer the [[gww:Test of the Chosen|Test of the Chosen]] to identify people with magical potential.<ref name="Mantle Knight Franklin" /> What few knew was that the cult would not take these Chosen to study at the [[Ruins of the Unseen|Temple of the Unseen]]; instead, the Chosen would be sacrificed atop the [[Bloodstone|Maguuma Bloodstone]] in secret so the White Mantle and the mursaat could use their souls to power up the soul batteries keeping the [[gww:Door of Komalie|Door of Komalie]] shut and prevent the monstrous [[titan]]s from breaching into [[Tyria (world)|Tyria]] in large numbers.

In 1072 AE, [[Ghostly Justiciar Hablion|Justiciar Hablion]] ordered a group of adventurers—including [[gww:Aidan|Aidan]], [[gww:Cynn|Cynn]], [[Herald of Balthazar|Devona]], [[gww:Mhenlo|Mhenlo]] and the future [[Hero (NPC)|Hero of Tyria]]—to cleanse themselves in the [[gww:Fountain of Truth|Fountain of Truth]] before having them escort the Eye to the village of [[gww:Loamhurst|Loamhurst]] and identify the newest batch of Chosen. When the escort was ambushed by [[Caromi]] [[tengu]], the Eye assisted the adventurers by sending out a shockwave which knocked the entire flock of tengu to the ground.<ref>[[gww:Divinity Coast|Divinity Coast]]</ref><ref>[[gww:The Protectors of Kryta|The Protectors of Kryta]]</ref> The Chosen caravan was later intercepted en route to [[Maguuma Jungle]] by the [[Shining Blade]] rebels who were attempting to stop the White Mantle's sacrifice rituals.<ref>[[gww:Witness Giselle|Witness Giselle]]</ref> Upon learning the White Mantle's true nature, the Hero and their companions ultimately sided with the Shining Blade to help liberate Kryta from the White Mantle and its mursaat masters. With the White Mantle's fall from power in the same year, the Eye vanished.

{{spoilers|Towards the end of the Chosen's campaign against the mursaat in the same year, [[Lazarus]] the Dire sent a warning across the scrying eyes about the titans emerging from the opened Door of Komalie.<ref name="Bloodstone Book" />|''[[Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds]]''}}

Many theories began circulating about the Eye of Janthir's fate long after its disappearance. Some hypothesized that it had been lost during a skirmish between White Mantle and Shining Blade forces while others thought that it had retreated to Janthir, or wherever the mursaat had come from. Drawings of the Eye were recorded in the [[Durmand Priory]] along with scholarly theories about its origins and fate.<ref name="Scholar Glenna" />

=== [[Living World Season 3]] ===
==== [[Bastion of the Penitent]] ====
[[File:Bastion cinematic02.jpg|thumb|[[Saul D'Alessio]] is tortured by the [[mursaat]] and the Eye of Janthir.]]
In 1330 AE, a group of raiders accompanying [[Scholar Glenna]] found the Eye of Janthir within the [[Bastion of the Penitent]] in [[Woodland Cascades]] where it was first witnessed above [[Cairn the Indomitable]]'s [[Cairn's Perch|station]]. After investigating the area and following the Eye's trail through multiple obstacles, the raiders discovered that the bastion was a mursaat correctional facility for their political prisoners and that the Eye had been keeping the long lost White Mantle founder Saul D'Alessio—along with other inmates who had later been slain by the bestial warden [[Samarog]] in an unsuccessful prison riot—alive for the past 260 years under the orders of the mursaat. Once Saul had been rescued from the [[demon]] [[Deimos]], the Eye retreated from the ancient mursaat prison and caused Saul's body to deteriorate without the aid of its life-sustaining powers. With his dying words, Saul revealed his life story and that the Eye had tormented him with guilt and shame in an effort to break his will and convince him to serve the Unseen Ones once more.

==== [[One Path Ends]] ====
The Shining Blade eventually learned that the Eye of Janthir had appeared in [[Bloodstone Fen]] and had begun seeking out its mursaat masters. To fulfill its latest task, the Eye searched for [[Lazarus]]'s [[Aspect of Lazarus|aspects]] as he was the last known mursaat alive in Tyria. The Eye's search led it to one of the remaining aspects held in the [[White Mantle Hideout]] in a cave north of [[Brisban Wildlands]] where [[Livia|Exemplar Kerida]] and the [[Pact Commander]] followed it to. Upon [["Where's Balthazar"|witnessing]] the death of [[Justiciar Araya]] who had tried to stop the pair's advance, the Eye retreated and began seeking out another aspect of Lazarus.

