Guild Wars 2

Wasn’t sure where to put this thread. I was wondering if anyone had heard if Anet plans to have more novels written? I’ve finished the 3 current ones and loved each of them. Also, what did you guys think of the books? What would you like to read about if they did more books?

I would love to read a story about the fall of Orr from the perspective of someone who was there. Or maybe something to do with the bloodstones. I understand 2 of the 5 pieces are unaccounted for; perhaps an enterprising crew of adventurers set out in search of them.

I’d love more books! It’s great to get more of the lore than I can find in game.

I loved the first two books, especially Ghost of Ascalon. I haven’t enjoyed Sea of Sorrows but I’ll eventually finish it for the lore. Your idea of the fall of Orr would be really interesting. I’d also like to see more from inside Charr culture, or maybe something about the Asurans before they came to the surface. Ooh yes.

I made a suggestion for more novels over in the suggestion forums a while back, too bad it didn’t catch on.

I’d love to see more books, or at least one more set in the time immediatly following Guild Wars 1. Say between 1080 AE and 1120 AE. Some interesting stuff happened during that time such as the creation of Ebonhawke, the unification of Kryta under Salma, the Foefire, the establishement of the Durmand Priory, the creation of the Black Citadel, the Charr rebellion against the Flame Legion and finally the rise of the first Elder Dragon, Primordus. Perhaps it could have a Charr main character instead of a human main character.

I’d also like novels about the Tengu and novels about Cantha and Elona but those can wait until they are (almost) added to the game.

Ha, you liked EoD? Interesting, I thought it was poorly written garbage. :P The other two were awesome though, especially SoS. I’d love to see more books, maybe closer in timeframe to GW1, since we wont get too much lore anymore from that time. A book about the actual event of the Guild Wars’ would be nice, how Adelbern became king and the beginning of the Charr invasion. It could include the fall of Orr too.

After Ghosts of Ascalon, Jeff Grubb was asked if there would be more than the three books in an interview.

IIRC, he responded with, essentially, “it’s on the table” – if the three books get high appraisal and sales, then they’d do more.

Given the response to the books, I suspect that they’ll do more. Likely either using in-house authors or having heavy in-house editing, since Edge of Destiny got the least appraisal.

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Also, what did you guys think of the books? What would you like to read about if they did more books?

I enjoyed all three, but liked GoA and SoS much better as they were written far more suburbly (yes, I know that isn’t a word).

As for things I’d like to see in a book in counter-chronicle order:

• The tale of Aesgir, how he fought Jormag and led the norn south.
• Usoku taking control of Cantha.
• Lady Glaive’s exploits during the Second Great Corsair War and her relation to King Zoran (and why he would do so much for her… there has to be a story there. Maybe “Lady Glaive” became “Queen Glaive” eventually?)
• Lord Odran – I’d rather see this in-game but I don’t think that it’d be well developed as it’d have to have some degree of combat (because apparently ArenaNet cannot have a story step without such).
• Emperor Singtah’s death – the fire that killed him and the rebellion sounds like a good story plot.
• The story of the Scarab Plague and the end of the Primeval Kings could prove an interesting novel plot.
• The story of Grenth living in Orr – he apparently wasn’t welcomed in Arah until he bested Dhuum, so he had to live amongst humans… I wonder how he did so.
• The story behind Kaineng Tah’s “mysterious death.”

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Ha, you liked EoD? Interesting, I thought it was poorly written garbage. :P

I liked EoD, but for the lore it provided – particularly in the fight with Kralkatorrik and the Dragonspawn – rather than the writing.

I always thought it was odd that they “outsourced” EoD to King, considering they always claimed it to be the most important one to the storyline of the game (which actually turned out to be not so true).

I vote for dragon render only mortal to ever physical wound Elder dragon in a 1 on 1 fight. Battle on epic proportions. Not only did he fight jormag and escape. He took back is tooth as a souvenir which all norn test their metal against. He is the measuring stick of all Norn warriors

I’m with Konig on this. I can read any book, whether it is great or terrible, as long as the lore it is providing and the story it includes is compelling enough (and I don’t require a large amount of compulsion in order to get sucked into the story). I was at work and I nearly jumped out of my chair when Glint confirmed that she was indeed a champion of Kralkatorrik, lol.