Guild Wars 2

do you think the mini set2 gives us some insight into what new content will be coming out in rest of 2013-2014?

It shows a few interesting things: 6 main groupings
1) inquest and peacekeepers, focusing on High Inquisitor Maut as a possible enemy or friendly leader.
2) enemies of Kryta(bandits and centaurs) and seraph, focusing on Skarn Darkhoof as a possible enemy leader.
3) Wolfborn and Sons of Svanir focusing on Ragar Shardhammer as a possible enemy leader.
4) Scarlet’s army of watchwork “twisted”
5) Hylek and Dredge… not sure how they would fit in
6) Wildlife drake, spiders, skales, ect.

Into my theory this leads me to believe that the next elder dragon will Jormag, with its focus on both Jormag’s forces and for last years minis the only dragon minions would have been Zhaitan and Jormag, this years it only is showing off minions of Jormag, through the SoS and a specific leader of that group.

I don’t think that the miniatures in the sets will prelude important figures. I mean, if you look at set 1 for the named NPCs you got Eir, Logan, Big Nosed Ted, Yaotl the Fierce, and Comrade Molechev. We all know who Eir and Logan are, Ted was a human PS bandit (Commoner storyline) and not even the big-bad of that plot, Molachev was a Guild Wars 1 NPC, and Yaotl doesn’t seem to be in the game.

For the Set 2 named miniatures, we have Shaman of Jormag, Frost Fang (a drake), Eelob Poisonfang (a spider), Zojja, Maut, Skarm Darkhoof (a centaur), and Ragar Shardhammer (an icebrood). Sans Zojja, none of these miniatures are NPCs in the game.

When it comes to non-named NPCs, if the miniatures were meant to show a focus of plot NPCs, then we’d have a lot more risen in set 1 I would argue. The addition of the Twisted Clockwork is likely just because those were new models. Furthermore, on your point 1 and 2 – there’s a good number of centaurs, seraph, bandits, Inquest, and Peacemakers in set 1.

The only ones in the group that are of any interest are Maut and Frost Fang. Maut because who or what Maut is, is fully unknown. But the Conundrum of Maut gives an interesting view. Frost Fang because it’s an ice drake, and we had an ice drake miniature already (plus it shares names with the legendary axe) – this signifies this figure has some lore importance.

Either way, I’m doubtful they will lead to revealing future threats. I’d love if its right, since I’d enjoy an expansion of the Sinister Triad (whom Maut could be tied to if he’s Inquest), as well as Jormag, but I’m doubtful.

interesting as a side note I always thought Yaotl the fierce was this guy
The main reason I was looking at this was I thought it seemed to show two conflicting groups for many of the minis while set 1 seemed a little more random.