The Commander and Kerida continued tracking down the Eye separately in various locations until they learned that it had traveled to [[Siren's Landing]] in [[Ruins of Orr|Orr]] where it had been spotted entering a sealed [[Abaddon's Reliquary|reliquary]] dedicated to the fallen [[Six Human Gods|god]] [[Abaddon]].<ref>[[Shining Blade Secrets]]
:'''Exemplar Kerida:''' Understood. Here's the plan. I've heard conflicting reports on the Eye's location. We may have to track a bit.
:'''Exemplar Kerida:''' So, we split up. You, to Orr. I'll have a ship waiting for you in Lion's Arch. We'll meet up once we spot the Eye.</ref><ref>[[On Orrian Shores]]
:'''<Character name>:''' Sorry to be abrupt, but I'm looking for Balthazar or the Eye of Janthir, a floating...
:'''Firstborn Dagonet:''' Oh, we know what it is. They've both been here, but you cannot follow where they went. [...]
:'''King Reza:''' The main reliquary—Abaddon's—is locked down.</ref> Upon reuniting, the pair continued [[The Last Chance|chasing the Eye]] and fought the guardians it had summoned. During this battle the Eye recognized the True Sight dormant in Kerida and the Commander and chose to spare them before it retreated deeper into the reliquary where the last aspect, which the former god [[Balthazar]] had hidden during his visit to Orr, was revealed.

Kerida and the Commander used [[the Shining Blade]] and the aspects Kerida had brought with her along with the last aspect to revive Lazarus so they could kill the last mursaat for good. When the resurrected Lazarus identified Kerida as the necromancer Livia and tried to turn invisible and escape to recover from the wound inflicted by the Shining Blade, the pair used the resisting Eye of Janthir to reveal the cloaked mursaat and forced him to fight them. Lazarus was slain after a fierce struggle, and the Commander used the opportunity to ask the Eye about Balthazar's whereabouts. The Eye revealed a vision of Balthazar taking an army to the [[Crystal Desert]] to fight the [[Elder Dragon]] [[Kralkatorrik]] before it seemingly disintegrated, suggesting that no mursaat remained on Tyria for the Eye to find.<ref name="The Last Chance" />

=== Legacy ===
;[[Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure|Secrets of the Obscure]]
The Eye of Janthir had come close to finding out that another mursaat, the atoning wizard [[Mabon]], still existed on Tyria within the safety of the floating city of [[Amnytas]]. However, Mabon managed to stay hidden—whether because his [[Ascension (Wizard's Court)|ascension]] had painted his aura neutral, or [[the World Spire]]'s magic shielded him from sight—so the Eye shifted from the Tyrian plane of reality after Lazarus's demise. Mabon speculated if the Eye might find other mursaat who could potentially exist somewhere in [[the Mists]].<ref>[[Lost Journal]]</ref>

In 1337 [[Mouvelian calendar|AE]], either the Eye of Janthir or another Eye could be seen overlooking the [[The Eleventh Hour|final battle]] in [[Nayos]] between [[Eparch]], the Midnight King of the [[Kryptis]], and the Pact Commander and their allies. After Eparch had been slain and his niece [[Peitha]] had taken the throne as the new Midnight King, the Eye disappeared once more.

== Location ==
;[[Heart of Maguuma]]
* [[Bastion of the Penitent]]
** [[The Lockdown]]
** [[The Yard]]
*** [[Cairn's Perch]]

== Story involvement ==
=== [[Living World Season 3]] ===
* Episode 6: [[One Path Ends]]
** [["Where's Balthazar"|"Where's Balthazar?"]]
** [[The Last Chance]]

=== [[Secrets of the Obscure story]] ===
* [[The Midnight King]]
** [[The Eleventh Hour]]

== Combat abilities ==
;Abilities
* Invulnerable: Unleashes True Sight When Stunned

;Effects
{{defiance|gray}}
* {{effect|Battle Vision}} - {{effect description|Battle Vision}}
* {{effect|Dangerous Secrets}} - {{effect description|Dangerous Secrets}}
* {{effect|Strained Eyesight}} - {{effect description|Strained Eyesight}} '''(Only during [[The Last Chance]])'''

;Skills
* '''Eye Beam''' -

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Saul and Eye of Janthir.jpg|The Eye of Janthir tries to break down [[Saul D'Alessio]].
Sealed Entrance.jpg|[[Sealed Entrance]] on [[Ember Bay]] depicting the Eye of Janthir.
Deimos concept art.jpg|[[Deimos]] concept art showing the Eye of Janthir symbol.
</gallery>

== See also ==
{{gww}}
;Associated items
* {{item icon|Eye of Janthir (amulet)}}
* {{item icon|Mini Eye of Janthir}}

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Mursaat culture]]
[[Category:Story characters]]
[[de:Auge von Janthir (NSC)]]
[[es:Ojo de Janthir]]
[[fr:Œil de Janthir]]

Eye of Janthir - Revision history

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