#gw2 living story

[grasping-earth]

Exciting news!

I know a lot of people will be happy to have the chance to explore the old Lion's Arch (not Old Lion's Arch, which is in the harbour, but you know, good ol' rustic pirate LA).

#living story #ls1 #gw2 #Guild Wars 2

[false-oasis]

(CW: EoD Spoilers — What Lies Beneath Spoilers)

So I was talking with @/saladposse last night about the oni section and what the oni might use to torment our Commanders.

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #eod spoilers #gw2 spoilers #living story spoilers #I don't have a dedicated commander — there's a new commander for every expansion/ls combo who I feel fits the vibes better #Sarabi's kind of the de facto though and while there's some regrets she has — her inner demons manifests in what ifs and self-hate #by that I mean things she knows are true about herself that she wants executed and burred 6 feet under #and while it may have started off with tybalt and the whispers #the next stage wasn't eir but the heat was turned up WAY FUCKING HIGH with almorra and the charr/drizzlewood being stage 2 #the last stage would revolve around her bloodkin sister Kiarra and her niece and nephew #what would they think of her? the only thing she's poised to do is kill #how many lives is she willing to sacrifice? for the cause? for /her/ cause? #slashing her claws and gnashing her teeth at anything that moves — what happens when that's someone who looks up to her? #who she swore above anyone else to protect? so that they in their young lives could have a future? #the last demon would be her snapping to reality after pinning her nephew to the ground while her niece is pleading with her to stop #illusion fades away and it's rama being choked with gorrik holding a gun at her

[rabbitgardens]

ehehehe.....it saved the world :)

#gw2 #journal: gw2 #ON TO LIVING WORLD!!!!! INSANE HOW THE STORY WOULDVE JUST. ENDED HERE. IF THEY DIDNT MAKE LWS1 FREE #....AS IT DID FOR ME IN 2019 AKSHDJ I WAS SO CONFUSED. BUT IM FINE NOW #my screens #revyl

[commanderjuni]

[OUTDATED]🦋SRABBA TALK | PERSONAL STORY AND LWS1

SOOOO guess who just finished living world season ONE today? that's right. this guy. first and foremost I LOVED IT? i played through it before but sorta blew through everything, but actually taking time to experience the story was very fun

and now, the even funner part... writing about what srabba was up to during it all! i'll be doing this for each part of gw2's story for fun, and to articulate my thoughts about it!

⚠️ MAJOR SPOILERS FOR PERSONAL STORY (1-80) AND LIVING WORLD SEASON ONE BELOW THE CUT

Beginning with the personal story, Srabba actually has no involvement with the war and eventual death of Zhaitan.

Srabba is only 13 when the events of personal story take place, and thus she has no real place to be at on the battle-field. However, she kept tabs on the new research and theories springing up as more was uncovered about the elder dragon of death.

While she was doing pre-college studies in Metrica Province, Srabba kept up to date on the situation mainly through research papers, news articles and word of mouth. Zhaitan wasn't exactly a quiet affair, so there was plenty of hubbub about the dragon and the three orders— the Vigil, Priory, and Order of Whispers— coming together (for once) to take down the dragon.

The breakthroughs during this time: the confirmation of one Professor Gorr's theory— the dragons consume magic, thereby taking it out of Tyria and growing stronger in doing so— has monumental affirmations and implications, and Srabba finds herself more and more fascinated in the topic.

Because of this, she sort of... nudges her other projects aside. Chaos magic can be put on hold, she'll keep her hearing aid development on the back-burner— this, this dragon research... It was incredible, and Srabba was eager to know more.

Thus, Srabba decided that after turning 14 and enrolling in the college of Dynamics (after proving herself with a clever invention called the Transatmospheric converter— a blend of asura intellect, mesmer chaos magic, and elemental magic), she'd make a name for herself in becoming an expert in dragon magic. Alongside chaos magic, of course. You can be a genius in two things, after all.

