Guild Wars 2

An “Encyclopedia of Tyria”?

As I have been trying to get more into the lore around the Guild Wars universe, I’ve been tossing this around in my mind lately. So, I thought this could make a nice, maybe more lighthearted topic here

If there did exist such a book that would contain most of the things known about the world of Tyria itself, what would it have on it’s cover? Where would it be kept?

I think of it as a huge(at least… norn-sized!) leatherbound book with heavily embossed, fancy covers and thousands of pages. Not sure if it would have some specific picture on it though. I’d find the priory vaults to be the most likely place to keep it in… Or maybe the order of whispers if it did contain some questionable information as well.

Any thoughts?

-whistles-

Depends on who published it, I think:

Humans might mark it with symbols or representations of Kormir or the pantheon as a whole.

Norn might mark it with the Spirits of the Wild, the Spirit that is most associated with knowledge, or even an abstract representation of Kormir (the norn recognise the gods as spirits of abstract concepts such as knowledge, they just don’t worship them).

Asura would probably put a representation of the Eternal Alchemy, or the author/publisher’s own mark.

Charr would probably leave it undecorated or with just the publisher’s mark (or the sigil of their Legion).

Sylvari might mark it with a symbol representing the Dream or the Pale Tree – sources of knowledge for newborn sylvari.

A map, however, might be the most universal option.

It would likely be published by the Priory or humans, given those are the two groups focused most on history. Norn still vastly prefer oral storytelling, and asura are probably far too paranoid to publicize outside of working for an order.