Guild Wars 2

The Living Story is a series of regular updates (every 2 weeks at the moment) which introduces new, temporary content and some permanent changes to the game.

For example we’ve recently finished the ‘Cutthroat Politics’ chapter where one of the members of Lions Arch Captain’s Council was assassinated and we got to elect their replacement (from a choice of 2 candidates). The events surrounding the election were temporary but the winner is a permanent (for the foreseeable future anyway) council member and they’re going to be making some changes – mainly introducing a new area to the Fractals of the Mists dungeon.

The current event is the Queen’s Jubilee, centred around Divinities Reach. There’s a new area – the Pavilion – with various activities going on to celebrate that the human queen has been in place for 10 years. I’m not sure yet what the permanent changes will be, that will probably come with the next update in 2 weeks time.

If you’re curious about the Living Story up to this point or want to get one persons take on the Lore as it exists in both Guild Wars 1 and 2, I would suggest checking out a chap by the name of Wooden Potatoes on Youtube. He’s done a ton of lore videos as well as a few video recapping the Living Story.

The only problem I have with WoodenPotatoes is that he sometimes makes large leaps in logic to tie things together, and then people come to the forums swearing by it like it’s the bible.

For a good example of this: Garrenhoff and the Wizard’s Tower.

Just sit right back
And you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful group,
That started up in Lion’s Arch,
For Living Story loot.
The Thief was a mighty tattooed man,
The Mesmer; brave Asura,
Five players all skipped work that day,
For a Living Story tour,
A thirty balloon tour.

The coding started getting rough,
The tiny group was tossed.
If not for the patience of a pug or two
The Achievements would be lost.
Forever would be lost….

Here is a quick summary of Living Story so far:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_Story_Summary

Elbegast.6970:

Just sit right back
And you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful group,
That started up in Lion’s Arch,
For Living Story loot.
The Thief was a mighty tattooed man,
The Mesmer; brave Asura,
Five players all skipped work that day,
For a Living Story tour,
A thirty balloon tour.

The coding started getting rough,
The tiny group was tossed.
If not for the patience of a pug or two
The Achievements would be lost.
Forever would be lost….

Well done! /applauds

The LS is what is keeping us from going to Cantha.

StriderShinryu.6923:

If you’re curious about the Living Story up to this point or want to get one persons take on the Lore as it exists in both Guild Wars 1 and 2, I would suggest checking out a chap by the name of Wooden Potatoes on Youtube. He’s done a ton of lore videos as well as a few video recapping the Living Story.

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