Guild Wars 2

i want to learn everything, race lore, major gw events, where do i start? what order should i learn about the lore?

If you want to start from the beginning of introduced lore, I’d go with reading in the following articles in the following order:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/History_of_Tyria (WARNING: a lot of lore from this article has been proven wrong from an in-universe viewpoint, Thaddeus Lamount is far from an accurate source it seems)
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/An_Empire_Divided
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/History_of_Elona
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/GW:EN_and_Now
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Timeline
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storyline (the various articles within for the storyline of GW1 games)
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Lore (a general GW1-viewpoint summary of the lore up to the completion of GW1, more or less).
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Category:History_of_Tyria (the articles here, some listed above already)
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Tales (the articles listed here)

Word of advice: if it’s on the wiki and doesn’t have an ArenaNet official document tag on the top, take it questionably (especially if it’s from the GW2W) as those articles are fan-written and, in the case of the GW2W articles, the quality of said articles are ever-dropping in terms of lore accuracy and fullness. Be sure to click the links within each above linked article for further readings.

This is only really an introduction to the lore. There is a LOT that you won’t get from these. Most race articles on the wikis have a good amount of lore, but again, since they’re fan made they’re bound to hold mistakes – presumptions mistaken as fact being most common, unnoticed vandalization where folks put in speculation the second most.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL00553A085339802C

I highly advise AGAINST watching WoodenPotatoes’ videos. He makes a lot of mistakes – dozens at time – in every video of his. They may be entertaining, but their accuracy is lower than the wikis, even GW2W.

If you want to watch his videos, take everything he says with ten pinches of salt.

WoodenPotatoes in youtube have nice videos, all i know is mostly thanks to those even tho i never finish them, they are loooong lol. I didnt even knew Rata Sum is an anagram of Mursaat. That video about asurans and mursaat was rly interesting.

Agreeing with Konig.

I also agree with Konig. While watching several of Woodenpotatoe’s videos, I had to cringe at a few obvious errors and false assumptions.

He does have a way of telling the lore in an interesting way, and he is good at getting you invested in Tyria’s lore. Credit where credit is due. But he is far from accurate. He makes a lot of really big mistakes.