Guild Wars 2

Just curious as to why someone would pick playing human.

Personally for me continuation.

In Guildwars I had an Assassin and a Mesmer as my 2 main characters.

And my current human is named after the Assassin, I guess he was named after his great grandpa.

I would have gone with Norn because most of the human faces look like pre-teen boys. Buuut the Norn animations bothered me a bit too much so I went Human. Just made em bald and as ugly as possible

Soon after the game released I played a max size Charr, and loved it, but felt like I was a bit too big. The weapons seemed a little too small in his hands—especially 1h swords and axes. Months down the road, about a week or so ago, I start the game again wanting a race that would make the weapons they wield a bit more…well-proportioned, I guess.

I dislike the Sylvari, and although I never play human races in any game where I have the option not to, I went with human.

After I hit 80 with him I’m going to switch to a norn, though. They’ve got that large, Warhammer/Warcraft/etc. style of anatomy depending on how choose to make them, which I like, and I prefer some of their animations to the Charr ones.

I choose human because…

Charr: Are destroying the land they fought and killed for over a period of 200+ years. They think they are innovative but their drilling and mining is quickly ruining the land around them. They will just wage war on someone else to drill for their resources soon after, all the while claiming it was theirs to being with when they have more than enough territory behind them.
Asura: I can not stand smug people enough said.
Norn: They are just tall humans and I don’t want to be 9 foot tall, nor do I want to have a mans voice while playing a female character.
Sylvari: From my Charr post you would assume I am, to put it nicely, “Environmental Friendly person” but I don’t want to walk around as a salad, nor do I want to be a nightlight.

Nostalgia over the first game, and I’ve always felt the themes attached to the other races could have more or less been applied to humans with the same effect – call me boring.

Because I played as a Human in Guild Wars 1. Surprising, huh?

Same as Sparrow’s response, I have no idea why they even introduced the 4 other races when human cultural diversity in GW1 filled the same niche. That’s one thing that made it great imo, that almost anyone from around the world could at least partially identify with a human kingdom or faction.

Personally, I feel like a foreigner in Tyria when I play a non-human. :/

Obsidian.1328:

Same as Sparrow’s response, I have no idea why they even introduced the 4 other races when human cultural diversity in GW1 filled the same niche. That’s one thing that made it great imo, that almost anyone from around the world could at least partially identify with a human kingdom or faction.

Personally, I feel like a foreigner in Tyria when I play a non-human. :/

Non human playable races is one of the reason, I can’t compare GW2 to GW1. Humans in GW2… well there is something not right with them. First of all the lack of appearance customization. The body…. faces…. I like more my human warrior in GW1. I wish I had human warrior in GW2 which would be look like human from GW1, but such appearance doesn’t exist.
Funny but norn from GW2 has more common with human warrior from GW1.
I can’t find such body for human in GW2 which will be familiar with human’s warrior body from GW1. I can’t find face which will look familiar as well.
But I found face which is familiar with human warrior face from GW1. It’s a norn’s face! Hilarious!
I can’t watch on human npc faces without pain. All of them are pretty, all of them are young. Pretty all of them have the same type. You can recognize for example, European human from Arabic only by skin color! Because faces are the same. It’s not right.

I really want to play a human, because I’ve played origin Guild Wars. But I can’t say that they are the same race as in GW1. I’d say, they are from another game with another universe.

So, personally, I feel like a foreigner in Tyria even when I play a human race.

When I pick a race I get really tied into the lore of the world and history (as well as my own personal lore.) I picked a human since I always imagined that they would be the descendant of my two characters from GW1. Since Logan is the great grandson of Gwen it would make sense that my character in the GW2 time period would be the great grandson of my GW1 chars. My two characters from GW1 were a female monk and a male warrior, so as a sort of heritage point I decided to make my main in GW2 a Human Guardian as a culmination of his two ancestors.

Because I have 9 character slots. I have everything at least once, though I’m setting up to delete the Sylvarri as I just don’t care for them. The human model is interesting and once I got over Logan being a complete tool, I’ve had fun with them in this game unlike other multi-species MMOs where I tend to never play the humans.

I made a character of each race, although I always knew that my Human character would be the descendent of two of my characters from GW1.

