Guild Wars 2

Call me a nerd; it’s a true statement. When I was recently given a writing assignment from my entry-level composition class in college to creatively describe a public place my mind immediately jumped to GW2’s lush locales and not long after that settled on Rata Sum. My professor is very relaxed and after asking her about it she gave me her express permission to write about that topic and so off I went to write my paper.

Well, after writing my paper I found that I would really like to know the name of the river underneath the city. Reading through my essay I find myself repeatedly and clumsily using the terms “the river valley” and “the river” and it sticks out like a sore thumb because in the real world a good handful of these instances would include the name of the river — the Tiber river valley, for example. It’s just one of those small details which would be readily available and known to all and therefore since my writing is in an in-universe perspective it feels wrong that I would not call it by it’s name.

So long question short, what is the name of the river running underneath Rata Sum? Does it have an official name? As far as I can tell if it is named that name is never mentioned in-game, although I have not read any of the books released prior to GW2 so perhaps it is mentioned there.

If the river name is not officially known, is there anyone or anywhere on the GW2 team I can email about the question?

Worst comes to worst I can always make up a name, but I’d rather have the real canonical thing if it is even possible.

There is no name that I know of, either from GW1 or from GW2, I’m sorry.

I don’t know either, but a good choice would be to email Jeff Grub or Ree Soesbee as they are lore and continuity peep’s.