Guild Wars 2

Is there any concept art somewhere detailing what Orr would have looked like if the Cataclysm had never happened?

The only concept art I know if are these two.

And this one of King Doric.

We can assume it looked similar to Hall of Heroes since it was once the city of the gods.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/c/ce/The_Hall_of_Heroes_concept_art.jpg

I disagree that it would look anything as the hall of heroes. though the various realms of the gods are located in the mist, the rift, and the center of the rift, the hall of heroes has no connection to the god. it’s origin as well as who it might have constructed is unknown. Some humans might believe it was made by or for the human gods, but many other races from many other worlds will disagree. This is confirmed by the architecture of the now corupted Orr. Specially the circle-shapes over and over seems to me to be totally different then the hall of heroes architecture

Some other conceptart I found of Orr (though sunken it is uncorrupted):http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:%22Orr%22_concept_art.jpg

The Hall of Heroes does hold a connection to the gods – it has statues of the gods within it. It also holds similar structure to the Hall of Ascension in Augury Rock in the Crystal Desert.

However, I cannot see it looking like Orr simply because they look vastly different between Orrian ruins and the Hall of Heroes.

Anyways, the only pre-Zhaitan concept art of Orr there is are those three already linked, which are from Prophecies.

I would love some kind of pictures of pre-sunken Orr/uncorrupted Orr. I never played Guild Wars 1 so I had assumed it was in that game. I found a site detailing Old Ascalon and comparing it to the current Charr Ascalon. I was really disappointed to find out there wasn’t something similar for Orr.

The history of this game is so amazing to me. I spent most of time exploring the ruins of Ascalon before I hit 80 and found Orr. Wow, I mean wow. Orr is by far my favorite zone. It’s an explorer’s playground. Heck I just run around admiring the ruins and taking pictures of the scenery. It’s just amazing.

I would love some pictures and maps of a pristine Orr! Maybe what the priests and priestesses looked like before too. That would be really cool.

It has nothing about Orr (since we never saw the place in GW1) but it still might interest you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjrQyWjtUsI

Panda Shepard.1248:

I would love some kind of pictures of pre-sunken Orr/uncorrupted Orr. I never played Guild Wars 1 so I had assumed it was in that game. I found a site detailing Old Ascalon and comparing it to the current Charr Ascalon. I was really disappointed to find out there wasn’t something similar for Orr.

The history of this game is so amazing to me. I spent most of time exploring the ruins of Ascalon before I hit 80 and found Orr. Wow, I mean wow. Orr is by far my favorite zone. It’s an explorer’s playground. Heck I just run around admiring the ruins and taking pictures of the scenery. It’s just amazing.

I would love some pictures and maps of a pristine Orr! Maybe what the priests and priestesses looked like before too. That would be really cool.

Yeah, well back in GW1 I always wanted a map of pristine Ascalon, Pre-Searing. I mean you get to see nothing of Rin, Surmia, Serenity Temple (or the massive looking city nearby it). Sad thing is, it is highly unlikely we will ever get that. The best we can hope for is the possibility of seeing parts of Orr uncorrupted that get released later in the game.

Spoiler Alert

There’s a cutscene I think in Arah story mode where Caithe talks about the original Arah and you get to see clips of it in it’s original form, Next time I do it (which might be this week) I’ll see if I can snap a pic of it and post it.

Panda Shepard.1248:

I would love some kind of pictures of pre-sunken Orr/uncorrupted Orr. I never played Guild Wars 1 so I had assumed it was in that game. I found a site detailing Old Ascalon and comparing it to the current Charr Ascalon. I was really disappointed to find out there wasn’t something similar for Orr.

The history of this game is so amazing to me. I spent most of time exploring the ruins of Ascalon before I hit 80 and found Orr. Wow, I mean wow. Orr is by far my favorite zone. It’s an explorer’s playground. Heck I just run around admiring the ruins and taking pictures of the scenery. It’s just amazing.

I would love some pictures and maps of a pristine Orr! Maybe what the priests and priestesses looked like before too. That would be really cool.

