Guild Wars 2

if there is not even one lion in Tyria where the symbol of Lion’s Arch (the statue) and the lion from the Black Lion Trading Company come from ?

We have no pegasuses in real life. Yet we have statues of them in real life.

We also have no dragons in real life. Yet the Chinese feature them heavily in their new year celebrations and have statues of them.

Maybe the Lion is a mythical creature in their folk lore like the pegasus and dragon are in our folk lore.

Elona.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Lion

I believe there were lions in Elona, so the memory may persist.

The cat tonic will make you a lion or lion cub at times … they have the models. We could see them in game some time, perhaps.

(Note the occasional NPC comments referencing horses when we see none. Another extinct breed?)

OP didn’t play GW1. There be lions. I’d be surprised if most of our mythical creatures didn’t have some kind of basis in reality at some point in the past.

But, I’m a dreamer.

Seera.5916:

We have no pegasuses in real life. Yet we have statues of them in real life.

We also have no dragons in real life. Yet the Chinese feature them heavily in their new year celebrations and have statues of them.

Maybe the Lion is a mythical creature in their folk lore like the pegasus and dragon are in our folk lore.

Dragons were spaceships and the Pegasus is a product of genetic manipulation. Don’t you people watch Ancient Aliens?

There were no lions in the Eastern Kingdoms either, but that didn’t stop Stormwind in WoW from having lions. And they actually didn’t remember what was on Kalimdor. Tyrians haven’t lost knowledge of what was in Elona, only what it’s current status is.

Correction: There are no lions on the continent of Tyria.
Elona has lots of lions.

Lion’s Arch was originally founded by Elonians.
It would make sense that an animal as culturally iconic as the Lion would make it’s way into the theme of the (then) Krytan capital.
(of course this was all history pre-dating the events in GW1)

aviranran.5208:

if there is not even one lion in Tyria where the symbol of Lion’s Arch (the statue) and the lion from the Black Lion Trading Company come from ?

Sure there are lions.

As Statues.

underwater.

We’ll get lions if we ever get to Elona. For now though….

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/kenya/

NoxInfernus.2361:

Correction: There are no lions on the continent of Tyria.

But there should be quite a few in the world of Tyria! Unless Palawa Joko eated them all. Then, I suppose there are no more lions.

Poor lions. :(

NoxInfernus.2361:

Correction: There are no lions on the continent of Tyria.
Elona has lots of lions.

Lion’s Arch was originally founded by Elonians.
It would make sense that an animal as culturally iconic as the Lion would make it’s way into the theme of the (then) Krytan capital.
(of course this was all history pre-dating the events in GW1)

“The kingdom of Kryta was originally established before the Exodus of the Gods by King Mazdak, a prince of Orr. However, after this it was colonized by Elona in 300 AE, though it gained its independence in just a few decades after foundation, making it the youngest of all human kingdoms for still unknown reasons around the time when the Centaur War began.”

It was originally founded by Orrians, then colonized by Elona it seems.

That’s an interesting Ret-con.

From the GW1 Wiki:
Kryta was the third and last human kingdom to be established in Tyria. Originally a colony of Elona, it was established in 300 AE, it gained its independence in 358 AE.

yet from The GW2 Wiki:
Mazdak the Accursed is an ancient ruler of Kryta corrupted by Zhaitan into a risen lich. In life, he was a prince of Orr who left Orr and the claim to the Orrian throne to establish Kryta.¹ He led the building of the first human settlements there, one of them being Lion’s Arch, the settlements’ location being chosen due to hostility with Orr at the time.

Edit – Keeping in mind Establishment and colonization, can be, two different things.

ANet practices “subjective history”, in that what is known to players is what is known to people of that time period. Look at what we knew about prior time periods in the Victorian period or the Renaissance period and you will see how people can get things wrong.

Celtus.8456:

Elona.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Lion

I will now submit my demands for Elona to open in GW2, so that I might charm one.
:3

There are no horses in Tyria either yet we see remains of amusement parks that have knights on horsebacks on skritt cities and a shortbow that shoots horses.

Just like there are no lions in south america (in the wild, at least) yet the coat of arms of the city of Caracas (Venezuela) has a lion on it, and their local baseball team is called The Lions.

Race memory from the world humans came from. Remember the “arrived” on Tyria and aren’t native.

There is no lion in England either (except in zoo of course), yet they use it on their football team emblem.