Guild Wars 2

Chapter 4 seems to me dedicated to closing old stories.

1-The rumors of Logan / Queen’s passion -> Logan has settled that he will not be able to have the queen, and will dedicate himself to be the new Pact Marschall.
2-Caudecus -> dead.
3-Canach -> finally free.
4-The whereabouts of Saul d Alessio -> they created an end for him in the Raid.
5-the political gossip, ministers, conspiracies -> the Queen has decreed a kind of “state of exception,” and Anet is likely to use this to lessen these political issues.

Closing old rumors and stories, they opened a new one that is speculation about Lazarus.

The other trend I have observed is the separation of guilds. The commander has the dragon watch, Braham will continue with their own Destiny Edge version, and we seem to have the Pact as something separate, although with common goals. Will it prepare the ground for a future, real “guild wars”?

Personally, I hope not- not least because Dragon’s Watch is not the side I’d want to take.

I think what we saw last episode was a B-plot coming to its natural conclusion. ANet saw an opportunity to wrap up the White Mantle plot thread that’s been dangling since WiK, and the Krytan politics one from the PS, and they took it. Head of the Snake was about as far as it could run without being dragged out or propped up, so they let it end. Now I imagine it’s back to the A-plot of the dragons (possibly including Aurene), and figuring out how Lazarus is going to fit himself into it. If I had to guess, I’d say our fight with Braham isn’t going to come to blows, but is setting up a mini Pact fleet moment where his excursion into Jormag’s territory either goes horribly wrong or uncovers something his group can’t handle alone.

Honestly, I felt like a return of the Guild Wars (or rather, a Fourth Guild War) was being hinted at with Heart of Thorns and the Guild Initiative’s birth. The lore around the Guild Initiative is that the Tyrian Explorer’s Society, inspired by Destiny’s Edge’s accomplishments, is beginning to sponsor and support numerous guilds so that they may become more influential in wars.

The lore of the Guild Wars was that guilds became large and influential in the economy and politics of the human nations… in other words, exactly what the Guild Initiative wants to do ended up causing all three previous Guild Wars.

I wouldn’t expect it to become a major lore plot until after the Elder Dragons are (mostly) dealt with though. If it does – it could just be a lore in for bringing back GvG (not that they’d need such).

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I wouldn’t expect it to become a major lore plot until after the Elder Dragons are (mostly) dealt with though.

Agreed… unless the Consortium decides to kick things off early.