You couldn’t play in Orr in GW1, it sunk right before we embarked on our adventure after leaving the area known as “Pre” which was the starter area in the first campaign that was pretty much there to introduce you to the story and train you on how to play. However, that was how we knew what Ascalon looked like before the charr invaded and blasted it to bits with the Searing event (hence why it was known as “Pre” ie Pre-Searing). There is nowhere I know of that you can see the original priest/priestesses from Orr other than maybe Vizier Khilbron who was the one responsible for sinking Orr (in his human form anyway, although he was the king’s advisor not a priest).

Nay of the Ether.8913:

You couldn’t play in Orr in GW1, it sunk right before we embarked on our adventure after leaving the area known as “Pre” which was the starter area in the first campaign that was pretty much there to introduce you to the story and train you on how to play. However, that was how we knew what Ascalon looked like before the charr invaded and blasted it to bits with the Searing event (hence why it was known as “Pre” ie Pre-Searing). There is nowhere I know of that you can see the original priest/priestesses from Orr other than maybe Vizier Khilbron who was the one responsible for sinking Orr (in his human form anyway, although he was the king’s advisor not a priest).

It was pretty disappointing to find out you guys didn’t see Orr in the first game. I guess it does create a more mysterious feel to the place though. Maybe it’s a different feel to those who heard about it in the first game than to those of us just hearing about it for the first time in GW2.

We discovered Vizier Khilbron’s tower last week and THAT was exciting. We didn’t realize what we’d found at the end of that jumping puzzle til I looked it up on the wiki. We stayed there a long time taking pictures. It was a very cool moment.

Needless to say I think there should be more stuff on the city of Orr! Pictures, stories, whatever.

Narcemus.1348:

I mean you get to see nothing of Rin, Surmia, Serenity Temple (or the massive looking city nearby it).

Oh I was hoping to see the city of Rin. I was exploring the ruins of Rin a couple days ago

http://www.mondespersistants.com/images/screenshots/Guild_Wars_2-306430413.jpg

i found one =)

Ledha.9640:

http://www.mondespersistants.com/images/screenshots/Guild_Wars_2-306430413.jpg

i found one =)

Oh very cool indeed.

Narcemus.1348:

Panda Shepard.1248:

I would love some kind of pictures of pre-sunken Orr/uncorrupted Orr. I never played Guild Wars 1 so I had assumed it was in that game. I found a site detailing Old Ascalon and comparing it to the current Charr Ascalon. I was really disappointed to find out there wasn’t something similar for Orr.

The history of this game is so amazing to me. I spent most of time exploring the ruins of Ascalon before I hit 80 and found Orr. Wow, I mean wow. Orr is by far my favorite zone. It’s an explorer’s playground. Heck I just run around admiring the ruins and taking pictures of the scenery. It’s just amazing.

I would love some pictures and maps of a pristine Orr! Maybe what the priests and priestesses looked like before too. That would be really cool.

Yeah, well back in GW1 I always wanted a map of pristine Ascalon, Pre-Searing. I mean you get to see nothing of Rin, Surmia, Serenity Temple (or the massive looking city nearby it). Sad thing is, it is highly unlikely we will ever get that. The best we can hope for is the possibility of seeing parts of Orr uncorrupted that get released later in the game.

You can actually explore what’s left of Rin above the wall but there’s not really anything left because the charr leveled it all. The Arena in Black Citadel appears to be part of that arena/court you see in GW1 after you set off Stormcaller. You can even find the remains of serenity temple in (Iron Marches? its either that one or the zone below it), Ft Ranik you mentioned though has been obilterated, and that ginormous Searing Crystal that you can see in pockmark flats in GW1 is still out there too being worshiped by a bunch of idiodic grawl. You can dive to Droknar’s Forge (what’s left of it because some of it flooded when the shiverpeaks melted, and some the land reclaimed or Inquest destroyed), Sorrows Furnace is still there (called Sorrow’s Embrace now). There’s lots of places we can revisit, just gotta look for them ;-) It will be exciting to see what famous landmarks we’ll see in future content. Oh almost forgot you can go visit Granite Citadel (which was a place in GW1 to get elite armor) and the heart there is a trivia about GW1 NPC’s you would have encountered. I found that particularly exciting.

