Updated map of Tyria and Elona?
You must have not been looking too hard for maps then: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/a/ac/Tyria_world_fan_map.jpg This was datamined years ago. The only notable difference I see is the lack of a huge lake in the middle of Elona.
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The rumors of Elona…
The next expansion will be in Baruch Bay!
Janthir with green colors and invisible bridge on east coast as passage torward woodlands cascades/far shiverpeaks. Distance there is simmilar to that what lake doric was before water left.
That map’s been known since launch. The funny thing is that it’s taken from a fan-created map of GW1’s playable areas but altered for GW2’s changes to Tyria (but not Elona). There was a dat taken image of it but it so greatly differed from the one from the OoW globe and the later added Priory basement floor folks ended up ignoring it.
Found the globe’s texture, pulled from the dat file – as you can see, it differs drastically from the other two dat textures. It should be noted that the Guild Portal is a full globe of the map that utilizes the same map design as the OoW globe and the Durmand Priory basement floor map (that_shaman said that it’s the exact same design as the Durmand Priory basement floor texture, no improvements or alterations made to coastlines etc.).
In other words, I doubt that anything visible (and not) on that globe model is meant to be accurate to what the world looks like – at best, just what humans of Kryta think the world looks like (which would be weird given the educating aspect of the Durmand Priory).
But, originally, as said it comes from a fan map of GW1.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
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That map’s been known since launch. The funny thing is that it’s taken from a fan-created map of GW1’s playable areas but altered for GW2’s changes to Tyria (but not Elona). There was a dat taken image of it but it so greatly differed from the one from the OoW globe and the later added Priory basement floor folks ended up ignoring it.
Found the globe’s texture, pulled from the dat file – as you can see, it differs drastically from the other two dat textures. It should be noted that the Guild Portal is a full globe of the map that utilizes the same map design as the OoW globe and the Durmand Priory basement floor map (that_shaman said that it’s the exact same design as the Durmand Priory basement floor texture, no improvements or alterations made to coastlines etc.).
In other words, I doubt that anything visible (and not) on that globe model is meant to be accurate to what the world looks like – at best, just what humans of Kryta think the world looks like (which would be weird given the educating aspect of the Durmand Priory).
But, originally, as said it comes from a fan map of GW1.
Wait, Arenanet based the “world map” off of one of the fan made maps? The kitten is wrong with them?
That’s not what I said.
That fan-made map is based off of ArenaNet’s world maps (from GW1). Not the other way around.
They used what was originally a fan-made map (the artist could have been hired by ArenaNet for development of GW2 for all we know) and heavily altered it for the one singular globe. The map has been greatly expanded from the fan-made map – as you can tell by looking at the links I provided.
All other globes and world maps are completely different from that one, however, and much more detailed. Showing that the one singular globe is not intended to be accurate, since only Tyria/Elona is even shown on the thing (so the aspects the fan-made map got wrong – like the placement of Cantha – is not canon).
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
That’s not what I said.
That fan-made map is based off of ArenaNet’s world maps (from GW1). Not the other way around.
They used what was originally a fan-made map (the artist could have been hired by ArenaNet for development of GW2 for all we know) and heavily altered it for the one singular globe. The map has been greatly expanded from the fan-made map – as you can tell by looking at the links I provided.
All other globes and world maps are completely different from that one, however, and much more detailed. Showing that the one singular globe is not intended to be accurate, since only Tyria/Elona is even shown on the thing (so the aspects the fan-made map got wrong – like the placement of Cantha – is not canon).
OK, I’m sorry, just please stop hitting me.