Guild Wars 2

I read that the six human gods brought humanity soon after they arrived on Tyria however Elonians and Canthans existed before the human gods arrival. There is also another suggestion that humans came from an island to the west of Cantha.

As you can see this is very confusing to me.

Could someone please explain where did humans come from in Guild Wars 2 ?
Are humans from Tyria or are they from another realm ?
Where did the human gods come from ?

I have attached a picture summarizing the information I found to help understand my question.

Thank you

Without knowing exactly where you read it and what the sources were nobody can say. We recently got a post from a developer in the Lore forums stating that any lore found outside of the game, e.g. developer interviews, is subject to change. So it’s quite possible they can just go back on anything they’ve said and edit it to suit what they’re presently trying to achieve. Unfortunately a lot of the information we have comes from interviews…

We don’t know exactly where humans came from originally.

Just to clarify, humans appeared on Elona and Tyria at the same time (and were brought there by the Gods), it is only in Cantha that they existed before the arrival of the gods.

I’ve just had a look back at the original citations and in the Guild Wars Prophecies manual and it never says anything more than the gods brought humanity to the world – of course it is important to point out that ‘the world’ at that point in time would have referred only to continental Tyria, so it could be quite possible that the gods simply brought humans from Cantha up to Tyria and Elona.

The Gods came from somewhere in the Mists, once again we don’t know exactly where from.

(Also just wanted to point out that the map you showed is not necessarily canon, and that the lower half of Cantha where you’ve written Kurzick/Luxon has never been an area we have had access to. Cantha in GW1 actually cut off a little further up from there)

I heard that the Elonian’s had historical records that predate the arrival of the gods in Tyria. This would mean that Elonians existed little before.

I also heard that the Kurzicks and the Luxons came from the south of Cantha while the remaining Cathans supposedly arrived first on Shin Jea Island. Some theorist suggest that they all came from the west but on different ships and landed on different shores.

All this is based on stuff I read online.
How much of it is true ?

I guess if anything that is outside the game is non canonical then most of the information would be just supposition even form the developer.

This does somehow answer my question

Thank you

Well from what I remember, there’s two versions of Humanity’s origins on Tyria. The first being that they came from a portal located South of Cantha (not west as OP said), the second being just magically spawned around the Artesian waters.

The complete information about the posts actually says that any lore found outside the game is only malleable under extreme circumstances.