Aesthetic reasons – yes, yes, I am shallow.
Sylvari does nothing for me: they’re all these faux-Brits and they’re all walking vegetables.
Charr has never appealed to me simply because they’re giant cats. With horns.
Asura… aside from their animations (which are awesome), they remind me too much of gremlins.
Norn? I have two norn, but what draws me here is that they’re basically very human-esque and have an interesting culture (if somewhat stereotyped).

I have… three humans at the moment, but there’ll be about five soon (or whenever we get a new profession) for a few reasons: they’re nice to look at, both the males and females, any class fits them, and there’s diversity.

Vanthian.9267:

I choose human because…

Charr: Are destroying the land they fought and killed for over a period of 200+ years. They think they are innovative but their drilling and mining is quickly ruining the land around them. They will just wage war on someone else to drill for their resources soon after, all the while claiming it was theirs to being with when they have more than enough territory behind them.
Asura: I can not stand smug people enough said.
Norn: They are just tall humans and I don’t want to be 9 foot tall, nor do I want to have a mans voice while playing a female character.
Sylvari: From my Charr post you would assume I am, to put it nicely, “Environmental Friendly person” but I don’t want to walk around as a salad, nor do I want to be a nightlight.

Ascalon was charr land, but the problem was the charr were too busy killing each other that they didn’t notice the humans setting up camp and driving warring war bands off the land.

Its the whole palestine israel issue.

it’s even named after a biblical location.

On the one hand, you have the natives, who have always been there but never utilized it.
And on the other you had immigrants who moved in and set up a new way of life and culture for hundred of years.

I mean if the Charr had reached their current level of civilization right now, ie. less magic and voodoo and more of a meritocracy, the charr and human leaders would have been able to come up with a peace treaty.

Obsidian.1328:

Same as Sparrow’s response, I have no idea why they even introduced the 4 other races when human cultural diversity in GW1 filled the same niche. That’s one thing that made it great imo, that almost anyone from around the world could at least partially identify with a human kingdom or faction.

Personally, I feel like a foreigner in Tyria when I play a non-human. :/

Humans and centaurs both have cultural diversity.

They have the hairstyles I hate the least.

Rizzy.8293:

Ascalon was charr land, but the problem was the charr were too busy killing each other that they didn’t notice the humans setting up camp and driving warring war bands off the land.

Just a quick note, as this is a common misconception – Ascalon was not originally Charr land. The Charr drove out the original natives (likely the grawl). They were there before the humans, but they obtained Ascalon the same way the humans did from them – by driving out the original natives with force.

In response to the original question:
Besides the fact that I (as a human) relate best to Humans, I can also give one other reason why I’m human:

They’re the underdog in the world right now. Out of all the races, they’ve taken the most beating, and currently least powerful (imho) race. And I like playing as the underdog.

Rizzy.8293:

Ascalon was charr land, but the problem was the charr were too busy killing each other that they didn’t notice the humans setting up camp and driving warring war bands off the land.

Its the whole palestine israel issue.

it’s even named after a biblical location.

On the one hand, you have the natives, who have always been there but never utilized it.
And on the other you had immigrants who moved in and set up a new way of life and culture for hundred of years.

That’s a stretch…

For one thing, the Charr were nomadic. They were said to raid areas all around the Blazeridge Mountains, which is their supposed homelands. Ascalon, and probably a lot of other areas, were hunting/killing grounds for them. No one ever asks why there is zero trace of them ever having lived in Ascalon during GW1. No ruins, no rubble, no nothing. It’s because they didn’t live there.

It would be similar to some random civilization pushing into the Russian steppes during the Mongolian’s golden age. Yeah it “belonged” to the Mongolians at the time, but it certainly wasn’t a part of their ancestral homeland by any means. Ascalon was simply within the extent of their sphere of influence, and not something they had any significant historical claim on.

It serves the GW2 writer’s well to paint it another color though. Rytlock’s claim that the “humans drove us out and built Ascalon on top of it” is a lot of storybook bravado. The “it” was empty land, it’s not like they had settlements there. Being on the southern fringe of the Charr terriroty, at most there would have been a few hunting camps around.

Obsidian.1328:

Rizzy.8293:

Ascalon was charr land, but the problem was the charr were too busy killing each other that they didn’t notice the humans setting up camp and driving warring war bands off the land.

