Guild Wars 2

When Anet bring off the reaper specialization I was realy entusiastic, but it jump in my mind recently that there were already reapers in the game lore: The Seven Reapers of Grenth.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Reaper

There are also one reaper in the game, during the personal story Cathedral of Silence

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cathedral_of_Silence_%28story%29

Could be any connection?

Those Reapers are tied to Grenth. The necromancer is closely tied to the idea of Grenth (not all worship him, but the idea of what he stands for has presence across the world nontheless). The connection I’m thinking they will make is perhaps a very loose one that the new fighting style was based around stories of the Reapers. And since Marjori is likely the first Reaper, she knows all about Grenth as a human.

Sure there is, at least for the concept of the specialization, not necessarily with the lore.
Necros are tied to death magic and most human necros favor Grenth, so have a connection is quite likely.

I personally don’t think it will have much if any relevance to Grenth. Just because the idea of the human gods only appeals to humans, which is pointless when theres 5 races involved.

Take the Revenant for instance. Its essentially a reincarnation of the Ritualist, but without the “human gods” motif. I think it’ll be something similar with Reaper. I think it will just be an extension of the Necromancer’s power. Maybe something really upsets Jory, and shes goes a bit “movie monster”, turning into a Reaper.