Guild Wars 2

I’ve been thinking and what if we got it all wrong? what if these current events have no tie to the LS at all? Sure the first event ties heavily to Mordy’s death…….but the white mantle/bandits/posted messages are tied heavily to the raid……..whom has its on separate story from the Living world. As for the priory/consortium/inquest what if that is it own little thing?

Note: im 99% sure these events HAVE to be tied to the LS S3 and will be a huge disappointment if this post turns out to be true

that would be a huge priceless mindkitten. and LS3 would be all about the spanish inquisition, because nobody expects the spanish inquisition.

I thought about this as well. However, the raid story felt more like an introduction to the whole topic. Anet already said that every important lore coming from raids that will have an impact on LS / expansions will get taught through other ways so that non-raiders will understand everything, too. The pure existence of this statement makes it very likely that raid story will NOT be fully separate.

They indeed stated that Raid story is going together with normal gw2 story about dragons, leylines and bloodstones.

Pretty sure the raid story was meant to bridge the gap between the HoT story and LS 3. I’m sure I heard that in an interview early on.

The raid story isn’t separate, it’s part of the same storyline, but not a linear part.

Think of the LS episodes as the main show, and the raid storylines as the webisodes or direct to dvd deleted scenes or director’s cut. Or like the GW2 novels. They’re canon content, but not really necessary to understand the main plot.

You’ll still get the full story from the LS, and the most important events will happen there, but raid storylines may fill in some character backgrounds or explain some ancillary lore that you don’t need, but might want to know about the events of the LS.

Imagine you, outside the raid, have the same lens as the NPCs. We’re doing a lot of leyline/bandit research right now with small white mantle hints. The raid story explains in more detail the specific events that put all that in motion, but once the LS starts it isn’t so important how we got to episode 1 as the bigger, world-spanning story it starts. You might miss some small interesting details without experiencing it, but the LS is meant to be a self-contained and explained story all its own.