Guild Wars 2

With the meaning of the word ‘flashpoint’ I’m extremely worried for aurene. I know the trailer is very focused on Dragons watch and how they are screwed, but aurene, a baby dragon that could grow to be an elder dragon … Whoever is posing as Lazarus clearly wants power, why wouldn’t try to go after aurene too? Maybe not to kill her but maybe harness her? Idk but I just have a feeling aurene is too good to be true and she might just die. Now, the primary meaning of flashpoint is: a place, event, or time at which violence or hostility flares up. So tensions are very high at the moment and I think someone isn’t going to make it to expac 2….

They are not going to spend years building up Aurene, only to kill her off so suddenly and quickly. I don’t think you need to fear – Aurene is part of the long game I expect.

Hmm I wouldn’t be so anti-Lazarus, I mean the way how the trailer was built- a lot of Commander’s opinions from ep4 in there. Everytime you can see and hear that Lazarus is evil, everyone is in danger etc (in this trailer).

Perhaps the commander’s insinuations about him aren’t reasonable. He stated himself as Lazarus, who has been reborn and he is searching for allies, allies who fight against Dragons. Do you imagine the situation like this: “Hi Commy Tommy or whatever you are called, I just wanna tell you that what I said before to you, Luminate and Jory they are all lies, Yeah Commy Tommy.. Muhahahaha” I can’t imagine he would say this even after we didn’t attack him, we didn’t trust him, but I still believe he is on our side. He wanna kill these dragons, are you expecting he would suddenly join the Dragon’s army? Please… Mursaat is a powerful race and they fought with Dragons before and they escaped, but Lazarus wanna repair the past. I don’t know how you are seeing Lazarus after the trailer, but I believe he is not evil, anyway I think he just wanna help us.

Kasmeer said “it can’t be” without fear, but with surprise. She was surprised. But why? What’s going to happen? We need to wait a bit and everything will be revealed.

Have a good speculating!

The “real” Lazarus in GW1 was very clear about what he wants to do.
“Accursed human! You have done this to me! I will not forget this!”
“Countless generations will suffer for your actions this day!”

At the moment, we don’t know who he is and what it takes for someone to make himself look like Lazarus. But if you need any connection to the real one for managing this, it is most likely there are some parts of Lazarus left. His soul is not complete because one of the aspects was fake, but still… One aspect out of how many?

Iam not saying whoever looks like him is plain evil like Larzarus. But if there is anything present from the real one, we at least have to expect an struggel between “I will kill you all!” and “I really want to help.”

Arden.7480:

Hmm I wouldn’t be so anti-Lazarus, I mean the way how the trailer was built- a lot of Commander’s opinions from ep4 in there. Everytime you can see and hear that Lazarus is evil, everyone is in danger etc (in this trailer).

Perhaps the commander’s insinuations about him aren’t reasonable. He stated himself as Lazarus, who has been reborn and he is searching for allies, allies who fight against Dragons. Do you imagine the situation like this: “Hi Commy Tommy or whatever you are called, I just wanna tell you that what I said before to you, Luminate and Jory they are all lies, Yeah Commy Tommy.. Muhahahaha” I can’t imagine he would say this even after we didn’t attack him, we didn’t trust him, but I still believe he is on our side. He wanna kill these dragons, are you expecting he would suddenly join the Dragon’s army? Please… Mursaat is a powerful race and they fought with Dragons before and they escaped, but Lazarus wanna repair the past. I don’t know how you are seeing Lazarus after the trailer, but I believe he is not evil, anyway I think he just wanna help us.

Kasmeer said “it can’t be” without fear, but with surprise. She was surprised. But why? What’s going to happen? We need to wait a bit and everything will be revealed.

Have a good speculating!

He can be evil on its own. He doesn’t have to be a dragon’s minion for that.
Also I don’t see Kasmeer’s surprise as innocent. It looks to be mostly shocking, but nothing in her expression tells me there’s anything remotely pleasant related to this shock.

There’s also the characteristic low and deep evil laughter in the trailer.

Last, but not least, having Lazarus brought back from the dead to just get presented as an unlikely ally doesn’t feel like particularly good writing. Too much deus ex machina. We don’t get to see the catharsis leading to his change of heart and it doesn’t look believable because of that.

So, my money say Lazarus is up to no good.

I think calling it Flashpoint is basically one step up from calling it ‘Penultimate’.

As you said a flashpoint is the point at which tensions come to a head and flare up into a conflict. It’s basically a fancy name for ‘start of the real fight’. Which is exactly what we’d expect at this point in the story.

Of course there might well be more to it than that. A Crack in the Ice seemed like it was just a reference to the Bitterfrost Frontier map but I think it was actually more about Braham's new weaponwhich cracked Jormag's tooth. But I don’t think we’ll know that until after we’ve played it.