Its the whole palestine israel issue.

it’s even named after a biblical location.

On the one hand, you have the natives, who have always been there but never utilized it.
And on the other you had immigrants who moved in and set up a new way of life and culture for hundred of years.

That’s a stretch…

For one thing, the Charr were nomadic. They were said to raid areas all around the Blazeridge Mountains, which is their supposed homelands. Ascalon, and probably a lot of other areas, were hunting/killing grounds for them. No one ever asks why there is zero trace of them ever having lived in Ascalon during GW1. No ruins, no rubble, no nothing. It’s because they didn’t live there.

It would be similar to some random civilization pushing into the Russian steppes during the Mongolian’s golden age. Yeah it “belonged” to the Mongolians at the time, but it certainly wasn’t a part of their ancestral homeland by any means. Ascalon was simply within the extent of their sphere of influence, and not something they had any significant historical claim on.

It serves the GW2 writer’s well to paint it another color though. Rytlock’s claim that the “humans drove us out and built Ascalon on top of it” is a lot of storybook bravado. The “it” was empty land, it’s not like they had settlements there. Being on the southern fringe of the Charr terriroty, at most there would have been a few hunting camps around.

Charr dont build brick and mortar houses like Humans do.
Charr live off the land erect tents of bone and leather.
Ascalon was Charr hunting ground.
Charr occupied it, humans came in and drove them out, build a big wall around Ascalon as a big,kittento charr and saying this our land now, get the eff off.

This is not to be confused with the Charr of today’s civilization, who are industrialized.
You want a look at charr civilization back in Ascalonian times look at the flame legion, everything they have can be easily wiped away if another civilization built ontop of their ruins.

You’re right, they occupied most of the area that came to be known as Ascalon. Owning it is a different ball of wax, and implies a sense of permanence. Saying humans pushed out the Charr from one of their major hunting grounds has a different meaning than saying they pushed them out of Charr land. It’s a subtle difference, but important because it makes the Charr claim to the land less legit.

Did humans encroach within Charr borders? If you were a Charr, definitely…they considered everything within sight to be theirs. If you were human, yes too…but I doubt they ran into much moral quandry about pushing north some nomads to settle a previously unsettled land.

Obsidian.1328:

You’re right, they occupied most of the area that came to be known as Ascalon. Owning it is a different ball of wax, and implies a sense of permanence. Saying humans pushed out the Charr from one of their major hunting grounds has a different meaning than saying they pushed them out of Charr land. It’s a subtle difference, but important because it makes the Charr claim to the land less legit.

Did humans encroach within Charr borders? If you were a Charr, definitely…they considered everything within sight to be theirs. If you were human, yes too…but I doubt they ran into much moral quandry about pushing north some nomads to settle a previously unsettled land.

You’re implying the charr never used ascalon?
It meant nothing to them?

So then why would they fight so much to bring down that wall?

Clearly Ascalon was of some significant value to the charr for them to fight tooth and claw for.

Ascalon was charr land, it laid within charr borders.
Humans stole the land from the charr when they were having internal leadership squabbles and could not organize a proper defense, especially not after the humans sent in an assassin to kill the head shaman at the time.

Rizzy.8293:

Obsidian.1328:

You’re right, they occupied most of the area that came to be known as Ascalon. Owning it is a different ball of wax, and implies a sense of permanence. Saying humans pushed out the Charr from one of their major hunting grounds has a different meaning than saying they pushed them out of Charr land. It’s a subtle difference, but important because it makes the Charr claim to the land less legit.

Did humans encroach within Charr borders? If you were a Charr, definitely…they considered everything within sight to be theirs. If you were human, yes too…but I doubt they ran into much moral quandry about pushing north some nomads to settle a previously unsettled land.

You’re implying the charr never used ascalon?
It meant nothing to them?

So then why would they fight so much to bring down that wall?

Clearly Ascalon was of some significant value to the charr for them to fight tooth and claw for.

Ascalon was charr land, it laid within charr borders.
Humans stole the land from the charr when they were having internal leadership squabbles and could not organize a proper defense, especially not after the humans sent in an assassin to kill the head shaman at the time.

