Guild Wars 2

Is there any lore behind the legendary weapons? i would really like to read the story of them, why they exist and how amazing they are. It’s just really dull to farm for a legendary and you don’t know anything about it. kind off meaningless…unless you are a hardcore roleplayer.

It’d be interesting if you get story missions for the legendaries that you can go through, like Brahms and Roxx story etc but with the story on the legendary weapon(s). It would really make the lore of GW2 even deeper and more interesting, as a legendary is something you spend ALOT of time to get and it’s very very rare.

Legendary weapons aren’t that legendary. They have 0 lore. Just simple items with a label.

There’s been a few threads on this in the past. Sadly, ArenaNet needs to really improve their search engine. Google search helped me get these results:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Legendary-Weapon-Lore-Request/first#content
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Legendary-Weapons-Lore-Wise/first#content
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Legendary-Weapons/first#content

And here’s the most recent one, from another forum: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/80647-lore-behind-legendary-weapons/

To quote myself there:

Overall, there’s no lore to them. However, there are themes that many hold.

Twilight/Sunrise/Eternity is wielded by the RIsen High Wizard who guards the gates of Arah. So they may be of Orrian origin.

Frostfang utilizes a weapon with the Corrupted Skeggox skin for its precursor and Frostfang itself has a draconic appearance; with the ice effects Frostfang seems to be a “furthered corrupted” form of the Corrupted Skeggox (furthermore, it’s made from Honor of the Waves tokens which is heavily dealing with Jormag’s influence).

The Flameseeker Prophecies holds a New Krytan transcription of Meerak the Shouter’s… shouts from post-Searing GW1 Prophecies.

The Moot is, as said, likely a norn thing. The Bifrost too.

Kraitkin is likely something similar to the Blue Orb found during the Apatia storyline (fear that you’d have to cause harm to another), which is (imo) heavily implied to be tied to the deep sea dragon and is believed by the krait to be tied to their prophets.

Rodgort likely has ties to fiery charr/a dragon given the shape, but may just be a reference to the GW1 fire elementalist skills which in turn were a reference to Trogdor.

Kamohoali’i Kotaki is clearly named after the elusive artist of grandeur, Kekai Kotaki.

I suspect Kudzu is tied to the sylvari somehow.

Given design, I suspect that Frenzy and Quip hold shared origins.

Based on their looks, The Predator and Incinerator seem to be of charr origins.

The Minstrel is all that’s left of Helder Torlack, a minstrel who was done in by a mesmer. Its his flesh and bones forged into a weapon to eteranlize his musical voice. Also, The Dreamer comes from Canterlot, made by Princess Celestia with the aid of Twilight Sparkles. (yes, I’m joking on this)

The rest are still a mystery.

Gandarel.5091:

Legendary weapons aren’t that legendary. They have 0 lore. Just simple items with a label.

I agree. You would think that they would have given us a little lore on each one if nothing more than to make them interesting for more than their possession value.

So many characters are legends they could have been their personal weapons.

For example (to make up a few):
Sunrise could have been Jora’s sword at some point in her life.
The Flameseeker Prophecies might have been Rurik’s sheild.
Meteorlogicus is a scepter that may have belonged to Vekk.
The Minstrel might have been a focus that was discovered in the Temple of the Ages ruins.
etc. etc. etc.

There are many, many possibilities that they could have just given a little, tidbit of lore to associate with each weapon that would have made it much more fun to try and get.

It would have also given us a very simple tie to those character’s and places we loved in GW1.

EDIT: I looked and I guess some of my post was made moot by Konig’s post. There you have it. At least KDT gave some solid possible lore for the weapons.

Arenanet devs only commented on a lore topic once, like 9 months ago. This pretty much sums things up about how much they care about lore in GW2

Except for the fact that dev rarely comment on things except to clarify misunderstandings or about future content, and some of the lore-interested developers have explicitly stated that they enjoy reading debates on lore in the lore forums, so they like leaving things for people to debate about.

If they were to comment frequently to clarify lore, it’d leave us little to discuss really. So I don’t think that their lack of comments on this forum shows how little they care for it at all, as they could be not posting out of the enjoyment of keeping discussions of the lore going.

There are many many cases where their response could be important, and would clarify some things. Not questions about future lore, but some about already existing ones.

Devs comment at an average 3 hour/post rate overall, from this the lore section is 8 months/comment.

Gandarel.5091:

Legendary weapons aren’t that legendary. They have 0 lore. Just simple items with a label.

Indeed. Like all the brand designed clothes, bags, computers etc you can buy. Looks good but no soul.