Guild Wars 2

Hey guys! I was little bored, so I wrote this, and now I want to know what do you think about it…

This is how I imagine part of the season 3 of LW. It doesn’t have to be right at the start, but I think it would be epic if we’ll get something like that…

- The energy released by Mordremoth’s death spreads across Tyria. The remaining Elder dragons immediately noticed. They went insane and tried to suck as much of it as they can, resulting in increased activity of their minions all across Tyria…

- You and your group were called to Ebonhawke by Commander Samuelsson (leader of Ebonhawke) to check a strange activity near the Desert Gate. After your arrival, you notice an increased amount of soldiers guarding the gate. You’ll learn from them that a group of branded tried to break the gate several times. Unsuccessfully, yet. You’ll start to investigate. Kasmeer creates a portal to the other side of the gate and your group goes there. The place is currently calm and you’ll start looking around. But suddenly a group of branded shows up, and you will have to fight them. But their numbers are increasing a lot, and you’ll have to retreat back to the other side. You will report to commander Samuelsson, who’s waiting there, and he orders to strengthen the gate, because with the amount of creatures trying to get through, it won’t last forever. But suddenly something terrible happens (cutscene): You’ll hear a terrible roar and the gate gets blown up by a magical projectile coming from Kralkatorrik’s champion who flies over the gate and is heading to the west. With the gate destroyed, an enormous amount of branded creatures gets though. You, your group, and Ebonhawke guards start to fight them, but soon you’ll realize there’s just too much of them and you’ll need help. So you’ll send Kasmeer, because she’s fast, to Ebonhawke for help. After some time, she’ll be back with group made of Ebonhawke soldiers and Seraph guards, who came to help through the Asura gate. And luckily for you, also a group of charr soldiers, who were just coming around, shows up. So with unified force, you finally push the branded back behind the gate and Countess Anise, who somehow appeared too, seals the gate with magical spell. After that, a usual talking occurs, and you’ll think of that dragon champion (similar to the Shatterer) who flied to the west. Because it didn’t attack Ebonhawke, many of you think it was heading to Lion’s Arch.

- So you’ll go to Lion’s Arch with your group, but everything looks normal here. So you’ll ask some Lionguard soldiers if they saw a dragon flying around. And they’ll answer you: ‘Yes, we saw. Few hours ago we saw a glimpse of a dragon flying across the sea on the south. It was heading west.’ Then you’ll shout to your group: ‘That dragon never wanted to attack Lion’s Arch. It was heading to the jungle! The dragon wants the egg!’ ‘Hurry! We must get there! Maybe it’s not too late!’ says Marjory.

- You’ll go to Tarir. When you get there, you see that dragon attacking the city. The Exalted are defending bravely but they are seriously weakened. Even more, the dragon somehow corrupted some of the Exalted, who are now fighting their own comrades and are trying to get the egg. One of the Exalted sages thanks you for coming to help and tells you, that you have to kill all the corrupted Exalted. The dragon cannot steal the egg. At any cost. So you’ll fight them. Slowly you’ll get to the egg, where you kill last of the corrupted Exalted. But there’s still that dragon out there. The same Exalted sage now tells you, that there’s a way how to deal with the beast. There’s a magical weapon, that can take him down, but he’ll need your help to activate it. In each of the corners of Tarir, there’s a seal, and when you activate them all at once, the weapon will kill the beast. So you and your group splits up and go there to do it. You must hurry, before the dragon corrupts even more Exalted. But even with a dragon striking from the sky, you are successful and activate all four seals. A gigantic magical beam shows up and strikes the dragon champion, mortally wounding him. The fight is over.

- After the fight, you’ll get back to the egg. But then it happens… the egg begins to crack! And soon, you’ll be witnesses to birth of a new dragon, the baby of Glint…

If you also have any ideas for future living story, you can post them here!

I enjoyed the read. I think it would add another element to introduce another ancient race into the fold – perhaps surviving Seers or Mursaat, who could be the ones who have the knowledge of said magical weapon which can weaken or kill the beast. I don’t feel it would be fitting for the Exalted to have such knowledge, they seem more like sworn-guardians as opposed to incredibly powerful beings. I would love a Mursaat re-emergence for stories sake. I do not know a lot about the timeline and creation of the Exalted, but I’d assume the Mursaat and Seers are much much older, and would likely have much much more information on the dragons.

What do you think?

I like your story idea.

Yeah, I think you’re right. It would probably fit more if that weapon was from some older race..
Maybe… if that Exalted sage tells us that they found this device some time ago. And it’s a device with Seer/Mursaat/unknown origin, and they were just working on deciphering it. And they just learned that it’s a weapon with an ability to take down even huge monsters like dragons. But then the Shatterer the Second (or whatever name you like. Glassmouth? Crusher the Merciless? Crystal Shadow? idk..) striked. And that Exalted sage just found out how to use it…

It doesn’t have to be something they just happened to stumble upon. The Forgotten, and Tarir, were both created by the Forgotten, who from we know are just as ancient as mursaat or Seers and even more knowledgeable where the Elder Dragons are concerned. Your countermeasure would most reasonably be something they had left behind for the Exalted to use- and, since the Forgotten had strong ties to the Crystal Desert and to Glint, it’d make more sense to bring them back for a story season dealing with those two things.
I’ll also admit, I’m as eager to have Forgotten back as Animism is to see mursaat.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

It doesn’t have to be something they just happened to stumble upon. The Forgotten, and Tarir, were both created by the Forgotten, who from we know are just as ancient as mursaat or Seers and even more knowledgeable where the Elder Dragons are concerned. Your countermeasure would most reasonably be something they had left behind for the Exalted to use- and, since the Forgotten had strong ties to the Crystal Desert and to Glint, it’d make more sense to bring them back for a story season dealing with those two things.
I’ll also admit, I’m as eager to have Forgotten back as Animism is to see mursaat.

The Forgotten are also an interesting race, although I never read or saw much on their race. I think we have enough species in GW2 now :L Time to reel it in with some historical context. Maybe we could have both. I’d like to see some Mursaat alliance followed by a nasty betrayal, they fit the role pretty well.

I can definitely see some Forgotten action in LS3 in regards to Tarir now that you mention it.

Forgotten are a historical race :P. They had a sizable role in GW1, about to the same scale as the mursaat if you count in Nightfall, and certainly larger than the seers. They’ve also had a bigger role in the background lore of GW2 thus far, what with founding the Exalted and Tarir, creating a way to purify dragon minions, standing with the Seers as the foremost contributor to the survival of that ancient alliance, and previously guarding the rites that create the divine fire we used in S2 to slay the Shadow of the Dragon and ward off mordrem.
I think there really is room in the story for both, though. Any of the ‘elder races’, be it mursaat, Forgotten, or even Seer or dwarf, doesn’t really count as adding on a new race, not in the same way the Exalted, nuhoch, or itzel were. It’s more building on a long-established mystery.