Eh…I don’t think the land itself meant anything to them, no. They wanted to bring down the wall because there were plump humans on the other side of it. The descendants of the same ones that pushed them north a thousand years ago…Charr never forgave humans for that.

It wasn’t even called Ascalon back then, the humans(or the gods) named it that. Where does it say the Charr had any emotional or cultural connection to that land?? They were nomadic, and used the land of Ascalon much like the Native Americans used the Great Plains…for food and warfare. It had zero socio-cultural value to the Charr, at least none that has ever been written about.

And where does it say the last Khan-Ur was assassinated by a human? Or that the last Khan-Ur was a shaman for that matter? lol

I would grant you that the humans did push Charr borders though, my point was that Charr probably considered their borders to be wherever they happened to be walking on any given day.

Obsidian.1328:

Eh…I don’t think the land itself meant anything to them, no. They wanted to bring down the wall because there were plump humans on the other side of it. The descendants of the same ones that pushed them north a thousand years ago…Charr never forgave humans for that.

It wasn’t even called Ascalon back then, the humans(or the gods) named it that. Where does it say the Charr had any emotional or cultural connection to that land?? They were nomadic, and used the land of Ascalon much like the Native Americans used the Great Plains…for food and warfare. It had zero socio-cultural value to the Charr, at least none that has ever been written about.

And where does it say the last Khan-Ur was assassinated by a human? Or that the last Khan-Ur was a shaman for that matter? lol

I would grant you that the humans did push Charr borders though, my point was that Charr probably considered their borders to be wherever they happened to be walking on any given day.

I think you hit the nail on the head with the Native American analogy. In fact I think that’s pretty much what the writers were going for. A civilized agricultural race moves in and supplants the nomadic hunter/gatherer lifestyle of the previous dwellers.

The very presence of towns, farms, fences etc would have threatened the charr lifestyle and inevitably pushed them out. Conflict would be inevitable between those two diametrically opposed cultures.

I’m generally a human not so much based on choice as the limitation of options. I just can’t get into the good natured Norn’s lust for battle glory, or the charr’s brutal and uncompassionate nature. The Sylvari don’t seem like full entities to me. Rather more like the buds and stems of the pale tree. As such, it seems like the tree is the real entity not me whenever I play one. While I do like the Asura, well the likeable ones at least, I can’t seem to bring myself to enjoy them as much because I simply can’t bask in the the wonder of my glorious armor. Everything is so tiny on an Asura. I don’t want my epic swords to engender chuckles from the Norn population. Shallow yes, but there you have it.

Obsidian.1328:

And where does it say the last Khan-Ur was assassinated by a human? Or that the last Khan-Ur was a shaman for that matter?

It was never stated that the last Khan-Ur was a shaman, so you’re right there. It was also never explicitly stated that the Khan-Ur was assassinated by humans, but it just seems VERY convenient that the Khan-Ur would die “mysteriously” (actual words from the Movement of the World article) when he was gearing up the Charr legions for a mass invasion to kick the humans out of Ascalon back when they first arrived.

That threw the four Legions into vicious infighting, and the humans used that time to build the Great Wall of Ascalon. If the Khan-Ur had managed to attack before the humans had time to construct it, they would probably have all been swept back into the Shiverpeaks/Kryta.

So yeah, no proof, but it just seems awfully convenient timing.

Ascalon wasn’t Charr land in GW1 because humanity had been living there for a thousand years. If we let claims from a thousand years ago be valid in our world some nations would cease to exist, nations who got a right to exist.

There was no distinction between killing a Charr or any other monster in GW Prophecies and one did surely not consider their “rights”, they were not civilized enough. One should differentiate between GW1 and 2 lore here imo.

In EotN the Charr had permanent structures by the way, Assault on the Stronghold anyone? Even if it was “just” walls…

In GW2 the Charr have been living in Ascalon for 250 years and they can’t be blamed for the deeds of their forefathers (except that they are a bit too proud of genocide and do not yet show that they aren’t willing to repeat it). Still, there’s the thing about us players for whom it wasn’t 250 years emotionally wise, but not so long ago.

So why do i play humans…because it wasn’t 250 years emotionally wise. My characters are descendants of those from the times of GW1. Doesn’t mean i won’t try out other races eventually.

