A friend of mine pointed out a new poster she found in DR. It wasn’t interactable like the Posted Message ones that are part of the achievement, but instead has New Krytan writing on it, which translates to “Stay the Blade”.
I looked around DR afterwards and found two others – same message.
A neat little addition some would miss. And maybe there are more posters out there, with more messages. Attached is the one I found. All three were in less traveled roads – found on in NE Eastern Commons and one in NE Ossan District.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
I have seen this one yet no others.
I’ll continue to look around.
These posters (both those which are interactable and those which aren’t.) are lovely additions to the game. Hearing the voices of Tyrians (even if they are White-Mantle related imposters) is great. I especially loved the bit where one poster said “Snake-men” instead of Krait. Not all Tyrians are bound to know all species by name as if they were biologists/anthropologists.
Paragon of the Seraphim Order [Ankh]
a small, casual Guild with a play as you want style.
“Stay” can also mean “restrain”, although it’s a usage that these days tends to only come up when somebody is being poetic. So it could be someone calling for the Shining Blade to be restrained.
Alternatively, the reason they’re non-interactive could be that they’re posters that are put up by the royalist faction encouraging the Blade to stay the course.
To those who think Scarlet hate means she’s succeeded as a villain:
People don’t hate Scarlet like Game of Thrones fans hate Joffrey.
They hate her the way Star Wars fans hate Jar Jar Binks.
I think that means that the White Mantle/Seperatist is going for the lower classes?
I mean that would certainly mean: Slay the Blade , because I don’t know what Stay the Blade is supposed to mean.
Though it could actually be a peace message, like Sheet the Blade and the writer just couldn’t remember the right word anymore and Stay was just fitting.
The 2nd New-Krytan character is a T, I can guarantee it’s not an L.
As said above: “Stay the Blade” is basically telling the Shining Blade to refrain from meddling into affairs in two ways:
- Blade referring to the Shining Blade which should keep their distance from the political affairs.
- Blade referring to the Shining Blade’s weaponry which they should not draw in order to keep their distance.
It just sounds better than:
“Hey Shining Blade, stay away from our affairs both in political and combat-related situations!”
Paragon of the Seraphim Order [Ankh]
a small, casual Guild with a play as you want style.
those could honestly all work. :P
It lacks the assonance though…
ST A Y the BL A DE. has a nice catchy rhyme.
(sorry for the weird formatting, the BBCode doesn’t allow for the unique formatting for one character in a word.)
Paragon of the Seraphim Order [Ankh]
a small, casual Guild with a play as you want style.
Honestly, Stay the Blade feels very fitting.
Sheet the Blade, however, sounds like you’re trying to put a bed sheet over the Shining Blade. And that’s just silly.
The other two aren’t very poetic, which I think was part of the point of using “Stay”.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
I’ve never heard the word sheet used like that. Are you thinking of sheathe? As in put it back in it’s sheath.
I agree with the general idea that it means the Shining Blade need to stand down or stop doing something. Or be stopped. Considering these posters are plastered around the city (screenshot of the one I found below) I doubt they’re from an official source.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
“Wait for the right time, brothers” is the only interpretation I can give to this message.
“Only problem with the Engineer is
that it makes every other class in the game boring to play.”
Hawks
So is this leading to new living story??
I Can outrun a Centaur!!! Crap TREE!!!!
So is this leading to new living story??
Most assuredly, or I suppose to be safe “most likely” yes.
Although I can’t currently recall an official word on this leading up to the LS3, there has been no dev to shoot the connection down either. (Something they’d possibly wish to do if all these developments lead to something else.)
TL;DR:
Yes, this will most likely lead up to the Third Living Story.
Paragon of the Seraphim Order [Ankh]
a small, casual Guild with a play as you want style.
It’s also similar to the leadup to War in Kryta for GW1… except there, the posters were out-of-game.
To those who think Scarlet hate means she’s succeeded as a villain:
People don’t hate Scarlet like Game of Thrones fans hate Joffrey.
They hate her the way Star Wars fans hate Jar Jar Binks.
