The Centaur and Flame Legion War
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.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
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.
Karl Marx: “Go away! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”
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.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
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.
People don’t hate Scarlet like Game of Thrones fans hate Joffrey.
They hate her the way Star Wars fans hate Jar Jar Binks.