Srabba's choice in enrolling in Dynamics was a success in keeping aligned with her goals. Statics only focused on what they already had, and Synergetics... bleh. Too theoretical and philosophical for her tastes. Dynamics got things done in new and innovative ways, and Srabba made a name for herself in her class with her bright, cutting-edge ideas. She was regarded positively by her professors, albiet some of her peers found her a bit... egotistical... and some of her professors found her a bit too smart.

Nonetheless, Srabba was thriving in college.

And then... Scarlet happened.

First it was Dragon Bash. Then it was the Queen's Jubilee. Then it was the wretched tower in Kessex Hills. It didn't take long for word to travel back to the asura side of Tyria, and Srabba once again found her putting her projects aside for a new interest: Scarlet Briar.

Now, Srabba could care less about Scarlet as a person. As far as Srabba cared, she was a crazed Sylvari who liked explosions and bombs a little too much. It was her machines— her alchemy and magitech and gizmos galore— that Srabba really cared about. Srabba found Scarlet to be a genius, and she needed to study some of this genius' work.

Thus, Srabba sort of... Oh.. Y'know... Snuck out under everyone's noses and onto one of the sites of Scarlet's latest monstrosity: the Clockwork Marionette. She wasn't there for the fight, personally, but was found by Logan Thackeray snooping around in debris and fancy shiny bits and rubble. Not only did he have one nosy progeny to deal with, but now two nosy progeny.

Srabba and Taimi had no prior interactions, and as far as they knew before this moment, the other didn't exist. However... If it meant annoying some dumb human...

And with that, a beautiful friendship was born.

Upon being dragged back to Lion's Arch to be sent away to Rata Sum upon a guardian taking ownership of them, Srabba and Taimi got to actually chatting, and found they both had quite a lot in common.

One, they were both orphans. Two, they both were disabled and hated getting pitying looks because of it. Three, they were both brilliant prodigy progeny, and hated even more when people doubted them for their age. And four, they both were fixated with Scarlet and her work.

... As far as Srabba figured, though, Taimi was more curious about Scarlet as a person, and the two had plenty of slight bickering about who knew the most about her or was going about thinking about her the right way— much to everyone else's dismay.

It is around this point Srabba begins to become not the leader, but a facet in the budding new guild, composed of Marjory Delequa, Kasmeer Meade, Braham Eirsson, and Rox— Oh! And Frostbite, too.

In canon, the Commander eventually brings everybody together, but fate somehow managed to gather all of them in one place, and it didn't take the group long to bond.

They have two brawn, two investigators, and now two brain. A perfect even number!

... Odd, if you count Frostbite, though. But Srabba doesn't like odd numbers, so it's an even number now. Hmph.

However, the guild doesn't have time to frolic around. Scarlet clearly is planning something, and the group is determined to figure out what. Srabba manages to participate in some evidence scouring with an asura by the name of Vorpp, and Kasmeer and Majory. To everyone's horror, they all put together that Scarlet isn't just planning something big, she's planning to strike Lion's Arch, and she's about to strike it hard.

Scarlet soon unleashes her greatest atrocity on Lion's Arch: an all out catastrophic attack.

Lion's Arch is gunned, bombed, and a thick miasma soon takes over and claims anyone who is exposed to it for too long. All forms of terrible enemies— Flame Legion, Inquest, Aetherblade pirates, Krait, Dredge, and Nightmare Court— lay siege to Lion's Arch and kill anyone who doesn't escape or tries to stand in their or their leader, Scarlet Briar's, way.

The attack reaches Srabba— who away tending to her studies and research— and the news mortifies her. Although she's dealing with college and papers and exams and her own mini research projects, she feels a strong calling to head out and help.

She has a rendezvous with Taimi at one of the refugee/rally camps nearby the Vigil headquarters, and to see all the damage up close... Survivors recounting the horrors and losses, resources spread thin, people dying with little hope to save them... It takes Srabba out of her comfortable bubble of research and onto the field, and the sight not only horrifies her, but it sparks something in her usually cold heart— forget all about studying Scarlet; the only thing Srabba wants to study is a way to put that wretched sylvari down for good.

