Guild Wars 2

I was looking trough some old screenshots, found one with horses on them

http://i.imgur.com/nLOeTMS.jpg

+ why is there a ufo on the map?
(wondered this for a while)

http://i.imgur.com/XHUmeJ6.jpg

Way too small, can you provide bigger?

wow yeah just noticed, give me a sec

Horses DO exist (or existed) in Tyria.
During the Halloween 2012 a NPC mentions a horse: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Serene

Ah.. these horses ^^

The Ufo could just be a pixel fragment and our brain is just putting things together.
I looks like the “eye of Janthir” http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Eye_of_Janthir
However that could be my imagination, since I just got it as a mini :p

Actually i am surpised that we never saw any undead horses in Orr since in Gw1 we saw undead orrian horseriders. Though i think they sorta explained it somewhere…

Muchacho.2390:

Actually i am surpised that we never saw any undead horses in Orr since in Gw1 we saw undead orrian horseriders. Though i think they sorta explained it somewhere…

Part of it would definately be the Orrian undead in GW1 are almost ALL military based (armored and uniformed in some way), while much of the orrian risen are more civilian like, pirates, or the various ones with coral and such growing from them.

About horse, they exsist in the world of GW. They aren’t ingame to stop people from complaining about not being able to ride them IIRC. But lots of evidence for them exists. The carriages are set up like horse pulled ones, a number of humans in Kryta mention ponies , and stuff like the jousting props. Also, in GW1 there were references as well. Like the founder of the White Mantle was rode a distance from Kryta when exiled, and left in the wild.

So where are these horses at? Where are they from? Will they come back?

ANCIENT ALIENS

Horses became Extinct long before the modern timeline of GW2. The pic of the statues you posted are based on what is now an ancient and long extinct creature if tyria.

Think big, I want gliders so I can float in air and get a birds-eye view of the beautiful world of Tyria!

Lots of records suggest horses exist(ed) on Tyria:

• Kaineng Teh supposedly died thrown of his favourite horse
• Horseman Saralim from Halloween
• The Canthan Celestial Horse
• The Four Horsemen and in general the Dream Rider mobs

Zenchii.6531:

Horses became Extinct long before the modern timeline of GW2. The pic of the statues you posted are based on what is now an ancient and long extinct creature if tyria.

Nope, they were around in the novel Edge of Destiny.

Kalavier.1097:

Muchacho.2390:

Actually i am surpised that we never saw any undead horses in Orr since in Gw1 we saw undead orrian horseriders. Though i think they sorta explained it somewhere…

Part of it would definately be the Orrian undead in GW1 are almost ALL military based (armored and uniformed in some way), while much of the orrian risen are more civilian like, pirates, or the various ones with coral and such growing from them.

About horse, they exsist in the world of GW. They aren’t ingame to stop people from complaining about not being able to ride them IIRC. But lots of evidence for them exists. The carriages are set up like horse pulled ones, a number of humans in Kryta mention ponies , and stuff like the jousting props. Also, in GW1 there were references as well. Like the founder of the White Mantle was rode a distance from Kryta when exiled, and left in the wild.

As silly as it might sound, it might be possible that the Orrian undead in GW1 stayed dead upon destruction, and thus, over the years we wiped out the entire Orrian undead military, there probably wasn’t too much left to begin with given the charr invasion. (Thus why we fight mostly civilians, otherwise Zhaitan probably would have been happy to use undead military)

Also, I’ve long speculated we don’t see horses because they’re rare these days from the human/charr wars. Why? Charr are too big and heavy to ride horses, their equipment is scaled for them and too heavy for horses. But they gave humans enormous mobility advantages and thus the charr began hunting down horses to keep them them out of human hands.

It’s implied in one area of Fields of Ruin they use Marmox’s for charr mounts.

IIRC, it’s a wounded Charr who “Leapt off a Marmox and at a branded” :P

Franky, while the explanation would work in Ascalon perhaps, it doesn’t make sense for Kryta. AND we see a LOT of carriages. I truly think it boils down to “Anet wanted to avoid the mobs screaming for riding horses” in this case.

i once mention there is no horses in tyria in one of the gw2 concept art showing horses in their fb page and they compltely deleted my comment. anet doesnt take kindly to critics and anything bad to say bout thier game.

I thought your second picture was the Eye of Providence aka ANet is part of the Illuminati (or are Mursaats)

Even the Pale Tree describes Ventari as half human half horse. So the Pale Tree knows what a horse is.

It’s mentioned in random dialogue about “equestrian” stuff by nobles in this LS.

Aka, horses.

I love how we have centaurs but not horses.

Ingame yes, but in the world(lore) there are horses.

Just because they exist doesn’t mean they exist everywhere, or have been domesticated everywhere.

The domestication and spread of horses on Earth was a very long process that was by no means uniform across the globe. It may have taken as much as one thousand years for the “technology” to spread across Europe and Asia.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_horse