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EDITOR’S WO
RD:
The next convention was GamesCom, and with
it
came a lot of exciting gaming news and th
e first
hands-on demo of Guild Wars 2 playable by
the
public. Our Dutch dele
gation, consisting of myself,
Arghore,
Jonny10 and Asuran, couldn't wait to
play
the demo and inte
rview the developers. We have
several articles about the demo and the
convention
from each of our perspectives, in addition to an e
x
from each of our perspectives, in addi
tion
to an
ex-
clusive chat from the ArenaNet Party featuring Ar
g-
hore.
Lastly, GuildMag write
r Izari
and editor Jess tre
kked
across the country to Seattle for
PAX Prime. Izari
brought home with her a ton of swag as well
as ex-
clusive coverage of the event including the
GW2 dy-
namic events panel and the
invitation only Are-
naNet party.
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By T
wit
ch
y
June 22nd-25th marked the weekend of my third Comic Con in downtown San Die
go, Cali-
fornia. Born and raised in SoCal all my life
, it actually saddens me that I haven’t gone to
more Comic Cons than that. It re
ally is an awesome place—comic books, movies, video
games and even some cable TV networks all share the floor at the massive e
vent. Even
though it’
s dubbed Comic Con, the convention itse
lf pretty much houses something for ev-
eryone. So it really comes as no surprise that the
attendees are a veritable mosaic of all dif-
ferent types of people. You’ve got the cosplayers,
the mega comic
book nerds, th
e gamers,
the fangirls and even a significant portion of re
gular, curious people braving the crowds for
the fangirls and even a significant portion of regular, curious people braving the crowds for
a glimpse of just what the
heck is going on.
Comic Con is massive and an ende
avor to prepare for. The event is in July, but my friend and
I had to buy our badges in October. That sounds ridiculous, but Comic Con sells out at an ob-
scenely fast pace, and I wasn't about to miss out. Hotels are also a factor that you have to
stay on top of. The hotels around the convention center are usually very, ve
ry expensive,
b
ut
still book fast around the
days of the con. More affordable options are at a farther distance,
but such a trade-off is usually not as painful as it sounds. Navigating downtown San Die
go
and finding parking is actually quite simple with a little
knowledge of the area.
wednesday-
July 21st, Wednesday night,
was the big drive down for me. A-er work
I gathered my
things, stu-ed them into my car and began the
uneven-ul ride
from Los Angeles to La Jolla,
San Die
go where my friend’s apartment was. Immediately a-er arriving and ge-ng se-led,
my friend and I went to sleep. We had a big day ahead of us tomorrow, and we couldn’t
wait!
A-er our brief walk, we waited in the
registra-on line for maybe a half hour. Despite the
amount of people gathered to pick up badges the -rst day,
I was pleasantly surprised to
-nd the line moving at a dece
nt pace. The giant swag bags that Warner Brothers has been
known for every year were par-cularly popular this -me around, it was almost as if e
very
major company there had their own giant tote for you to haul things in. Howeve
r, I hon-
estly don’t recommend it since the things are so big that once you start -lling the
m with
junk, the weight begins to do a numb
er on
your b
ack.
The -rst day of the con mostly involved me
and my friend ge-ng a feel for this year’s
venue. We wandered the dealer’s hall -rst thing, to beat the crowd that would ine
vitably
hinder us later in the day. Thursday was pre-y good in that regard,
I managed to scan the
whole perimeter of the dealer’s hall, taking in as much as I could. N
Cso-’s booth was
nestled nicely in a corner and easy to locate and remember for the future. Later in the day,
my friend and I a-ended a couple panels for TV shows we we
re fans of. A-erwards we le-
the conven-on center for the Mario- next door. It was here that all post-pane
l freebies
were given out. T-shirts, hats and posters galore! Not a bad way to end the day.
were given out. T-shirts, hats and posters galore! Not a bad way to end the day.
friday-
Friday was a shopping day for us. We arrived there at around the same -me, and foun
d th
e
crowd circula-ng in front of the conven-on ce
nter a bit bigger than the day before. In the
morning, it was easy to squeeze through the sizeable throng, but we kne
w that come a-er-
noon it would be a zoo. Inside
, the dealer’s hall was a bit more boisterous and a few booths
changed up the atmosphere a li-le to impress the growing crowd. Paramoun
t had
a Th
or
display that wasn’t there before- a huge golden throne that had to be aroun
d 40 -. across
.
It was gaudy as heck, but cool to se
e up close!
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wit
ch
y
The next day was the big one, Saturday, where the major panels and major crowds
invad
ed
poor, unassuming downtown San Diego for the geek-out party of their lives. My friend de-
cided to wait four hours in line for the Harry Po-er panel in Hall H. My plan was a bit more
productive—NCsoft time! I ventured to the booth at arou
nd
noo
n, when at least some
people were off to lunch. I didn’t really notice much difference in the crowd, though.
NCsoft, like I said, was situated in a corner. It was the
refore easy to find, and to me, in a
thankfully le
ss crowded area
.
The booth housed several rows of nice computers, all playing demos of N
Csoft’s Aion or
City of Heroes. I goofed off on an Aion computer for a while, flying around and admiring the
game’
s amazing scenery and detail. Couldn’t quite figure out where I was going, though.
After that, the line for the book giveaway started deve
loping, and I decided to try my hand
at getting a free copy of Ghosts of Ascalon. And I didn’t leave empty-handed either!
Sunday, the event’s crowds started trickling away, li-le
by li-le. We decided to take advan-
tage of lowered sales at the dealer’s hall, as was tradition on Sundays,
and remained there
for several hours. There was a distinct feeling of the convention “toning down” a bit, which
I didn’t mind. Though it was a new day, I was exhausted. Four days of d
raggin
g heavy b
ags,
wading through crowds and walking miles through conve
ntion halls and downtown stre
ets
can do a number on anybody, but it was definitely a fun way to workout. In the end, my
drive home was long and boring as expected,
but I left satisfied that my time there was in
no way wasted
.
no way wasted
.
San Diego Comic Con is crowded, smelly and exhausting. It sometimes takes an incredible
feat of patience to navigate, and even then you might not make it to that long-awaite
d
panel. But regardless of these faults, I plan to go again. And again. With the
amount of stuff
to see and do, things to tinker with and buy and awesome people to meet, I cannot stres
s
enough how amazingly fun the e
xperience is. NCsoft and the Guild Wars 2 team's presence
there made my experience doubly enjoyable, and I alre
ady can't wait until ne
xt year.
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By Thalador Do
omspeak
er
The sea itself is separated from the Unending Ocean by a
narrow strait, called the Strait of Malchor,
that li
es be-
tween the Ruins of Orr and
the Tarnished
Coast.
It was
named after the sculptor who created the first generation
of the statues of the gods. The S
ea of So
rrows is an
imp
or-
tant trade route mainly for Canthan
traders and
Xun
lai
agents. Visitors from the
Dragon Empire and Elona also
have to sail through this be
autiful, but sorrowful se
a in
order to reach Lion’s Arch, the Krytan capital.
giant’s basin:
These lakes often confuse newcomers and visitors ali
ke.
The two lakes form a pair, although the
one that lies to the
east near the foothills of the Shiverpeak Mo
untains
is
called Le
sser Giant’s Basin (obviously the smalle
r of the
two). Both of them are saltwater lakes and they provide an
abundance of fish for the northern provin
ces an
d to
wns of
K
ryta.
Our knowledge of its sea life is incredibly scarce
. Som
e
people who have crossed the Clashing Se
as claim to have
seen krakens as well as other fearsome and g
igantic crea-
tures, but so far these reports have not
been
proven offi-
cial
ly.
There are four known historical events that are tied to the
There are four known historical events that are tied to the
Unending Ocean. One is from 175 BE (Before the Exo
dus
of
the Gods). In this year the Margonite
s, originally a se
afar-
ing tribe of humans before
their transformation into de
-
monic beings, settled the ocean’s Elonian coasts as we
ll as
those north and to the west of the land, possib
ly along th
e
Orrian peninsula. The
ir vessels also ruled and cruise
d the
ocean during those peaceful ti
mes.
ocean during those peaceful ti
mes.
The second, the third, and the fourth
even
t are all con-
nected to the Great Corsair Wars. The First Great Corsair
War began in 712 AE, but other than its beginning, nothin
g
else is known about this se
ries of maritime battles. How-
ever, we know a lot more about the Second
Great Co
rsair
War. It started in 982 AE and ended with
the defeat of
Lady
Glaive's armada at the hands of Seamarshal Mato
ha in
1016 AE. After her loss, Lady Glaive fled to Or
rian wate
rs
1016 AE. After her loss, Lady Glaive fled to Or
rian wate
rs
on her ship, the Queen of Fools, where she and her crew
were granted amnesty by King Zoran (father of K
ing Reza
who was the last monarch of the kingdom)
in
the un
der-
ground caverns we now call S
hards of Orr.
waters of the tyrian continent
:
the sea of sorro
ws:
The inland sea that conne
cts the shores of Kryta, the Tar-
nished Coast and the Ruins of Orr origin
ally had
a mu
ch
brighter name. Prior to 1071 AE its name was the Bay of
Sirens. After Orr sank to the bottom of the
sea, seafarers
ventured into Orrian waters to determine the fate
of th
e
peninsula. The
re they saw firsthand the horrible effects of
the Cataclysm. The disastrous event destroyed many ships
that were in the proximity of the explosion,
and after some
that were in the proximity of the explosion,
and after some
time, more and more of the wreckage has washed ash
ore
Water is powerful; more powerful, I'm su
re
,
than yo
u rea
l-
ize.
-Bahltek
The lands of Tyria are
full of unsolved myste
ries. The seas
and lakes of Tyria hold even more of these
myster
ies. No
one knows how many species live there
, how many long-
forgotten ruins lie at their bottoms or how many powerfu
l
and ancient relics reside
amongst their waves. The
time wi
ll
come when the mortal races dare enter the unkno
wn
and
try to shed some light on the
aforementioned mysteries,
but they must prepare, for the seas and lakes won’t give
away their secrets easily. Until then,
allow me
to dive
into
the mysteries of Tyria’s waters.
the oceans of tyria:
So far we have knowledge of only one ocean, the Unending
Ocean, or some may call it the Clashing Seas. It's unknown
whether there are more, or if only one ocean divides the
continents of the world. This e
normous body of water
separates the continents of Tyria and E
lo
na from Can
tha.
The Battle Isles (inhabite
d by the Priests of Balthaza
r and
the Zaishen Order) lie
somewhere in the ocean, however, it
must be closer to Cantha, since the Empire of the Dragon
must be closer to Cantha, since the Empire of the Dragon
claims the isles as its own. The actual distance be
tween the
isles and the
continent has never been measured scientifi-
cally, but captains and travelers say that it
is as mu
ch as
several hundreds of mile
s.
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omspeak
er
presence of this entity, and believed a simple spe
ll
could
reveal the nature of its power. However, in the momen
t he
cast it, the power tapped into him, twisting bo
th h
is b
ody
and mind. Svanir was trapped in his be
ar form, but he was
not sane. His body be
came icy, and spikes of ice jutted out
of his shoulde
rs. His sister resisted the grim power, but was
cursed by it (she could not become the Bear until she sle
w
Svanir). The
Nornbear, which Svanir had become,
raided
Svanir). The
Nornbear, which Svanir had become,
raided
norn travelers and settlements, until Jora ended his mad
-
ness in 1078 AE, during the Great Destroyer crisi
s.
A short, but special discussion with Alk
ar,
the gr
eatest
Dwarven historian and scie
ntist of our time, makes me be-
lieve that the source of Svanir's corruption was an Elde
r
Dragon called Jormag. He
told me not to delve into this
matter more, for something terrible could happen
. He said
farewell and descended into the
Depths. I haven't met him
since then, and without the Tome of Rubicon, I cannot con
-
tinue this research. One thing is sure: be wary if you visi
t
tinue this research. One thing is sure: be wary if you visi
t
Drakkar Lake
...
ste
amspu
r bay:
Steamspur Bay is a massive frozen bay south of Droknar’s
Forge. Port Sledge, the only Dwarven seapor
t, is e
sta
b-
lished near its coast.
The river itself is very special. Those
who trave
rse and
know it best call it the Dark River. Many guides and fe
rry-
men claim that something unseen is casting an unn
at
ural
shadow over the course of the river. The source of this
shadow has not been discovered yet. However, some ex-
plorers and archivists speculate that the
re's a hidden Mur-
saat city - because of the unseen source of the shad
ow -
somewhere close to its banks. None have found this city
so
far, or if they did, they could not return to te
ll the tale. Or
perhaps Saul D'Alessio did,
but he
did not speak of the
city's location? somewhere close to its banks. N
one have
found this city so far,
or if they did, they could not return to
tell the
tale.
drakkar lake
:
A norn hunter, Svanir, was corrupted by somethin
g an-
cient, cold, and powe
rful, when he was chasing wolv
es
with his sister, Jora, through the eerie lake
. Svanir
fe
lt the
However, the
more interesting of the two is the Greater
Giant’s Basin. This inte
rest is inspired by the area calle
d
Watchtower Coast, which,
true to its name, holds several
now-ruined towers. Nobody knows the true pu
rp
ose of
these crumbled guardians, but historians speculate
that in
ancient times these guard towers protected Kryta from a
mysterious northern threat that might have had the means
to cross the lake.
to cross the lake.
Also, the province of Shaemoor and the are
a of Divinity
Coast is the site of K
ryta’s oldest settlements. Historical re-
cords state that the coast and its
neighb
ou
ring land
s have
been occupied by humans for more than seven hundred
ye
ars.
the ullen river:
Its real name is Ullen River,
but those of us who know it
best never call it that. It's the Dark Rive
r to us. Dark as in
absence of light, yes but that's only part of it. A shadow lies
over that region, and it is cast by something...uns
een,
I sup-
pose y
ou coul
d say.
-Old Jone
ss
The Ullen Rive
r river begins its journey from the southern
hills of Twin Serpent Lakes,
then flows in a western dire
c-
tion towards the Maguuma. Deep within the jungle, it turns
south and continues its flow until it reaches Tangle
Root.
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omspeak
er
![[*]"The Northern Seas": A large sea or ocean that borders](index_html_files/59.jpg)
![[*]"The Northern Seas": A large sea or ocean that borders the shores of the region that is north of Kryta and the Giant’s Basin. [*]"Delta River": A large river that flows from Greater Giant’s Basin and empties into the "Northern Seas" with a large delta. [*]"Maguuma Lake": A large lake west of Greater Giant’s](index_html_files/60.png)
![[*]"Maguuma Lake": A large lake west of Greater Giant’s Basin and north of Bloodstone Fen. [*]"Amnoon Bay": A long bay that leads to Amnoon Oasis from the Sea of Sorrows. [*]"Dalada Lake": A medium-sized lake within the heart of](index_html_files/61.png)
[*]"Dalada Lake": A medium-sized lake within the he
art of
the charr homelands. The lake is litte
red with smalle
r is-
lands, with one large island standing out from the r
e
st,
which is characterized by strange
, spiked formation on this
particular island. Thanks to High Priest Alkar ag
ain,
it se
ems
that the spike
d ridge is another Elder Dragon, named Kral
k-
atorri
k.
as the Crystal Desert was covered with water. It was the
center of the Margonite civilization. During their golden
age they built their towns and cities on the
islands that
stood out of the mighty sea. The Temple of the
Si
x Gods,
which was drawn into Torme
nt when Abaddon fell, also
stood at its shore. It’s not fu
lly known
what h
appened
to
the sea. Some (like Thade
us Lamount, the famous Tyrian
historian) say that the gods raised the
land so all the water
historian) say that the gods raised the
land so all the water
emptied into the ocean, while others bel
ie
ve
that
Abaddon’s fall boiled the
sea and devastated its coastline,
since the area known as the Desolation was fo
rmed in
the
very same year as the Crystal Desert. Only the gods know
the truth to
this mystery.
One thing is sure
. The rise of the First of the Margonite
s is
connected to the Crystal Sea: Jadoth, a persecuted Margo-
nite, was chased by an armada of Forgo
tten warships
through the Crystal Sea. On the 51st day of his e
xil
e
, he be-
seeched his god, Abaddon, to smite the Forgotten. Ab
ad
-
don saved the haunted Margonite
, then "gifted" him with
his magic. It happened in 1 BE, according to a quote
d part
of the Scriptures of Ab
ad
do
n.
Today, only the rotted ship rigs, the tattered sai
l clothe
s
and the broken hulls mark that the
area was once a sea.
The same ship parts are the only remnan
ts of
the on
ce
grand Margonite culture.
