Guild Wars 2

I came into Guild Wars 2 about 6 months ago, though I was only able to play for four of them due to a broken computer tower that put me out of commission for those two months.

With the upcoming patch, where we can support Evon Gnashblade or Kiel; everyone’s raving about the Fall of Abbadon fractal that’ll be introduced if Evon wins.

I played GW1 for about 20 minutes at most, so I’m pretty lost with all the raving about the new potential fractal; and lore just fascinates me.

Considering GW2 is farely new, and surely they’ll be including or expanding on lore, I’d like to start learning as much of it as I can so I can understand all the raving and just general background to the game story, races, zones, etc.

Any help on this quest to learn Guild Wars lore would be greatly appreciated.

Oh yeah, Evon Gnashblade for council!

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Lore
Is a really great place to start.
Down the bottom of that page is a little table with more lore articles.
The ones that might be of particular interest are the ‘Storylines’ since you didn’t play through GW1 and a lot of the lore was delivered through the GW1 storyline.
Prophecies: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storyline_of_Prophecies
Factions: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storyline_of_Factions
Nightfall: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storyline_of_Nightfall
Eye of the North: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storyline_of_Eye_of_the_North
Beyond: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storyline_of_Beyond

If there is anything more specific be sure to ask and someone here will be able to give you information or point you in the right direction.

The Guild Wars 2 wiki also has some helpful stuff as well:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lore
Once again there is a table down the bottom of the page which has links that may interest you.

The Timeline can be pretty helpful for putting things in perspective:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Timeline
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Timeline

The Movement of the World offers a good overview of how things are at the beginning of GW2:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Movement_of_the_World
While the table at the bottom also has links to lore articles for all of the major races as well as the minor/lesser intelligent races (e.g. Quaggan, Skritt, Krait etc.)
And of course if you’ve played through the GW2 storyline and dungeons then you’ll have a much better knowledge

Thank you for all of that, now I can start reading up on the lore I missed!

We really need to have a thread stickying this answer. Cuz I see this oh so often. Some links:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Lore – fan written, but accurate as of GW1’s lore – there are things in GW2 that have shown for GW1 lore to be “falsified” (mainly things from the History of Tyria document). Read that article, click all the links and read those articles – especially in the nav bar at the bottom.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lore – same as above, click all links, but not entirely accurate as of GW2. The GW2W has been falling lower and lower in lore quality articles for a while, with more and more speculation or false information being added, and far far far more information being never touched. Probably innumerable at this point, really. (Well, me and some others are hoping to work on a way to fix this, to avoid reliance on that wiki since it can be edited by any joe smoe and the synops there are more worried about the cleanliness of the RC rather than the accuracy of the articles…).

Those are pretty much the best places to start, but I would focus primarily on the official documents (in the nav bars, denoted as such), timelines, and on the GWW, the storylines and main lore article.

The whole bit about the Fall of Abaddon lore is that it is going to show the events that caused about the Exodus of the Gods – the event where the human gods left the world of Tyria for good over a thousand years prior. It would give us the first and only look at what the gods appeared as, (particularly Abaddon pre-fall since he supposedly looked far different than seen in GW1). It’s pretty much the biggest lore point in the game, when magic was supposedly introduced to the world, when the gods left, when the Crystal Sea was turned into a desolate desert, etc. Even if it doesn’t tell us much of it, we’ll see things that would lead to a lot of questions answered, and likely more new questions to be asked.

Like FlamingFoxx said, if you got a more specific question, feel free to ask! We can tell you the answer, or direct you to where you can find it if it’s a bit one (or heck, do both!).

Would be great to have stickies, but sadly it seems the devs/moderators don’t care about the existence of this sub-forum, for I have only seen them make a couple of comments and no effort to organize it.

Regarding the topic at hand. You’re not too late to get on GW1 again. I myself have read a lot of the wikis to understand lore prior to GW2, but never got a good grasp of it all (I’m a person that learns more from doing than reading) so I bought GW1 and I’m currently playing it. It is much easier (and fun) to learn the lore this way.