Guild Wars 2

Having played all of the races up to the siege of Claw Island (I play and delete characters to see the ‘personal’ section of story, prior to the ‘order’ section, well before the ‘pact’ section), others beyond, I’ve seen lots of problems with the story and its development.

One that bothers me enough to post however… that’s something.

As a sylvari, you have held Caladblog, you have used it, you have befriended Trahearne and Caithe, you have been told things by the Pale Tree that no one else would hear, and your story is tied to another person’s story.

This is laid out in a fairly straight-forward manner, but is overlooked by many NPCs, and even Trahearne himself.

I will point out a specific point of entering Claw Island:
Paraphrased
-Enter quest, walk towards the head of the fort, with your order rep and into Trahearne, who’s already with the head of the fort-
“Ahh, my old friend, it’s nice to see you,” says Trahearne. “Valiant, I need your help to talk to this person.”
-First small section of interaction ends, immediately followed by second section-
“Hello Warmaster (going to just use the Vigil one), it is nice to meet you,” Trahearne speaks.

From there on, you have never known Trahearne. Later in the story, it is stated that Caladblog was for him, when in fact you had used it, and killed the person who had stole it from the first user of Caladblog.

Could this please be resolved? Doubtful, but I’ll make a proposal.

I know it would take re-writing, voice-acting, and that’s a huge leap and bound, so I don’t expect that the whole Sylvari thing be re-written, but it would be nice if the dialogue from Trahearne at the intro to Claw Island’s first appearance be changed, just so there is not a gargantuan disparity in story in such a short amount of time. I do not know if you have someone on staff who did the voice, but even someone imitating it would suffice, just so it’s literally not the end and start of two separate stories.

that’s not the only case where NPCs forget you… remember the two Sylvari chicks from the mirror storyline? nope, you never helped them, it was all big marshal T, you never went to Orr with them while Trahearne was sitting on his kitten next to the Pale Tree

not to mention all the NPCs in various spots that forget your Race or even which Faction you joined… every time my main sees a Priori explorer, he wonders if they finally got the memo about him joining

I can’t remember which thread I read it from but the looks of things, it’s a bug. But yeah that not the only time NPC forget about you as stated in the above. (Spoilers )The mother tree also forget about you when get deeper into the story quest.

When the Pale Tree herself — your very own mother, who named you her Herald earlier and generally regarded you with much trust and affection — didn’t even recognize me anymore and treated you like a complete stranger, the game pretty much died for me. I puttered around some with charr and norn too, but every time I got a little excited for something or attached to someone in the early parts of the story, I remembered how meaningless it all is. I’ll never see them again, nothing I did will be remembered, or even worse: if someone does come back, I’ll be a stranger to them like I was to the Pale Tree.

This game’s personal story is neither personal nor a story, it’s a disjointed mess that cannot possibly have undergone any kind of editorial review or other form of QA. The early culture-based chapters are fun, yes, but that makes the way things utterly fall apart in terms of continuity, immersion and identity even more painful.

Didn’t the plae tree create our character for the sole purpose of killing the dragons?

And wasn’t Calahdbhog created for the sole use of that first generation Sylvari who was killed by the necromancer because his friend turned tail at the last minute, stole his sword and then ran away?