Guild Wars 2

I wrote a 500 word post about this topic, but I couldn’t post is cause the server wanted me to relog. Sigh.

Any, I never played GW1, LW S1 and only the last part of S2. I’ve read the books about DE, Ascalon, Lions Arch founding.
I loved the original DE and I am very sorry to see them gone from the active story (loved their chemistry, Logan’s character growth and his counterpart Rytlock, Caith being torn between Faolin and mother tree, Snaff’s annoying ego along with his ambitious apprentice and Eir’s balancing them all together).
The new DE 2.0 is just so boring and dull to me, except for Canach. Kasmeer and Marjory seem more concerned about each other than the rest of the world, Braham is overzealous and has no discipline, unless we count him holding back against Faolin (I get that he is Norn, but what is someone with no discipline doing in an army), Rox was just pushed to the side. Canach was very interesting, seeing him be anti-hero and have remorse to his actions but still wear some of his pride. Out of them all I dislike Taimi the most. Her over the top and teenage character makes me facepalm and you can’t tell me that a teenage asura is the best fit for the Pact than experienced, knowledgeable and the biggest minds of all asura. Just thinking about it makes my head hurt.

So. Do I need to learn more about the characters of DE 2.0 in order to get into lore regarding the White Mantle and the raids? (the lore right now is mysterious and intrigueing around the magic, unlike the HoT story, which I found rather shallow outside of the abandoned asuran city). How do I get to know more about Lazarous the Dire, who is he, what are his motives, …? I also want to get into the lore about the whole ley line magic, but I guess this means more DE 2.0 and the upcoming LW S3.
How does these 2 stories connect between each other (it would be awesome story telling)?

Nope, so far the biconics have no involvement with the Mantle arc or the raid, with the possible and slight exception or Marjory. (That said, ANet’s been pretty clear they’re here to stay, so expect them to play your posse if the story moves beyond the raid.) Lazarus the Dire was only involved in one questline back in GW1, which makes it easy to give the whole story a read-thru on the old wiki by jumping from quest page to quest page, starting here. As for how the plot lines connect… well, literally, magic. Both stories seem to be exploring what happens when you have too much of it around, with the ley lines getting flooded by Mordremoth’s death and the Mantle seemingly recharging the bloodstone one piece at a time.