"thirsty river":
In the distant past, a mighty river shaped the lands east of
Augury Rock. Adventurers can still see the deep channels
of the river, but they will find no water there, only sand
and dry wind. The Rune Circle, one of the keys to Ascen-
sion, can be found in the imme
diate area of the former
river, and amongst the ruined ships of th
e Margon
ites.
Those who wish to Ascend must cleanse the
mselves
through a ritual that burns away the person's e
arthly im
through a ritual that burns away the person's e
arthly im-
perfections. The forgotten are still guarding this holy site
.
* Twin Serpe
nt Lakes/Footprint Lakes: Smaller lake
s that
dot
the
area
near
Riverside
Province.
The
Ul
le
n
Riv
er
ori
gi-
nates from this area.
former seas and rive
rs of the tyrian
continent:
the crystal sea:
And so it came to pass that Jadoth, being persecuted by
the
horrific Forgotten armies,
and hounded from his home, did
seek refuge among the cooling mists of the Crystal Se
a.
-Scriptures of Abaddo
n,
1 BE
Before the Exodus of the human gods, the arid area known
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or Doo
mspeak
er
The Elon river overflows its banks every spr
ing, re
vi
ta
lizi
ng
the nearby plains in the proce
ss, which allows the vill
ages
to begin the harvesting season. The river is protecte
d by
nature spirits, the Water Djinns. The
se entities are almost
one with the river, and it is their sacred duty to de
fend it
from evil or anyone who would wish to harm the river.
Dehjah and Yartu are two of those spirits who are
friendly
to mortals except those whom threaten their bel
ov
ed riv
er.
to mortals except those whom threaten their bel
ov
ed riv
er.
In the year of 1075 AE,
Warmarshal Varesh Ossa, descen-
dant of the legendary Turai Ossa, made pacts with the ban
-
ished god, Abaddon. He
r rituals enable
d demons to slip
into Tyria from the Realm of Torment. The
Drought (a
greater demon) made its lair within the Mahnkelon Wate
r-
works, intending to consume the Elon. The demon did n
ot
only want to taint the waters, but planne
d to barrel down
the river, cross the channel and destroy Istan. F
ortun
ately,
Sunspear heroes, the then Master of Whispers, an
d th
e
river spirits thwarted its plans by destroying the w
retche
d
creature.
the bahnelon river:
The Bahnelon is a river east of the
Elon. It is much sm
alle
r
than its sister, and doe
s not have as deep of an impact on
the lives of the Kournans. Partially unde
rground, it emerges
to the surface near the Mahnkelon Ward, a water-pu
mping
station used to filtrate parts of the Elon and flush
the waste
into the Bahnelon, from where it continue
s south until it
flows into the
sea at Freeman’s Cove (a small corsair com-
munity).
The river Elon is the
life-giving force
of Elona. Without it,
the
provinces of Vabbi and K
ourna would be arid deserts. The
source of the river is somewhere near Dasha Vestibul
e
, or
further north, but Elonians consider the
Mirror of Lyss to be
the beginning of the Elon. The Mirror is a be
autiful lak
e in
the heart of Vabbi. The Sebe
lkeh Basilica, the most ornate
and magical temple in Elona,
and the heart of the
Lyssan
faith, is floating dire
ctly above the reflecting pool.
faith, is floating dire
ctly above the reflecting pool.
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omspeak
er
* Lake Puang: A small lake in a cave ne
ar Tsume
i Vi
lla
ge.
It is fed by the impressive Zen Nai Falls and provi
de
s fresh
water from the mountains not only for the local inhabit-
ants, but for the Empire of the Dragon as well
- since it
serves as Cantha's main water supply. It seems to be an im-
portant site for the naga of Shing Jea Island. N
aga wizards
and witches can be
often seen here.
* Miki Lake: A :ny, frozen lake in Jaya Bluffs. Overru
n by
the tengu and the ye:. It is not far from Zuuyu
n Point
, th
e
highest peak of the eastern mountain range of the
island.
* Tei Lake: A shallow lake north of the Daijun Library,
in
the valley of Zen Daijun. Pilgrims who visit the
valley
for en-
lightenment often rest near this beau:ful and so
othing
po
nd
.
As you can all see, there’
s much to discover about th
e
waters of Tyria. Magical proper:es, sea life
, for
gotte
n r
eli
cs
and ruins. We all know that one day,
we’ll go underwater
and try to find the answers to these ques:ons. Bu
t when is
that
day?
-Thalador Doomspe
aker
Season of the Scion, Day
230 of 1079 AE
The Rijeka River can be found in the southern parts of th
e
Echovald Forest. The Rijeka runs alongside Durh
eim Ar-
chives, cascades along a se
ries of waterfall
s, and then con-
:nues westward un:l it reaches the Canthan seas. T
he
river is quite special, as it is said to be flowing with the es-
sence of the Echovald Forest. The famous Mo
urning V
eil
Falls is part of the river.
The Jade Sea was a beau:ful sea bordered by the Ech
ovald
Forest and the Empire of the Dragon. It froze into solid jad
e
207 years ago. In the year of 872 AE, Shiro Tagachi mur
-
dered Emperor Angsiyan in the middle
of the Harvest Cer-
emony. In turn, Shiro was slain by the combine
d might of
the assassin Vizu, the Luxon champion Archemorus and t
he
Kurzick Saint Viktor. Shortly be
fore his death, Shiro le
t out
a cry that was empowered
by a dark force from ano
ther
realm. The sound of the wail spre
ad, and so did its effects
began to materialize. The Echovald Fore
st was petrified,
and the sea turned into jade
, earning its name.
The majority of the sea’s creatures either became one with
the sea, or became corrupted. Many of th
e
once benevo-
lent Saltspray Dragons turned mad from the Jade Wind.
The naga did not become corrupt; inste
ad, many of their
species became frozen in the sea. Only a fe
w escaped to
land. They had
to ab
and
on t
heir old ways an
d ethics in
order to survive in the
new, harsher environment. No
longer did they live in peace with the Canthan human
s. In
longer did they live in peace with the Canthan human
s. In-
stead, they wanted to make them pay for wh
at they had
do
ne.
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ari
Last issue
, you guys voted and decided your favorite city
dresser was the sassy mesmer in Lion's Arch (and wh
o
could blame you!). I announced a call to arms for mi
xed
armor sets that look great together,
and you guys an-
swered enthusiastically. Check out these creative combos
and pick your favorite
!
Next 'Attire Around the World' will highlight the be
st of the
best of Hallowee
n costume creativity. Send in your quirky
holiday combos to izzie@guildmag.com. Be
sure to check
out Tyria's spookie
st outfits in our November issue!
Jera Velaso
Ivan Ruse
Gaz The Malevolent
Armor trends to look out for: tops with long sle
eves for
both genders, coupled with skirts and high boots for
lad
ies.
Gentlemen will find loose,
long bottoms perfect in this
weather. Those who opt for he
avier armor can lean to-
wards plate with a few revealed areas to ve
nt during the
warmer hours of the day. Thick northern armo
r with
fur
should be
avoided for now.
The best part about Hallowe
en? The chance to ignore ev-
erything stylish and go for the ultimate trend: good, o
l'
fashioned fun! Masks and costume
s of all types from any
festival will be popular,
but of course those
specific to Hal-
loween are great. Ritualists get to shine
in the
ir mummy-
inspired Ancient a
rmor and ne
cromancers can pretty much
wear anything to scare everyone. Witchy elementali
sts
look great with Wicked Hats and Elite Stormfor
ge
d armor
together. The possibilitie
s are endless!
absolute accessorie
s
For the fall, Destroyer Gloves look great w
ith the
se
ason's
colors
and
the
me.
Blindfolds,
the
Dread
Mask
and
Grenth
costumes make great extras during the shi
s
ing weather.
Tyr
ia
[Old
Asca
lo
n]
![Cantha [Echovald Forest]](index_html_files/82.jpg)
Elona
[Sulfur Wastes]
September kicks off the holiday season and Tyria's in
habit-
ants can look forward to wide-spre
ad monthly cele
bra-
tions, giving everyone an opportunity to look their be
st.
First, get your patches and boots ready for the Corsair self-
observance coming up this month,
and the highly antici-
pated Hallowee
n holiday will give
e
veryone a chance
to
throw caution to the
wind and don the
ir favorite, wackiest
ensemble
s!
regional
palettes
Autumn is the season for tree lovers, and we all know th
e
Kurzick are huge fans of of the
forest. Their color sche
me
influences Cantha's fashion this fall,
so keep an eye out for
deep blues, silvers and amber, a color trend that wil
l con-
tinue into winter and spread globally. Kurzick
A
rmor is we
ll
suited for the season as wel
l, e
spe
ciall
y for ele
mentali
sts,
monks and warriors.
Elona may not see as drastic a weather shis, but they
still
enjoy a little
cooling off in the
northern regions. The dark
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By Dut
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As you may have read in the reviews befo
re, Gui
ld
Wars 2 was available
in de
mo-form
at
at both GamesCom and PAX. Quite a lot of sites have published various videos giving
in-
sight into how the game actually plays, other sites have posted hands-on reviews discuss-
ing their opinion on how the game played. But GuildMag tho
ught you might also
be
inter-
ested in reading an article on what the demo actua
lly co
nsisted of.
creating your characte
r
I wear _____ on the battlefield. Because of this I am recognized and given proper respect.
•
I was raised ______.
By c
ommon f
olk
Among the n
obility
In the streets
One of my biggest re
grets is that
________.
I’ve
never searched fo
r my true parents
I never recovered my sister’s body
I passed
up an o
pportunity to perform in the circus
Everyone said I was blessed by ______ when I was young
.
Dwayna
After these questions you were asked to sign your biography by e
ntering your name, which
also shows how well everything has been designe
d to immerse the player into the
game
,
making it actually fe
el like you already in exist in Tyria. In Guild Wars 2 your name
can con-
tain 19 letters (spaces include
d) and it will not limit you to ne
eding to have a surname and
last name, instead you can just go with only a surname.
the human kingdom, a territory goi
ng into oblivion
In the demo that was available at GC and PAX there were two large are
as for you to
ex
-
plore. You could e
xplore the human starter area, using a level one human character. The
character gave you a chance to familiarize yourself with the game play and gene
rall
y just
play aroun
d.
This area started with a movie
,
telling you that you’
ve been either
living in the streets or amongst
the nobles, based on your pre
vi-
ous answers to
the biography
questions, which really mak
es the
story feel more like it’s your story,
instead of a random story th
at
instead of a random story th
at
you’re forced to follow. You ge
t to
see that your character already
has some friends and that he
was
traveling outside the city only to
find out that Shaemo
or was being
attacked by centau
rs.
The elementalist’s creation screen
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Another new feature which was not so immine
nt, but sdll felt right,
was the fact that there
was no tradidonal,
linear tutorial but instead the playe
r was thrown into acdon immedi-
ately. You were asked to help save the people of Shae
moor that were being attacked by the
centaurs and thus you insdncdve
ly went searching for the villagers in ne
ed of hel
p. Aft
er
you helped them reach safety in a ne
arby tavern, you felt like you needed to do more
to
help, so you went out and helped Captain Thackeray with another centaur attack on
a
nearby fortress. After you nearly succeeded in getting rid of the centaurs, one centaur
shaman, fled from the group to summon an elemental, causing two huge stone hand
s to
shaman, fled from the group to summon an elemental, causing two huge stone hand
s to
grow out of the ground. This was not just some "kill the ten rats quest," no, it was a mas-
sive elemental that you,
as a level one or two, needed to destr
oy to save
the fortre
ss.
After your bravery in the previous battle
, you were sadly knocked out for three whol
e day
s,
you even got a visit from a friend while
you were unconscious! Now is where the
fr
eedom
of an open world be
gins, you could literally do anything you wante
d now, either follow
your personal story line
or walk out into the persistent world to enjoy the
dynamic events
or just enjoy the beauty in the available zones, ranging from Di
vinity
’s Reach to a r
ui
ne
d
Temple of Ages. If you decided to just follow your personal storyline
you were either
thrown a surprise
party or you were involved in a bar brawl or
e
ven [enter stre
et ver
sion
here], based on the diderent answers given in the biography. All in all,
the personal story
here], based on the diderent answers given in the biography. All in all,
the personal story
really promises to give each player a personal e
xperience of the game
’s stor
y and it wi
ll
only grow! An example given could be that the guards want to arrest the people wh
o par-
dcipated in the bar brawl but because you helped out in Shaemoor you're not arrested
.
All in all,
this area was mostl
y use
d to
give you an impression of what th
e
game had to oder so far, bu
t I’m su
re
that as the game develops and the sto-
ryline gets implemented into thi
s par
t
of the game ,it will prove to be an inter
-
esdng area to explore for both old Guild
Wars players and new ones.
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In the original Guild Wars, you were locked on the yoor. You couldn’
t jump or swim, the
only thing you could do was run around in the world. In Guild Wars 2,
however, it’s possible
to jump, swim, and you’re even allowed to dodge at the cost of a small amount of e
nergy
by double tapping into the direceon you want to go. Another returning and helpful fu
nceon
was the auto-run opeon,
which makes longer walks less boring for your fingers and e
nables
you to enjoy the world around you as your camera was not locked onto the character’
s
back, but on his posieon. This funceon also enable
s you to view your character up front as
you could in the original Guild Wars.
you could in the original Guild Wars.
Targeeng and auto-attack in Guild Wars 2 has also undergone
a revamp. Whereas in the
original Guild Wars you would auto-attack your ene
my by merely clicking on it, you now
have to choose a skill and bind it as an auto-attack skill,
which also makes it easier for a spe-
cific skill to be repeated. However, since the auto-targeeng in Guild Wars 2 is modifie
d and
the placement of your character is more important than it was in
the original Guild
Wars,
you now have to make sure that you’re close enough to an enemy in order to h
it h
im.
Fo
r
example, when you’ve got a warrior and want to attack an enemy that’s slightly ou
t of
yo
ur
attack range, you’ll sell use your skill but inste
ad of hitting,
you’ll miss. N
evertheless, target
attack range, you’ll sell use your skill but inste
ad of hitting,
you’ll miss. N
evertheless, target-
ing is made easier in Guild Wars 2, as the
only thing you’ve to do is to make sure your
enemy is in sight to auto-target it. In other words, the enemy that’s the closest to you gets
targeted automaecally. When attempeng to kill a larger boss,
you’ll get muleple vi
sual
clues as to where you can attack him. These visual clues are represented by a ci
rcle
yoaeng
in front of the enemy’
s body.
As we meneoned before on one of our GuildMag Blitz blog posts,
the level cap has been
raised from level 20 in the original Guild Wars to 80 in Guild Wars 2. N
ext to this,
the
l
evel-
ing curve will smooth after a while
so that all your levels wil
l be
equal
in length to obtai
n.
Next to these old funceons, the compass also shows you where your ne
xt waypoint
is in
whatever zone you currently are
in, and it also makes a wider difference between the dis-
played dots (no longe
r will you’ll be confuse
d about who’s your team member or just an
all
y).
While the compass sell rotate
s with how you move your screen in-game, it no longer di
s-
plays all the direceons of the compass,
but instead is l
imited to the N
for North.
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These skills are determined by what kind of weapons you’
re currentl
y wearing wielding. Are
you wearing wielding a sword and a shie
ld? You’
ll get three sword skills,
and two skills to
use with your shie
ld. Are you using a rifle? You’
ll get five skills which make use of the rifle.
You can’t change these skills as they’re the general setup for these weapons.
5. Utility s
kill
s
Utility skills on the other hand can be tweaked. The first (or 6th if yo
u cou
nt t
he first five
skills) of these skills will always be
your healing skill,
whereve
r you g
o. This sk
ill
is to m
ak
e
• The necromancer has a bar which fills up with life force
, obtained by
either sl
aying en-
emies or using certain skills. At any time
, the Necromancer can activate his De
ath Shroud to
unlock 4 new skills to defe
at his enemies. The Necromance
r also enters the Death Sh
roud,
with whatever amount of life force
he had remaining, when he is downed. N
ow you may
wonder, why would I want to be in my downed state form? Well, as a necromance
r your
skills are quite impressive and cause a lot of damage. It also comes in handy whe
n you need
to scout an area ahead, as your character will transport back return to the
original activa-
tion point of the skill whe
n your life force, which replaces your health while transformed,
tion point of the skill whe
n your life force, which replaces your health while transformed,
run
s out
.
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While the experience bar was more present in Guild Wars, in Guild Wars 2 it got wor
ke
d
into the overall inte
rface and got stretched across the whole screen. Your current level
is
shown at the
utter far left of the experience bar.
