Guild Wars 2

Been wondering about this for a while, on the world map under the name Lion’s Arch, in parentheses, it says “The Spar.” Why is this? The wiki doesn’t say anything about it, let alone even mention it.

Because of captain spar-row. Isn’t it obvious?
No, seriously, I don’t know…

looked it up on google
spar
/spär/
Noun
A thick, strong pole such as is used for a mast or yard on a ship. <-
A period or bout of sparring.
A crystalline, easily cleavable, light-colored mineral.

compared with the other towns, looks like that is the name of the level (height not exp)

The parantheses part of the city name is the level of the city. If your not on the surface level of the map’s z-axis, it’ll say other things. E.g., Divinity’s Feach’s underground level is Catacombs.

This is mostly a remnant from the betas, when the world map had three levels to view, now impossible except via The Grove and Rata Sum.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

The parantheses part of the city name is the level of the city. If your * not on the surface level of the map’s z-axis, it’ll say other things. E.g., Divinity’s Feach’s underground level is Catacombs.

This is mostly a remnant from the betas, when the world map had three levels to view, now impossible except via The Grove and Rata Sum.

*You’re.
Sorry I couldn’t resist.

It’s a book reference. I won’t spoil it for you, but its in chapter 1…the reason that is.

I don’t think it is referring to all of Lion’s Arch. The name under a town in brackets is an indicator of the name of the levation level of that town your seeing on the map. So is Houlbrak standard called (lodge level).

More a side effect of a gaming mechanic and I don’t see it as a reference to the entire place.