Guild Wars 2

Could it be possible that the people in Cantha bonded with the other races completely differently than in Tyria? It’d be pretty cool if the dredge somehow embraced the humans rather than becoming xenophobic after Cantha secluded itself, or if the quaggans were labeled hostile upon arriving to Cantha and attacked, so now their aggressive towards everybody. I just think it would be pretty funny, and a cool change of pace, thoughts? (or at least as a dredge lover let me dream)

Assuming that the Canthans themselves didn’t kill the other races, then it’s possible that different relations were formed. My geography is a bit bad, but I’m not sure Quaggans would be near Cantha (it’s not too much of a stretch, I suppose)

First off. People are assuming that we are going to visit Cantha fair too much. Nothing is said bout it. And there even have been sounds from Anet that is saying the opposite.

Having said that I assume it is very much possible. We know that the Canthans in gw1 had a friendly relation with the tengu. While the Tengu in Tyria then where hostile. Later that turned around. Now the Tyrian’s Tengu are friendly and if there is any Tengu remaining in Cantha it will be a poor bugger, cause they are all hunted down.

It depends on whether or not Cantha’s xenophobia has disappated or not. Truth be told, I can’t see them welcoming other races with open arms unless they’re under severe distress of some sort and need help from outsiders of any kind.

As such, the best case scenario I see is discrimination against non-humans occuring throughout (much like how tengu and dredge were treated in GW1), and worst case scenario ends with “all non-Canthans are the spawn of Abaddon! They must be eliminated post haste! If you spot a non-Canthan, inform your nearest Ministry of Purity guard today!” with an extra heaping of paranoia via Third Reich mentality induced on the populous (this being caused by the leading body enforcing punishment and possibly death to those who disobey or even speak ill about, but also rewards for those who whistle blow on them).

Given Cantha’s history of each emperor counteracting their father, I can see Usoku’s son/successor revoking the isolationist policy and all that.

Regarding dredge in Cantha – it’s possible some survived, but they would have been persecuted during Usoku’s reign. Wardens, naga, yeti, tengu, and so forth as well.

Regarding quaggans in Cantha – if I’m remembering correctly, the quaggans were north of the krait in the Unending Ocean, and the krait got pushed out of their land from the DSD and then in turn pushed quaggan out of their lands. So it’s unlikely any quaggans went south – as that would be the same as fleeing into enemy territory.

It is, however, possible that largos, krait, and karka – as well as other, still unknown, aquatic races – fled to Cantha.