However, the rest of the group makes an effort to keep Srabba out and away from danger— they don't want to bring anyone else in to the battle, where the probability of death for a 14 year old with only three years of magical experience and little to no combative experience... Eh, it's better if one doesn't say the exact numbers. (NOTE: They aren't high.)

This enrages Srabba, but despite her anger she knows they aren't exactly wrong.

After Scarlet is slain, something... Happens.

Srabba was in the midst of studying artificing when even she heard a wretched noise— it was a loud, rumbling sound on par with a growl, or a howl, or a roar.

It didn't take long until Taimi urgently contacted her via digitized mail, and despite initial suspicions, Srabba came to the same conclusion as Taimi: that was the roar of a dragon.

Srabba didn't take long puzzling why the roar happened in the first place. Scarlet had descended upon Lion's Arch with some horrible platformed drill that struck into Lion's Arch's sea. Previous discoveries unveiled that Scarlet had been toying and pin-pointing and probing for ley-lines, and Lion's Arch had been the main target on her maps.

Synergetic research dictates that all of Tyria is loaded with ley-lines: rivers and streams of (usually) invisible magic. Wherever magic travels, it travels along ley-lines that dot Tyria's entire expanse. Scarlet Briar had dug up a ley-line, and made a racket so loud it may have drawn the attention of a dragon.

Srabba had plenty of papers to back it up, but not even she wanted to believe it. She knew Zhatian— with it's risen minions and death magic— was bad enough, but what Scarlet could have woken up... It could be much, much worse. What was worse was that Srabba couldn't figure out which dragon Scarlet's infernal drill had woken up, and this put her on edge... Thankfully, her newfound friends could try and soothe those nerves after calling everyone to the Dead End Bar for some food, drink, and light celebration in taking Scarlet down.

However... Srabba knows something lurks on the horizon.. Something bad.

To be continued...

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #writing #mesmer srabba #gw2 asura #gw2 mesmer #gw2 living world season 1 spoilers #gw2 personal story spoilers #gw2 spoilers #gw2 fan submission

[the-tired-commander]

#i wanna hear about peoples faves <3 #gw2 #guild wars 2 #yes i know these options are a bit basic but they are all key characters! #i will probably do some more with living story/expac characters #but for now #tell me about your base game beloved characters #sorry if someone has already done this and i missed it!

[gglitchshit]

WAAHHHH BLIIIIIIISHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#<-is replaying story with friend and yeah #'his memory is a star to guide us' #episode's name: a star to guide us #THIS IS FINE #it gets me everytime #10/10 #living world season 4 is the gw2 story of all time #story of all time even #glitch talks gw2 #and then of course right after this taimi with the confession #anet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kienansidhe]

i cant wait till my leaky memory forgets most of endwalker so i can experience it for the first time again bc that storyline rewired my brain and cured my depression and i need another hit

#headspace #ffxiv #im on hiatus rn cause im POOR and i cant afford the sub anymore and also im hyperfixated on palia rn but like #aaaaaaaa #i def fell off the game after endwalker cause like how do you follow that up dude #same with gw2 eod like where do we go from here?? the story is kinda Done #idk we are in an era of decade long mmo storylines ending and its like whats next who knows! #maybe living irl ig lol #they got my system thru so much but i think maybe we are finally ready to Live

[girlbob-boypants]

Oh. That was it. Uhm...

#girlbob.txt #gw2 #soto #i mean #it was FINE #i think whatever executive thought this was a better model than the old expac style is a moron #but all executives are #it's undercooked tho #this feels like nothing #the boss fight came with a 'finish this without getting downed' achievement that felt like a joke #seeing as it wasn't actually hard or using mechanics #so much as it was a breakbar and an obscenely high damage skill #remember when boss fights were about setting something up through the story so we'd feel like it was a boss instead of just knowing it is #this felt like the bullet points of a living world episode #like everything is there for a very gw2 plot but it was just #'you go there you do events you meet a character you get told the boss is scary you fight the boss you see war make sad :( you wait months' #like okay! thanks for that. i'll go replay hot pof and lws4 to remember when things could be good

[orrianreaper]

Some thoughts about The Amulet.

