Guild Wars 2

One of the thing that GW2 is doing worse than GW1, in my opinion,, is how the story is narrated. Even if I like the story very much, the idea that the personal story and the first part of the living story can not be replayed is quite bad, because after a while a lose the thread of it and have to check the forums to understand what was actually happening. At least in GW1 I could rerun the coop, and check the story as much time as I wanted. Here is simply impossible. Anyway, this is not the point of my topic.

What I want to ask here is some points that I do not clearly get in the first part of the living story.
In particular the various relationships between scarlet allied. Molten alliance, toxic alliance, aetherblade, alredy existed or Scarlet united them together. And why they are all helping Scarlet awaking a dragon? I think they were not aware of what scarlet was doing? I can understand for krait and dredge, but also the inquests?

In conclusion, I have a bit of confusion in my mind about the political situation of the various tribes of tyria, in relationship with Scarlet. Can someone give me a resume of what actually happened?

the dredge and flame legion was an alliance of convenience, scarlet pretty much got the two working together long enough for them to agree that fighting together would be better than fighting alone, especially since dredge don’t do magic and flame don’t do tech. iirc, after scarlet died, the molten alliance disbanded due to infighting

the aetherblades were composed of bandits and inquest, however, they were also composed of refugees from the MA attacks. the inquest likely wanted to know more about scarlet’s ley-line research. afaik, they are still active but hiding in the Edge of The Mists

the toxic alliance, though I had to quit because of uni, this is whatI understood later. the krait were told that it would allow an incarnation of their god to be created (the thing on the top of the nightmare tower), and SOME of the nightmare court believed that the toxic spore hallucinations would help corrupt the dream (they are NOT part of Caderyn and Faolain’s nightmare court anymore,they are a splinter faction).they are still active and still causing problems in kessex hills.

Scarlet’s ultimate purpose was, and still is unknown. perhaps even to her. maybe she wanted to wake mordremoth (which she clearly succeded, and is certainly what mordremoth wanted her to do), but as far as her own motivations go, we still have no idea, it’s possible that she wanted mordremoth awake early so he’d be weaker, or maybe she was just nuts, who knows?

I’m sure someone else will have a more thourough explanation (paging Konig ;P), but that is the story of LW1 and the enemy factions as far as I understood it

Unfortunately, we have very little to go on for the alliances, even for the generally sub-par exposition in S1- Calcifire got most of the big elements right (I’ll nitpick one of the smaller things below), but to speak specifically to your questions:

We don’t know for sure if Scarlet’s underlings knew what she was up to, but we were told in general what each signed up for (Calcifire got the Toxic covered, Molten jumped on for power, and Aetherblades were after loot), and none of that has to do with waking a dragon, so I’d guess your gut instinct is correct. Scarlet probably kept them in the dark.

The Molten alliance and Toxic alliance did not exist before- Scarlet brokered both- but they were both pulled from splinter factions of groups that did already exist. Aetherblades, we just don’t know- they seemed more closely tied to Scarlet, and much more cowed by her, so it’d be weird if they existed before her, but it’s possible. As far as I’m aware, we don’t even know if Scarlet was involved in getting them their airships.

As for the Inquest- it’s worth noting that after Aetherblade Retreat, in the second Aetherblade patch, we never see Inquest working for Scarlet again. Their councilor even brags that they quickly ditched her, albeit in response to a different question. It’s possible that they pulled out very early on, maybe because they learned what Scarlet was up to, maybe because they found they weren’t getting what they were promised out of it. It may even be that that was a splinter Inquest too, and that they were hunted down by the main Inquest later. Again, though, veering into things we have no information on.

Calcifire.1864:

the aetherblades were composed of bandits

*pirates

they were also composed of refugees from the MA attacks.

Really? Huh. Do you have a source for that?

It seems that the details have not been very well explained, not just that I forgot them. How scarlet managed to gather this incredible alliance without anyone noticing it, it remains a mystery!

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Personally i think what gives the most insight on how she got the alliances to work is a piece of paper you read in one of the story missions in living world season 2. (taken straight from the wiki"

“this piece of paper was torn from a book.

Read on.

Letters sent home from soldiers in the Kournan army have given us great insight into their lives. In the eleventh century A.E., their leader Varesh Ossa inspired great loyalty.

Read on.

In one particular speech, Ossa praised her military and encouraged them to use their persuasive abilities to build the power of Kourna from the inside.

Read on.

She said, “If properly convinced, you can get whole groups of lesser creatures to work toward your goals without them realizing they’re not working for themselves.”

Read on.

Ossa cites the alliance between centaurs and Kournan craftspeople as an example. Together, they produced better armor and weapons, and they provided for the Kournan people’s day-to-day needs." With a Sharp tongue, quick wits and maybe a few insults you can convince anyone to do your dirty work for free.

As for what happened to each faction: The Molten Alliance would be unable to return to the main group of Flame Legion so they would be forced to strike out on their own and remain allied to the Dredge.

The Toxic Alliance of course have the Krait members of the organization would treat the Toxic Courtiers as the subjects of the “Prophet” that we killed in the Tower of Nightmares. Said Toxic Krait would be rivals of the other Krait clans and be fighting them where their borders overlap.

Serafi.7506:

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