Anyone Know What This Symbol Means
I guess its canon (just becuse its nice, anet never seem to care about lore in their weapons)
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Well, I will tell you that it looks, IMO, like Canthan text. Sadly, I don’t know very much when it comes to the languages of Tyria, and what I could find online didn’t have anything like that. Canthan text had a bit of a pictogram style to it, thus you could somewhat see the meaning by seeing what it looks like, but it wouldn’t be necessarily fact without the actual translation.
It looks similar to Canthan script as Narcemus said. It is seen on the Cultist Hammer (which Entropy shares skins with, and Genesis is a reskin of) and the seals in Cliffside Fractal. This fractal depicts the beginnings of Tyria (presumably world) so likely the earliest stages of human history (e.g., likely before they arrived in Cantha even). A cleaner image of the symbol can be found in that fractal.
So it’s probably some proto-Canthan symbol. Since it’s relevant, it should be noted that Canthan ideograms work in a manner that one symbol represents a single word – with similar-meaning words sharing aspects of the symbol (e.g., the symbol for “man” exists within each profession’s symbol – often as the combination of “man” and what defines the profession – e.g., man and death for necromancer, man and elements for elementalist, etc.). It doesn’t actually match any known Canthan ideograms though.
Given the nature of the symbol’s usage, I’d imagine it represents “seal” or some such.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.