Guild Wars 2

The Atrocity of the Centaurs is a Living story idea. It is centered around Centaurs taking humans as slaves.

New Character: Swen.

Swen is a boy who escaped the Centaur’s hell. Originally, he came with a group of escapees. When the escapees met humans, they thought they found freedom. Except, they were bandits. Thanks to Swen’s small body, he was able to hide from the bandits and lived to make it through to Lion’s Arch. Swen tells the testimony of the Centaur’s atrocity.

“A slave has no right to talk, laugh, sing or look in a mirror. Slaves must kneel down on the ground and keep their heads down deeply whenever called by a guard, they can say nothing except to answer questions asked. Repeated failure to meet the work quotas means a week’s time in a punishment cell. A Slave must give up his/her human worth. I wanted to die. But, I had to let the outside world know of their suffering. How can I ever forget their eyes, the eyes of the four hoofed beasts?

After escape, I could have lived peacefully in Lion’s Arch. However, I decided to risk my own life to inform the world of the Centaur’s crimes against humanity."

The Testimony of Swen:

Slaves’ Sleeping Conditions:
Some eighty to ninety slaves sleep in a flea infested prison about six meters long by five meters wide (about 19 feet by 16 feet). Some eighty percent of the slaves are housewives. The slaves chamber is so congested that sleeping there is itself a torture. Slaves sleep on the floor, squeezed together, head and feet alternating. So, slaves sleep with the stinking feet of other slaves right under their nose. They roll up their clothes for pillows.
During the winter, slaves share body heat against the cold wind coming under the floor. However, during the summer, it is so stuffy with the sweat and stink of the slaves that they prefer sleeping at the work site even though it means more work.
Two slaves must stand on night duty for one hour shifts. The following morning, slaves on night duty must report to the slavers all the details of their duty including the sleep talking of other slaves. They get their duty hour extended if caught sleeping.

Slaves used for trampling practice:
A slave in the centaur’s camp becomes a different person, skin and bone, from starvation and torture. Male slaves appear to become undernourished and confused sooner than female slaves. The slavers commonly use them as trampling targets. They trample and kick slaves during practice. The slaves fall bleeding at the first blow and remain motionless for a while on the cement floor until they are dragged back into the cells.
The guards often bring beef and grill it on their campfire, sending a wonderful aroma to the slaves. This is as painful as any form of torture could be for the starving slaves.

Centaur’s killing for fun:
A couple of times, I saw guards stop a group of male slaves for fun. “Hey, you and you, come here. If you cross that field, I will let you go home.” With these words, the slavers tempted slaves to cross Colocal-infested field The slaves were so desperate and confused that, without hesitation, they ran to their death with the faint hope of going home. This shows how slaves are considered disposable and easily replaced.

Centaur’s and more innocent killings:
There was an old woman, she used to be a tailor and leatherworker. In prison, she was assigned the work of measuring fabric to produce clothing for the centaurs. One time, she miscalculated the imported wool but immediately corrected the error and no fabric was wasted. However, she was detained in the punishment cell for ten days for “attempting sabotage.” She was crippled and partly paralyzed when she was released from the punishment cell. On a very hot summer day in August, the shamans burned her bottom with heated stones to see if she could feel pain. Just before she died a few weeks later, she whispered to me, with a twittered tongue and tears in her eyes, “I want to see the blue sky. You know my children are waiting for me.” When she was released from the punishment cell, she needed two prisoners to help her walk to the work site and back. The slavers claimed that she was feigning injury, and yelled, “You kitten! Who do you think you are fooling?” She was kicked around like a Keg by the slavers but withstood the insults and beatings for about a month. She suffered injuries all over her body while pulling herself up. “You must give up all your rights as a human!” She never felt any pain when her flesh was burning.

The atrocity of the Centaurs comes in 4 parts.

Part 1: The testimony.