I'm thinking Pleur's going to canonically recieve one, but when Aurene leaves.

Pleur has this habit, she likes to make little trinkets or broaches and the like for people. All of Dragon Watch have one, all of Reverie's Vengeance (her own guild) have one, she made one for Forgal, Trahearne, Caithe, you get the idea.

So she makes something for Aurene, which, it's silly she knows that. What use does an elder dragon have for a silly little trinket she can't really even 'wear'.

But Aurene is touched - and she knows Pleur is struggling with the idea of her going away. So she crystallises it, little gleaming flowers and a prismatic sheen, and she askes Pleur to keep it safe for her. A little physical reminder that she's always with her.

After all - There is no Life, without Death.

#gw2 #Pleur Otus #eod #eod spoilers #I suppose? it's a while old by now but just in case for folks #But no maybe some day i'll go into more details on the whole Life/Death Aurene/Pleur thing because that's The Theme they have going #Pleur kills what must be killed - to maintain balance. and Aurene heals. #anyway yes I did play that bit of story just before the patch went live and it gave me Emotions how did you guess

[the-three-idiots]

Daily Dispatch #2 - Typical Norn

Three idiots episode:

Written by Phil Sheldon

Editor - Kari woodlots

COMPLACENCY ON BOTH SIDES!

After the battle for the North nolan hatchery, our heroes made their way to Hoelbrak.

Hoelbrak seems to have become colder since I last visited about a decade ago. The atmosphere seem more tense and Shaken, possibly due to the most recent norn refugee crisis.

Bramham Eirsson, who claims to be the son of legendary hero, Eir Stelgakin, has been trying to rally support to resolve not only the refugee crisis but the attacks by the molten alliance.

Due to his contested heritage however, not many people are willing to rally behind him.

He has failed to win over Tribune Rytlock Brimstone to aid the refugee and now has failed to win the support of Knut Whitebear, Master of the Lodge.

Surprisingly, Eir Stelgakin has also refused support to Braham. Many see this as crucial mistake given the ongoing molten alliance raids against norn settlement.

Braham has declared that he will go fight the raiders, by himself if he has too.

However, Kotaru Tieran, Anwfyn and Lisbet Veros have now joined Braham's crusade to save Cragstead. The supposed next target of the raids.

The question as too why these three heroes joined Braham's crusade without any potential reward is puzzling and why the sylvari (Kotaru & Anwfyn) are helping what is essentially a very Norn problem.

but one thing is for sure; the battle of Cragstead is now going to happen.

With or without the help of the Norn or Char military.

#gw2 #Guild Wars #Guild Wars 2 #living world season 1 #gw2 story #Youtube

[zhenghuaz]

based on the fact that him and baby canach share a face preset

#zheng hua #gw2 spoilers #i forgot what living story this was. fuck!!! #OH this was the onr with caithe i think. yeah that #zheng hua absorbing her mwmroies. wow was canahc mg lost siblin

[grasping-earth]

Well we just played through the second installment of Secrets of the Obscure, and I had started compiling a mental list of comments for when we were done, but... I don't have much positive to say so I'll stick with, that was... not really disappointing, because my expectations were well tempered. But vastly uninteresting, and felt kind of shoddy.

#only my personal experience of course #but uh wow I feel no joy or investment in this story which is something for me with GW2 #and some of the choices are making me raise my eyebrows I tell you #buuuuut we'll see where it goes in the fullness of time... #Secrets of the Obscure #living story

[legendary-alliance-stance]

related to the last post, but more focused on my own canon of things

i like to imagine that when rama and the commander went through the archives in arborstone, they ran into orion. and he helped them find the book they were looking for, and even offered to help out with rama learning the warding magic

because orion has POURED over every bit of info on that topic over the years, and well. he still hasn’t told valeria or rama about the fact that he uhhhh has their ancestor’s spirit attached to him (he has no idea how to broach that topic), he figured him and viktor being there while rama was trying to learn the magic would be helpful

and viktor was so moved by rama’s determination, and success at learning the spell. he similarly isn’t sure how to approach either rama or valeria (which is part of why orion hasn’t brought the topic up) but he is so, SO proud of them both. watching rama learn the magic that their family was known for made viktor so emotional.

i think sometime after the wrap up of what lies within, orion is actually gonna. introduce viktor to rama and valeria. it’s time for another family reunion, this time featuring Grandpa.

