Guild Wars 2

So the next expansion is a thing like it’s coming right. My friend and I were assuming it’s going to be in the crystal desert fighting Kralkatorrik and if not at least at some point we will go there right. We were hoping that we would get like eastern style armors, like desert aesthetics with the Shemagh/Keffiyeh and other things, curved sword skins like scimitars and what not. That would be pretty cool. I use the Order of Whispers weapons and the swords are kind of curved like scimitars and they are really nice (they also fold which is wack). Also the light armor for the Order of Whispers has a sort of Shemagh. If we got more stuff like that and were able to like actually explore the desert with those types of desert aesthetics that would be really cool. Some genuine immersion right there.

The reason the Order of Whispers stuff has that “eastern” style is because the group was introduced during the Elona campaign of GW1, which had a significant aesthetic from various regions around Africa and nearby, and included literary allusions to African literary traditions. The art design supported that as well. Elona was the African-inspired campaign, Cantha was the (mostly) Asian-inspired campaign, and Tyria was the European-inspired campaign. GW2 (and, by extension, Heart of Thorns) doesn’t seem to have as much cultural variance because it’s set in Tyria (though Orr had kind of a Persian thing going on).

Whether the politics that shut down any use of Cantha in GW2 would have any effect on Elona’s design or design in general in the future, I couldn’t say. I would be surprised, though, so at the moment I suspect that you’ll get what you’re looking for.