Priory Researcher

Priory Researcher

Race

Asura, Sylvari

Location

Tyria
(Tyria)

Organization

Durmand Priory

Priory Researchers are members of the Durmand Priory found throughout Tyria.

Locations

Ascalon

• Grothmar Valley
  • Iron Legion Camp

Crystal Desert

• Crystal Oasis
  • Amnoon Farms
  • Free City of Amnoon

• Desert Highlands
  • Fortune's Vale

• Dragonfall
  • Pact Command

• Jahai Bluffs
  • Pact Vanguard
  • Sun's Refuge

Heart of Maguuma

• Auric Basin
  • Lastgear Standing

• Bloodstone Fen
  • Pride of the Pact

Kryta

• Lion's Arch
  • Sanctum Harbor
  • White Crane Terrace

Ruins of Orr

• Malchor's Leap
  • Waste Hollows

• Straits of Devastation
  • Triumph Plaza

Shiverpeak Mountains

• Drizzlewood Coast
  • Claw's Roost (During related events only)
  • Frost Citadel (During related events only)
• Lornar's Pass
  • Durmand Priory
    • The Durmand Priory (instance)

• Thunderhead Peaks
  • Deldrimor Ruins
  • Symphony's Haven
  • The Auditorium
  • The Forge
  • The Grotto
  • Thunderhead Keep

• Dragon Response Mission: Thunderhead Peaks

Historical locations

World versus World

• Blue Desert Borderlands
  • Verdantdale Oasis

• Green Desert Borderlands
  • Tranquilvale Oasis

• Red Desert Borderlands
  • Calmbasin Oasis

Story involvement

Personal story

• Chapter 3: Crystal Corruption
  • Whispers of Vengeance
• Chapter 6: The Battle of Claw Island
  • The Priory Assailed
• Chapter 8: Victory or Death
  • Air Drop
  • Victory or Death

Living World Season 2

• Episode 5: Echoes of the Past
  • Caithe's Reconnaissance Squad

Heart of Thorns story

• Act I
  • Prologue: Rally to Maguuma

Living World Season 4

• Episode 4: A Star to Guide Us
  • Legacy
• Episode 5: All or Nothing
  • The Crystal Dragon
• Episode 6: War Eternal
  • The End

Event involvement

[Group Event] Clear the Branded from the keep (80)

[Group Event] Defeat the Claw of Jormag (80)

[Group Event] Defeat the Risen Priest of Balthazar before it can summon a horde of Risen (75)

[Group Event] Defeat the Wrathbringer (80)

[Group Event] Destroy the machines! (80)

[Group Event] Destroy the Ruinbringer (80)

[Group Event] Help Logan and Rytlock establish a camp to the southeast (80)

Help Logan, Canach, and Rytlock train Corsairs (80)

[Group Event] Help your allies escape! (80)

[Group Event] Put an End to the Conversion Process for Good (80)

[Group Event] Repair defenses and place mines! (80)

[Group Event] Repel invading Branded, and kill them near the charging crystals to fill the resonance crystal (80)

Dialogue

Asura Priory Researcher found in the Waste Hollows

A word of warning. Don't know how much experience you've had with the Risen, but you'll want to give them a wide berth.

What are you doing here?

The Priory sent me to observe the agrarian techniques of the Risen farmers. To note how farming techniques have changed in the two and a half centuries since Orr disappeared into the sea.

What have you noticed?

If you watch them, they do the same thing--tilling away at dead, barren soil with old rotting implements--day and night. Despite the fact that nothing can grow here. It's just what they know to do.

They never stop?

They will stop...if you get too close. Then they use that farm tool to attack you. Not stopping until one of you is a lifeless heap on the same dead soil. If it's you, they simply go back to their tilling.

Sounds tragic.

The tragedy it[sic] they only kill because we're trespassing on their land. If we'd left them to their existence, they'd just be farmers. Corrupted, but peaceful. In a way, we're making them killers.

Zhaitan made them killers. They were peaceful before they were Risen.

Then I'll just leave them to their task.

I'll try.

Quotes

Asura Priory Researcher greets

Greetings and salutations.

Knowledge is the greatest treasure.

Truth and knowledge are two different things.

History never lies. Historians however....

Notes

• Historically also operated the Skysplitter in the World versus World Borderlands.

See also

Associated items

• Mini Priory Historian