Guild Wars 2

I was looking over some of the lore on Halloween, or well Oswald, that’s been out since GW2’s release and wondering if anyone else thinks this might be an inconsistency or just something that had been left open ended.

The main thing I’ve noticed was Portia’s comments imply that Pelchalice was the town burned down by Oswald, and as we see in The Family Business this was likely done by Edrick with the intent of this was the overthrow of his father, and this is where the problem potentially begins. The story ends kind of open ended with the past scene ending with the death of Dribbin, with the potential implication that castle Thorn fell which would contradict the final clue of Act 2 last year from Wynn’s Ghost about when the king died as it appears long after Pelchalice’s burning.

Anyone else think it may be an error or just a possible oversight? In regards to if part of wynn’s discussion of the prince, I don’t see that as an oversight in the historic sense (Thorn removed the records of Edrick that could have remained to be studied, though certainly would not have prevented new ones to being written) but the issue of Pelchalice is certainly at least a chronological error at the least.

I’m not following how it contradicts anything.

The castle fell and then Wynn and the others caught up to the Mad King as he fled or was fleeing.

“So what did you do?

We murdered him from ambush, but didn’t stop there. We put his pieces in different boxes so we could hide them with obscuring spells. "

They couldn’t have killed him in the sacking of the castle, as that wouldn’t have been an ambush.

I can’t figure out how the burning of Pelchalice is out of order either..

Delvoire.8930:

I’m not following how it contradicts anything.

The castle fell and then Wynn and the others caught up to the Mad King as he fled or was fleeing.

“So what did you do?

We murdered him from ambush, but didn’t stop there. We put his pieces in different boxes so we could hide them with obscuring spells. "

They couldn’t have killed him in the sacking of the castle, as that wouldn’t have been an ambush.

I can’t figure out how the burning of Pelchalice is out of order either..

Ambush implies they had been lying in wait, as I said it could simply be open ended was just wondering if any others see it as a possible inconsistency. Pelchalice would be fine. It’s just in how the short story is written it seems like he likely died with the revolt at the castle but in previous segments of the story (as a whole) show that he died potentially far from the castle where he’d be prepared as it were.