Event Tracker
This one is a handy fe
ature that you’ll be lik
ely
to often use use often. It shows what eve
nts you
currently have active. This can be used to moni-
tor your progress in multiple dynamic events at
one time. White bars are used to sho
w the
player how much morale the enemy has le
ft, the
health bar of a boss, how much longer the walls
will hold,
or how much health a certain charac
will hold,
or how much health a certain charac-
ter or structure may have remaini
ng
.
Options
These buttons indicate various options that will be
accessible in the final game, though
for the demo they were off-limits.
In Guild Wars 2 your equipment is split from
your inventory, but has added a few othe
r
things to the panel. To start off,
there are
quite a few new armor slots added to th
e
equipment panel. You can now e
quip a sepa-
rate earring for your left and ri
ght e
ar, a neck-
lace, a cape, and two slots for rings,
one for
each h
and.
each han
d.
Next to the usual display of a he
lmet, torso, gloves, leggings, and boots, you can now
also equip shoulde
r plates. All equipments change, as usual, as soon as you equip the
m.
At the bottom of the equipment panel you can find an option to manually change
your
weapon set by clicking on a two-spl
itting arrow.
The inventory returns an
d is better than
before,
as now you’ll be
able to have
at least five
bags
with twenty slots each, resulting in a fin
al su
m of
one hundred inventory slots. To compare,
in
Guild Wars,
there were 45 normal inventory sl
ots
and 20 weapon slots in the recently added equ
ip-
ment packs.
You do start out with a bag of only twe
nty slots,
and just like in Guild Wars you
can also click th
e
different bags to go to each one of
them, b
ut as
an added addition, you can also scroll down
with
a scroll bar on the right side.
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utes
Each armor has up to three dye
slots for you to modify,
and
fourth one to
make your armor
look more lik
e a set when com
-
bined with different pie
ces of
armor.
We’ve made a video of this
dye
system whi
le we
were
at
GamesCom so be sure to check
that out via our conve
ntion vide
o
page which you’ll find a link to at
the end of this article
.
Attributes have also seen a makeov
er from the orig
inal
Guild Wars, no longer does e
ach profession feature a se
pa-
rate set of attributes. Inste
ad, everyone shares the same
attributes, although some are locked and faded out in gray
when it might not be so smart to use
a certain attribute for
your profession. Attributes that do affe
ct your current skill
setup are depicted with a small arrow on the
right side
of
the attribute.
the attribute.
Unlike Guild Wars, wher
e you nee
de
d to have a ce
rtain
amount of attribute points to add anothe
r point to your at-
tribute, you can now add all attribute
points se
parately.
When reaching a new level, you’ll obtain 6 a
ttri
bute points
to use.
This panel is divided in two columns,
one column with your available options. The
se are
decided by two factors, namely your profession and the weapons you’
re currently wear-
ing. In fact, the first two options resemble some of the old attributes. The
fifth option can
display all the other we
apons which your characte
r can use by displaying smalle
r l
og
os on
top of this option which can be chosen from to see that certain option. Most options h
ave
three tabs to use your traits on, but there might be more or le
ss for other k
inds of we
ap
-
ons. When you’
re dual wielding or we
aring a shield, the latter will ge
t only
one
trai
t for
you to use, while the former g
ets two tr
aits.
On the right side of the panel is the
list of
traits that you currently have avail
abl
e
, wi
th
these being divide
d by
categori
es, one for
each major profession trait o
ptio
n and
pos-
sibly one for each weapon. When chose
n
from the list and applied to
your op
tions
,
they’ll give you all kinds of bonuses ranging
from increased damage to a shorte
r r
e
from increased damage to a shorter re-
charge time for your skil
ls.
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check out the video page for exclusive video cove
rage
!
This one is the obvious evoluyon of the
story books in Guild Wars,
but now inte
grated
into the panels. It works just like the books, to turn the pages click on an arrow on e
ither
the right or the left side and it will take
you to your previous complete
d stor
ies. If you
need a specific page, it’s easier to click the small logos at the bottom of the
panel. The
green logo depicts your current story and the one with a checkmark are the stories you’ve
already finishe
d.
Achievemen
ts
In Guild Wars achiev
ements wer
e call
ed
ytles, and the
y really are qui
te the same
thing as far as we could see. In Guild
Wars 2 though, they’ve categorized
the
achievements under seven categori
es.
The first category of achievement ar
e
for each type of monster that you’ll
fight (centaurs, drakes, harpy’s, the
list
fight (centaurs, drakes, harpy’s, the
list
goes on) this one
’s called Slayer. The
second being Master of Weapon
s,
which was inaccessible
for the demo,
but will like
ly inv
ol
ve the amount of
ymes you’ve used a certain weapon
. Ex-
plorer will obviously inv
ol
ve
the e
xplo-
rayon of content like
map exploring.
The last four ytle
categories are called
Adventurer, Vanquish
er, Trader and
Hero and were all off-limit just like
the
former, aside of the ‘Slayer’ categor
y.
In the overarching category panel you can see how many ytles of each category hav
e al-
ready been completed.
As you can see on the picture to the left, the achievements menu is divided in three
col-
umns, one stayng which achievement you’re dealing with, the
middle one showing you
which rank you currently got and how far you are into obtaining the ne
xt rank and the last
column gives an answer to those who love to show off your skills to your
friend
s as you
can now compare how far a friend is with his ytles via a small di
agram
.
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By BarGamer
Approaching the classroom where she was going to teach, she took a deep, calming breat
h
as the “Classes Begin Now” bell gonged, adjusted her Tina Fay glasse
s, then pushed open
the door. The instant she stepped into the room, she knew something was off. Sh
e
saw
fellow Ritualists here,
but also Necromancers, Rangers, and even Monks!
Snape
lurked in
the corner of the room, sneering as he jotted down a note
. What was going on? No, wait;
there was one thing she could say. “Good morn
in
g.
Th
is is th
e In
trodu
ction
to Minion
Bombing class, room 42. Is everyone in the right room?” She saw nods going arou
nd
.
Okaaaay… “All right, then. Everyone take out your skillbars, let’s se
e what we’ve got.” A
s
Okaaaay… “All right, then. Everyone take out your skillbars, let’s se
e what we’ve got.” As
pings sounded across the room,
she rapidly scanned the builds. Splinter Barragers throwing
paper arrows, Minion Masters calming the
ir charges, the Spoil Victors and Spite
ful Spirits
refusing to look at one another, Heal/Prot Hybrids arguing with e
ach other, Channe
ling
Restos combing their unruly hair and failing,
various Attuned builds looking re
served, the
Vengeful Was’ in a corner by themselves not touching each other, the builds
she saw cov-
ered most of the spectrum. Ok, there was ONE Minion Bomber right in the front row,
but it
seemed like she still had the basic Can
than
Edi
tion
.
Soy Oil stalled for time. “Let’s go around the room and introduce ourselves, names, builds,
Campaign of Origin and what we hope to get from this class,
you start.” The Paragon stood,
the scraping of his chair producing an entirely incongruous high F and he
started shouting,
“My name is Barack Obama, from Elona, and I hope to produce an
Era of
CHANGE, and
also
party support with my chants.” At this point,
a few Mesmers started screaming “Obama,
marry me!” “I want your babies!” “I voted for you!” “Squee!” Barack turned aroun
d to
see
a Prize-Winning Hog in the room. “Nice lipstick,
but… are you actually a stude
nt?” An old
soldier NPC rushed into the room, pointedly not looking at Obama,
and dragged the piggy
soldier NPC rushed into the room, pointedly not looking at Obama,
and dragged the piggy
away. “Sorry, sorry, don’t know how she escaped the cooler, we’re not
sup
posed
to be in
here until 2012… or was it 2016? Haha, I’m such a maveri
ck…”
Soy Oil had enough. Gesturing to Snape, she walked out of the room. “Excuse me for a
moment, class…” Once Snape had finally slunk his way over,
closing the door behind him,
”SNAPE! What is going on, here?” Snape sneered. “This is a work of parody, th
e au
thor is
not affiliated with Are
naNet or Guild Wars Guru, Barack Obama, John McCain,
either politi-
cal party or any loyalty beside
s Doing It For The Lulz. All rights re
served. Inse
rt other legal-
ese here.”
Ho
noring the Hunter’s Moon
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Yet our biggest question, to be
fair
Is if we will me
et YOU the
re.
On the October 23rd the Hunter’s Moon will rise again, and this was reason enough for a
few Guild Wars players to start organizing an event honoring it (or "he
r" based on histori-
cal beliefs). This special e
vent called “Honoring the Hunter’s Moon” is he
ld in-game in Se-
renity Temple, International District one,
two and three, and we need you to make it e
xtr
a
special
.
Honoring the Hunter’s Moon is a community hosted in-game
version of the pagan celebra-
tion which honors the Hunter’s Moon. While this is an ancient cele
bration, there actually
still are certain groups of Wiccans that still ce
lebrate this feast. In ancient time
s the
Hunter’s Moon was the signal to hunters to start gathering dried meat for the winter, as it
would be arriving soon and their familie
s would starve if they didn’t start pr
eparing from
that moment on. The druids however gave a whole new meaning to this and the
y wor-
shiped the moon like a godde
ss. While this event has wonderful spiritual meanings and
cultural relevance, we mostly want to celebrate the changing of the seasons and just have
a fun party with tons of fun pe
ople from all over the world, so let’s have fun in the name
of the Hunter’
s Moon
!
what’s the plan?
So the plan is to honor a full moon,
but how are we planning to do that? Well the answer
to this is to celebrate in the name of the Hunter’s Moon. We all know how to have
a
party
in real life
; some beer, some crisps, some good conversation and of course
a ni
ce activity
to add some structure to the whole party. All this knowle
dge being transferred to in-game
knowledge makes for a wonderful party with tons of free
bies and good conversations. All
of this, combined with a full moon on the
23rd of October, equals a party honoring the
Hunter’s Moon. Yeah you heard it right, freebies, free stuff, free alcohol points,
great
prizes for doing well in activities, free alcohol points,
free sweet points and e
specially free
prizes for doing well in activities, free alcohol points,
free sweet points and e
specially free
alcohol points! This all will be
done in Serenity Temple International district one
, two and
three from 20:00 till 23:00 BST and all ar
e we
l
com
e.
What if I would like
to help, how can I do that? If you want to he
lp we would really appre-
ciate it and can always use some
in-game donations in the
form of rare materials, sweet,
party, alcohol points and/or in-game
gold. If you’re not so rich or would just rather want
to help us out in a more pe
rsonal and intensive way, you can visit our site
Huntersmoon.tk and check out the "Join Our Te
am" tab, there we have a list of roles you
might be just the right person for. We need a lot of people for distributing information,
organization and keeping the evening running and we can’
t steal all of those from our
main sponsor,
The Imperial Guards Alliance [TIG]. So if you want to he
lp, please contact
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lp, please contact
any of our ambassadors, you can find a comple
te list of the
m on the site, or fill in the Join
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the sit
e.
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s Moon.
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ghor
e
day 0 –
18 au
gust 2010
A0er a 3+ hour drive I arrived in Cologne, dropped my bag in my hote
l room and 0gured
out what I wanted to do next. No surprise there, I wanted
to check out
how to
get to the
Koeln Messe the fastest, and of course check out the best entrance in rela0on to the po
in
t
of arrival and locate Hall 9, where the Arenanet booth would be
.
I looked at the map
of
Cologne and
0gured th
at I
might be able to walk to the "Messe", so I tried that
0rst. There was also an S-bahn (metro) going the
re,
but if walking could be
just as fast, why not walk?
Once I had 0nally reached the "Messe" it was pretty
clear that walking would probably not be t
he fastest
way. The S-Bah
n sta0o
n was righ
t in fron
t of
the en
-
trance, so on the big day tomorrow, I would certainly
trance, so on the big day tomorrow, I would certainly
take t
he S-Bah
n.
It was fairly ‘quiet’ around the "Messe". However, I knew that inside the 0rst day for
Press and Industry was already taking place. Unfortunate
ly, there was no way for me to
get in today, so I walked my way around the big hall complex. Sure
enough, halfway
down I found the elusive hall 9,
where tomorrow I would spend most of my day at the
ArenaNet bo
oth.
...Or was I? On the other side of Hall 9 was
a
car entrance into the comple
x, and there was
an open door to Hall 9! For
a
mo
men
t I
thought, that guy doesn
’t loo
k t
oo stron
g..
Just as I was about to take the sprint I realized
that my ac0ons now, could well spoil my po
s-
sibility of eve
r getting into the Me
sse at all
.
No, I'd best keep my cool an
d wait fo
r to
mor
No, I'd best keep my cool
an
d wait fo
r t
omor-
row…
Last thing to do be
fore going back to the
hotel for dinner, was to take a picture of the
rather empty entrance hall (south) th
at was
closest to the S-Bahn sta0o
n.
I
wo
nd
er h
ow it
will l
ook tomorrow…
day 1
– 19 a
ugust 2010
So I jumped out of bed, took a quick shower, got
dressed, while drinking something that said 'instant
coffee’ on the bag … Off to the
sta0on, luckily it was
rather close, so close even that I had to
stop
in
front of the sta0on
to 0
nish my smoke.
Platf
orm 10
was the place of departure, and sure enough, it
didn’t last very long before the Metro arrived, and
the trip was only 1 stop,
yay! As I exited the Koeln
the trip was only 1 stop,
yay! As I exited the Koeln
Messe sta0on, I could not belie
ve my eyes.
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Man, was I glad I ordered my ticket online
. I could total
ly avoid that crowd and walk i
nto
the entrance. "Hmm", I remembered the empty hall from the day before. If
it was so
busy
outside, how would it look inside? My thoughts were
answered as I entered the entrance
hall. Way at the back were the entrance gates. They opened with a bar-code
reader, the
bar-code was on my entrance ticket I printed at home, so I could just skip th
is crowd as
well. If you ever plan to go to a games convention, and you wonder if you should order
your ticket online…
Off I went. It was on
ly ju
st past
Off I went. It was on
ly ju
st past
10:00am, and the crowds were
slowly flowing into the Hall
Com-
plex. Aft
er a short walk
my heart
started to pound faster, as I could
now see the entrance to the h
all I
had only bee
n able to see from
the outside
yesterday. Hall 9, the
the outside
yesterday. Hall 9, the
hall where the A
renaNet booth
would be pre
miering
the
GuildWars2 Demo. Onl
y an e
sca-
lator and a few ste
p
s wer
e in-
between it and me.
..
... Or so I thought,
as I entered the hall it was very clear that I was not the only one
coming to see ArenaNet. Their booth was loade
d with eager fans dying to get their
hands on the demo, and it wouldn’
t be until 15:00pm before I got a chance to play
myself. Not just because of the crowd, but also because of all the
things happe
ning at
the ArenaNet booth during the day,
that were worth our attention. As the other Guild-
Mag attendees w
il
l tel
l you…
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I have to say, I didn't expect the fair to be as huge as it was. When we
arrived in the hall,
We got there at 10:30, and the Guild Wars 2 trailer was playing on the big scre
en. The lrst
thing we did was to lnd Dutch Sunshine,
which was quite hard with SO many people
around, but eventually we met up. We started to collect some swag at the... well,
swag
desk. We all got an Aion/GW2 bag which came
in very handy for the rest of the day
.
Before GamesCom, I had made an arrangement with Tearsdale, a GW2G mod and
member, to meet up and have a chat. I had a picture of him so I was pre
pared.
At 11:00,
the lrst live demo hosted by Martin Kerstein started. Martin showed us a level
one human elementalist saving village
rs and defending a fort from a group of centaurs.
There are countless of videos on YouTube,
and they will probably explain the
demo
better than text will. After the demo, it was about time for us to play the game
,
so we
a
ll
got in line at various stations. While
waiting for my turn, I spotted Tearsdale on the
booth floor and (properly) introduced myself and we chatted a bit (as much as it
was
possible with the deafening noise of the
Aion fanboys surrounding us). He had some in-
teresting things to say; you can read all about it in his inte
rview in this issue of GuildMag.
teresting things to say; you can read all about it in his inte
rview in this issue of GuildMag.
While we were standing there, I noticed someone with the
"Demo Krewe" logo on his
backpack. It turned out to be Arrow Master (GW2G username
). Wh
ich
brings me to the
Guild Wars 2 Guru GamesCom meeting. As I mentioned earlier, the event was much
larger and louder than I expected, the meet-up therefore didn't go
as smoothly as
planned. But outside of the actual gathering I did me
et Tearsdale, Arrow Master and a
third person I'll mention later in the article
.
