Guild Wars 2

Ok, so I was cutting through the graveyard near Grenth’s waypoint in Divinity’s Reach earlier. It was dark, maybe a bit past midnight I’d think. I decided to go explore the gravestones and see what their inscriptions said. So I turn a corner to go up some steps and I freeze. There, in front of one of the barrow doors, is a young woman with brown hair. She’s surrounded by a cloud of dust and she’s coughing, choking on it. I go to move forward, but, by the time that I do, she’s suddenly just gone. Disappeared right in front of me.

The NPCs designation was simply “Servant”. She didn’t look like a ghost. Attached is a picture I took of the spot this happened in. She was standing sideways in front of the barrow right in the middle of the picture, the right most one of the left set of three.

Is this new? Has anyone else seen this happen? Is there lore behind it? I don’t think it was a glitch or the result of culling b/c of the cloud of dust and the coughing involved. Is this possibly related to the “mysterious disappearances” stuff that is mentioned in Marjory’s short story? Any insight would be appreciated.

Yeah, there was a thread on guru about it a long while back. Has some pictures of the NPC – http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/69796-strange-occurrence-in-divinitys-reach-graveyard/

Was the graveyard foggy and was the woman wearing white? Theirs a DE their where you talk to a woman in white wondering around the graves (who looks normal) and offer to walk her to her home. When she reaches the entrance she remembers she is dead and freaks out, attacking you.

Im pretty sure she wasnt called Servant though.

Lutinz.6915:

Was the graveyard foggy and was the woman wearing white? Theirs a DE their where you talk to a woman in white wondering around the graves (who looks normal) and offer to walk her to her home. When she reaches the entrance she remembers she is dead and freaks out, attacking you.

Im pretty sure she wasnt called Servant though.

That might be in a different graveyard, but I think Alleluia is talking about Divinity’s Reach, where there are no dynamic events or people attacking you.

Nope. She was a brunette lady in regular DR NPC clothing. I don’t remember the exact colors, but it didn’t stand out against the dark/dust cloud like white would. Also, she didn’t attack me and there weren’t any other PCs around that I saw to have triggered it. And no, it wasn’t foggy. Was clear as a bell.

And, yes, I am talking about the graveyard off of Grenth’s Low Road in Divinity’s Reach. Its to the right of the road on the map.

Then yes, this is the first time Ive heard of this. I might go poking around and see if I can catch it.

Don’t know if it’s a random trigger, but some situations require a specific race or profession to occur. What kind of character where you on at the time?

It’s not new. I remember it being examined a while ago on another fan forum. In the end, there was no way to even interact with her even if you manage to get to her before she disappeared. It’s still a mystery for all I know, only it’s a mystery with no answer to be found as of yet.

Maybe she’s entering the catacombs via some secret hatch.
Thus the dust and the coughing.

I got a look at it myself. She isn’t coughing, she’s crying. Then she staggers like she’s stunned, while the cloud rises around her feet, and then they both vanish.

WarriorOfAsgard.3705:

Don’t know if it’s a random trigger, but some situations require a specific race or profession to occur. What kind of character where you on at the time?

Running a female, human, elementalist, lvl 34. For whatever its worth.

Caerus Sparks.6905:

Yeah, there was a thread on guru about it a long while back. Has some pictures of the NPC – http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/69796-strange-occurrence-in-divinitys-reach-graveyard/

I have yet to see her again, but that was definitely the NPC. Interesting. So she’s been out and about since at least October of last year.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

I got a look at it myself. She isn’t coughing, she’s crying. Then she staggers like she’s stunned, while the cloud rises around her feet, and then they both vanish.

I had a good look at her face from my angle and she had her hand balled up and in front of her mouth, coughing as the dust swirled around her. I dunno if she was crying before that. I didn’t hear anything as I came up the steps, before I saw her. (I had music turned off, but all other sounds to 100%)

This remembers me of the ghost ship of Cursed Shore.

There’s a ship in the main body of water, you can see it from afar. If you get near, it disappears.

That’s probably because it’s story related. This happens sometimes in parts of the world which are used in story instances. E.g. in Queensdale, you can see the giant elemental from the human tutorial from a distance, but once you come close enough it disappears.

I did the event with my Norn Ranger a few weeks ago, the lady in white started this escort event and attacked me in the end. Was quite beautiful, lorewise

In the novel Ghosts of Ascalon we learn that there are vast tombs and crypts under DR so maybe this woman is a nod to the book or acknowledging that people go down there occasionally to explore and conduct research? Or perhaps it does have something to do with the mysterious disappearances we heard about around the time of the Dragon Bash.

Well actually wintersday is the celebration of the end of the year, so FF was in 1326 as well.