Guild Wars 2

Humans….according to the lore, either came to the continent from another place or that they came from another planet.

If the later is true, why are we in the middle ages? why are we in the steam punk era? where is the mother ship and why are we here?

If the first is true, what continent did we come from? elona is too much like africa, and cantha is too much like aisa and tyrians are whiter and ghosts….

Are there other lands we have yet to ever see?

if not, are there other planets?

Its both – they came to the world from another location (realm, planet, it’s never specified), but while they arrived on continental Tyria via boats from across the Unending Ocean.

Where is the mother ship? There was none. Humanity came to Tyria via a portal from the Mists (or some such):

The first of the gods to step forth from the mists was Dwayna, goddess of air and life. She placed her pale foot on the stones of Arah, opened the gates, and brought humanity to the world.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Orrian_History_Scrolls#The_Six

What continent was first isn’t really said – Jeff Grubb hinted in an interview years ago that humanity may have traveled north from a continent further south than Cantha. We do know that of the three known continents, Cantha has the oldest recorded history. On the flip side though, per the quote above, there’s indication that humanity first appeared on the world at Orr – despite them not having recorded history of being on continental Tyria until 205 BE, when they first arrived on Elona and continental Tyria via said boats, and are known to to have been on Cantha since 786 BE.

Most likely scenario as it stands would be that humanity was brought to Orr first, but quickly sent to south of Cantha, where they progressed on their own accord towards the north.

THere are, indeed, other continents unseen to us – the best glimpse of the full world map can be seen here, taken from the .dat file: [img]http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/4/47/Tyria.jpg[/img]

Also: why we’re in the middle ages/steam punk era/etc? Past calamities. The world kept resetting due to the Elder Dragons’ rises, and there’s heavy indication (see Orrian History Scrolls link above for part of the indications) that the Six Gods and humans were fleeing some sort of past calamity – that they were refugees. So they may not have had the technology to bring with them. To highlight some lines:

She chose Tyria and brought with her those who would make this world a paradise.

The two who are one, Issa and Lys,[sic] brought with her the hope and beauty of humanity. While the other gods focused on building Arah and beginning a new future, Lyssa gave them joy and helped them forget the past.

Among them was Abaddon—once secret-keeper, now betrayer. How you have fallen from the glorious days of old. What passed beyond in the Mists, only you remember.

On first line: There’d be no need to make a paradise if they came from one – so the place the Six came from had faults.
On the second line: Why did she need to bring hope and joy? Implies sadness befelled them before. What was Lyssa helping others forget? Probably what caused said sadness.
On the third line: Something happened in the Mists, forgotten to all but himself. Perhaps what Lyssa was helping others forget?

Other lines from there give lesser implications – like Balthazar carrying his father’s head when he came from the Mists (why? a conflict? was it in victory or sorrow?), Melandru preparing for what was to come by helping bring peace (implying she had known the then current events would lead to bad outcomes, and most common means of knowing such outcomes is via empirical evidence (the whole “learn from our past mistakes” concept is purely that), giving a minor indication that something bad happened due to similar actions). And there’s other sources, iirc, which imply similar things.

Humans were brought to Tyria by the gods from the Mists. If they originated somewhere beyond the mists, we don’t really know. I don’t remember if Cantha or Elona was the original home of the humans (I think Cantha), but the Tyrian humans definitely came up from Elona to invade the lands formerly held by the charr.

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