Guild Wars 2

So, I found this so ironic. I started playing Dragon Age Inquisition a few weeks ago, to take a break from GW2, and then the LS episode came out.

In DAI, I’m encountering templars taking Red Lyrium which is corrupting them, turning them into abominations. In the GW2 LS, I’m encountering white mantle infected with red bloodstone, which is corrupting them and making them crazy, plus red bloodstone stuff everywhere in the BF landscape, and red lyrium cropping up everywhere in DAI.

In DAI, there are rifts opening up disgorging demons. In GW2 LS, there are rifts opening up disgorging displaced creatures.

Red Lyrium. Red Bloodstone. Rifts in both. I swear I am having serious deja vu no matter which game I’m playing now. If they update DAI with hang gliding or the LS with a war table, I’ll be flabbergasted.

But romance options for characters in GW2 might be fun

Morale of the story: Red Earthy Stuff = Evil.

Not a criticism, I just found it amusing. Carry on.

Morfedel.4165:

In DAI, there are rifts opening up disgorging demons. In GW2 LS, there are rifts opening up disgorging displaced creatures.

Well, you know, there is also the game “Rift”, in which rifts are opening with all kinds of demons and creatures that you have to kill to close the rift.

Morfedel.4165:

Morale of the story: Red Earthy Stuff = Evil.

Nope. red=fire, red=blood.

Don’t know nor care about DAI, but in GW2 it is not unexpected that there is a lot of “red” at the location where a Bloodstone exploded.

There’s also Corypheus using the calling to turn grey wardens. Gettin into their heads.
The fade functioning similar to the mists.
And of course named dragons.
But that’s because they are fantasy tropes.

And there was me thinking the Bloodstone Maw looked just like the Northern Crater in Final Fantasy 7 and all the creatures had Mako poisoning.

Lazarus the Dire is Sephiroth, Xera can be Hojo/Jenova and Caudacus can be President Shinra.

Yep, was thinking the same thing… glad I’m not the only one.

It’s not as if any of the ideas in the other aforementioned games were new to them, either. Artists have been adapting themes and villains and conflicts since the first storyteller was telling stories.

Bloodstones been around BEFORE red lyrium though. However the reward chest from unbound guardian looks awfully like the random red lyrium chests in dragon age inquisition..

Bloodstone and those affected by it was part of GW long before the Dragon Age series even existed. The concepts of fantasy are mostly all the same, and all of them owe their thanks for Tolkien for basically inventing the genre.