Guild Wars 2

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I’m really confused by this, everything we’ve heard about Tengu implies they insist on keeping humans out at all costs. So why is the Aetherblade Retreat behind the Shuttered Gate inside the Dominion of Winds?

It’s underneath the mountain.

derekgrant.6504:

It’s underneath the mountain.

Right but that still puts it right behind the Shuttered Gate right? Do the Tengu just not realize that there’s a bunch of sky pirates hiding out beneath their mountain? That seems really hard to believe…

Behind the Shuttered Gate is NOT the Dominion of Winds. We can see the real borders of the Dominion of Winds in this map from the novels:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Map_of_Tyria.gif

It doesn’t reach to Lion’s Arch. The Shuttered Gate is an anomaly, probably an overlook on the devs part, or the tengu trying to expand their territory – it’s likely just a gate that leads to the Dominion of Winds.

But the area between Lion’s Arch and Kessex Hills is not the Dominion of Winds. If it were, then Garrenhoff would be cut off from the Sea of Sorrows by the Dominion of Winds’ full-enclosure walls, which would both prevent trade to and fro there (it’s a port, it has trade, NPCs make constant mention of it and the skill challenge is related to such), and the karka wouldn’t have been able to attack there (the Dominion of Winds is likely why they attacked Morgan’s Spiral and not further north where Noll was during The Lost Shores).

The Dominion of Winds doesn’t reach further east than Kessex Hills – you can even see the wall’s end (where it’d bend south), before reacing Garrenhoff.

Okay great, thanks Konig!

My bet is that the Asura have been, again, playing both ends—————-AND the middle—————against each other. The Tengu in LA are guarding their own gate network, and, as Konig has said, could care less about the mountain. Course, they could also be guarding airfields, nucler weapons, space invaders from ?, etc

^— that makes no sense O_o

I doubt. The tengu gate on LA’s side is probably just a gate to guard their LA-sector, or probably to guard the land-based path to their territories or a port. So it would make sense why the Ætherblade seems to appear as inside the mountain ranges supposedly controlled by the tengus.

If you look at the map, there could be at least 2 or 3 zones that can fit in the empty area between LA and the Western zones. We know for sure where their city is located, thanks to the walls, but no such walls exist in the other empty areas before you reach LA from the South-West.

You can also view it as a buffer. Since LA is a hub and is neutral, it will house all sorts of races with different goals and ambitions. The best way to keep them away is to create a buffer.

Though I am more inclined that it is just their LA-sector, probably a tengu port or a mountain path they want protected.

Or, it is we that they are protecting because the area between their city and LA was probably overrun and they do not want to admit it. Although we know, from stories that they too are having problems already within their territories.

So basically the Dominion of Winds is an island off the coast of LA, and what used to be D’Alessio Seaboard on the mainland is now also claimed by the Tengu?

No, they’re west of the D’Alessio Seaboard, in what used to be southern Kessex Peak. Garrenhof is that village where Dinas hid on the western edge of D’Alessio, and the tengu do not extend that far.

The Tengu are on what used to be Sanctum Cay…
The Gate in LA could serve any purpose but it isn’t the border of the Dominion of Winds.

@Shael: I’d hardly say 2-3 zones. Not GW2 sized ones. There’s barely room for a city-sized zone or a Southsun Cove sized zone between LA and Kessex Hills.

@Mad Queen Malafide: What used to be half of D’Alessio Seaboard, more or less. Hakewood and the Temple of Tolerance would be in that fogged area, and that may or may not be under tengu control.

All we really know about that area is that the tengu are now blocking access to it from Lion’s Arch (though not from Garrenhoff!). Given the dialogue of the merchants nearby, it seems that the blockade was relatively recent.

@Aaron: Huh, you know what? I never realized that Garrenhoff was placed just west of that GW1 nameless town. What we see in GW1 would effectively be right on the other side of the closed door in Garrenhoff.

However, what Malafide was referring to was asking if the tengu control the area they’re blocking off. Which is currently unknown.