Guild Wars 2

Just wanted to be the first to say it :P

Why is he General Morgahn?
When looking at the cutscene we see this myserious figure looking over the battlefield. He’s clearly not a centaur, and by the looks of his weapons, it should be a spear and shield. Paragon’s wield these weapons…. Now why was someone randomly watching the battle from over there? in the middle of the jungle?

Can only think of one character who has been observing everything from a distance without interfering with anything.

Anet has told us that E is someone we all know. So since this fellow is a paragon, i decided to look for paragons in guild wars 1. Now i stumbled on one of our hero npc’s called General Morgahn, who we got as paragon hero.

I’m sure people will now say, wait a minute, General Morgahn should be long ded already. Perhaps :P

Finally on the wiki page for morgahn:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/General_Morgahn
You can read at the very bottom under Trivia, that morgahn’s appearance and vocal performance is very similar to that of Samuel E. Wright.

Very much a coincedence probably, but who knows
I’ve said it first (I think).

“E is someone we all know” – however 250 years on…pretty much no one is likely to know who General Morgahn is. Especially any Charr/Sylvari.Asuran/Norn players character, who’s races had no interaction with the events of Nightfall.

I think you have made a very fun, but enormous clutch at straws here

I’ll give you props for originality. Morgahn was a favorite of several folks – myself included – so I wouldn’t be shocked if they decided to bring him back somehow, but I’m rather doubtful.

The armor design isn’t that dissimilar to Morgahn’s armor either. Though given how abstract it is, it is also similar to the GW1 Order of Whisper armor – mainly that of Jurah (and who got a nod in this past episode? Hmmmm…).

But there’s really no reason to believe Morgahn lived an additional 250 years on top of already being an old soldier by the time of Nightfall.

As to who would be onlooking? White Mantle is a good possibility.

That said: @Randulf: I’m fairly sure that when Angel said that everyone will know who E was, she was meaning that the players would all recognize E, not the PCs.

Probably just another random spear wielding character that Anet likes to put in their artwork. It’s very cruel on their part, since we the players cant wield spears above water.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I’ll give you props for originality. Morgahn was a favorite of several folks – myself included – so I wouldn’t be shocked if they decided to bring him back somehow, but I’m rather doubtful.

The armor design isn’t that dissimilar to Morgahn’s armor either. Though given how abstract it is, it is also similar to the GW1 Order of Whisper armor – mainly that of Jurah (and who got a nod in this past episode? Hmmmm…).

But there’s really no reason to believe Morgahn lived an additional 250 years on top of already being an old soldier by the time of Nightfall.

As to who would be onlooking? White Mantle is a good possibility.

That said: @Randulf: I’m fairly sure that when Angel said that everyone will know who E was, she was meaning that the players would all recognize E, not the PCs.

Fair point, but not everyone played GW1 either and thus not everyone would know who Morgahn was/is

Erukk.1408:

Probably just another random spear wielding character that Anet likes to put in their artwork. It’s very cruel on their part, since we the players cant wield spears above water.

is it cruel or is it a hint (i think the latter)

@Randulf: Well aware and agreed. If it’s a GW1 character then the figure has been/will be heavily hinted at. -coughlikeJurahcoughIkidcough-

@Goat: They’ve had spear/shield artwork since pre-release, I doubt it’s really a hint.

Though battleaxes, which I think we saw in the trailer, is new.

well being that it is so close to what seems to be an expansion im more inclined to believe it is a hint but im sure we will know for sure soon enough (hopefully at the pax panel)

Maybe not the General but one of Mordant Crescent? They were Sunspears and are present.

Maybe Kormir, huh?