Guild Wars 2

I’m sure I’m not the only one who misses the former glory of Ascalon and doesn’t feel right about killing the ascalonian ghosts..

Ok.. So what if the Foefire was not just about killing Char and turning Ascalonians into ghosts? What if that was all a side effect of what Adelbern was REALLY trying to achieve… To reach into the future and bring back an army(that would be us) to a time before the searing to stop it from ever happening.

He didn’t however, count on Charr being a part of the army that was bought back.

This living story could involve us traveling BACK to the original pre-searing from GW1 where we would act out a story that not only brings peace between SOME charr and humans but also ends with stopping the searing from ever occurring.

Following the event the Charr would still be based in Ascalon, but Ascalon and all it’s cities and towns would still be standing and the humans and charr have lived in peace for decades.

Sounds lovely but we have dragons to fight.

Ohh.. I miss pre searing, still hate those oversized cats by destroying it! Don’t even have a single Charr toon. Anyway, as much I love pre searing they should restore Orr first Imo since dragon is already destroyed. This will be a better move.

The Flame Legion were extremist wingnuts, as were a lot of the humans who refuse to (ahem) give up the ghost and won’t leave Ascalon. I don’t feel guilty in the least “asking” them to calm down with extreme prejudice (and that goes for the likes Rhendak and his ilk, living or dead).

I’m not against fighting old fights, however, like others, I prefer to see new maps and new foes.

The problem is if The Searing had never happened a lot of Guild Wars history would be very different.

Without The Searing the charr would never have been able to get past Ascalon to attack Kryta and Orr. Which means Orr wouldn’t have been sunk in the Cataclysm, the king of Kryta wouldn’t have abdicated and run away and the White Mantle wouldn’t have taken over….and all the events following that (basically the whole of the Flameseeker Prophecies or the plot of the first GW1 campain, and 2/3 GW:Beyond storylines) would never have happened.

For that matter the Guild Wars might not have ended either. We’d still have had guilds fighting each other on the mainland and not in isolated arenas, islands and The Mists.

And then since Orr wouldn’t have sunk Zhaitan wouldn’t have been able to raise it up and would have to go elsewhere for his army of corpses and the whole plot of the GW2 personal story would be different. We might even have ended up going after a different dragon because Zhaitan might be further away and less of an immediate threat.

In short I don’t think it’s practical. If we were talking about a series of books, or better yet comics (where you have multiple writers and alternate timelines being published at the same time is relatively common) it would be an interesting idea to pursue. But I think the implications are simply too big and far-reaching to be practical to explore in this media.

I rather see Orr in its former (pre gw 1) glory :-)

I think it’d be a great idea but only for an absolutely definitive last expansion of Guild Wars 2 for the reasons listed above. The last dragon could be a combination of all of them or a secret one on the moon they all ultimately answer to, or maybe a new arc where the gods are behind the dragons.

The very last story mode chapter could be a raid with very sophisticated AI and copies of your teammates who during the raid go red (despite being on your team) until you defeat their clone and clones of the different dragons could be part of different wings. Like the Zhaitan and Mordremoth wing would be first.

Abaddon is said to have an unnamed predecessor on this page:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Gods_of_Tyria

Which was good writing because it allows him to be brought in as quite a big deal.

The Mursaat will likely play an important role too.

Interesting as this could be, the amount of game content that would be destroyed or massively changed by something this big is too much, I’d say.

I like a good time-travel story as much as the next person, but I’d rather focus on the Elder Dragons than to make GW2 a time-travel story centered on the Searing. There are always more interesting stories to tell than resources will allow.

Redenaz.8631:

Interesting as this could be, the amount of game content that would be destroyed or massively changed by something this big is too much, I’d say.

I like a good time-travel story as much as the next person, but I’d rather focus on the Elder Dragons than to make GW2 a time-travel story centered on the Searing. There are always more interesting stories to tell than resources will allow.

I like a good time-travel story too… and especially one where the would-be time changer discovers that instead of fixing the past, he was the reason it happened that way. Har har. We go back in time to stop the searing and end up being that catalyst that causes it. Suck that, hubris!