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Early in the demo, I ran into a farm that was ge!ng raided by bandits and an event status
was shown in the top-right of my scre
en displaying something along the l
ines of "Defeat
the bandits invading the farm,
8/16 bandit waves remaining". The bandits kept storming in
through a bottleneck in the fence, I didn't par!cipate much in this event though because
I
was distracted by some cows. Tearsdale told me I could fee
d them if I took some hay from
a feed bag near the fence. When I fed the cow little hearts floated above its head and I
was rewarded with karma. I hadn't even played the game for ten minutes and alre
ady
something memorable happened. During the
bandits e
vent, I ran into Joe Hos!le
(aka Joey
something memorable happened. During the
bandits e
vent, I ran into Joe Hos!le
(aka Joey
Knight) a member of ArenaNet's Quality Assurance, Guild Wars inte
rnal te
s!ng team
. In
five years !me, that's going to be a pretty funny tho
ught.
Art cards handed out after every live demo prese
nta!on.
Speaking of memorable happenings, walking through Divinity'
s R
each,
I saw someone
jump off a building in the
distance and die. We were all like "Did that guy just jump?" so I
ran up to him to resurrect him. I did so by going to his corpse and a "[F] Revive"
i
con ap
-
peared. After he was resurrected he ran off. That's when I no!ced the n
ame "K
e
kai
Kotaki" above his head. I was lik
e, "Dude! That's Kekai Kotaki!!" how awesome is that?
It's not something I'll forget soon. Thank you and you're we
lcome Kekai! :)
Two other no!ceable things were the dy
e
system and dodging. I'm very happy with dod
g-
ing since it brings back an eleme
nt of my al
l-!me
favorite game, Unreal Tournament. It eve
n
works in the same fashion, by double tapp
in
g a
movement key in the direc!on
you wan
t to
dodge-roll. This brings übe
r-micro to GW2, and I
think it will play a big role in PvP eve
ntual
ly. The
think it will play a big role in PvP eve
ntual
ly. The
other thing was the dye system. You can se
e a
video of how it works on our YouTube
page. I
think that the best part of the dye system, next
to the huge variety of colors, is that dyeing
ev
-
erything black or white wasn't the be
st look
ing.
Like on most GW armors, in fact, it looked horrible. This really e
ncourages peopl
e to
make good color combina!ons and p
lay arou
nd with th
e
hue and
satura!on
op
!ons
too.
For demo purposes it was free and fully unlocke
d. Tearsdale actually spoke
with Izzy
while he was the
re about the dye system. Izzy said that you will start with some
basic
dyes -probably that starter set- and you can unlock other sets throughout your game-
play. When you unlock more sets, they become free to use from now on. No more in
di-
vidual bottles of dye
! Looking good will again be one
of my priori!es.
All white
doesn't look as good as a
combina!
on of colors.
One of the goals I had when I went to
GamesCom was to check ou
t some of
the !ny mechanics of the demo.
The
only emotes that seemed to work were
/bow /wave /
salute and /
sit; howe
ver
they did nothing more than
make your
weapon disapear. Th
e graphics and
sound op!on tabs we
re labeled with
sound op!on tabs we
re labeled with
'Not in
demo' so I d
id
n't fin
d ou
t any of
the op!ons, which is unde
rstandable for
a demo. Also, the poison co
ndi
!o
n was
described as "You don't fe
el so good"
which I thought was pretty
funn
y.
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Another thing that felt necessary was to jump in the big hole at Divinity's Reach (Th
e
dis-
trict it's in is actually called 'The Great Collapse
'). Unfortunate
ly I didn't manage to pull it
off, I tried to jump from the bridge but couldn't make it ove
r the rope. And man, you
should see the construction docks around the
hole, they look like they were made for
jumping in it. I did try to jump from one of the docks into the hole
, but I couldn't jump far
enough
.
After dying from jumping of one of those docks,
I spent the rest of my time exploring Di
-
vinity's Reach. Later in the day, Asuran told me
he saw an Elonian district but appare
ntly I
ran straight past it. The huge garden is indeed beautiful and I'll definitely spe
nd some time
there when the game comes out. I opened my map and spotted an Asura gate nea
rb
y,
which leads to Lion's Arch. Even though Tearsdale told me it wouldn't work I still wante
d
to check it out. To my de
light, there were two asura standing by the gate, one was a nec-
romancer and he looked very scary,
even for an asura. And by the way, notice anything? I
reached this gate after 35 minutes, and that includes all the
time I spent exploring. This
reached this gate after 35 minutes, and that includes all the
time I spent exploring. This
means a human can go to Lion's Arch as early as le
vel two or three! Awesome!
pics or it did
n't happen
During the live demo at 4:00 I spotted Daniel Dociu on the corne
r of the booth, so Asuran
and I approached him. Daniel was nice enough to sign our N
ightfall art books and take a
picture with us, and I totally let him know that he's awesome. I still have the
pen he
si
gned
with, and I touched his shoulder (Obsession?). Shortly afte
r, I spotted Isaiah (Izzy) and we
took a picture with him as well. I asked him how everyone keeps up with his awesome
ness
to which he replied "They don't,
" further proof that he's awesome.
After the last demo (whe
re I finally
caught a t-shirt!), it was about time for
our ArenaNet interview, so we look
ed
for Martin since he was suppose
d to
escort us to the business area of
GamesCom. Unfortunately we couldn't
find him, so we started asking some
ArenaNet devs. That's when we were
ArenaNet devs. That's when we were
surprised by the fact that everyone
knew about GuildMag once we i
ntro-
duced ourselves. So after a while,
Sté-
phane (Lo Presti) to
ok us to
Colin Jo-
hanson who was standing somewhe
re
near the booth in his awesome
ness.
We introduced ourselves and started what I like
to call: "The Walk of Awesomeness."
There we were, walking down the
hall of the
Koelnmesse, chatting with ArenaNet devel
-
opers. I told Colin it was good to see him in pe
rson to which he replied "Yeah, it's good
to finally come out of the office
after hiding for three years." See, even they are being
kille
d by the marketing! Colin sai
d we should come
over to Seattle for a tour of the office
I stepped back a bit and I whispered to Asuran: "Dude, did we just get invited for a
VIP
tour at ArenaNet?!" That's unbelievable, I mean we all know nobody is allowed in the
re!
But let's not hold Colin accountable
for what he said there; we'll ask him to back it up.
But let's not hold Colin accountable
for what he said there; we'll ask him to back it up.
Although, I have started looking at ticke
ts to America. Best part of GamesCom in my
opinio
n :)
serio
us business
So arriving at the business area of GamesCom, we r
an into a problem
,
we weren't al-
lowed to enter without a business pass. Colin and Sté
phane went inside to see if they
could arrange something. After some time, Stéphane came back with one busine
ss pass,
so only one person could e
nter and do the interview. We simply decided that Dutch
should go. The original plan was that we'd go toge
ther so I could film and ask a few ques-
tions myself, but it honestly wasn't that much of a se
tback. I would have loved to meet
Jeff Grubb face-to-
face th
ough
.
So the rest of us waited outside while e
veryone admired Asuran's Guild Wa
rs 2 t-shirt.
After an hour or so, Dutch came out with a semi-big smile on his face
. Apparentl
y the
camera battery died half-way through, but the good thing ab
out
that was th
at Colin was
nice enough to continue
the rest of the interview by e-mail. You can read the continua-
tion in this ve
ry issue.
The swagbag, it's a bag for swag but it's also swag i
tself.
read on with asuran’s gamescom re
port ->
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Once we got back, it was nearly time for the closure of the day and, of course Ni
ma was
there too. After the massive crowd cleared, I spotted someone in a t-shirt I was
on th
e
lookout for all day. It was a white
t-shirt with the
'Demo Krewe' logo on it, and yes it was
DBZVelena from the Guild Wars 2 Guru forums. We
were about to leave but we were stil
l
able to chat a bit. She told me
about something I'm very familiar with: Stroopwafels,
a true
Dutch delight. Apparently she even brought them for the ArenaNet crew, and if there's
one thing I know, it's that Americans LOVE stroopwafels! She also told me
that a few
people from ArenaNet are heading to Amste
rdam for some tourism. When it really cam
e
people from ArenaNet are heading to Amsterdam for some tourism. Whe
n it really came
down to leaving I stopped by Martin Kerstein to say goodbye, and that was the end
of my
GamesCom. I'll definitely be there next year, and for more than one day.
The word “Awesome” has been used 9 times in this article
.
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Once the onstage demo was done It was .me to stand in line
and wait to actually play the
demo. While wai.ng, Jonny and I talked to several people from the
Guild Wars 2 Guru
community including ArrowMaste
r and Tearsdale (who was working at the NCsoft stand).
Jonny and I stood on one side
while Dutch Sunshine was on the other side wai.ng as well.
Finally, after wai.ng for around an hour,
I was able to play the
game (which you can read
more about it in the expande
d review). After I finished exploring the
game world, it was
Johnny's turn to play and he
was guided by Tearsdale. Once he was done playing, Dutch,
Johnny and I went outside to eat and discussed the ques.ons we planned to ask during
the interview. I had decided to we
ar the Guild Wars 2 t-shirt I had snagged earlier and it
drew a lot of atten.on, par.cularly from people who wanted it themselves,
in addi.on to
people who looke
d at me with hatred (*cough* WoW fans). All 3 of us quickly walk
ed
around GamesCom to check out some other things, but soon we headed back to the GW2
around GamesCom to check out some other things, but soon we headed back to the GW2
booth for anot
her live demo.
meeting arenanet and th
e a
ftermath.
After the Live demo we prepared for the interview and went looking for Mar.n but
we
couldn’t find him, instead we received help from Sté
phane and he walked us to Colin Jo-
hanson who was standing outside
the booth. Walking the "walk of fame" with ArenaNet
personnel was awesome and during the walk we
talked with them and even joked around
that GuildMag could be the
official Guild Wars magazine
, afterwards he said we should
come to Seattle and we would receive a tour of the
Arenanet office. Johnny was even
more surprised and said to me: dude did we just ge
t invited for a tour at ArenaNet? Al
l
four of us were excited and asked if he would back it up once we go to Seattle. Once
we
four of us were excited and asked if he would back it up once we go to Seattle. Once
we
heard this we already started planning to go to Seattle
in the future. It was inte
rview .me
but unfortunate
ly we had some problems- we weren’t allowed past the security staff
without passes, and Arenanet was only able to get one pass for us to go to the
interview.
Dutch Sunshine was the lucky one
since he was the founder of GuildMag.
Of course during the day we saw se
v-
eral personnel from ArenaN
et and
had the chance to talk to
some
of
them, asking a few of them what they
thought of GuildMag,
though not all
of them had seen it yet, it was gr
eat
to hear that several
of them we
re
quite excited about it. One
of the
quite excited about it. One
of the
most awesome things of
the day was
mee.ng Daniel Dociu in pe
rson and
even having him signing the ar
t book
s
for Jon
ny and
I.
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of course fro
m the
threats withi
n the
dragonbrand.
necromancer
For the demo I decided to try out the necromancer
because at the time we didn
’t kn
ow much ab
out
it
and I was curious how pl
ayable it was since I wasn’t
a big necro fan in Guild Wars (Monks rule
!) One of
the choices I was able to mak
e in the
personal stor
y
gave me headgear. Since I don’t like
he
adgear
on
my characters I was looking for a way to hide it but
couldn’t find
a way to
do
that. F
or the demo I ac
couldn’t find
a way to
do
that. F
or the demo I ac-
cepted it, but if the
full rele
ase is similar it w
ill
be
a
big downside for me.
One major difference between the original Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 was that you
don’t need corpses to summon minions . Furthe
rmore, there was a unique thing for the
necromancer called life
force and it fills up with the
deaths around you and once
full,
you can enter the death shroud that allows you to use other skills than what you had in
your regular ski
ll
bar
.
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read the re
st of aghore’s take with
exclusive chit-chat with the devs. -
>
I yrst decided to walk around and explore but within two minutes I was invited to yght
against the Shatterer. I was pleased with the
invitation since
I didn't have to wa
it endl
e
ssly
for it to come. The Shatterer itself was quite easy to defeat since
it didn’t do a lot. Eve
n
standing one meter away from it, I didn’t receive much damage, so I hope that chan
ges fo
r
the full release. The yght was fun but also quite chaotic since
you see all kind of spells
flying around you. One other thing I enjoyed during the yght was the use
of an environ-
mental weapon that was a mortar. I had to aim with my mouse
which gives a good feeling
of extra interactivity. Once the yght was over a chest spawned and everyo
ne who
fough
t
of extra interactivity. Once the yght was over a chest spawned and everyo
ne who
fough
t
against the Shatterer received something as a re
ward.
Next, my screen displayed that a new event was nearby and that I had to talk to a golem
traveling with an asura. Once I re
ached it, only the golem and charr bodyguard were there
but not the asura I was looking for. Talk
ing to the golem revealed the asura was kidnapped
by the harpies. Despite talking to him to activate
the event (which was quite
like a quest
for my feeling) it was already active. As soon as it was activate
d my timer was already half
way showing that the event already started and I simply joined it later. Once I fo
un
d him
some other players and I were trying to save him but we were too late. He didn't actu
ally
die- despite the event description mentioning that he would, but that could be du
e to
the
die- despite the event description mentioning that he would, but that could be du
e to the
demo so others could do it as
well.
In my last 10 minutues I was invited again to yght against the Shatte
rer, I didn’t accept
but after walking around for two minutes I found him never the less and fought him
again.
Overall the demo gave a good impression and playing it was a lot of fun,
though there
were still some bugs and other things that weren’t fully ynishe
d yet. The demo was a bit
easy, I was able to survive with ease, I hope it wi
ll
change to hav
e more chall
e
nging game
-
play.
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Then it was o to the staon to catch the metro to Ce
ntral staon, where I quickly
grabbed some fast food at a well-established franchise in staons all around Europe
. I
rushed back to the hotel to freshen up a bit,
because this "day" had more in store for me,
and me was of the essence. I had no idea what kind of crowd to expect at the N
CSoft
Party. If the day was to give any clue, there would probably be a line througho
ut th
e
center of Cologne …
I arrived at ‘
Goldfinger’ around 21:30h
(9:30pm), and I expect
ed
the worst. To
my amazement, there was no line
,
in
fact when I walked into the bar area the
place look
ed deserted. Was I the first to
arrive ?! Moving my way
to the bac
k of
the bar I noced the estab
lishment co
n-
nued into an outside
terrace area,
nued into an outside
terrace area,
where to my
joy I saw loads of famil
iar
faces and loads of Guild
Wars f
ans.
There were about 75 people th
ere I
would guess, and the
atmosphere felt a
bit like a big fami
ly party. Ar
e
na
Net per-
sonnel was scattered around, and fan
s
were talking with the
m or
each other,
while enjoying vari
ous internaonal and
typical
German drinks.
Colin: “Interesng ideas, though concerning the explorers, even though some of the
events or rather possible event locaons are on a noficaon,
we put in loads of eve
nts
and triggers through-out the world that don’t work o this system. So yo
u can
certainly
find things by going ‘o the beaten path
’.”
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Arghore: “So does that mean we might see downtime? Or will you update servers one at a
Arghore: “You work on conte
nt with the tools that Jason creates? Like I wondered how
you actually build these dynamic events; I’m not sure if you know Ryzom, but it has this in
game editor where you can build missions with are
a triggers, dialog trigger
s, inter
activ
e
objects and so on,
I wondered if you use something similar?”
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Annie: “Hmm, I don’t know Ryzom unfortunately, but from what you
tell me it sou
nd
s like
it works somewhat the same. We basically have
an editor with all sort of triggers,
di
alog
boxes and other components we use to combine and make our content. And if
we n
eed
anything we can just ask the programmers to make it, it’s such a plu
s to h
ave th
at in h
ouse
as opposed to bought editors. And this extends be
yond the editor really, like if we need a
certain NPC which we can’t construct from the elements in our ed
ito
r we can
basically
go
talk to the costume department to ask and have it created. Or when we come up with
a
certain event, we go talk to the lore department to discuss where it would be mo
st suited,
certain event, we go talk to the lore department to discuss where it would be most su
ited,
for which race, area, etc.”
Arghore: “Ok, that sounds like a pretty extensive tool with some nice backup, so what did
you create with it, and do you have a favorite NPC?”
Annie: “It is a great tool and the backup is fantastic! I worked a lot on the human co
ntent, I
don’t know if you got to play it? And a favorite NPC, hmm let’s see, well that has to be
Lord Faren <3 in the Human Gentry experience.
”
Arghore:
“That’s all right, so back to the content design, do you also test the things you
create? Because I know that when I played around with the Ryzom editor, for every mis-
sion step I put in I had to test it nume
rous times and adjust it, so it would actually work as
I intended
.”
Annie: “No not e
xtensively, like, we work in close contact with the
QA team to mak
e sur
e
the content works, then they take it over from there, after we p
ut it in th
e game. You
should go talk to the
m, they are right over there.”
Arghore: “Thanks for your time and answers Annie, it was really nice to meet you
.”
