Guild Wars 2

So, I’ve recently played through the asura personal story regarding the joining of an order, and one of the most prevalent things that happens near the end is you find out that the Arcane Council thinks they can save Rata Sum by itself.

Now, this reminds me of something. It’s been stated before that the Musaat in the far past betrayed the other races of their time (the forgotten, the dwarves, jotun, mursaat, and the seers), which was the last time the Elder Dragons rose. They hoarded their magic, which left them more powerful than the other races at the end of the dragon cycle, but had also left the other four civilizations crippled and floundering, so that wasn’t really a high bar.

So far, I can easily see three different racial “problem” factions cropping up. First, we have the Sylvari and mordremoth, given how they’re connected to him. The second is that, in the wake of Gahaeron Baelfire’s death, the Flame Legion is looking for new powers and will likely leap on their chance to, and there’s a big fiery beast lurking in the depths right now. The third, of course, is the Asura and them potentially following the example set by the Mursaat, though that’s not really Dragon specific. A couple others that are much more speculative is the humans and norn. The norn… well, the Sons of Svanir are a problem, certainly, but that’s just more of a pervasive unfortunate circumstance than the others.

Humans as a problem race is where it gets interesting, though, because it relates directly to certain things that GW1 players are extremely enthusiastic about; Elona and Cantha. The reason I say these two is because of what we know of these two continents at the moment – Elona is currently in the undead grasp of the ancient lich Palawa Joko. It’s another human undead nation though, so I don’t think that’s as likely to be a problem, since we’ve already dealt with one.

Much more compelling of an issue, though, is the current Canthan government. The Ministry of Purity is highly xenophobic, and went about eliminating nonhumans from Canthan soil (as an example, the Tengu that crossed the sea and are now roosting in the domain of winds). Now, thanks to the Luxons, they have rather powerful naval knowledge (not the least of which is thanks to the siege turtles), so what I’m thinking is that when we try to go after bubbles utilizing ships to go after his minions and such, we get interrupted by imperial navy, and come into conflict with them. Much like the asura in this example, they wouldn’t be serving the dragon, but would be an antagonistic force all the same, as our ships wouldn’t just be manned by humans (if they accepted outsider humans at all) but by all five of our primary races. This would likely make them immediately hostile due to the Ministry’s influence, leading into a three-way-war scenario. One that the Tyrians would be having problems with because, despite having greater tech, they’d have suffered huge losses fighting the other dragons.

I don’t know, these are just my thoughts on directions things could go. It’d be an interesting and thematic way for things to go on, though, and adds additional involvement from the various races, the same way we’re looking at Mordremoth and Sylvari here.

It’ll be interesting to see if Tyria does have greater tech than Cantha.

On the one hand, Cantha obviously doesn’t have the asura and charr, and if Cantha’s attitudes now are the same as they were when the tengu were forced to flee, that implies a cultural stagnation that often correlates to technological stagnation. On the other hand, Cantha had some impressive magic and tech in the Luxon turtle cannons and walking machines on the tech side, and Kuzick juggernauts and God’s Vengeance on the magic side – if that has been developed, Cantha could theoretically match Tyria in both forms of tech (we see remains of asura-level magic that isn’t of asuran origin in the ruins of Orr and Ascalon, so Cantha today, with rising worldwide magic levels, but have developed a similar degree of magic to Orr).

On the gripping hand, Usoku did crush the Luxons and Kurzicks, so it’s possible that knowledge was lost.

Another possibility not to be forgotten, though, is the bandits… who are connected to the ministry and the White Mantle, and through the latter, potentially to the mursaat. This may in itself create its own problems, especially since we’ve already seen evidence of alliances between that faction and the Inquest.

I’m looking forward to Exalted lore reveal, I predict that it will hit soon, cuz somewhere I saw Exalted Mail Carrier. Will Exalted interact with other races? or only with heroes and allowed ones.