#vindicator ghostposting #OC: Orion #i have so many feelings about that part of the new story. i was thinking about this the entire time nick and I were playing #im just. HHHHH. EMOTIONS. ZU HELTZERS MY BELOVEDS. #also yes orion def should have told valeria and rama about viktor (and archemorus) being around earlier but #it’s kind of a Wild Topic to bring up outta no where like #boy it’s wild that we’re all zu heltzers! also hey guess what our Famous Ancestor is spiritbonded to me and is just hanging out here #surprise!!! #yeah no orion is a tactless idiot but even he figured that would be a topic that needed some Care #plus viktor has been having a Time getting used to the idea that he has so much family still #orion was one thing. but more??? more zu heltzers??? he’s not at all prepared for this #(and he’s highkey really nervous that he won’t live up to their expectations of him as their legendary ancestor) #(don’t worry about it.) #but yeah no it’s definitely time for these two to go chat with valeria and rama about the whole thing #sorry rama you’re not free from wild shit quite yet u gotta meet ur ancestor first #gw2 spoilers #eod spoilers #gw2 eod spoilers #what lies within spoilers

[rabbitgardens]

staring at (frantically scrolling past) everyone having fun with soto with my finger hovering dangerously close to my lv 80 character boost

#talking tag #i think i have like two from buying hot/pof forever ago #BUT LIKE I SHOULDNT i wanna go through the games actual story as much as i can which means #like. the personal story as well as eventually playing through all of living world #im playing at my own pace but also hrghrrgrg wanna see More #i can/should? probably skip season 2 and read a summary though its so old i doubt its super relevant #gw2

[ascalonianlightbringer]

It's been a long time since I first fell in love with pre-Searing Ascalon in Guild Wars: Prophecies. But I'm still nostalgic enough that I periodically visit Ebonhawke just to go home to human Ascalon, and I loved this view of it :)

#t: greetings friend #p: honor the past #r: for ascalon! #guild wars: prophecies #guild wars 2 #i love ebonhawke's story and legacy and (much as i love gw2) wish the founding story hadn't been cut short by the gw2 release #the dialogue options definitely suggest that human characters (ascalonian or not) have no ties to ebonhawke #and i'm like. actually all my characters do #althea fairchild: owes her last name to an ebonhawke npc i appropriated as her aunt #she was born in ebonhawke and half her family still lives there #gwen velazquez: her parents were in the ebon vanguard and died in ascalon while she was on the streets #of divinity's reach with her sister #isabel batista: daughter of immigrants from ebonhawke #xiulan azar: posted in ebonhawke as part of the vigil and sticks up for its people out of orrian-ascalonian solidarity #kate sandford: was literally a separatist #pax vowkeeper: charr priory member trying to atone for war crimes who awkwardly carts ascalonian relics to ebonhawke

[senterya]

Side character showcase! While the commander is being haunted by their loved ones, the engineers are working hard to keep the rest of the mining operation (or what's left of it) from collapsing.

Kalle decided that he had seen enough shit in his life and refuses to go below the second base - he's mainly tasked with ensuring that the way up is unblocked and as safe as possible. Dia, on the other hand, has left her sanity at home and is relentlessly marching with the investigation, poking her nose into any haze research she can find on the way.

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #eod spoilers #ls spoilers #delve into the haze spoilers #dianthen #kaladeich #I'm really liking this story for Dia #I planned to let her live in Cantha for a few years but wasn't sure what she's gonna do there #meanwhile Kalle is just continuing his “I go to the goddamn end of the world yet I find myself in trouble” streak #man cannot catch a break