Annie: “No problem it was nice to meet you too
.”
Arghore: “Hi I am Arghore from GuildMag and I post on gw2guru re
gularly as well. So you
guys test all the stuff the Dev’
s make?
”
Arghore: “Hi, I’m Arghore,
nice to meet you, sorry what was your name again, I’m not
sure I recognize you from guru?
”
Rhys: “I’m Rhys, I posted in the guru get together, I come from Australia.
”
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Chris: “So, is there anyone from ArenaNet you haven’t talked with, that I can introduce
you
to?”
Arghore: “Thanks Jeff, I will probabl
y do so, and if they are not interested I might still
write down at least the story and put it
in
Guild
Mag.
”
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The party was nearing the end, for me at least, I left at around 01:00am not lon
g
after at
least some of the ArenaNet krewe had left, Stephane was right behind me
and I wished
him a good night as we exited the door of Goldfinger.
When I came back to the hotel I crashed on my bed, tired … tomorrow would
be anoth
er
day of GamesCom, where i will try the charr experience and gi
ve
the re
st of Game
sCom a
look. With this busy day ahe
ad I should better get some sleep…
coming up: an interview
with tears
dale,
who
worked as a booth helper during gam
escom
Check out our video page more GamesCom go
odn
ess
!
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At GamesCom I ran into Te
arsdale from Guild Wars 2 Guru, we made arrangements be
-
forehand to meet-up at the booth as part of the
Guru Meet-up. Tearsdale worked as a
booth helper for NCSoft during Game
sCom and answered some questions about his e
xperi-
ences during the eve
nt.
care to introduce yourself to the readers?
Last year GamesCom was ge?ng closer and NCSo? intended to have a big prese
nce there
due to the upcoming release of Aion. But since they don't have that man
y German
speak-
ing employees they decided to ask staff me
mbers of various German fansites for
the ga
me
whether some of them would be interested in helping out. I got one
of those mails and
agreed. A?er some talking with the agency to handle the formali?es, I was one of about a
dozen volunteers who helped out at the NCSo? b
ooth
as casual staff
.
Mostly walking around just in case some
thing might happen. We
ll, in theory we were sup-
posed to answer ques?ons and explain the
game to people and take care of various minor
problems which might arise. But as it turned out GW2 is far too easy to learn and pe
ople
rarely needed our help. Te
chnical problems were thankfully re
ally r
are as we
ll and that
lead to the weird situa?on that we more o?en had to explain whe
re one could get those
paper bags and that GW2 would be released "when
it's d
one."
Some?mes stuff had to be brought to, or retrieved from the business center or the supp
ly
container or something like that. It's pre
?y hard to really describe what the job e
ntail
s,
i
t'
s
mostly about being the
re, keeping your eyes open and doing what is necessary,
whatever
that might be.
Also I would like to stress that this was only a te
mporary job as a volunteer, I am no longer
related to either NCSoft or ArenaNet in any fashion since the trade fai
r e
nded.
at the booth, you mentioned somethin
g about the shat-
terer being taken down in the first hour. did other
things
like this happen?
Yup,
that
was
pre
?
y
surprising.
I'm
not
quite
sure
anymore
whether
i
t
was
on
Wednesday
or Thursday, but it happened within the
?
rst hour. People were arriving at the computers,
star
?
ng to play, and some went to where the Sha
?
erer was. Nothing extraordin
ary.
And there were a couple other amazing things outside
of the game as well. The bags for
example. I don't know the actual numbers, but we had a pre?y insane amou
nt of tho
se
bags for each day and s?ll, we had to turn down lots of people e
ach day, because that
many people wanted one of those bags and we
simply didn't have any le?. Also the effect
Nima has on the crowd is pre?y awesome as well, it's always fun to watch him doing his
work.
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And I'd certainly do the job again any ?me
. But please not within the next two weeks or
my feet will execute their pl
an to kil
l me
.
thanks for taking t
he time to answer our que
stions, it
was nice runn
ing in
to you at gamescom.
No problem, it was a pleasure. And it's always nice to meet someone I othe
rwise only
know from a forum or
such.
Oh, and no... we don't have
any bags le?. No, not even a single one.
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The Serpentine Races
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onig Des T
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es
There are three known serpentine races in the world of Tyria: the forgott
en
,
th
e krait and
the naga. Despite them all being serpentine and having a few simi
larities, none of them are
known to be related to each o
ther.
The naga are the serpenane race that lives along the
coast of Cantha and wit
hin
the Jade Sea. O
ver two-
hundred years ago the naga were a peaceful race that
lived solely in the water. Howe
ver, the notorious Jade
Wind changed all that. Whe
n Shiro’s death wail race
d
over the Jade Sea, the water’s waves froze
and, su
ppo
s-
edly, the enare body of water froze – and a great depth
did indee
d freeze. When the sea froze, the majority of
the naga race froze with it, stuck in a petrified coffin
for
ete
rnity.
There was a paracular naga that survived, however. T
his
naga was Hanasha Coralfin. She
was a priestess who
used her remaining power to revive the naga she coul
d
find. After reviving a few, those she revived brought
more survivors to the priestess unal a small tribe
of
forty was formed. Under her guidance, they changed
their moral and social standards in order to survi
ve.
Over the next two-hundred years, the naga became an extremely hosale race. Paracu-
larly aggressive naga are their elders – calle
d by Luxons as “Ancie
nt Elder Naga” – redun-
dant name nonetheless. In part because of their aggression, the naga are captured
by
Luxons to be used for combat pracace,
especially the elder naga when possible
, due to
their extreme
aggr
essiv
eness.
On Shing Jea Island,
the naga are known to reside within caves along the coastlines.
Along with being paracularly hosale
toward the humans – for the
y blame all humans for
the Jade Wind the same way that wardens do – the naga are very aggre
ssive against the
tengu. They have, on mulaple occasions (especially during a pr
e
vi
ous Day of the
Tengu
event that celebrates the anniversary of the end of the Tengu Wars) slithe
r
ed from their
caves and coastal homes to attack both tengu and human villages
.
With the Jade Sea returning to its liquid state,
the naga are likely to be
taking back to their
underwater lifestyles. Whether or not they leave thei
r aggr
essiv
eness be
hi
nd on land is un-
known
.
On the other side of the Unending
Ocean resides the serpenane race of
the conanent of Tyria: the krait. The
krait have a sall unknown past an
d
mostly unknown culture due to their
elusiveness to the othe
r race
s of Tyri
a.
They live within and along the T
ar-
nished Coast. Like the naga,
the krait
nished Coast. Like the naga,
the krait
are primarily an aquaac race
that are
also seen on land. The few survivi
ng
witnesses that have seen the k
rait de-
scribe them as an army of slithe
ring,
serpenane fighters that are able to
transform in the middle
of battle into a
variety of dangerous forms.
The krait are known to have two
lon
g
fangs with brown, tan and oran
ge skin,
If they were not as deadly as they are, it is a sure thing their skin would be use
d for as
many purposes as
the naga’s.
The Serpentine
Races
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o
des
the forgotten
Lastly, we turn to the third serpennne race of the world: the
forgonen. The four-limbed for-
gonen are said to have been brought here by the Six Gods long ago in 1769 BE (Be
fore the
Exodus) to serve as custodians of the world alongside
the prophenc dragon Glint. The
y had
spread throughout Tyria, from the planet-named connnent to Elona and to Cantha itself.
When humans arrived in Cantha they manage
d
to develop without conflict with e
ach other. In
an unknown nme before 205 AE (After th
e
Exodus), the forgonen had a war with the ho
s-
nle charr in the borders of what are
now cal
le
d
Ascalon and the
Crystal Desert – eventually
having to draw back. When humanity came to
the connnent of Tyria, thei
r work
of mai
ntai
n
the connnent of Tyria,
their work
of mai
ntai
n-
ing bal
ance was quickly destroy
ed by
the
gree
dy race. Around the nme of the Exodu
s,
the forgonen were in a war wi
th the human-
turned-demonic Margonite
s (though it isn’
t
clear whether they were humans or demons
during this conflict as e
vidence points to both).
Soon enough, in 174 AE, they left the world of
Soon enough, in 174 AE, they left the world of
man altogether for the Crystal Deser
t and, un-
known to people at that nme,
for the Realm of
Torment.
In the Crystal Desert, the forgonen conn
nue to act as cu
stodians an
d guardians – bu
t in
-
stead of doing so for the
balance of the world, they do so for their ne
w m
aster, Gli
nt.
There they act as test holde
rs for the trails of Ascensions, bent on prevennng such ac-
complishment. The
y also act as guides for those
who seek their knowledge, unlike the
Elonians who came with Turai Ossa whom anacked the forgonen on sight.
Fo
r th
ose
seeking audience with the
dragon Glint, they act as part of her defenses, a differe
nt te
st
for those who enter the Crystal Des
ert.
Their role in the Realm of Torme
nt is not dissimilar. They call the
mselves war
de
ns ther
e,
but effecnvely do the very same thing: guarding and protecnng. But whe
reas they act as
defenders in the Crystal Desert, here they act as jail guards, watching over the i
mpr
isone
d
servants of the fallen god Abaddon. They have been here since the
Exodus, k
eeping the
minions of the
God of Water and Secrets at bay. However, with the
god’s death and
Kormir’s rise, their new role there may change. Though, with the nume
rous jailbrea
ks of
these worshipers of Abaddon, the
y have been seen aiding the new Goddess of K
nowledge,
Truth and Se
crets in securing her new realm and fighnng off the now-fallen Margonite
lord:
Truth and Se
crets in securing her new realm and fighnng off the now-fallen Margonite
lord:
Mall
yx.
The future of all three races are quesnonable. But only one
, the krait,
ha
s a clea
r path,
at
least unnl a threat enters the seas around the
Tarnishe
d Coast.
-Journal of Xaphan Sariel,
Researcher and Lorekeeper of Kurzick House Sarie
l
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By Iz
ari
The journey of title hunte
rs ends with the
holy grail of titles, God Walking Amongst Me
r
e
Mortals (GWAMM). Also known as the
Big Deal track, with all tiers be
ing inspire
d by the
popular Will Ferrel movie
, Anchorman. The only way to obtain the
highest rank is to suc-
cessfully max out 30 others. It comes with an impressive nametag, in addition
to a u
niqu
e
Hall of Monuments upgrade
. The rewards and prestige associated with completing this fe
at
have already inspired many passionate individuals to unde
rtake this challenge,
with many
more enthusiasts certain to follow.
Introduced in May of 2008, eager players immediately took up the challe
ng
e to g
et as
many titles as possible. Initially the task may appear daunting to some
, but it's not as
strenuous as it seems, and it appe
als to many dedicated players. The biggest advantage for
players is the feat's function as a “Meta Title
,” meaning, that as gamers naturally progress
through each campaign, they are already working towards it. Title
s that were already
ob
-
tained count towards GWAMM, so focusing on ind
ividual goals instead of an o
verwh
elming
"big picture” make
s the task l
ess imposing.
opportunity to spe
ak with two players who have slain
this figurative beast,
and discuss with the
m the ups and
downs of the
ir hunt.
interview 1 : untouch
able wi
tch
On the money side... it was a lot. I had to max swee
ts,
party and wisdom to get to 30 (my main do
esn
't
have
survivor). I bought sweets and party in
a matter of
three days when ectos were only around 3k per, so
it
was about eight or ten stacks to max that (most of my mo
ney go
ne
). T
hen I started wo
rk-
ing on the wisdom title, which took about two weeks. I would buy unids,
sell the mods,
buy unids,
sell the mods etc.
A lot of players think going for the ma
x GWAMM
titl
e is insan
e, if
not a was
te of time
.
Some even unjustly say that thos
e with the
titl
e "have
no lives". Wh
at do
you
s
ay to
tha
t?
A lot of players complain tha
t vani
ty an
d joke titles, li
ke drunkard
or sweet
t
ooth,
shouldn't count towards the Meta because
they don
't
s
how any sort of
re
al
s
kill
or
commitment. Do you agree or
dis
agree?
I disagree; it takes skill and commitment to get money to max those titles. You have
to
powertrade a lot to work up enough money to max. And really, any title can be bought.
Example: You can pay someone to vanquish for you while
you're AFK, pay someone to
run missions for you
etc.
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By Iz
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Last but certainly not least, what kind of advice would you
give for
aspirin
g GWAMMs
who've just begun or perhaps are lo
sin
g st
eam
in t
heir j
our
ney?
I would say keep working at it, and don't give up! There is plenty of time
to achie
ve
GWAMM and it's certainly not hard. Find a guild that still doe
s things like
vanquishing/d
ungeons/mission
s.
I've been playing Guild Wars since Day one
and bee
n
actively hunting for titles on both my main and my sec-
ondary characters pretty much since their introdu
c-
tion, yet I can't really say I've ever devoted a
ll of my
play time to titles alone. Social inte
ractions playe
d a
significant role in my game experience and I lov
e
good
company above everything. Playing with close friends
and helping guildies was usually my pri
or
ity ove
r
my
and helping guildies was usually my pri
or
ity ove
r
my
own personal objectives. I also took many bre
aks be-
tween titles to attend more casual activitie
s, such as
creating new characters or exploring just for the sake
of admiring the
landscape… I’m just like that,
I call
myself an addict but I’m not that obse
ssed with titles
or accomplishments. So,
it's been a couple of years of
a much-relaxed title hunt for me.
a much-relaxed title hunt for me.
Titles don't really reflect actual ability in my opinion, but rather commitment and de
vo-
tion to the game. It's been almost one year since I got GWAMM on my main character,
but still, I don't feel like I've "beaten the game" yet. There's still much I could le
arn to do
better! Guild Wars is immense, it’s the sort of game you can hardly eve
r "beat." Whe
n-
ever you think you've reached your limits, you soon realize the
re's some mar
gin for im-
provement in some field
.
Well, I admittedly had much time to spend on this game,
but then again, it all depends
on each player's approach. Getting GWAMM never was a top-priorit
y n
or a goal to ob-
sessively pursue for me. I've been rather "slow" at maxing titles when compared to many
others who've accomplished GWAMM long be
fore, and that's because I do have a life, a
job and a family indee
d. I've been playing the game at my own pace and got there even-
tually. It was also great fun, so, definitely
not a waste
of time
!
At what point did you decide you wanted to seriously pursue getti
ng GWAMM? Was it
the moment it went live or a decision you made
later?
When it was introduced, my first thought was "That's insane! No one's ever gonna to
make it!". At first I pretty much discarded it, as it felt too hard and time
consuming for
me to get it. Then I decided to give it a try, but way back then I frankly never though I'd
ever be
able to reach the highest rank. I kept raising the bar each subsequent tier of the
title and there I am...
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By Iz
ari
A lot of players complain tha
t vani
ty an
d joke titles, li
ke drunkard
or sweet
t
ooth,
shouldn't count towards the Meta because t
hey don
't
s
how any sort of
re
al
s
kill or com-
mitment. Do you agree or d
isagree?
I definitely like
the idea of a title system in GW2,
though I think that titles should be
given
less of an importance in terms of gameplay so that they don't turn into the only encour-
agement to keep playing, as with the
current game.
What kind of reward in Guild Wars 2 would you like
to
see
for th
ose
wh
o ha
ve th
e
GWAMM title?
Nothing special. I actually think GW2 shouldn't offe
r any specific reward for each individual
title, but rather for completed Monuments in the HoM. Anyway, it's a new game
and
I
hope the developers stay faithful to their declared intention to make
it a fresh start for
anyone.
Interview
With Jeff Grubb and Colin
Joha
nson
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Perhaps you've already seen our video intervie
w on our website featuring a fe
w
m
embers
of the Guild Wars 2 team, from shortly after our GamesCom visit. For those of you that
haven't watched it yet, aren't sure how Youtube works or for any other possible reaso
n you
can think of for not watching our intervie
w, we've included it in this month's issue of Guild-
Mag in text for you to read! Included are a few bonus follow-up ques:ons that were not so
clear in our recording, so we cut them out of that one, but are including the
m in our text
version. Have a nice read!
GuildMag: How's the development of Guild Wars 2 co
ming alon
g?
Jeff Grubb: Very well thank you, thank you![Laughter]
Colin Joh
anso
n:
Colin Johanson: It’s coming along great, we’re obviously he
re with the demo because we’re
proud enough of the work we’ve put in and we’re ready to show it to everybody.
Down
at
the demo :oor right now, you only get to play for about forty minute
s, before the demo
resets. That’s to make sure everybody gets to play the game. We kno
w that if we ju
st
let
people walk up and play the de
mo, super-fans would be there for the en:re day and no
one would get to play. But though you only get to play for forty minutes, there are about
twelve hours of gameplay or so, in between the human and charr content that we brou
gh
t
to the demo today. So the development is going very well and we
’re very happy with that.
to the demo today. So the development is going very well and we
’re very happy with that.