At the start of the living story, there will be an event to hear about the testimony of Swen. It will be a very long and emotional speech. If you missed it, you can re-hear about it on youtube or on a separate instance. The testimony will be a historical event for future generations to come.

During this time, NPC in cities will have new dialogues. You hear rumors and opinions about the testimony.

“Do you hear about that testimony?”
“Yes, hearing about this makes me sick. I want to fight now!”

“We shouldn’t waste resources on saving them.”
“What? You don’t even care about your blood and kin?”
“No, of course I care. There are still centaurs on our footsteps. We need to establish a strong defense before attacking.”

There are no events to do during this time.

Part 2: The bickering.

Kryta is ready to attack the centaurs; however, the Seraph captain didn’t foresee a unknown Shamanistic power. It crippled their forces and left them once again unprepared for another assault. But, the queen will not wait till the Seraph regain their strength to attack again. So she sets up a meeting with her allies, Ebonhawke and Lionsguard. Ebonhawke soldiers are ready to help Kryta but the Lionsguard will need more evidence than the words of a child.

Players will go to Harathi Hinterlands to collect evidence of the Centaur’s evil deeds.

In this event, Harathi Hinterland’s get revamped. Every heart in the zone disappeared. Instead, Centaurs taken over the entire map. It becomes a second Orr, except filled with Centaurs.

Players will see horror scenes of NPC getting slaughtered for no reasons or being trampled. Players will see NPC crippled and moving around just to work.

Be careful, getting close to these NPC will leave you diseased. Disease applies random conditions(vulnerability, poison, bleeding.) to anyone that comes close. If you get close to another player, they will get diseased too.

Players will face NPC begging them for help. If a player helps one NPC, he/she must help all NPC. Otherwise, the NPC slaves will be hostile and call for the slavers to kill them. Saving NPC will be no easy task. Centaurs can one hit kill every NPC. There is no achievements or item/monetary rewards for saving them because it shouldn’t be forced. It should be up to the player to be heroic. Later, when the player rescue enough slaves, the player can go back to his personal home instance to see them there. They will thank the player for saving them. This personal thank you is a good reward to bring back the spirit of saving others and gives a reason to go back to their home instance.

This part is the longest of the four part series.

Part 3: Liberation

The united human force and volunteer force start their second assault on the Harathi Hinterland. This time, the players succeed defeating the unknown power and break through Harathi Hinterland. Every point in the Harathi Hinterland becomes a Dynamic Event. Players zerg will capture each point until they reach the final destination which will bring them to the newest and 9th dungeon.

This dungeon is a Centaur-centric dungeon. The story mode is about defeating the boss that is behind the slavery. The explorable mode will not be released until part 4 is out. Explorable mode is about dealing with the aftermath of the war.

Part 4: Reconstruction

War comes at a high price. Rescuing this many slaves comes with a excess supply of human resource. Krytans became wary about their decision to rescue their kins. Food aid and sheltering is costly and their is no work for every single slave. Some of them became bandits to feed themselves.

There will be events, you have to pacify bandits that attack towns and villages. Each bandit will ask you to spare them. They only want to eat the meal for today. But, letting them go would mean the people of Divinity’s Reach will starve tomorrow.

runeblade.7514:

Swen.

So Swen wants rewenge against the cwuel centaurs who have enswaved his fwiends and famiwy?

Seriously, though, the content is a bit too “dark” for GW2. It would be tough to include graphic descriptions of slave labour and infant-murder while maintaining a “Teen” ESRB rating.

Dont worry, us engies got this. Finally a use for flamethrower, brb.

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runeblade.7514:

Swen.

So Swen wants rewenge against the cwuel centaurs who have enswaved his fwiends and famiwy?

Seriously, though, the content is a bit too “dark” for GW2. It would be tough to include graphic descriptions of slave labour and infant-murder while maintaining a “Teen” ESRB rating.

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Slave labors are already in the game. You can see it all around Tyria.