Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

As it`s been a year since Guild Wars 2 came live with Sylvari, who back then first appeard 25 years ago, shouldn`t the beginning of what our new Sylvari characters say be “26 years ago my people first appeard in Tyria” instead of “25” ?
Sorry if that was mentioned already.

Thazaniel

i think anet has more important matters to deal with than a 1 year difference in lore.. and besides, anet can’t constantly be updating the time spans of the game with each passing year.
and time within the game is not equivalent to time in real life. it’s not 2013 in tyria, essentially. can’t guarantee 1 calendar year to be 1 tyria year

The personal story doesn’t really operate on the same timescale as the persistent world. That’s why the Living World technically takes place after Zhaitan has been defeated. So when you start a new character to take through the personal story, it actually is still ‘25 years ago’. The date of Zhaitan’s defeat is somewhat static as far as lore goes in this sense.

Technically, it was 24 years ago, as the timeline for the sylvari starts 23 years before the game launch, not the rounded-up 25 in the intro.

if you really want to go down this path IIRC each “day” in Guild Wars is only about 4 hours RL time, with 2 hours of day and 2 hours of night.

so…. 6 years…

Reikou.7068:

if you really want to go down this path IIRC each “day” in Guild Wars is only about 4 hours RL time, with 2 hours of day and 2 hours of night.

so…. 6 years…

Rotational (day/night) and orbital (seasonal cycle) are independent. Since no seasonal changes have been observed (outside of a freak snowstorm in LA) we have no gauge by which to measure the orbital cycle (and thus years).