Frosch.7809:

Ascalon wasn’t Charr land in GW1 because humanity had been living there for a thousand years. If we let claims from a thousand years ago be valid in our world some nations would cease to exist, nations who got a right to exist.

There was no distinction between killing a Charr or any other monster in GW Prophecies and one did surely not consider their “rights”, they were not civilized enough. One should differentiate between GW1 and 2 lore here imo.

In EotN the Charr had permanent structures by the way, Assault on the Stronghold anyone? Even if it was “just” walls…

In GW2 the Charr have been living in Ascalon for 250 years and they can’t be blamed for the deeds of their forefathers (except that they are a bit too proud of genocide and do not yet show that they aren’t willing to repeat it). Still, there’s the thing about us players for whom it wasn’t 250 years emotionally wise, but not so long ago.

So why do i play humans…because it wasn’t 250 years emotionally wise. My characters are descendants of those from the times of GW1. Doesn’t mean i won’t try out other races eventually.

Thats what you call a charr built fortress?
A natural landscaped area fortified with bones and other temporary structures with a pit in the middle and 2 siege devourers in the front?

Also Charr didn’t cause the extinction of Ascalon, Aldebern did.

Ever looked at the Ascalon census? Half of the population dies in the Searing. Of the survivors, some part goes to Kryta, the rest dies in Ascalon. When the Foefire happened the Charr had occupied all of Ascalon except Ascalon City, which most likely means that everyone outside the city was dead already (except those that went to Ebonhawke). Human Ascalon was as good as gone when the Foefire struck (one can argue that it lived on in Ebonhawke). Seems to me like you are trying to put the blame for the destruction of Ascalon away from the Charr, which is just not possible.

In my original post I wasn’t blaming the Charr for anything they have not done. They are currently mining the ever living crap out of their home land. Just look at the Black Citadel in comparison to other major capitals. The Charr themselves have no care for the land they walk on. I am with the majority on the Charr were nomads who truly didn’t “claim” any one true land but anything they walked across.

Now, since they over threw the Flame Legion sect they have consistently mined and drilled for their “advancement”. The Humans have achieved most of the same technology advancements as Charr but at a much lesser toll on their Environment around them.

I grant the majority of the Airships to Asura and anything that is truly worthy of praise is more than likely a Asura invention. So in essence, the Charr are destroying the land they killed a Kingdom to get (Ascalon and Drascir is not the only part of the Ascalonian Kingdom) for almost no innovation for the whole of Tryia.

Vanthian.9267:

In my original post I wasn’t blaming the Charr for anything they have not done. They are currently mining the ever living crap out of their home land. Just look at the Black Citadel in comparison to other major capitals. The Charr themselves have no care for the land they walk on. I am with the majority on the Charr were nomads who truly didn’t “claim” any one true land but anything they walked across.

Now, since they over threw the Flame Legion sect they have consistently mined and drilled for their “advancement”. The Humans have achieved most of the same technology advancements as Charr but at a much lesser toll on their Environment around them.

I grant the majority of the Airships to Asura and anything that is truly worthy of praise is more than likely a Asura invention. So in essence, the Charr are destroying the land they killed a Kingdom to get (Ascalon and Drascir is not the only part of the Ascalonian Kingdom) for almost no innovation for the whole of Tryia.

Dont get me wrong, I’m not a charr supporter, as far as it goes, Id rather play a separatist.

But I’m not denying that us humans never had a part in instigating in the war.

I like playing human in games. Also like the style of humans in Guild Wars 2 with their buildings, main city, cultural gear and weapons, their background lore and their belief in the six gods.

Zaxares.5419:

Obsidian.1328:

And where does it say the last Khan-Ur was assassinated by a human? Or that the last Khan-Ur was a shaman for that matter?

It was never stated that the last Khan-Ur was a shaman, so you’re right there. It was also never explicitly stated that the Khan-Ur was assassinated by humans, but it just seems VERY convenient that the Khan-Ur would die “mysteriously” (actual words from the Movement of the World article) when he was gearing up the Charr legions for a mass invasion to kick the humans out of Ascalon back when they first arrived.

That threw the four Legions into vicious infighting, and the humans used that time to build the Great Wall of Ascalon. If the Khan-Ur had managed to attack before the humans had time to construct it, they would probably have all been swept back into the Shiverpeaks/Kryta.