GuildMag: Guild Wars players are dying to know more about the Hall of Mo
numents, what
can you tell us abou
t that?
Jeff Grubb: Ahh. [Both Je: and Colin we
re laughing] Well, we’ve already stated that there
will be something that carries over from the original in Eye
of the North to those who have
![many achievements there. There will be an award within GW2. Now one of the challenges is of course the fact that we have five di:erent races and how we can make that work. I think it’s s:ll under discussion, but we are s:ll committed to the idea of carrying forth a re-warding reward. If you had cool things in your Hall of Monuments you should be able to get a reward in GW2. GuildMag: Anything on the rewards? Je: Grubb: Nothing that I want to say to a recording device right now. [Laughter] GuildMag:](index_html_files/271.jpg)
Colin Johansson: So we’re not talking about guilds right now,
something we’re going to
reveal more informa:on on late
r. I will say though, that the core systems of the game, the
idea of having a dynamic event system, the idea behind that is that you can
have a more
social game world. Our hope will be that people will make
frie
nds through the e
ve
nt
system. Playing around with people and doing content together will cause
you to start to
recognize people. You’re like: ‘Oh, I just did an event with you,
I remember you! Let’s form
a party!’ You’ll end up joining a party and you’
ll end up playing together,
then you’ll
become friends and then you’ll end up joining a guild together. Our hope is that our e
vent
become friends and then you’ll end up joining a guild together. Our hope is that our e
vent
system is kind of like
your friend finder that helps you find people
in the game world to be
friends with. Once
you’re friends with them you’ll start partying and you’
ll e
nd up joining
guilds. I think it’s going to lead to some
thing where there are more people joining a guild
and a lot more people who’ll make friends in an online
space, because of the event system.
GuildMag: Guild Wars, as well as Guild Wars 2 are
free to play, while other MMO’s have a
subscrip:on, what do you
plan
on d
oing with
the cash
sho
p for Gu
ild Wars 2?
Colin Johanson: We’re s:ll fairing out what makes good micro transac:on conte
nt. The
Guild Wars 1 team is working a lot on developing some
of those and you’
ve seen some of
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By Dr
a
xynnic
The wars that followed were blamed on Abaddon hav
ing
distributed the magic too free
ly – in the example of Ja
doth
in the Scriptures of Abaddon retrie
ved from the ruins of
the Temple of the Six Gods, he is recorded as having
granted powerful destructive magic to a fugitiv
e on the run
from the forgotten, who are recorded in history as being
the servants of the gods. History does not record why
Jadoth was pursued by the forgotten – it is possi
ble that his
Jadoth was pursued by the forgotten – it is possi
ble that his
persecution was justified as a criminal on the run fro
m
jus-
tice.
If it had ended there, it is possible that Abaddon would
still
be among the Six Gods today. But when the other gods de-
cided to place limitations on the
use of magic th
roug
h the
bloodstones, Abaddon was enraged at the watering down
of his gifts. In response
, he lead the Margonite
s on a cru-
sade against the othe
r gods, transforming them into de
-
monic entities before launching an assault on the
Gates of
Heaven. Despite early successes, Abaddon was de
feate
d by
the other five gods, the energies released in the battle boi
l-
ing the waters of the Crystal Sea and transforming it i
nto
the desert we know today. His power broken, Abad
don
was cast into the prison-dimension of the Realm of T
or-
ment and bound by chains forged by Balthazar
himself.
After sealing the prison, the gods set about wiping e
v
er
y
trace of Abaddon in Tyria they could find,
fearing that
knowledge of Abaddon in the
mortal world would allow
him to exert his will ther
e. As part of this process,
the g
ods
cast all those ‘tainted’ with knowledge of Abaddon into the
Realm of Torment as a safeguard against the taint spre
ad-
ing, regardless of whether the vi
ctims of this tre
atment
were accomplices or foes of Abaddon. Perhaps the
y felt
that those innocents who were cast into the Realm of Tor-
ment through no fault of the
ir own would be collecte
d by
and se
rve as reinforcements for the forgotten jailors.
Of Abaddon’s behaviour as the God of Water, little is
known except that Grenth took over spon
sorship of Water
Magic after Abaddon’s imprisonment (although whispers of
prophecy suggest that Lyssa may also hav
e some influence
in this area),
and the likely connection be
tween the seafar-
ing culture
of the Margonite
s and Abaddon having se
lected
them as his chose
n people. It was, however, his role as the
God of Knowledge that got him into strife
– when the gods
God of Knowledge that got him into strife
– when the gods
decided to grant magic to the races of the world,
it was
A Margonite altar to Abaddon, depicting him in his
characteristic mask and entwined by two serpentine
creatures.
And so it came to pass that Jadoth, being persecuted by the
horrific Forgotten armies and hounde
d from his home, did
seek refuge among the cooling mists of the Crystal Se
a.
Untold weeks passed as Jadoth huddled in his sanctuary
,
with nothing to se
e save the endless ripples of the
bound-
less ocean.
An unsettling sile
nce swept across the waves. The twilight
sky shattered and stars streaked down upon the Forgotte
n
armada. The seas boiled and rupture
d, and gave birth to a
maelstrom from which not even light could escape, trans-
forming the sky above into a midnight voi
d.
And thus was magic gifted to Jadoth, ch
osen
of Abaddon,
the first of the Margonite
s.
It is ironic that,
being a god of secrets who had be
en im-
prisoned for over a thousand years during which time the
other gods had suppre
ssed almost all knowledge,
Abaddon
is (apart from his successor Kormir) perhaps the god ab
out
whom we know the most. While the other gods have kept
their secrets to themselves, many of Abaddon’
s have been
uncovered by the Sunspear expedition into the Re
alm of
Torment that lead to his final downfall. Eve
n so, we know
Torment that lead to his final downfall. Eve
n so, we know
little of of Abaddon’
s activities before the events leading to
his confinement. Through a Margonite
defector known as
the Apostate, we know that Abaddon himself, like Gr
enth,
had a predecessor, but few hints to the
nature of this pre-
decessor remain.
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Whether this bid for life
was at Abaddon’s instigation or
purely of Shiro’s own volition is not known,
although te
sti-
mony from other Envoys as well as the
enigmatic Suun
states that his activities threatened not just Cantha, but
the
balance of the unive
rse itself. This may indicate
that, know-
ingly or not, Shiro’s activities se
rved to strengthen Abad-
don in some manner. Since it is known th
at not
only Shiro
himself, but also some
of his vi
ctims we
r
e cast into the
himself, but also some of his vi
ctims we
r
e cast into the
Realm of Torment, it is like
ly that the knowledge
Shir
o used
to build his armies and re
gain his corporeal form bore
the
taint of Abad
don
.
In the final stages, Kormir claimed responsibility
for bri
ng
-
ing Abaddon’
s attention to the
world through inve
stigating
ruins connected to him in Fahranur,
but unle
ss Kormir had
lived for centurie
s before her ascension, it is lik
e
ly that she
has overestimated her part and that Abaddon’s plans were
already well in motion before Kormir’s trip into the
Fi
rst
City. Having been influenced and taught by her gene
ral
Kahyet, Varesh undertook a series of rituals to we
ak
en the
Kahyet, Varesh undertook a series of rituals to we
ak
en the
walls of Abaddon’s prison in e
ach of the Elonian provinces,
culminating in the opening of a portal through on th
e s
ite
of Abaddon’s defeat. Fortunately, this portal opene
d into
the stronghold of Abaddon’
s surviving jailors, who had
been under siege by Abaddon’s resurgent followers within
the Realm of Torment. Inste
ad of se
rving as the means of
invasion into the
mortal realm, the portal allowe
d mortal
invasion into the
mortal realm, the portal allowe
d mortal
heroes to reinforce the strength of Abaddon’s jailors, ulti-
mately allowing a counte
r-attack into the Realm of Tor-
ment that lead to Abaddon’s defeat and the ascension
of
Kormir.
The Insane God
At least one other demon, known to us as Te
rick, is known
to have escaped the Realm of Torment before the
Sear
ing.
It was with the Searing,
instigated by the charr at the direc-
tion of the titans, that Abaddon’s plans began to come to
fruition. With the threat of the charr bearing down on the
city of Arah, Terick encour
aged Vi
zie
r K
hil
bron to employ
forbidden magics, supposedly in the
city’s defence – but
instead they led to the city’s destruction and
the transfo
r
instead they led to the city’s destruction and the transfo
r-
mation of it citizens into undead. This se
t the stage for the
events of the Flameseeker Prophecies, which led to a
portal briefly opening betwe
en Tyria and the Foundry of
Failed Creations within the Realm of Torme
nt. Fortunately,
through the actions of the same heroes that unwi
ttingly
aided the former Vizier in opening the
Door of Komali
e,
the
Door was sealed and the titan army that had bee
n released
Door was sealed and the titan army that had bee
n released
contained and destro
yed.
Shortly afterwards came the so-called return of Shiro. As
an
Envoy, it is likely that Shiro had continued to be active in
Cantha the whole time, only being seen by those who we
re
to be brought to the places of their afterliv
es. It was in
1072 AE that Shiro began his bid to
return
to the mortal
realm, transforming the
living into corrupted afflicte
d and
infusing the
souls of the de
ad he was supposed to escort
into the constructs known as Shiro’
ken.
into the constructs known as Shiro’
ken.
Shiro
’k
en
The first sign of cracks in the prison be
gan to show approxi-
mately two hundred years ago. Two of his minions are
known to have appeared at this point – the
titan that ap-
peared to the Burnt warband of the charr Flame Legion in
Hrangmer Volcano, and the
demonic fortune teller that
would plant a seed of paranoia in Shiro’
s mind that would
lead to the release of the Jade Wind. Howe
ver
, despite this
connection Shiro was granted a “second chance” by the
connection Shiro was granted a “second chance” by the
gods as an Envoy, seeking
redemption for his cri
me
by
shepherding the spirits of the
deceased to their final desti-
nation. Perhaps this was because Shiro did not le
arn during
his first life of the true nature of who had manipulated him.
An alternative design for a statue of Abaddon de
-
picting the God of Secrets carrying a scythe - pos-
sibly another hint that the
Dervish profession once
carried Abaddon's favour.
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xynnic
Demons, born from the Dreadspawn Maw or from the
ma-
terial of the Realm of Torment itse
l
f, ea
ch wi
th the abil
ity
to summon more of its kind when under threat. Te
rick and
the "fortune teller" that corrupted Shiro both prove
d to be
this kind of de
mon. Observations in the Stygian Depths
where these demons were produced indicate that while
demons are generally considered to be birthe
d full
y
formed from the Mists, these may instead have bee
n cr
e
formed from the Mists, these may instead have bee
n cr
e-
ated, first as a skeletal frame upon which sesh g
rows to
create a fully sedged de
mon.
The other group of
followers con-
structed in the Realm of Tor
ment
were the titans. Formed from tor-
mented souls in the F
oun
dry of
Faile
d Creations (likely those
souls
that find themselves in the
Real
m
of Torment and were
not rescued
by the Forgotten), the titans co
n
by the Forgotten), the titans co
n-
struct bodies for themselv
es from
the elements found in their area, whether
those el
eme
nts
are volcanic rock
and magma, ice and snow, vegetation or
the material of the Realm of Torment itse
l
f. Destr
oy
ing a
titan is a long,
gradual process, as when one of the str
on-
ger titans falls, weaker titans rise from its r
emai
ns,
until
finally the last pieces of the titan are too small to continue
fighting. Fortunately, with Kormir tightening her gri
p on
the Redeemed Realm, it is to be hoped that the
births of
the Redeemed Realm, it is to be hoped that the
births of
both titans and torment demons will ce
ase.
the realm of torment
The Realm of Torment itself is a se
ries of nig
htm
arish do-
mains separated by locked gates. During the
expedition
into the Realm of Torment, each of these gates prove
d to
remain under the control of the forgotten despite
the de-
teriorating situation,
but evidence such as the appearance
of the Lich in di
fferent domains suggest that the followers
of Abaddon had a me
ans of bypassing or penetrating these
gates nonetheless, possibly through the
ir corruption of the
gates nonetheless, possibly through the
ir corruption of the
Shadow Nexus. As well as the dangers presente
d by
Apart from the chamber of the Apocrypha, the only known
sites of worship of Abaddon outside the Realm of Torme
nt
that may predate Varesh’s rise are found in the Desolation.
One is the Great Margonite Temple in the Sulferous Dune
s,
and even that site may have been constructed
or con
-
verted during Varesh’s advance on Morah rather
than
having survived the purge after Abaddon’s fal
l.
After Varesh’s rise, the Plaza of the Five Gods in Gandara
was rededicated to Abaddon, and the Sunspe
ars and their
allie
s narrowly averted an attempt to do the
same to the
Sebelkeh Basil
ica over
the
Mirror of L
yss.
Within the Realm of Torme
nt, Abaddon reinforced his Mar-
gonites with new followers drawn from the Realm of Tor
-
ment itself. These include
d the aptly named Torme
nt
Apart from the Kournans under the insuence of Vare
sh,
the last known human worshippe
rs of Abaddon were the
Margonites, a seafaring culture tha
t se
ttl
e
d on the coasts
of Elona and the Crystal Sea. According to the
ghosts of the
Crystal Desert, some of these Ma
rgoni
tes attempted As-
cension by converting their shi
ps into towers to r
e
ach a
sufficient height to catch the eyes of the gods. It is not
known whether this happened before Abadd
on’s fall
known whether this happened before Abadd
on’s fall
(possibly the event that brought the
m to Abaddon’s notice)
or after, possibly as an atte
mpt by those Margonites that
were not transformed to gain the
forgiveness of the Five.
This granted them conside
rable power, including freedom
from aging and the ability to gain short pe
riods of inv
ulne
r-
ability (or longer periods of near-invulne
rabi
li
ty
,
for the
elite Horde of Darkness that le
ad the
Margonite
assault on
the Gate of Heaven) and the ability to consume
souls for
more power – but it came at a price.
The new form of t
he
Margonites was incapable of reproduction,
making
further
conversions the only way to repleni
sh thei
r numbe
rs.
conversions the only way to re
plenish their numbe
rs.
I say “last known” in this treatise due
to the curious pres-
ence of the Apocrypha and other writings of Abadd
on
within Fahranur’s ruins. Since the Sunspear ghosts th
at
guard the Apocrypha know what is within and the
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a
xynnic
spells cast within its boundari
e
s. Of course,
many heroes
would say this is dange
rous enough. Here is where Khil
br
on
and Shiro me
t their final fate,
and where the gods granted
their blessing for the destruction of Abaddon. Oppo
site
from the temple within the Depths of Madne
ss is a Margo-
nite city – while its name has not bee
n verified, texts ha
ve
spoken of a city called Ar’Challah whi
ch is pr
e
sumed to be
this location.
this location.
The Gate of Anguish in the depths of Torment could only
The Gate of Anguish in the depths of Torment could only
be reached by the aid of an avatar of Kormir afte
r her as-
cension. The Domain of Anguish was the site of the
final
push by the greatest of Abaddon’
s surviving commanders
to dislodge Kormir and achie
ve the ascension of their own
chosen Mallyx. These include
d Lord Jadoth who com-
manded the Margonite city of Torc’qua and the Dread-
spawn Maw within the Stygian Ve
il. Also pre
sent were
the
representatives of Dhuum and Menzie
s – the same
F
ury
that launched an attack on the
Festival of the Dragon some
years ago, and a greater form of the Darknesses that at-
tacked the Tomb of Prime
val King
s.
Beyond this can be found the banks of the River of S
ouls,
formed of the souls of those
consigned to the Realm of
Torment. A dam on this river,
cal
led the Soulw
e
ir
, was em-
ployed by the forces of Abaddon and his allie
s to retrieve
souls from the river until
it was destr
oye
d.
A desecrated shrine of Balthazar contains withi
n it the
portal to the Gate of Fear. Adv
entur
ers l
eav
ing this gate
find themselves afflicte
d by wa
ves of fear that slow the re-
actions of even the
bravest hero. It is here that the Apos-
tate found evidencethat proved that Abaddon had a pre
de-
cessor, foreshadowing his own replace
ment by Kormir.
Beyond a portal in what appears to be
a bel
ly of a gi
gantic
spider in the
Domain of Fear is the Gate
of Secrets. The
domain beyond the Gate is dominated by the spire
s of the
Atrocity Library, which,
along with other towe
rs found
floating within the domain,
are said to contain the
full
depth of Abaddon’s dread knowledge within. The
full
horror of these secrets weighs down heavily on i
ntr
uders in
the realm, making spellcasting and the
use of many
othe
r
the realm, making spellcasting and the
use of many
othe
r
powers more fatigui
ng.
