I posted this some time ago on Reddit, and even got some official answers. It’s a series of questions about the Living World, that I feel should have been answered somehow.
I think they help show where some of the weakness of the story so far, and I hope they help improve the future content. Reposting it again now season 1 is over, feel free to add yours too, and let’s hope we get some answers.
Original Reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1usdvw/unanswered_ls_questions/cel8hpa
These are questions I feel should have been already answered during the living world. Things like Caithe’s secret and the identity of Mr. E are obvious later reveals. I’m probably forgetting something, but I think this covers pretty much all the holes:
Southsun Cove and the Consortium (3 releases)
- What did Canach’s expedition exactly do to enrage the karka?
- When did the karka arrive to Southsun Cove? (Should be after Zhaitan’s death)
- What was the expedition searching? Just safe territory that was no man’s land during the risen presence on the Sea of Sorrows? Or they were after the karka for some sinister reason?
- How did Fractals of the Mist come to happen? Can’t be a coincidence.
- Why are Southsun Cove materials related to FotM? Gameplay mechanics, or something more?
- Why did Canach corrupt and enrage the karka to screw up the Consortium? Even if he has kind of a weird moral, taking a torch and burning the contracts himself is faster, easier and kills no innocents. We know he was there in Molten Weapons Facility (hate how they didn’t include him with a hood or something, even in the fractal would have been a good reference), so he does care about innocents and the refugees. Is this because the karka had a role in the Consortium’s plan?
- Had Canach any additional reasons to go fight the Molten Alliance? Again, in the grand scheme of things, can’t be a coincidence.
- How and why did Canach join the Consortium? Was he employed by his skills on chemistry? Was his later corruption of the local fauna related to the skills the Consortium wanted out of him in the first place?
- Who are the leaders of the Consortium? For an organization operating in the middle of Lion’s Arch, and at a pretty decent size, the Captain’s Council surely wouldn’t leave this unanswered.
- Where, when and how came the Consortium to be?
- Why does the Consortium want Canach dead so badly after the initial incident? Does Canach know things he’d better take to the grave?
- Where is Canach now? Some not-ingame prison in Lion’s Arch?
- What’s the origin behind the sclerite weapons? They look like twisted, evil and dark pieces of karka. Who created them, and with what purpose?
- PS: I wish the Ancient Karka battle was included as a boss fractal.
Molten Alliance
- The Moletariate dredge and the Flame Legion charr aren’t hive minds, no race or big faction is (except maybe deeply corrupted sects). This means, did everyone join to form the Molten Alliance, or just some splinter factions? Maybe just the guys in the region, now that both factions are weak after losing their leadership? (In Sorrow’s Embrace and Citadel of Flame we do a lot of damage to their chain of command)
- In line with the previous question, the bases of the Molten Alliance were present only across the conflict region, or further, too? (Conflict region = Wayfarer Foothills and Diessa Plateau)
- Does the alliance between the Moletariate and the Inquest have any effect on the Molten Alliance, or as the questions above ask, they are separate alliances between particular factions inside the Moletariate?
- Who are the leaders of the Molten Alliance, in both the dredge and the charr side?
- The notes of the Order of Whispers agent (Who we never get to meet, wasted opportunity) mention horrors underground. What horrors? His tone and wording made it sound like terrible monsters or terrible dark rituals. They say it’s worse than dredge or charr, too. Maybe the Moletariate destroyer-enslavement project went further with the help of the Flame Legion? (Remember they were involved with destroyers 250 years ago) Maybe new monsters? Maybe new creations by Scarlet?
- We never get to see how the dredge got the magic from the shamans. It’s mentioned in the OoW agent’s notes, but in the dungeon we don’t see anything like a lab, station or magic circle where that could have happened. Will this be elaborated on in the future?
- PS: I wish they had updated some bases, like Moledavia in Diessa Plateau and Moleberia in Wayfarer Foothills with Molten Alliance troops, to show progress. The only things left by the Molten Alliance are minor hints and two refugee camps that are empty now. They did this way much more better with the Toxic Alliance (No matter they screwed up by not making the centaurs part of it).
M: Bladedancer – N: Scourge – En: Occultist – Ra: Swampstalker
T: Sharpshooter – G: Sunspear – Re: Hierophant – W: Corsair
(edited by Lonami.2987)