Guild Wars 2

-POSSIBLE SPOILERS- YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

During the play through of GW2 you successfully kill what I believe is the leader of the Centaurs (I could be wrong on this so please correct me if I am) in the Harathi Hinterlands Meta Event and the leader of the Flame Legion, Gaheron Baelfire in the Citadel of Flame dungeon story mode. Now I have NOT done the actual dungeon in story mode, I just read up on it on the Wiki and the wiki says:
“The Flame Legion has splintered into rival factions in the wake of Gaheron’s death, and each has its own plan to regain the upper hand in the battle against the other legions of the charr. Representatives of the Pact must now scramble on multiple fronts to deal with the remains of the Flame Legion.”
Now I have not done the explorable mode dungeon either but this is because of the fact of I do not want to have to go to gw2lfg.com to find a group for a dungeon as I would rather find someone in-game to actually go with. So I am going to assume that you defeat each of these Flame Legion splinter factions.
Now finally my question is does this mean that both the Charr and the Humans are free to focus their attention on other things such as the ED’s or whatever is starting up with F&F or even things like the Inquest or the Nightmare Court? Or am I mistaken in my assumptions?

Ulgoth is debatable for either being an individual’s name, or a title for the Modniir leader. Take note that while the Modniir have pushed the Harathi and Tamini to fighting humans, centaurs on a whole have a hatred for humanity – one that’s lasted about 1,000 years now.

Besides the centaurs, humans also have to deal with bandits.

For the Flame Legion – we only kill 2 Tribunes, and supposedly there’s more splinter factions. So they’re not completely removed, but they’re in a civil war. However, the current content story – Flame and Frost – seems to show that the Flame Legion are acting up once again.

And the charr are still busy with ghosts, Renegades, Separatists, and the Dragonbrand.

So they’re not really all that freed up.

Yeah, with bandits taking up much of the Seraph’s time and the White Mantle choking up the political arena, Humans are far from done. And though they might not face a fully united front from the Centaurs they do still have to deal with them. Humanity is far from “free.” Both humans and charr were bogged down by a load more enemies than the asura, norn and sylvari.

Actually we have killed the highest rank in the flame legion Balefire the Imperator, as well as in path 3 of explorer mode of CoF we kill one of the tribunes, In the group event “Kill the Flame Legion tribune at Vidius Castrum to secure it for the legions” we kill another tribune, but that still leaves up to 8 tribunes for the flame legion to have and each is supposed to be responsible for a theater of their war leaving quite a bit more potential battles with the flame legion, they could also replace lost commanders by promoting.

I think it’s worth pointing out as well that any decent military organisation (and the Flame Legion is definitely one, I think the centaurs seems pretty militarised too) has a chain of command and provisions for if the leader is killed. Assuming the people backing the armies support the war effort (propaganda yay!), killing the lead figure won’t immediately crumble the army. Someone else will become the new Imperator of the Flame Legion or whatever, and on we go!

The best case is that after the loss of a leader, our enemies start fighting amongst themselves over the succession – weakening them and keeping them busy while the humans and charr deal with their other problems.

@Infamous: I think there’s a Tribune in the Searing Effigy path of CoF too – killed by said Searing Effigy.

@Curuniel: Thing is, we’re outright told that the Flame Legion fell to civil war when Baelfire died, as there are multiple factions working to fill the throne of Imperator (one side wanting to bring Gaheron back, the other sides being Tribunes). The three biggest attempts were stopped, of course. So the “best case scenario” occurred – but instead of leaving them to fight amongst themselves, the Pact went high and mighty and killed the squabblers.

What happened after such is left unknown.

My gut feeling would be that at the end of the day, the Citadel of Flame was pretty much cleared. However, I’m pretty sure that’s not their only stronghold – for instance, I think Hrangmer is elsewhere.

In the case of the centaurs – even if the Ulgoth’s fall is not decisive, Harathi Hinterlands does represent the beginning of a counterattack. If the centaur war is further developed, it’s probably going to involve pushing them further back.