Joranti the Harvester.3976 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 I been tryin to find on the wiki to no avail..can someone provide a link that would allow me to read the worlds past history..like back to the dawn of time sorta thing...a timeline of sorts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoseofGilead.8907 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Timeline That gives a decent basic timeline. There's also this one, with a little bit more to show what happens when with the three base GW1 games. https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Timeline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 History of Tyria only goes so far back, but start with these and go from there https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Movement_of_the_World https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyria https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Timeline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReaverKane.7598 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 Wooden potatoes has some great videos on that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 Other people beat me to the links I was going to post. :) So I'll just add that one thing to bear in mind is that most GW2 lore and history is presented in-universe (with occasional comments from developers around it), which means what we know is limited to what people in Tyria are able to find out. So the timeline doesn't go back to the dawn of time because we simply don't know when that was or much about it. The earliest date on the timeline is a rough estimate and believed to be the last time the Elder Dragons awakened. They are believed to have destroyed most life on Tyria, including almost wiping out all civilisations and as a result there's very few records or even archaeological evidence from before then. You also have to factor in the 'unreliable narrator' effect. In-universe sources will be biased or simply ignorant of some information, and that will influence their descriptions of events. For example a lot of human sources (and therefore a lot of info from GW1) claim that the 6 Gods created the world, for humans, and that perception influences their interpretation of other events. (For example the Forgotten, who were known to have a civilisation before humans arrived on Tyria, were seen as servants of the Gods sent to make way for humans.) So you will often find conflicting accounts and ambiguous information. That's not necessarily a mistake by Anet's writers, it's at least as likely a deliberate choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joranti the Harvester.3976 Posted July 9, 2018 Author Share Posted July 9, 2018 hmm what I was specficially looking for was some description on some of the screenshots I see inbetween load screens. I saw one that looked like modern day skyscrapers albiet blasted and ruined. Somethings in this game..technology and stuff remind me heavily of thundarr the barbarian/gamma world(for those rp'rs out there). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoseofGilead.8907 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 A lot, if not most of, the loading screens are just concept art. Some of it is actually of things that are still in game (certain monsters and NPCs), but I think some is just depictions of things that haven't actually happened in-game. And then a good chunk are just landscapes of the zones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 > @"Joranti the Harvester.3976" said: > hmm what I was specficially looking for was some description on some of the screenshots I see inbetween load screens. I saw one that looked like modern day skyscrapers albiet blasted and ruined. Somethings in this game..technology and stuff remind me heavily of thundarr the barbarian/gamma world(for those rp'rs out there). As someone said, most are just concept art that either never made it into the game or embellished certain things to capture the essence of the area that they couldn't with the in game graphics. Thundarr the Barabrian though....blimey that's going back some! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illconceived Was Na.9781 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 Highlighting these points (since for some reason, a lot of fans sometimes don't realize)... > @"Danikat.8537" said: > ... what we know is limited to what people in Tyria are able to find out. and > factor in the 'unreliable narrator' effect. In-universe sources will be biased or simply ignorant of some information, and that will influence their descriptions of events. NPCs will sometimes get stuff wrong, and the wiki documents it all. I think that's a really interesting (and fun) choice by the devs, to have in-game disagreements, mysteries, and confusion. The Commander might have few choices about what he/she does, but we each can choose (to an extent) what we believe about some of the lore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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