So yeah, no proof, but it just seems awfully convenient timing.

Ehh…I never got the impression that a human assassinated the Khan Ur, mostly because at the time they supposedly had the gods, directly or indirectly it never really says, helping them establish Ascalon. Why would the Charr present any threat to them with the gods at their back? If anything I got the impression it was just another power-hungry Charr wanting the throne for himself, but that is just my opinion.

Also, there is an 800 year difference between the human arrival in Ascalon and the building of the Northern Wall. The Wall wasn’t even started until 898AE, very soon after the Charr were said to start worshiping the Titans(870AE). It was in response to this new Charr activity that led to its construction, not the chaos following the death of the Khan-Ur.

Obsidian.1328

Ehh…I never got the impression that a human assassinated the Khan Ur, mostly because at the time they supposedly had the gods, directly or indirectly it never really says, helping them establish Ascalon. Why would the Charr present any threat to them with the gods at their back? If anything I got the impression it was just another power-hungry Charr wanting the throne for himself, but that is just my opinion.

Also, there is an 800 year difference between the human arrival in Ascalon and the building of the Northern Wall. The Wall wasn’t even started until 898AE, very soon after the Charr were said to start worshiping the Titans(870AE). It was in response to this new Charr activity that led to its construction, not the chaos following the death of the Khan-Ur.

We don’t really know in what form the Gods’ aid in helping the humans conquer Ascalon took form. Originally the Gods did walk Tyria in physical form, but I think if Balthazar and Co. had actually physically helped the humans drive the Charr out of Ascalon, we’d have seen more mention of it from in-game sources (from both sides).

I also won’t rule out the possibility that it was another Charr that killed the Khan-Ur, but if so, they handled it very poorly. It would have been much better if they had engineered the Khan-Ur’s death so it looked like it was done by humans (either by planting weapons or evidence, or by a more subtle method such as feeding information to the humans about where the Khan-Ur would be on a journey and then ensuring that the Khan-Ur’s escort would be “undermanned”). It’s also possible that whoever killed the Khan-Ur wasn’t human, but someone who wanted to see the humans claim Ascalon for their own reasons. (There’s other instances of this in the game too. We never did learn who ordered the killer golems from Zinn and then attempted to assassinate Princess Salma, Emperor Kisu and Prince Bokka.)

You’re right about the Great Northern Wall not being built until long after the humans had settled in Ascalon though! For some reason I was under the impression that the humans began construction of the Great Wall not long after arriving in Ascalon. Maybe I’m confusing it with another game…

Then again, it does say that “The Great Northern Wall is erected.” in 898 A.E. That could mean that was the date the Great Northern Wall was completed, and construction could have started much earlier.

^

Well ya, that’s why I said directly or indirectly, it never states in what manner the gods helped the humans establish Ascalon.

As for the Wall, I just clicked on the link in the GW1 wiki timeline for “Great Northern Wall is erected.” Which is where it goes into more detail. It’s wiki though, so it can be edited just the same. /shrug

Because the other races have very little (good) customization and that is a big turn off for me.

Mikhail.4961:

Aesthetic reasons – yes, yes, I am shallow.
Sylvari does nothing for me: they’re all these faux-Brits and they’re all walking vegetables.
Charr has never appealed to me simply because they’re giant cats. With horns.
Asura… aside from their animations (which are awesome), they remind me too much of gremlins.
Norn? I have two norn, but what draws me here is that they’re basically very human-esque and have an interesting culture (if somewhat stereotyped).

Lol!! I so agree with this opinion. As a matter of fact, I play with a bunch of RL friends and they all run Asura and they make fun of me for being the only human. My response has always been "I don’t care to run around as some stinky gremlin. "

I have no idea. When I first started playing, I vowed to myself I would NOT roll a human. No way no how. I never do! But… now my 2 mains are both human. My quest has failed. It’s kinda funny, because my favorite race is the Charr but ugh, I feel so slow whenever I try one.

Nostalgia really. My main from GW1 was name Exelion The Great. My main now is Exelion The Last.

I choose human because I find being another species to be weird. Also male because again, i’m a male.

