Guild Wars 2

I am going forth with an idea that I have had for a while now.

I write, therefore I am choosing to write a short-story about how my GW character clan met and allied a friend’s GW character clan.

Friend and I have played GWs for years GW 1 and GW 2… but I have some roadblocks in my way as far as the lore goes.

I did not read the books, so don’t ask, nor I really don’t want to.

My friend told me that Orr sank around the same time the Ascalon Searing took place in GW 1. True or false? Friend also said that Orr’s sinking would not have affected Ascalon as the two cities are too far apart in distance.

Friend told me that yes, it is possible that the Foefire ritual “King Asinin” set off could be seen from Blazeridge Steppes (I question that one)

I need to also know. How long of a period of time passed between the time of the Searing and the time the Charr reclaimed their homeland of Ascalon?

Why not just look all that up in the wiki?

Jaymee.1560:

My friend told me that Orr sank around the same time the Ascalon Searing took place in GW 1. True or false? Friend also said that Orr’s sinking would not have affected Ascalon as the two cities are too far apart in distance.

Friend told me that yes, it is possible that the Foefire ritual “King Asinin” set off could be seen from Blazeridge Steppes (I question that one)

I need to also know. How long of a period of time passed between the time of the Searing and the time the Charr reclaimed their homeland of Ascalon?

The Searing breached the Wall. The main charr army poured through the breaches and headed south to Orr instead of stopping to complete their conquest of Ascalon. Vizier Khilbron performed his ritual when the charr army arrived at the gates of Arah, destroying the army and sinking Orr, so it would have happened not too long after the Searing. The Searing was in the fall of 1070 AE, while the sinking was in 1071 AE, so the span was somewhere between a few months and a year. (It would have taken some time for a large army to traverse the Crystal Desert and conquer the outlying areas of Orr.)

I suppose distance was a factor, but I suspect the main reason Ascalon wasn’t affected by the sinking is that it is a high-plains region with no coastline. It does not seem to have been affected much when Orr rose again, either, probably for the same reason. (Though it seems odd that Kryta and the Tarnished Coast don’t seem to have been affected by the sinking either, yet were devastated by the rising.)

Keep in mind that the charr had already reclaimed most of Ascalon — everything north of the Wall up to the Charr Homelands — prior to the Searing, though there were still some pockets of resistance. King Adelbern had to move the capital to the city of Rin, south of the Wall, because the previous capital (Drascir, north of the Wall) had fallen. The only area left for them to reclaim was southern Ascalon.

The destruction of most of the charr army had the benefit of giving the Ascalonians a little time to recover from the Searing and organize a defense of the remains of the Wall against the charr forces that stayed behind. It took the charr some years to rebuild their army to complete the conquest of Ascalon. The final conquest, resulting in the Foefire, did not take place until 1090 AE, about 20 years after the Searing.

I would imagine the Foefire could have been seen from parts of the Blazeridge Steppes. Ascalon City is not that far from the area, and the Foefire did affect a wide area. There are ghosts in the southeastern part of the Brand in Blazeridge, from Serenity Temple on down to the southern border of the area.

BrettM.9062:

Jaymee.1560:

My friend told me that Orr sank around the same time the Ascalon Searing took place in GW 1. True or false? Friend also said that Orr’s sinking would not have affected Ascalon as the two cities are too far apart in distance.

Friend told me that yes, it is possible that the Foefire ritual “King Asinin” set off could be seen from Blazeridge Steppes (I question that one)

I need to also know. How long of a period of time passed between the time of the Searing and the time the Charr reclaimed their homeland of Ascalon?

The Searing breached the Wall. The main charr army poured through the breaches and headed south to Orr instead of stopping to complete their conquest of Ascalon. Vizier Khilbron performed his ritual when the charr army arrived at the gates of Arah, destroying the army and sinking Orr, so it would have happened not too long after the Searing. The Searing was in the fall of 1070 AE, while the sinking was in 1071 AE, so the span was somewhere between a few months and a year. (It would have taken some time for a large army to traverse the Crystal Desert and conquer the outlying areas of Orr.)

I suppose distance was a factor, but I suspect the main reason Ascalon wasn’t affected by the sinking is that it is a high-plains region with no coastline. It does not seem to have been affected much when Orr rose again, either, probably for the same reason. (Though it seems odd that Kryta and the Tarnished Coast don’t seem to have been affected by the sinking either, yet were devastated by the rising.)

Keep in mind that the charr had already reclaimed most of Ascalon — everything north of the Wall up to the Charr Homelands — prior to the Searing, though there were still some pockets of resistance. King Adelbern had to move the capital to the city of Rin, south of the Wall, because the previous capital (Drascir, north of the Wall) had fallen. The only area left for them to reclaim was southern Ascalon.

The destruction of most of the charr army had the benefit of giving the Ascalonians a little time to recover from the Searing and organize a defense of the remains of the Wall against the charr forces that stayed behind. It took the charr some years to rebuild their army to complete the conquest of Ascalon. The final conquest, resulting in the Foefire, did not take place until 1090 AE, about 20 years after the Searing.

I would imagine the Foefire could have been seen from parts of the Blazeridge Steppes. Ascalon City is not that far from the area, and the Foefire did affect a wide area. There are ghosts in the southeastern part of the Brand in Blazeridge, from Serenity Temple on down to the southern border of the area.

Thank you so very much!!!