Guild Wars 2

Where are they?
I mean, I’m not asking to ride them or to have them give bonuses to my character. I just want to know, do horses even exist in GW2? There are abandoned wagons in DR that seem to be the type that would be pulled by horses, and the Iron Horse mine didn’t get its name from nowhere…so what happened? Were they all destroyed in the searing? Did Zhaitan corrupt every last horse on Tyria and drown them? We have centaurs, which are kind of close, but I don’t think a human would want a centaur pulling their cart…

I don’t know, but I suspect Scarlet was involved.

Humans got hungry and ate them all to extinction…it wouldn’t be the first time.

What I think happened was, Tyria is kind of like a game of Pokemon to the Gods, and when the horses started to evolve, they forgot to press B.

Totally true, maybe slightly fabricated story.

Serious answer, I dunno. I mean, we had Necrid Horsemen and Banished Dream Riders in GW1. They must of got that form from somewhere, right?

when a man ride a horse, it is called a centaur.

Perhaps horses arrived on Tyria with humans way back when, but there was some inimical parasite or virus or what-have-you that ended equines.

These responses are cracking me up. I’m glad to know that the existence of horses is debatable on more ends than just mine.
On the topic of invisible creatures, do gorillas exist outside of corrupted risen gorillas? Are they out in Maguuma? In Cantha?

Well there were undead in Guild Wars that rode skeletal horses, though those were from Orr. My best bet is that horses were primarily found in Orr, but were eradicated when the continent fell. Though why we don’t see Risen Horses galloping around… Maybe the corpses weren’t usable? Though I do believe that the Risen Knights have horse heads, so maybe they were used as spare parts for those…

There is also a tombstone in GW2 that reads:

“Hank the Blacksmith 1020-1081 Shod all the king’s horses with honor”

There was also a horse head available as one of the options for guild capes in GW1.
This kind of confirms that there where horses at one time. I would have to assume the Charr ate them.

Maybe horses were bred out of existence due to centaurs? MAGIC!

They all fled to a magical land called “Equestria” many moons ago.

Ironically enough, Scarlet Briar is known there as “Twilight Sparkle”, a pony princess beloved by all.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

There are horses in Tyria, but the running joke is that they are never on-camera. They show up in art, in references, in the books, in NPC chatter, but their models have not been dropped in game and it’s the case since GW1 (except for necrid horsemen). I assume this is a Monty Python reference (there are several in both games), since everyone in The Holy Grail ran around and just clacked coconuts together even though horses existed.

The Dolyak union: Dolyak United Mobile Brigade (DUMB) pushed them out.

we need a killer rabbit next

oh wait..

You’ll have to craft “The Dreamer.”

The important question is, what happened to the Mad King’s invisible pony?

Horses? I know what you did there.

Sylv.5324:

There are horses in Tyria, but the running joke is that they are never on-camera. They show up in art, in references, in the books, in NPC chatter, but their models have not been dropped in game and it’s the case since GW1 (except for necrid horsemen). I assume this is a Monty Python reference (there are several in both games), since everyone in The Holy Grail ran around and just clacked coconuts together even though horses existed.

I like this^

On a more serious note, though, horses are very hard to render correctly. Even in the “new” MMOs out there right now, and the ones coming up, any horse in-game looks comical and badly designed. If GW2 warranted mounts, then I am sure we would see some version, but for atmosphere, it’s way too much work for something that wanders around and eats (and does “other” things.)

If Anet could find an Asuran to motion capture, I am sure they can find a horse.

Was Charr harder? Nah, that’s just a human being motion captured with 5 dogs taped to his body, its no mystery.

In the halloween last year, one of the Mad King’s story involved him killing a horse by poison.
I’m on my phone right now so I wont be able to link to the dialogue, but look for halloween 2012.

Belzebu.3912:

In the halloween last year, one of the Mad King’s story involved him killing a horse by poison.
I’m on my phone right now so I wont be able to link to the dialogue, but look for halloween 2012.

They’re saving the horses for the next expansion where horse is the new playable race. Elite skills include eating hay and that’s about it.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Mad_King_Pony_Support

There are a few stables in game and some of them make references that suggest the carts are pulled by moa birds.