Cultural armor is pretty sexy for a female :p

only humans can wear protector armour

Because the Norn animations are terrible.

I went human because I wanted my main to be attractive. And human felt like the best option for “regular attractive”.

I noticed someone said “to continue GW1 story”.

I actually did that too, but as a Norn. My Norn has the same name as my character from GW1 and is the great grandson of my old character and Jora. I liked Jora. So I made him the smallest Norn possible.

Are you kidding they are like the underdogs now. I haven’t played the original guild wars, but God I hate charr to no extend I refuse to help on their maps, how come we have to forget when they didn’t?.

I might need some illumination on the Foefire but from what I’ve read I hope they have to deal with the human ghosts forever.

Dem sons of a… new born humans in ascalon were innocent. They even destroyed the whole land practically. Selfish brute creatures >.<.

Rakuren Kenshou.7689:

I actually did that too, but as a Norn. My Norn has the same name as my character from GW1 and is the great grandson of my old character and Jora. I liked Jora. So I made him the smallest Norn possible.

Humans and Norn can’t interbreed (despite Olaf’s assertions to the contrary in GW1), so unfortunately having a half-human, half-Norn character is not possible. That said, I’m not going to be too fussed if you want to stick with that story for your character. People can roleplay whatever they want to!

To roleplay as a particular character, be attractive/kitten in a more conventional way, and enjoy what is (in my opinion) the best armor selection of the races.

Where to begin? I’m a human sure, but there’s so much more depth and involvement to it. I’ve always been one to enjoy the lore around Guild Wars, starting from the first game up until now. The humans are on the brink of collapse, losing all their influence and power, and fighting a 2 sided battle against the Centaurs and the separatists, and till not long ago, the Charr. Although I also love the Charr as a race, humans just seem to represent the most powerful concepts to me.

I see the Charr as ferocity, discipline, doing what has to be done in the name of duty.

I see the Sylvari as happy go lucky optimists who are curious.

I see the Asura as geniuses, only faulted by their own arrogance.

I see the Norn as boastful loud people, proud of themselves and their heritage.

But above all of these, I see the humans as all these qualities and more. They can literally be any of these things, but they are adaptation. They are hope when all the odds are against you. A true example of the underdog. As a player heavily into lore, I wouldn’t want my hero to be anything but a human, being the last expected race among the 5 to come out on top, and lead Tyria into glory again.

Plus, the cultural armors for the most part, kick kitten

PistolWhip.2697:

But above all of these, I see the humans as all these qualities and more. They can literally be any of these things, but they are adaptation. They are hope when all the odds are against you. A true example of the underdog. As a player heavily into lore, I wouldn’t want my hero to be anything but a human, being the last expected race among the 5 to come out on top, and lead Tyria into glory again.

I definitely have to agree with this. The humans as a whole represent hope and determination, to never give up no matter how much the odds are stacked against them. Sure, asura and charr may have better technology, norn and charr are stronger individually, and sylvari have their immunity to draconic corruption and their fancy Dream, but humans get by with grit, spirit, and a refusal to give up. I find that very admirable.

My main character in GW1 is Sir Vincent III and my GW2 human character is the direct descendant, Sir Vincent X.

Sir Vincent X is born in to a noble family, thus he had his own entourage — all female.

Ahleksia – Human Guardian
De Leiney – Human Ele
Vina – Human Mesmer

He went to his adventures to different place and cities where he met;

Ahmelia, a Norn Eng in Hoelbrak
De Lorelai, a Sylvari Ranger in the Pale Tree
De Lauren, an Asura Warrior in Rata Sum

Then he met his last female companion, a Sylvari Necromancer named Leir Dalag. She claims that while in the Pale Tree, she dreamt of Sir Vincent III.

And that is why I am a Human.

Although it’s naive in places and corny in others, I really like the human story. So I have three human characters so that I can play through all the paths. I was going to have four, and have four descendants of my GW1 characters but after playing a Sylvari in the beta my first character underwent a mysterious salad related change in his physiology.

Quite odd really :P

From an aesthetics point of view; Djenna and Jorin are descended from my Dervish, so I tried to make them look Vabbian (although they ended up looking Orrian) and Kanah was an attempt to make a very much Elonian character, and flesh out the family a bit as he’s Djenna’s cousin.