Guild Wars 2

Sorry if someone has posted on this before. I looked through the forum rather briefly, as there are a LOT of pages and posts, but I didn’t find anything about the topic I am about to post.

When mapping in Malchor’s Leap earlier, I started paying attention to some of the giant skeletons there. They kind of blend in with the map a bit, and as it’s a map full of dull colors and dead things, I guess I’m not surprised I never paid any attention to them before now, but I can’t help but think they look pretty similar to many of the giant skeletons found in GW1 that were previously thought to be skeletons of the Giganticus Lupicus. They look too different from the Tequatl style dragon minions for me to assume it’s probably one of them that just got shot down, and they’re much too old to be victims of the Pact forces, as they’re completely bare and bleached.

It has the facial tusks, albeit smaller, the approximate body size, and spikes (ridges?) that run along the spine, similar to the GL skeletons in GW1.
However, from some angles, it also appears to have had small flipper like arms/hands, and I don’t recall seeing anything like that on the GL skeletons of GW1.

In case anyone asks, as for the bone plates on either side of the skeleton in the following screenshots that look a lot like they might have been wings once, I’m pretty sure they’re not actually part of the skeleton. The example here was obviously placed on a building with several other large rib cages and spines inside and around the structure to make a shrine at Dhuum’s Last Stand. I imagine the building itself is what is making the “wing” structures, and also, thick bone plates inside a critter’s wings would not be conducive to flying. At all.

The question is, what made the skeleton? Is the GL now wholly accepted to be based on the thing we fight in the Orr dungeon? Are there different varieties? Or are these skeletons something entirely different?

Best view I could get of Orrian skeleton:

My computer is being weird. But here’s a picture of a GW1 skeleton

Nah, they aren’t GL. They’re these- leviathans, like the Maw from SoS, a type of aquatic creature whose living form was ultimately cut from the game.

Irritatingly, they’re also the fourth separate thing to go by that name in the Guild Wars universe.

I see. Thanks!

Just to make note, we’ve been told that the Crystal Desert skeletons are still considered Giganticus Lupicus bones, but of different varieties, indicating at least three kinds of G-Lupes.