Nay of the Ether.8913:

Narcemus.1348:

Panda Shepard.1248:

I would love some kind of pictures of pre-sunken Orr/uncorrupted Orr. I never played Guild Wars 1 so I had assumed it was in that game. I found a site detailing Old Ascalon and comparing it to the current Charr Ascalon. I was really disappointed to find out there wasn’t something similar for Orr.

The history of this game is so amazing to me. I spent most of time exploring the ruins of Ascalon before I hit 80 and found Orr. Wow, I mean wow. Orr is by far my favorite zone. It’s an explorer’s playground. Heck I just run around admiring the ruins and taking pictures of the scenery. It’s just amazing.

I would love some pictures and maps of a pristine Orr! Maybe what the priests and priestesses looked like before too. That would be really cool.

Yeah, well back in GW1 I always wanted a map of pristine Ascalon, Pre-Searing. I mean you get to see nothing of Rin, Surmia, Serenity Temple (or the massive looking city nearby it). Sad thing is, it is highly unlikely we will ever get that. The best we can hope for is the possibility of seeing parts of Orr uncorrupted that get released later in the game.

You can actually explore what’s left of Rin above the wall but there’s not really anything left because the charr leveled it all. The Arena in Black Citadel appears to be part of that arena/court you see in GW1 after you set off Stormcaller. You can even find the remains of serenity temple in (Iron Marches? its either that one or the zone below it), Ft Ranik you mentioned though has been obilterated, and that ginormous Searing Crystal that you can see in pockmark flats in GW1 is still out there too being worshiped by a bunch of idiodic grawl. You can dive to Droknar’s Forge (what’s left of it because some of it flooded when the shiverpeaks melted, and some the land reclaimed or Inquest destroyed), Sorrows Furnace is still there (called Sorrow’s Embrace now). There’s lots of places we can revisit, just gotta look for them ;-) It will be exciting to see what famous landmarks we’ll see in future content. Oh almost forgot you can go visit Granite Citadel (which was a place in GW1 to get elite armor) and the heart there is a trivia about GW1 NPC’s you would have encountered. I found that particularly exciting.

Oh I remember the joy in revisiting each and every one of those places. Believe me I took days exploring queensdale in the BWE’s (which takes me 3-4 hours now) and I was just figuring out where everything is in GW2 compared to GW1 and figuring out how the world had changed. Much of what I was saying is, back in GW1 I had hoped to somehow see what the world of Ascalon looked like before the searing. I mean if I remember right there was a massive city that stretched from around Ft. Ranik up to Serenity Temple (based on the massive building ruins). I had always wondered what the name of that city was, etc. But I understand that those are things that I will likely never know or see, because of the fact that they were just random building ruins placed in the landscape.

Panda Shepard.1248:

It was pretty disappointing to find out you guys didn’t see Orr in the first game. I guess it does create a more mysterious feel to the place though. Maybe it’s a different feel to those who heard about it in the first game than to those of us just hearing about it for the first time in GW2.

Coming at it from the other side, imagine how excited some of us GW1 players were at the prospect of Orr – the place where the gods once dwelled among humans, sunk forever beneath the waves before the time we got to run around Tyria – being explorable in GW2! Since the human gods were the gods of Tyria in GW1, the prospect of actually seeing Arah itself was pretty awesome. Orr was practically mythical in GW1 even though the Cataclysm was fairly recent. I have friends who still squee over every ruined cathedral and reference we uncover in the Orr maps in GW2.

I got pretty excited about the Vizier’s Tower, too There are a lot of treats for GW1 players around the place (particularly the charr/Ascalon maps as well as Orr), so I hope some of the people who never played GW1 enjoy finding the meaning of those references from the opposite angle!