Hidden within a fold in the
landscape is the
gate to the
Depths of Madne
ss. Perhaps due to the influence of the
fallen Temple of the Six Gods,
the weight of Torm
ent
weighs lighter here, merely reduci
ng
the
e
ffe
ct of heal
ing
Passing through will g
rant entrance to the
G
ate of P
ain,
through which lies the Domain of Pain,
which punishe
s in-
truders through spikes of pain whene
ver they seek to
employ their powers. A landscape appare
ntl
y constructed
of twisted, tortured limbs, the Domain of P
ain contai
ne
d
two landmarks of inte
rest. Immediatel
y be
yond the
Gate of
Pain are the fleshy Leech Tunnels,
within which spe
ci
ali
sed
Titans known as Flesh Gluttons drain the memorie
s of dea
d
Titans known as Flesh Gluttons drain the memorie
s of dea
d
souls (possibly as part of the
preparation for their transfor-
mation into
Titans).
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Like the rest of Torment, each of these regions had its own
way of aiding its inhabitants in fighting against K
ormir’s
allie
s – the City of Torc’qua drains ener
gy from attacke
rs
while the Stygian Ve
il punishes intruders that see
k to avoid
the strikes of the defenders. The Ravenhe
art Gloom in
which the followers of Me
nzies g
athe
red is swathed in
shadow,
rendering it difficult to se
e to land blows re
liably –
unless one does not need to see in order to strike. Said to
unless one does not need to see in order to strike. Said to
be a bridge to even darker places in the unive
rse, the
Ravenheart Gloom proved to be the site of one of the por-
tals through which Mallyx's force
s continued to th
reate
n
our world even after Abaddon's fall. The Foundry of Faile
d
Creations in which the Fury made his stand,
once a Forgot-
ten prison and then the site of the creation of the Titans
and (through the Door of K
omalie located within) the
stag-
ing point of the Titan invasion in 1072,
is possibly the
most
dangerous of the four, punishing intrude
rs for even the
slightest movement withi
n the dom
ain.
The Ebony Citadel in which
Mallyx made his stand
was es-
pecially perilous,
as among his powe
rs was the abil
ity
to
conjure spirits similar to those
of a Ritualist that cov
er
ed
the citadel with the characters of all four of the surro
und
-
ing domains. De
spite
this, however, he was eventually de-
feated, leaving Kormir as the undisputed mistre
ss of what
is now referred to as the Redeemed Real
m. Whi
le
it is in
evitable that Kormir will seek to reshape the
Redeem
ed
Realm into a more comfortable abode,
how she will do so,
and what else she will do with the
power of Abaddon in the
future, is yet to be re
vealed.
Whatever else may eventuate, we can now rest assured
that the divine archite
ct of many of the disaste
rs that the
human nations have suffered in the past years and centu
-
ries is no more. While the appearance of foe
s such as the
Great Destroyer show that there are
other threats out
there, with the destruction of a god at
the han
ds of
human
heroes, it must be all but ce
rtain that humanity's other foes
will be soon to foll
ow.
will be soon to foll
ow.
The mural of Abaddon at Gandara, used as a focu
s for
Varesh's demonic summoning ritual that broke the at-
tacking Sunspear army at the Plaza of the Five
Gods.
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[XXX] and the [SMF] Alliance wish to bring
to the
commu-
nity's atten"on our Hallowee
n event, Ghostfest 2010. We
would like to invite al
l the playe
rs of Guil
d W
ars to ce
l-
ebrate this year's Halloween, includi
ng
eve
rything A
re-
naNet and its staff have done for the Guild Wars commu-
nity. This e
vent will not only feature
the tradi"onal prizes
and games most player-held community eve
nts te
nd to
run, but we also hope it will be
one of the biggest chore
o-
graphed ghost-in-a-box spams eve
r. [XXX] and the [SMF]
Alliance plan to hand out over 10,
000 ghosts-in-the-box to
the par"cipants of Ghostfest and rele
ase them all over
Lion's Arch in one
frightening, ghostly display that the Guild
Wars community will not soon forget. On top
of th
at, we
will be recording the whole event to be
poste
d on Y
ouTube
so that even the players who could not make it will be
able
to see the horror of Ghostfest. Each player par"cip
a"ng
will receive 100 ghosts-in-the-
bo
x and 1 Transmogri:e
r
Tonic free of charge. We will have random cr
eatur
es hand-
ing out Globs of Ectoplasm as we
ll as several contests
where players will have a chance to recei
ve a Mi
ni
atur
e
Undedicated Mad King Thorn. The :nal conte
st winner will
receive a Mini Mad King Thorn,
250 Trick or
Treat Bags and
50 Globs of Ectoplasm.
Scariest Costume Contest (Prizes: 1st P
lace: 1 Mini Mad
King Thorn, 250 Trick or Treat Bags, 50 Globs of Ectoplasm,
2nd Place: 1 Mini Mad King Thorn,
1 Armbrace of Truth,
3rd Place
: 1 Mini Mad King Thorn).
Prizes are updated dai
ly.
7:00p
m EST-
Wrapping it up.
Costume Co
ntest Judges:
Mo
xie Jav
a
Lady Tammatha
TBA
Volunteer
Ect
o-Han
dlers:
Feary Princess
Pr
iest
http://wiki.guildwar
s.com/wik
i/Ghostfest
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ClFu7BVAJaM
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By Iz
ari
Like many of the lucky convenoon goe
rs that attended Pax Prime ear
lie
r thi
s month,
I
spent a great amount of ome hanging out around the Guild Wars 2 booth ogling an
d
drooling at my first real, good look at the
game. I was also lucky enough to be a part of
some of ArenaNet's fan-immersive events for the we
ekend.
I didn't get a chance to play it myself (a sin, I k
now, I know) but I got to watch and re
cord
hours of what was going on and it's really hard to think
anything other than, "Wow, Are-
naNet has really struck gol
d he
r
e."
ArenaNet produced for the two major summer convenoons what I fe
el is the most perfect
early-stage demo that could possibly be made
. We knew from the get-go that this was a
very watered down and simplified version of the
game and we were only getting mere
droplets of what the
final product will be
. But what we did get once we were able to see
and test the demo for ourselves is the solid four building blocks of what every MM
O has
and needs to be soundly successful: stunning graphics,
intuiove gameplay, the muloplayer
experience and solid insight into le
veling in two oe
rs. Without a doubt,
this was brilliantly
created by the developers and I applaud the
minds who came up with this system.
created by the developers and I applaud the
minds who came up with this system.
In one forty minute session, players got a solid feel for what thi
s game is about. We
got to
create a relaovely personalize
d character and spend ome choosing who this individual
was going to be. Following creaoon,
we were treated to another visually dazzling,
custom-
ized cine
maoc that mixes in-game 3d graphics with Guild War 2's signature art style. Mo-
ments later we were thrown into the fray, joining wi
th doze
ns of fellow playe
rs and Are-
naNet employees who parocipated in the battle from the convenoon and at home
in their
studio
s.
Over the course of one of the presentaoons I happe
ned to watch, players found them-
selves tasked with a huge array of missions,
the most striking of which was a dynami
c
event chain playable from start to finish. It began with fe
nding off marauding centaurs
and eventually led to a final battle with a huge
boss: a creature several stories high and
equally as wide
(and apparentl
y a baby compared to later bosses!). The scene shifted
seamlessly from gameplay to cinemaoc and back. As Maron explained what was happen
As expected, we spent a good amount of ome going over the
basic idea of where dynamic
events come from and what the goal of them are. Some very important aspects of th
e
event system were covered; players are always allies and are encouraged to work tog
ether,
the idea is to change the world and have things work fast, and playe
rs are never supposed
to fail events on purpose
. And yes, some quests -are- triggered by NPC interacoon, but this
isn't a bad thing at all. In fact,
it helps prevent areas being permanently overrun by the
bad-
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When it was time to plan our event chain, we got to learn about three zones and their
levels, terrains and the races that would exist in them. Large inte
rest in underwater
combat fuele
d attendees to choose Timberline Falls as our se
tting, a diverse are
a that was
home to the peaceful, somewhat cowardly Quaggan and slave-driving,
abusive Krait. The
conflict between these races became the basis of our event, and ideas from the p
ractical,
to the insane were thrown out by fans. Colin wrote them down and Eric and Jeff e
xplained
why they could or couldn't work depending on resources and lore. It was a great back an
d
forth between developer and gamer and an insightful look into the
process of how Anet
forth between developer and gamer and an insightful look into the
process of how Anet
works together as a team. After running twenty minutes over, just as things started get-
ting really interesting we finally had to wrap up our adventure into the
future Tyria and
bid farewell. But that was far from the end of all things Guild Wars: we had a party to ge
t
ready for!
There were few things Guild Wars fans were more excited for at PAX than the ArenaNe
t
party hosted at the Hard Rock Cafe Saturday night. It was invitation-only,
but there was
enough room that the majority of pe
ople who really wanted to go were able to make it,
which was great news for everyone. As if mixing and mingling with Anet during the e
xpo
wasn't enough, the intimate setting at the party gave eve
ryone a chance to really get to
know the developers one on one. Every single e
mploye
e was extremel
y accommodating to
questions (as long as you didn't ask the dreaded "when" in regards to a release date) an
d
were just as excited to meet us as we were to meet the
m.
The best part was getting to see so many of them there that I had
never seen
or heard of
before. We forget that behind the
faces we know well like Martin, Regina, Gai
le
, Emil
y, Eri
c
and so-on, there's a dozen other ArenaNet guys and gals putting just as mu
ch h
ard
work
and dedication into the developme
nt of the game. Thanks to Malibu Barbie of G.W.E.N
.'s
bubbly and outgoing personality,
we were able to walk around and basically introduce
our-
selves to many of the new faces we hadn't seen before.
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ari
During our talk we learned a lot about the developer's side of the
story and how they
love this game just as much as we do. The team has been amazed at the fan
rece
ptio
n
they've received and he noted that the Gu
ild Wars commun
ity h
as always sh
own a
mature and accommodating attitude. I asked if he was worried if the inevitab
le influ
x of
new players would change this dynamic, but he was confident that only good would come
from all the newer fans. I wish I had his optimism, however I'm sure
if the
veterans set a
good example for the new comers, we
can keep that quality community in tact! An
oth
er
question I asked is if ArenaNet had any plans to work on new games of a differe
nt fran
question I asked is if ArenaNet had any plans to work on new games of a different fran
-
chise in the future, to which he soundly replie
d that they've got to get this monster done
first (and who could blame
them!)
Stephen made an interesting point on the subject of compe
tition: he feels developers
should view each others as allie
s, not enemies. Everybody there at ArenaNet also enjoy
playing other games and other MMOs too (a point that's lost a lot on the forums whe
n any-
body mentions "the Game-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named") and it doesn't mean o
ne has to
beat
out the other.
It had been a few hours so we decided to head out for the night,
but I walked away feeling
better, (if that was even possible), about the future of Guild Wars 2.
Many worry th
at th
e
game is making way too many promises that can't possibly be kept. Even I'd agree It'
s an
ambitious project, and with Guild Wars 2 being the most hyped and talked about game
right now it's hard not to imagine the possibility of a letdown. But even though Are
naNet
may be the cool kids on the
block right now, they've got a very down-to-earth attitude
about the whole thing, and that alone gives me confidence that everybody, new fans and
old, will be nothing less than amazed on r
ele
ase day.
old, will be nothing less than amazed on r
ele
ase day.
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History and Culture of the Lux
on
Ar
mada
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onig Des T
od
es
slew Emperor Angsiyan and was confronted
by Vizu an
d
the Luxon and K
urzick champions. While each side views
their own champion as the
sole piece to Shiro’s defeat, all
three were necessary to defeat the enraged assassin
. And
due to the very man who almost brought
peace to
the
three human nanons of the southern connnent, the
Kurzicks and Luxons once more
renewed their war, each
side viewing the other as the cause of their own
side viewing the other as the cause of their own
champio
n’s death.
The Jade Wind,
which turned the Jade Sea solid, became a
force that changed Luxon lifestyle forever. No longer able
to sail seas, the Luxons had to adap
t their vessels into
con-
trapnons to walk the hardened water. Their leviathans (not
to be confused with the species of the same name)
became
the main means of transportanon on the Jade Sea, an
d are
used as mobile
fortresses. It is because of these leviathans
that the Luxons worship the twin godde
ss Lyssa.
that the Luxons worship the twin godde
ss Lyssa.
With the Jade Sea turning to literal jade,
and the Echovald
Forest producing amber, the war between the Kurzicks and
the Luxons had a new second meaning: a war for
re-
sources. While the ennre Jade Sea was made of jade, the
pure and magical jade only reside
d in a fe
w places, one of
which being the Jade Quarry along the western shore. Like
-
wise, the resources for the opposing side
is rare, causing
more conflict between the two
facnon
s.
excluding the official announce
-
ment of
the war between
the
two in 1527 CC (1017
AE)
and
a
temporary peace formed
in
1582
CC (1072 AE) due to Shiro’s
return.
While the first emperor, Kaineng Tah, made peace
with the
Luxon people, the second emperor, Yian Zho, did not.
He
was the cause of the increased aggression, done in orde
r to
subdue what he called an insurgency in the
Luxon territo-
ries. In his crusade, he massacred hundreds of Luxon
eld
ers
in public execunons. This crusade caused the Luxons to
for-
malize their own nanonality and cause
d a war between the
two groups. However, all the Luxon’s efforts were for
two groups. However, all the Luxon’s efforts were for
naught; eventually, they had to surrender, but th
ey gained
more freedom in the form of becoming a vassal state
.
It is believed that this loss to the
Empire was the beginning
of their ire towards the Kurzicks in the Echovald Fore
st,
who became vassal states after a similar
line
of events just
three years later. This conflict raged unaltered (to known
knowledge) unnl 1382 CC (872 AE). It was in this year that
Emperor Angsiyan began to formalize a peace
treaty be-
tween the two warring vassal states, and, despi
te common
belief, such could not be done without the aid of Shiro
belief, such could not be done without the aid of Shiro
Tagachi, who was able to speak a language both
nano
ns
could understand.
It was also du
e to th
e b
od
yguard
that
the two champions Archemorus and Saint Viktor agre
ed to
the treaty.
Many know of what happened the day of the Jade
Wind
,
for whatever reason (immediate insanity from the tauntal-
izing fortune
teller or prepared planning of a dark ritual, or
a long held-back hatred for the e
mperor), Shiro Tagachi
The solidified Jade Sea with leviathans in the
back-
groun
d.
Luxon childre
n today snll hear tales about their unnamed
homeland, a nameless land far across the ope
n ocean and
lost now to the land-bound facnon. Historians be
lieve that
certain discoveries point to a Luxon presence in the
Crystal
Desert, implying that the Crystal Sea could
be the un
known
origin of the Luxons. Howe
ver, these discoveries could very
well belong to the lost Margonite
civilizanon,
another sea-
faring human culture that, around the nme of the
Exod
us,
faring human culture that, around the nme of the
Exod
us,
warred with the forgotten serpents and were turned
in
to
ethereal demonic beings by their now-dead god: Abadd
on.
The year 48 CC (Canthan calendar), or 462 BE (Before
the
Exodus), marked the uninng of the Luxon trib
utes in
to a
single nanon, claimed to be done due to an incre
ased ag-
gression from the people of Cantha,
which became the
Empire of the Dragon only 48 years earli
er.
The emblem of th
e
Luxon
Armada.
The Lux
on Armada, best
known for its siege
turtle
s
and the war with
th
e
Kurzicks, ar
e a nomadic
former-seafaring people
.
Though their origins are
un-
known – as is the
case with
all humans on t
he world
of
all humans on t
he world
of
Tyria – they have been cal
le
d
“Luxo
ns”
lo
ng before the
History and Culture of the Lu
xon A
rmada
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nig Des T
o
des
The Luxons are combative by nature, settling dispute
s
through combat and havi
ng skirmishes between the thre
e
clans. Those that hold the titles of captain and
champion
gain them through combat as well. One famous case of
how the captain ti
tle passes on is the story of
Xandra – an
exile Luxon of the Turtle
clan, sent to far away lands by her
own mother, Juno, to keep Xandra safe from what Jun
o d
id
to her own father, Kivros.
to her own father, Kivros.
-Journal of Xaphan Sariel,
Researcher and Lorekeeper of
Kurzick House
Sari
el
siege turtles, allowing the
Luxons to de
ploy the slow turtles
at greater speeds – which is often done in a favored tactic
of the Luxons. Their most prize
d possession is the Halcyon.
