I had a weird dream as I laid in bed this morning, sick with an awful cold.
In that dream if the player waits on the character selection screen for long enough the background will begin to transition.
Still, yet moving, cutouts in the typical guild wars 2 style would play with a single scene or clip representing each part of the character’s path in their story or from other great achievements that might be logged by the system. Each one would feature the character currently selected in those situations, and of course would cancel when the player switched characters they were viewing or logged in.
I feel this would contribute to the artistic feel of the game, and also to the idea that YOU are the hero.