Pointless but Fun theory of "The Mists"
There’s actually an asura story mission that involves fighting an evil version of your character from another copy of Tyria that is slightly ahead in time to the version the character is.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infinity_Ball
It’s pretty much established by now that Tyria and virtually infinite versions of it and its inhabitants are in some sort “blurry jumble of fractals” estate with different versions of itself changing, resetting and overlapping all the time with each other, and many parts of it frozen in time and looping within a short frame of time here and there.
Player characters would be special in that they have much less versions of themselves than NPCs. For now the minimum is 3: The player as commander, the player as party member of the commander, and for asura, the evil one.
It would be funny if after defeating all 6 elder dragons, whatever is keeping Tyria ‘fractured’ this way stopped, and Tyria became one and whole again.
(edited by MithranArkanere.8957)
I have long suspected that the Tyria in which our GW2 characters dwell is not the same Tyria our Guild Wars characters knew and fought to protect 250 years ago, but I had not considered gateways and waypoints as factors in the ever-increasing divergences. It does, however, make sense. /e +1
I came up with a similar theory when I tried explaining WvW to a friend of mine and she asked me if there was a lore reason for different servers to be fighting each other on the Eternal Battlegrounds.
I said: I’m not sure if there is actual lore behind WvW, other than that it’s supposedly in The Mists, which is a supernatural realm that connects multiple realities to each other and it’s also where the deceased people go to. Wouldn’t it be awesome if the servers we are matched up against in WvW are other versions of Tyria fighting against our version of Tyria over resources that The Mists have to offer?
[…]the servers we are matched up against in WvW are other versions of Tyria fighting against our version of Tyria over resources that The Mists have to offer?
If I remember correctly, some devs have actually said that.
I could have dreamed it, though. I have very realistic dreams.
So essentially any character that is dead, dying, or will die can be recasted at any given time under a coat of “alternate reality” paint.
ZHAITAN LIVES
Zarin Mistcloak(THF) Valkyrie Mistblade(WAR) Kossori Mistwalker(REV) Durendal Mistward(GRD)
I used to think (build op, pls nerf) like you, but then I took a nerf to the knee.
So essentially any character that is dead, dying, or will die can be recasted at any given time under a coat of “alternate reality” paint.
ZHAITAN LIVES
Forget Zhaitan! Abaddon lives!
So essentially any character that is dead, dying, or will die can be recasted at any given time under a coat of “alternate reality” paint.
ZHAITAN LIVES
Wait. Doesn’t this mean that Scarlet Briar lives as well? Makes you think. And while we are at it, the mentors also live. Cool. All the possibilities!
“They can’t see me. I can’t see them.”
Michael J. Caboose ~ RvB
So essentially any character that is dead, dying, or will die can be recasted at any given time under a coat of “alternate reality” paint.
ZHAITAN LIVES
Wait. Doesn’t this mean that Scarlet Briar lives as well? Makes you think. And while we are at it, the mentors also live. Cool. All the possibilities!
Glint is alive
Scarlet is alive
Tybalt is alive
The tengu are in an alt reality an outgoing nation that occupy lions arch
Dhuum never lost his power in one timeline
The charr were eradicated in one timelime
Ascalonians never got foefired
Now I know why Rytlock is blind. He didnt want to see the spoilers.
Zarin Mistcloak(THF) Valkyrie Mistblade(WAR) Kossori Mistwalker(REV) Durendal Mistward(GRD)
I used to think (build op, pls nerf) like you, but then I took a nerf to the knee.
Now I know why Rytlock is blind. He didnt want to see the spoilers.
I always thought it was cause he couldn’t stand to read anymore warrior patch notes.
Now I know why Rytlock is blind. He didnt want to see the spoilers.
I always thought it was cause he couldn’t stand to read anymore warrior patch notes.
He wasnt a warrior though. He had a pistol. Warriors are too dumb to use pistols, says Anet.
He fell into the mists and he was handed a script for the new season. Halfway through he said “nope”, put a blindfold on, and left.
Zarin Mistcloak(THF) Valkyrie Mistblade(WAR) Kossori Mistwalker(REV) Durendal Mistward(GRD)
I used to think (build op, pls nerf) like you, but then I took a nerf to the knee.