Guild Wars 2

Hey, I started doing the new living story today when something struck me as odd. I was In dialogue with Marjory and my character replies “It’s Mordremoth…” The thing I find odd is I don’t remember talking to any of them (Marjory/Kasmeer/Rox etc.) about Mordremoth. I know there was a lot of speculation about it being Mordremoth on forums and such like but I don’t remember it ever being set in stone during Season 1. Is it just me? And if it is just me has anyone got a copy of or link to the dialogue where it is said, I’ve looked on google and can’t find it. I like to think I’m not too shabby at following the living story but I guess I missed something major this time.

Any help is appreciated.

Yeah I don’t recall it either but just roll with it. I mean, I had the same experience when I was told there was six dragons and went “but . . . there’s no mention of a sixth anywhere . . .”

Pretend it always was known, and have another bottle of fine Elonian Wine. (Don’t give any to Zommoros until he gets less stingy with the precursors.)

Someone else pointed this out (though, you know, repeat threads are insanely common so no harm nor foul there I suppose).

My only answer I can come up with is a mix of “The plot demands it” and “writing is hard, you guys”.

Toasty.5014:

My only answer I can come up with is a mix of “The plot demands it” and “writing is hard, you guys”.

Especially easy to make that kind of mistake if what you’re writing is not what is actually going in the game. But this might require some explanation for how this is entirely plausible without meaning “the writers are incompetent”.

Let’s start with how writing probably happens in the first place, you sit down for work and pound out 1000 words of lore text. It’s probably one of many times you do this, so you have a backlog of what you’ve written and know what you wrote and what details you have written down before.

Now you hand it off to the team meant to put it into the game. They read it, like every other bit you send down, and work on distilling it down to something they can fit in the game through NPC dialogue or other text outputs. But unbeknownst to them, they made a crucial error in forgetting there is one detail (“The dragon’s name is Mordremoth”) which they have read a dozen times by now . . . but never actually made it into their text.

So for them, it’s a “known fact”. They come to a point where they need to reference the dragon and someone puts in the name, never checking over the previous released files (it could be they had it in before but it wasn’t released for whatever reason) to be 100% sure the name was used. After all, they “know” it and it’s been used in the stuff they get for who knows how many weeks, so it must be common knowledge . . .

Them we get . . . this. Which for some reason becomes something to point, laugh at, and go “hehe, they can’t write”.

. . . this, mind you, is why I always hand off my writing to people I know haven’t read it, before I go for a final draft and release. And why I always used to read my essays and term papers backwards and then out loud to catch typos.

All seriousness? It actually is hard to write. This is why so few people actually bother doing it (compared to the rest of the population).