Guild Wars 2

Hey, I’d thought I would post this to point this out; don’t you find it a bit weird that the centaurs aren’t a primary enemy in the beginning personal story? I mean, through renown hearts, dynamic events, and random NPC chatter, the human war with the centaurs seems like a big deal; but they are hardly involved at all, except when you select the option that you never found your sister’s body, in which they are still not the primary enemy. I would think that if the Human race is in a war, you would at least have a personal story option that would be something along the lines of taking down the centaur forces.

The current story lines are good and I have no problem with them, but I just found this a tad bit odd. What do you think about it?

I was thinking about this today. In at least four of the lands, humans are in a battle with the centaurs. The whole circus story seems quite cheap and could definitely be replaced with centaur missions. Perhaps the story will get fleshed out in the future though.

Naw, I liked the circus story.

The impression I get is that the Centaur War isn’t really all that important. The Centaurs were previously just taking advantage of the fact that the Humans were busy with their war with the other playable races, but now that they’re at peace, the centaurs are being steadily driven back. They’re little more than a nuisance, frontier raiders whose time is past, and a distraction from the main war against Zaitan and his forces.

I also think it is strange that human’s first “nemesis” (like Svanirs, Inquest, Flame Legion and Nightmare Court) are completely ordinary bandits.

Well, apparently the Bandits and White Mantle are connected in some way, if I am rememering my orphan personal story correctly.

The White Mantle hired bandits, to enforce their ‘rule’, called them peacekeepers.. That was basically the Krytan Civil war, which ended some 250 years ago.

frans.8092:

The White Mantle hired bandits, to enforce their ‘rule’, called them peacekeepers.. That was basically the Krytan Civil war, which ended some 250 years ago.

No, it’s revealed in the missing parents storyline that the White Mantle is funding the bandits.

Hellmood.2097:

I also think it is strange that human’s first “nemesis” (like Svanirs, Inquest, Flame Legion and Nightmare Court) are completely ordinary bandits.

I thought this made sense. Your character is described as sort of a fledgling kitten; it makes sense that his first nemesis is the boss of some ordinary mook gang. It gives you a sense of progression.

As for the OP; I hadn’t really thought about it, and it does seem a bit odd, but I still feel like the Centaur war is appropriately represented in game. The majority of Kessex Hills is almost devoted entirely to fighting the Centaur army while introducing the Krait and fleshing out the Ettins and Bandits. It makes sense as the sort of backdrop conflict thats’ fueling your motivations, but its’ not really personal conflict unless you decide to make it be (as the case with your sister).

If I had to hazard a guess; The reason Centaurs aren’t majorly represented in story missions is because they don’t have any facial animations for cutscenes with them. You’ll notice that our nemesis’ tend to be other races.

The Centaur war is more or less a part of the situation in Tyria and has been for some time (over 5 years at least). However, It’s significance is that the Human PC faces and defeats the high lord of the centaurs, Ulgoth the Mighty, in combat. Ulgoth is a elementalist of great power, and while the PC is not initially able to slay Ulgoth, he shows the potential to end the bloody war. This later happens in a meta event, where Ulgoth is faced again, and slain.