Guild Wars 2

As we can see here Tyria, Elona & Cantha only make up for (not even) half of the world’s landmass.

Do we know what the rest of the world is like? For instance, do we know what creatures live there? (do the ingame people even know?)

Also, the elder dragon all seem to reside around tyria (continent). (primordus; central transfer chamber. kralkatorrik; charr homelands. jormag; far shiverpeaks. zhaitan; orr)
Is there a reason why, from lore perspective?

a: no we don’t know. we no char territory extend further to the east. We also suspect the inland sea, to be the source of elona river.

b: We only know the location of one dragon and that is Zhaitan. The location of two is suspected (Kalkatorix in the crytsal desert and Jormag in the far shiverpeaks). Of bubbles, , primordus and mordremoth the location is totally unknown. (Yes Bubbles is somewhere in the unending ocean, but like the name is pointing out allready that area is too big to pinpoint her on the map.

Asura build the central transfer chamber, because of the ‘bleeding magic’ there. I think you could also primordus in the cutscene after A Time for Heroes.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Primordus

And you could see Kralkatorrik in Gw;Eotn in Grothmar Wardowns (link)

But let me rephrase my question a bit.
It seems like all the action is going on in Tyria, while the world is much larger. All the elder dragons seem to be in the area of Tyria. Now ofcourse this makes sense game-wise. But from a ‘lore perspective’ this kind of bothers me, if there is no reason for this whatsoever.
Im wondering if there is a reason, perhaps bloodstones or something?

Well, Jormag woke up waaay north of the Tyrian map and started making his way southwards, so it could be imagined that the dragons are going for the bloodstones. I mean we know that Primordus has some activity in the steamspur mountains, where a bloodstone is. We know Zhaitan had his armada going to the Ring of Fire islands, which could be pointing to him going for the keystone. These stones are massive amounts of magic all in a nice little capsule, so the Elder Dragons who eat magic would definitely be interested in them. By the way, we do not know that there are only 6 dragons. We just know that the races that lived in Tyria before only knew about 6 dragons, in such a massive world I would easily believe there could be a dozen, though by the end of the game I would see battles against these later dragons being more like the dragon champion battles we’re fighting in game right now.

Question 1) No. Other than the mention that we know there’s an arctic sea north of Tyria that the kodan, northern quaggan, and northern largos come from and that the charr’s domain (and origin) is east of the Blazeridge (off the map), we don’t know what lies elsewhere. Though the Maguuma Jungle does extend to the western coast, it seems.

Question 2) I presume it deals with the events of the previous rise. That is, it seems that continental Tyria was the last bastion of living races during the last rise, and furthermore the Seers contained all uncorrupted magic (aka the Elder Dragons’ food source) into the Bloodstone – this would draw them to the continent, as it is the last place of food. Even if there were surviving races elsewhere, the creation of the Bloodstone would draw them to Tyria. And it seems that Zhaitan took over Orr while the other races were hiding (as the Six Gods didn’t know Zhaitan was in Orr, and the Forgotten had freed Glint in what became Arah, so it would seem that the Forgotten didn’t know Zhaitan went to sleep there). I presume that only Kralkatorrik and possibly Jormag was in continental Tyria at first – maybe Mordremoth depending on where he is now – given that those two are the only one who had pre-hibernation influence in the area – the former being crystallized blood in the Crystal Desert and Glint’s location, the former being influence with the dwarves in the past (though they could have traveled north to combat him and given his location upon awakening I’m thinking he wasn’t in continental Tyria the previous rise).

Also, just to note: Jormag awoke north of Tyria, not within northern Tyria.

This makes me suspect that they’re after the magical concentrations which is throughout continental Tyria – the Bloodstones; Orrian and asuran magical artifacts; and portals to the Mists which are in large numbers in continental Tyria compared to elsewhere (Door of Komalie, Tombs of Drascir, Lion’s Arch, Tomb of the Primeval Kings, Varajar Fells’ stone circle said to be close to the Mists, Godslost Swamp…).

It should also be noted that there may be more than six Elder Dragons – the number of six comes from jotun stelae, so there may be some they didn’t know about. Trahearne, after completing Victory or Death, states that the dragons are waking around the world – the line may be based off of the jotun path of Arah explorable, the purpose of which is to learn how to determine the Elder Dragons’ awakening.

There’s already minor indication of a single Elder Dragon being around Cantha in the past, and I’m not talking about the deep sea dragon.

mercury ranique.2170:

b: We only know the location of one dragon and that is Zhaitan. The location of two is suspected (Kalkatorix in the crytsal desert and Jormag in the far shiverpeaks). Of bubbles, , primordus and mordremoth the location is totally unknown. (Yes Bubbles is somewhere in the unending ocean, but like the name is pointing out allready that area is too big to pinpoint her on the map.

He was pointing to where they woke up – in which Primordus woke up underneath central continental Tyria, Jormag awoke in/near the arctic sea, Zhaitan in Orr, Kralkatorrik in the Blood Legion Homelands, and the DSD was in the deepest parts of the Unending Ocean somewhere south of continental Tyria.