Guild Wars 2

…Adventurers in the Fractals of the Mist?

I just did the Nightmare fractal for the first time, and I’ve noticed a few corpses lying around. Well, three of em anyways. And apparently there’s an achievement for finding all five of them. Looking at their races, it looks like they are actually the same party from the introduction video.

And now I am really curious. I don’t recall Desa actually talking about the previous group much. I had always assumed that the charr who warns you about agony was in the previous party.

And there’s not a whole lot there in the multiple dungeons that gave you clues about what they did, where they have been, and what might have actually done them in.

What made me even more curious, is that as far as we know… the fractals are not actually persistent in reality, or in the mist. Everything you do will simply get reset. Even the big bad made a note about how many times you have ruthlessly slaughtered the bosses.

And yet… here are the previous parties corpses. Strewn about on the floor with nothing telling us about what happened, or what makes the Nightmare fractal more unique than the others.

I don’t think there’s any specific “previous group” but rather the idea is that many adventurers go into the Fractals and not all make it. When Fractals came out, we had Lionguard Tyrro telling about the dangers of the Fractals and there was this conversation about it:

PC: Has anyone gone through?
Tyrro: Yeah, a few idiots. Came out looking like bags of bloody meat and moaning about death chambers or something.

I recall other dialogue (cannot find it atm) talking about adventurers going in for treasures, some coming back some not.

Basically, it’s just your traditional adventurers exploring dangerous dungeons for loot and not all survive kind of thing. The five corpses (one per playable race) in Nightmare Fractal are just some of those that did not survive.