While the Crab Clan is the wealthiest and most successful
While the Crab Clan is the wealthiest and most successful
clan at mining, the
Serpent Clan’s skille
d r
eave
rs are we
ll
known for their ability to obtain prize
s from locations
thought impossible
by the other clans. Due to this, the Ser-
pent Clan are the most successful when it come
s to piracy,
which is an honorable
and necessary, way of life to the
Lu
xon
s.
The modern Luxons are led by their Council of Elde
rs that
meets annually to modify and improve
the laws of the
people, what they call the “code.” The Council of Elde
rs is
fille
d with the elders from the three Luxon clans: the
Turtle, the Crab and the Serpent. Unde
rneath the elders
are the captains of the three clans – known as the Th
re
e
Queens – who lead the individual clans while
the elder
s
provide advice. The Champions of the three clans act u
nd
er
provide advice. The Champions of the three clans act u
nd
er
their captains and enforce the “code” within e
ach of their
own clan,
they are also the greatest fighter of their own
clan.
The Convocation is a ye
arly gladiatorial battle
between the
three clans that occurs in Boreas Seabe
d. It determines
three things within the
culture: Which clan will wie
ld and
protect the Spear of Archemorus (a spear made fro
m
the
bones and houses the spirit of the
fallen champion),
which
clan will fight the
mighty kraken known as Zhu Hanuk
u
(which manages to return every year), also known as "Old
Long-arms" in the ancient tongue and which clan will act as
Long-arms" in the ancient tongue and which clan will act as
the leader of the Luxon Armada until the
return of Zhu
Hanuku and the next Convo
cati
on.
The Crab Clan, led by Elora who is the sister of the pre
vious
The Crab Clan, led by Elora who is the sister of the pre
vious
captain, Artras, who squandered the clan’s resources for
years while Elora was presum
ed dead afte
r a Kurzick
raid,
are masters of mining the Jade Sea.
Many of
the Lu
xon
reave
rs (the jade miners) belong to the Crab Clan and the
clan has an uncanny knack for locating the
most previous
veins of magically conce
ntrated jade. The
Crab Clan is also
known for pillaging the
remains of vessels and creatur
es
known for pillaging the
remains of vessels and creatur
es
trapped within the
Jade Sea and utilize crab-shaped levia-
than
s.
The Serpent Clan, also referred to as the Snake Clan,
are
known as the engineers of the Luxon Armada. The
Serpent
were the first of the Luxons to adapt to life on land in th
e
form of the leviathans, and due to this they are
occasion-
ally called the Leviathan Clan. The
ir leviathans range
fr
om
all shape
s and sizes, utilizing leg
s,
sail
s or
si
lv
e
r runner
s,
and the biggest of the
leviathans are able to hold three
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er
Along with the aspects, many other dangers lurk in the
mine. The
se include the various, hostile se
a creatures that,
like the Luxons, also adapted to the
ir new home. These
beasts roam the sections in groups made up of Rip
per
Carps, Darkened Irukandji and Scourge
Manta
, all
ready to
devour those who trespass. While
their counterparts on
The Luxons were forced to adapt to their new
home and
began utilizing turtle
s for trade transportation, replacing
their need for ships. While some
Luxons adapte
d to reclaim
their old lives, the Luxons known as r
eave
rs began carry
ing
out extensive mining ope
rations on the unmoving
waters,
mining jade and claiming pre
cious resources made up of
the petrified life within the
solid jade waters. Some mining
operations caused conflicts with their longtime
enemies
operations caused conflicts with their longtime
enemies
the Kurzicks, while others stirre
d forces from beneath the
Jade Sea. These were forces th
at the Lu
xon
s did no
t bar-
gain for.
into the deep
Desperate for jade and resources, a group of Luxon reavers
began mining deep down i
nto the sea, not knowing what
awaited them at the bottom. For when the Jade Sea was
created, a demon had become trapped
beneath it, a
demon of nightmares. Getting closer, the demon cause
d
the Luxon miners to slowl
y become infected by its night-
mares, causing them to go insane. These L
uxon
s became
known as the Outcasts, a group that roams
the surface
of
known as the Outcasts, a group that roams
the surface
of
the Jade Sea and will
not hesitate to attack on sight.
The demon was known as Kanaxai,
bringer of despair
, and it l
ay in wait
at the bottom of that ancien
t min
e.
The Luxons se
aled the entrance,
waiting for champion
s who
wo
uld
dare to venture down into th
e an
-
cient mine to fight the nightmare
horde.
horde.
Two hundred years ago the land of Cantha face
d its great-
est disaster. The annual Harvest Festival that took place
at
the Harvest Temple became
a
blood
bath with C
antha's em-
peror lying dead at the shrine. Shiro the Betraye
r
had as-
sassinated the
emperor.
A servant of the emperor managed to sound an alarm and
both Kurzick and Luxon champions charge
d into the temple
after Shiro. After a vicious battle
, an ope
ning was cre
ated
by Vizu the Assassin who had accompanied them,
allowing
the champions to strike Shiro down. On the
verge of death,
Shiro let out a wail that pierce
d the air for hundreds of
miles, petrifying everything it reache
d. Cantha had be
e
n
ravaged by the Jade Wind, an event that would change the
ravaged by the Jade Wind, an event that would change the
landscape of Cantha forever.
the jade se
a
As the Jade Wind washed over the surrounding seas,
every-
thing was frozen, not in ice, but into a mass of soli
d jade.
The seafaring Luxons be
came landlocked, unable to trans-
port goods to nearby islands due
to their boats becoming
trapped
by the frozen sea.
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er
below the sea isn't clear. However sinc
e the
time the Luxon
reavers dug into his cave, he had begun spreading his
power, amassing an army known as the N
ightmare Horde.
Kanaxai is a demon who doesn't seem to be under the
Kanaxai is a demon who doesn't seem to be under the
command of any god or being, and as such,
is a demon
who terrorized the world of Tyria for his own pleasure. He
is eventually defeated by champions who brav
e
ly
ente
re
d
the Deep, though nobody can
know fo
r su
re wheth
er an-
other li
ke him exists, hiding below the
earth and waiting
for the time to strike. However, one can be sure of one
thing: this nightmare is over... for now.
thing: this nightmare is over... for now.
the surface are also known to display hostile
behaviour to
merchants, traders and adventurers, the ones lu
rking
within the Deepare much more deadlier, showi
ng
signs of
being affected by Kanaxai's power. Many levi
athan cre
a-
tures also call the
Deep their home, all much more
power
-
ful than their common kin found above. Th
e L
uxo
n reavers
who originally created the
mine, the Outcasts, also plag
ue
the deep, wandering the areas aimlessly. Howe
ver, c
rea
the deep, wandering the areas aimlessly. Howe
ver, c
rea-
tures even more terrifying than both frenzie
d fish and
insane luxons hide
within the
Deep. These are the Oni.
Oni are considered one of the
most dangerous creatures on
two legs by Canthans. T
hey
appear from nowhere and kill
their victim w
ithout reason.
Some believe the
se demons
are from the Mists while
others think they are from
others think they are from
somewhere even more dis-
tant, somewhere cut off fro
m
the world of sanity.
Th
ough
some think the Oni are
from
somewhere closer to home...
and they wouldn't be
far
off.The
Oni originate
from the Deep or to be more pre-
cise, originate from Kanaxai. When the
Oni
are
not ap
-
pearing on the
surface world, they are roaming the v
ari-
ous corridors of the Deep.
kanaxai, bringer of despair
"I am Kanaxai, creator of nightmares. Le
t me make yours
into reality
."
-Kanaxai Aspe
ct of De
cay
While he is the be
ing who is re
sponsibl
e for the
night-
mares of the Deep, Kanaxai's true
origin is unknown. He
is found at the
end of the mine, inside natural cave
rns far
below the Jade Sea. No records of the demon of night-
mares have been found, and his exact reason for being
Submieed by Guild Wars community me
mbers..
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By Sean Cru
sh
By Ma
e ‘Beans’ S
tr
ohl
Once strong and b
rave
Now lie broken and slaughte
r
ed
Cowering before the element
s
Vanquished by fear and blade
Conquered on the shores of their homeland
Say good bye to the desert lynx
Underneath the dragon co
mma
nds all
B
y 10 decades he rises, not wanting to fall
For another 15 they eght, and b
ite
They have made this dragon quite a sight
They join together all the foe
s
To make the dragon th
e feast of the crows.
..
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By Asur
an
Even with the
threat of the dredge and the dragons, they
ssll resist any form of organize
d government or army a
nd
ssll act as individuals. The only thing close
to a leade
r are
the ones who they respect the most, so only
the strongest
norn that have accomplished the most incredible
achieve-
ments are considered to be anything remotely resem
bli
ng
a leade
r.
They also respect the asura for their advanced technolo
gy
and magic, but that doesn’t mean they trust th
em.
An
d th
e
relasonship between the norn and sylvari is currently un
-
known. Several races respect the norn mainly due
to their
impressive strength. Due to the
ir nomadic lifestyle norn
can be found almost everywhere on Tyria, even in the capi-
tals of the other races,
but no matter how the others think
of of them or how dange
rous their next hunt will be
, they
of of them or how dange
rous their next hunt will be
, they
will always overcome it because the
y are norn.
This turned against them, though, as around a century
later
the dragon in Drakkar Lake named Jormag woke up, along
with his icy minions. Inste
ad of fighsng together they
fought as individuals as the
y usually do, and stood no
chance at defeasng the dragon, forcing them
to retre
at to
the lands that were once owned by the dwarven race
.
However one norn named Asgeir was able to cut one
of
Jormag’s teeth and took it with him to the locason where
Jormag’s teeth and took it with him to the locason where
the norn constructed their capital Hoelbrak, where the
tooth remains to this d
ay.
spirits of the wild
Instead
of god
s
like the humans
belie
ve in, the
norn revere th
e
spirits of the wild.
The norn are even
able to shapeshi
s
into the spirit
into the spirit
animal they r
evere
the most. The bear spirit, also known as the
Great Spirit,
is
the most sacred of them all. It resembles strength and
is
known by the norn to be the most powerful spirit, bu
t
they revere more than just the bear spirit. They also
revere the Wolf, Raven, Snow leopard,
Owl, Wurm, Ox
and Eagle spirit.
Eventually the He
roes were abl
e to meet
and fight together with Olaf Olafson,
the
most famous norn of
them all. T
han
ks to
him, the dwarven norn came to hel
p
against the Great Destroyer and eve
n a
small group of norn forme
d to help
against the destroyers (though they pro
b-
ably joine
d just for the thrill of the
hunt).
ably joine
d just for the thrill of the hunt).
However, once the thr
eat of the destroy-
ers was gone they returned
to th
eir
normal nomadic way of li
fe
.
The norn are a very proud race and they'll make sure you
realize that if you ever interrupt them or tr
y to hel
p them.
The greatest glory for every norn is to be sung
ab
ou
t for-
ever by the bards, which they refer to as skaalds. Ev
ery
norn wants to become a legend, so when it comes to sp
ort-
the bigger the game, the higher the fame. They have the
strength and stamina to conquer foes much larger than
themselves and are capable of surviving attacks that wo
uld
themselves and are capable of surviving attacks that wo
uld
kill a human in one b
lo
w.
Though the mighty heroes of Tyria had a lot of difficulty
achieving it,
they were eventually able to befriend the nor
n
named Jora when her brother was cursed an
d sh
e lost
her
ability to change
into bear form. Her loss of ability resul
te
d
in he
r losing the respect of the other norn, making her
unable
to rally them to assist her.
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Y
ou c
an r
ead it h
er
e in ou
r issu
e
but y
ou ma
y also w
an
t to
lis
t
en
and watch to
the de
v
s t
hem-
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es t
alking about their g
ame
in this vide
o!
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ears
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A once small f
armt
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v
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ear
s.
We also a
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ended the in
t
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-
na
tional po
dc
as
t with Co
lin
Johansson
ans
w
ering the t
o
ugh
cr
o
w
d q
ues
tions! [part 1]
In this part of the in
t
erna
tional
podc
as
t, Asur
an t
ak
es the
mic
t
o ask Colin a ques
tion about th
e
other r
aces.
[part 2]
Ich sag ‘Guild’ und ihr sagt ‘Mag
’!
Ok,
so tha
ts
an inside pr
ank of
our
selv
es, ne
v
ertheless Nima
is a
w
esome
and
her
e y
ou
c
an
see wh
y!
Charr Necromancer v
e
rsus t
he
Sh
atterer
Check out this clip f
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turin
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a
charr Necr
omancer who t
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es on
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er
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og
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ther with other
demo pla
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er
s!
In this clip we pla
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d a b
it
mor
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-
mancer to sho
w y
ou some of the
skills he’
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apable of
.
The only video that made it
out
of the demo, centering around
the Dy
e system comes from
ourselv
es.
So be sur
e to check this one out!
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terview with C
olin Johansson and Jeff Grubb
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art 1
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By Dut
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unsh
in
e
Temple of the Ages in ruin
s
When I sa
w the T
emple of Ag
es
in ruins, I ask
ed if this mean
t the
end of ect
o-
f
arming, they laughed.
Check out this vid
eo
to see wh
y
I ask
ed!
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Random, but int
er
es
ting, clips
made at P
AX. This includes
human, as w
ell as necr
omancer
f
oot
ag
e.
Human Ranger extraverganza!
Iz
ari g
ot a tick
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t f
or the Design a
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v
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t panel, and sh
e
filmed the whole lot! Che
ck out
part 1 her
e wher
e the
y get in
tr
o-
duced to the d
ynamic e
v
en
t idea.
In this part the designing
of the
dynamic e
v
en
t kick
s off
.
Check
out this video to see wh
a
t the
a
tt
endees c
ome up with as ideas
f
or a dynamic e
v
en
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Design a dynamic event panel
Part 3
In this part the design a dynamic
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v
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t panel g
e
ts r
oun
ded up
,
watch the panel as it c
omes to
a
close!
We pla
y
ed ar
ound with the
r
an
g
er
skills tha
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e a
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Call of the Wolf
Tender Wo
lf’s biography, chapter 5 & 6
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By T
ender W
olf
Adelbern nodded. “I thought as much. It has been an honor to have you in my guild.
Con
-
gratula5ons to you b
oth
.”
“Thank you sir,” Roston and Connivia said in unison. The
n, they went for a roman5c stroll
through Lakeside
County.
*****
It was now July, and Roston and Connivia were coun5ng down the days un5l the
y were to
be joined in matrimony.
But Connivia was face
d with a large burden – her parents had both fallen ill. They see
med
to become suscep5ble to the same disease, but no one was sure what it was. Monks we
re
at a loss as to how to cure it, but they said it was something they’
d never seen before.
Gerald
and
Sharla
were
having
di
ffi
culty
sleeping
at
night,
coughing
up
blood
and
couldn’
t
keep
food
down.
Roston
helpe
d
his
future
wife
take
care
of
her
parents,
but
they
seemed
to be ge
tti
ng worse every day.
Her parents wanted so badly to attend her wedding, and now they would be unable to.
Several guests had already been invite
d, but the pe
ople Conniv
ia re
ally
care
d about at-
tending were gone
.
She got down on her knees and begged the gods, asking why they took h
er parents, and
if
they could only be allowed to live un5l afte
r her wedding. But in he
r heart, she knew that
this would do no good. The
gods made their decision, and there was nothing more she
could do ab
out
it.
“I
do.
”
Call of the Wolf
Tender Wolf’s biography, chap
ter 5 & 6
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By T
ender W
olf
“I now pronounce you man and wife. Ladies and gentlemen, I present Mr. and Mrs. Wolf-
song!”
The crowd roared and cheered as Roston and Connivia embraced each other and walked
out of the abbey. They ran to Wizard’s Folly and Connivia’s house, where they would now
reside, and lay down on the be
d together.
“I love you so much, Roston,” Connivia said in te
ars.
“And I love you. I will always be
the
r
e for
you.”
*****
“Perhaps. But I’m not too concerned about it. I’
ll be 6ne.”
Roston climbed out of bed and held his wife in his arms. “There
, there,” he said. “What-
ever it is, I shall take care of you.”
“Thank
you, darling.”
“I s6ll love my skale soup,” he said as he se
t them on the
floor. “It re
minds me of the 6rst
meal we had together.”
Then he saw Connivia sitting on the bed smiling up at him. He rushe
d over to her.
“Are
you alright, Connivi
a?”
Call of the Wolf
Tender Wo
lf’s biography, chapter 5 & 6
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By T
ender W
olf
“Of course. It’
s my job as a hu
sband
.”
The couple laughed before e
mbracing each other again.
“Come,” Roston said. “I belie
ve a celebration is in order. And we can start by telling the
king hi
mse
lf.”
“What a splendid ide
a! I’m ready.”
And with that, the couple walked hand in hand to Ascalon City to share their e
xciting
news.
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