Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire - The Story So Far Leading to PoF | A Look At The Timeline Over 1000 Years

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[WoodenPotatoes]

Considering all the requests for it I decided to go ahead with this production, and it actually ended up much more in detail than I expected! Fairly close to somehting I was planning to do a couple of weeks from now anyway - a story so far sort of thing - which maybe I'll axe now, we'll see how things go. But here you go guys, you asked for it! I also have another video going up later this evening - Things Path of Fire disappointed me with. Should be fun. See you soon!

[LegendaryMythril]

WP, all of elona (except maybe istan) is a desert. deserts aren't just dunes. kourna and vabbi very much fall under the "desert" category.

[chaosgyro]

It feels to me like the region of the Desolation is most likely to be the deserts referred to by the devs. I get the feeling from the names of primeval Kings and everything else that it's supposed to be very Egyptian. So it's still a desert but a lush desert due to its Coastal nature and the flow of the Elon River. This then makes me think of places like Morwh and Sahlajah as slightly analogous to ancient world cities like Thebes, Babylon, and Nineveh.

The creeping of the desert that is mentioned in those Outpost descriptions and other places I rationalize as referring to the deadly sulphurous haze rather than simply encroaching sand. Plus if they already had cities up there, it makes more sense why the Primeval Kings would set up their tombs northward once the crystal desert had formed.

[Eagledelta]

WoodenPotatoes as Silver Sun has noted, not all desserts are flat, or filled with dunes, or even explicitly sandy. There are many desert regions on Earth that are more mountainous. In fact, based on the look if the deserts in the Western and South Western USA, Elona would fit the bill as one of those kinds of deserts

[zefftiledysfunction]

Mr. Potatoes I just want to say I suffer from bad insomnia. Your videos on lore help me so much. It creates a world that helps me fall asleep too. I mean it in a good way not saying your videos are boring haha. But thank you soo much for everything!!!

[tomwautelet]

What would be great is a 2 or 3 hours video where u explain us all the stories and lore about Guild Wars in general. I would love to see that happen ! :D Great work WoodenPotatoes, as usual !

[isbammoi]

I can't stop thinking about how much of a baby the Sylvari are 😂 the youngest race, 20 something years old Right?

[greenquartz]

Thank you so much for always doing videos like this. It helps to refresh my memory, and makes current gameplay richer. There's also always something that I didn't know too.

[Nepthyes]

Crystal sea transforming into the crystal desert was anet avoiding underwatercontent c:

[xSkyex]

IMO they COULDN;T have shown Kralk moving, not without blatantly spoiling where they were going next. They clearly decided to follow the Balthazar story to feed us the new angle on "we cant kill them anymore, now we have to follow this rogue god and stop him from doing so"

Not to mention this part (I hope) can easily be thrown into the PoF story. Either an NPC telling us the dragon had moved for some reason, or Taimi force feeding us more "oh btw X dragon have moved, thought I'd let you know now of all times instead of when it actually did move" (assuming our little leyline reader map thing can go that far, or hasn't been confiscated/destroyed)

[Sagusi]

Thanks for this background story! I didn't know any of it and now I'm even more tempted to get the PoF expansion!

[scorbo]

My god WP thanks once again for making my day :) i've never been much of a lore person in any game but in guild wars you were the one who got me intrigued into this ^^

[xlumyn]

I could be wrong, but I seem to remember a mission where player freed Joko from a rock/statue in Nightfall

[Ywhre]

The music piece that plays in background 2:50 - 5:30 reminds me so much of Ascension Song from Prophecies and Wondering Flame from FFX and words can't express my happiness for that reason. Ever since first leaks I hoped for music like this and here it is.

[allegedly_em]

Thank you so much WP! I didn't even know that GW1 existed until a friend told me to buy GW2 on release because of how epic GW1 was for him; he played GW1 from launch. I love your videos and I love that you take the time to explain the lore that we Veteran GW2 players are missing because of the lack of GW1 content. This makes me more excited for the new expansion and I cant wait for your vid you mentioned of the tour of GW1 Crystal Dessert! <3 xox much love

[engilaru]

On the topic of Kralkatorrik moving (after consuming some of Modremoths magic). In the novel Edge of Destiny it was said that Kralkatorrik left the area he fought glint in, and in the short story depicting the zephyrites visit to glints grave (when they find her crystals) there is no sign of Kralkatorrik being there. This suggest that Kralkatorrik's lair is actually at the end of the current dragon brand and that he flew even futher away now (probably far outside of the expantion area).

[Aramythr]

Perhaps during the clash of the gods Balthazar evaporated the Crystal Sea so Abaddon and the margonites were weakened and out of their element. That could very well have been the deciding factor as Abaddon might not have expected for Balthazar to go that far. And so he lost.

[sharpspoonoo]

Deserts are basically just arid regions. Just because there aren't endless dunes and they have vegetation doesn't mean they aren't deserts. Antarctica is a desert. Vabbi and Kourna could absolutely be considered desert environments.

[mako]

I just feel like I need to nitpick one of your criticism. Defined by Webster dictionary;  "arid land with usually sparse vegetation; especially :  such land having a very warm climate and receiving less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of sporadic rainfall annually."
A desert is defined by its lack of water, not its apparent sandiness. We have desertic lands in northern Canada by the way ;)
But great video! <3

[edidaemon]

So, we know that Rata Novus fell in 1173 and then Rata Arcanum was founded. I remember you saying Zinn had a peculiar customer which is revealed in Draconis Mons to be Joko. Then, shortly after, in 1175 we now know he counquered Elona. This is the first time we get a date for that event and it lines up perfectly. Do you think we might find out more about their connection?