Great summary of the Lore! Extra points for making it in such a way that this is a timeless video and relevant no matter when someone starts guild wars 2.
I sadly wasn't fortunate enough to discover guild wars 1 when it came out. I try to play it now but I feel so sad that I missed out on this experience. But even tho I didn't see the fall of Ascalon when it happened, I still get the feeling that I was when I hear the soundtrack of Ascalon in Guild Wars 2 and see the broken walls. Thank you for making this video, it was really fun to listen to. The lore of Guild Wars is so fascinating and inspiring. Like thanks to guild wars 2 I started to work on my own world with many races, inspired by the folks of Guild Wars But I could listen to the lore and stories of Guild Wars for hours! :D
This is exactly what I was looking for as a new player of Guild Wars 2. I have played through much of the story already, but as I never played Guild Wars 1, I was uncertain of the basic lore and setting of the game. There were many references and names mentioned during the story that I didn't recognise or understand their importance while playing through. I think this will clear up many of my questions moving forward. Thanks for the great video!
Oh how I would've loved to have this video when I started 4 years ago xD As a lore nerd myself, if I had known all this, starting playing GW2 would've been a much bigger treat than it was! And hey, I was today years old when I learned that it was the Charr that caused the Orr kingdom to sink to its depths :o They were serious about their revenge! You summarized it beautifully, will give this video to anyone I know that considers starting playing GW2 :D
Love this video! After watching the your 'why Cantha is so special' video I got very excited when I saw you posted a new lore video, and I was not dissapointed (: Please do more :D I started playing GuildWars 2 when it came out, but never having played GuildWars one it can get a little confusing.
As someone who started the game this week, this guide was extremely helpful in understanding what the heck is going on in this world. Thank you for taking the time to explain the setting in such a clear and spoiler-free way for us newbies starting out!
Superb video at exactly the right moment for anyone recent to Guild Wars 2 and lots of detail for many longtime players too. Thanks for the excellent audio and video editing too, a real pleasure. One expects nothing less from Laranity, of course!
by far the best video summary out there!! thank you so much for doing it!! it is the most complete, well synthezised, full of relevant video clips from gw1, great narration, you included the most important things and yet you didnt spoil any of gw2 content. Awesome work
Nice introduction to the lore of the game. There is so much to tell, so much to explore, and you did a very good summary, with the most important details. Nicely done :)
I just started playing the game and the lore is about my favorite part with just how much there is to it. Thankyou for this great introduction to the world!
Very nice vid, happy to see finally someone who is doing some lore about GW2. Will enjoy it even more if you go in details about different aspect of the game :)
I've downloaded GW2 yesterday but I'm also that kind of lore nerd that I need to learn the lore before I even play the game. So I've been studying the lore of GW all day lol
What a brilliant video. As a new player just working on Living World 2 this gives me a great source of info. so I can appreciate the story even better. Thanks!
You did a really great job of making this succinct considering how much ground it covers. One thing I'm not sure I've ever seen for someone to do a guild Wars 2 video on is to talk about their favorite aspects of story (with this proficiency of editing behind it), maybe a particular personal story quest that really stood out to you or just a plot twist or a character development, the things that are really great about the story. Too many videos about mechanics, I did not like Taimi and Brahm going through season 2, but after going through heart of thorns and path of fire I really got to appreciate how much those characters had changed.
I love this, thank you for the summary! even though I played gw2 many years ago, back them I didn't pay attention to the story at all. now I'm back and really wanna understand the story, so this is amazing! now I just gotta go find out what happened with destiny's edge and glint, that was all over the the personal story. it is so cool that you cam find the gw1 lion's arch under the water in gw2, that is just tingles moment
It's weird how nostalgic this video made me feel, considering I haven't played too much of Guild Wars 2. Great job! Now I REALLY need to figure out what race I want to play in GW2 :^)
Daaaaaamn Lara, your videos are getting better and better, i love it \o/ As a veteran player, i did learn more stuff that i was expecting! Good luck on your futur : )
Big fan! Thank you so much for your content. Im a WoW veteran since beta in 03, recentlt tried gw2 due to the current and declining state of WoW. I just wisg I would have tried GW2 sooner because its now my favorite MMO. Had i known how great it was i would have been playing this a LONG time ago. Really enjoying pvp.
This was an amazing story, thank you. It helps me as well since I am a new player, 30 days today and honestly I cannot get enough of it, the characters, scenery, history, cultures, everything about it seperates it from others and honestly I like that, was never much of a WoW fan and other similar mmos that fell into a similar form, but not GW2. Don't get me wrong WoW and the others are cool games, just not for me. Odd that it took me so long to even learn about gw2 having been gaming a long time, but it's good, I know it's early for just one month, but I really feel like I finally found my home in GW2. Thank you again for all the content you share, definitely avide subscriber and follower. May the spirits of the four winds walk with you as you walk your path. (That is actually a traditional Native Indigenous saying, and since I am one I share this sincere blessing with you).
I've been playing GW2 since shortly after launch and never knew some of this stuff . . . . . thank you so much for making this video! You just earned another YT subscriber, a like for this video, and of course I also activated the notification bell so I won't miss any of your future content. I know you're in the EU, but since you're also an Arenanet partner, so you also play on the NA servers any part of the week? I'd love to play GW2 with you and your guild on a regular basis. I believe that you are the BEST kind of GW2 player. Not too serious, willing to try any of the GW2 content and just have fun doing it. I've seen some of your other videos, and absolutely love how you and your friends enjoy playing this game for the fun of it. I also think it's really cool that Anet put musical instruments into the game, and that players like you take advantage of that feature to entertain yourselves and others with concerts. I hope you will organize more concerts in the future, and advertise them, so more players like me can enjoy them live, in the game, instead of just through a recorded video.
This was so helpful. I can’t even begin to thank you enough. New player still taking in everything system-wise and lore-wise. It’s absolutely wonderful but wrapping my head around the background having not been a GW1 player hasn’t been terribly easy. Do the novels cover pre or post game events?
I wish we could explore the why The Six gods brought Humans to Tryria. What was so terrible about the human "home world" that Tryria was a better place? Or was it something else? Plus all the unanswered questions PoF left us with about the human gods.
I just started playing GW2 from FFXIV. Both games excel at different things and I'm really liking splitting my time between the two. Neither is better than the other. FFXIV seems to have a better story, RP and group PVE / raids. GW2 seems to have way better combat, an exceptional art style and the best mounts I have ever seen.
This game doesn't have the most exciting, nail-biting plot, but damn is its world-building rich and well realized. It's largely thanks to the wealth of lore inherited from the 4 campaigns of Guild Wars 1. The benevolent dragon Glint? You see her in GW1, flesh and bones (and crystal). The ascension of Kormir to godhood? You witness that first-hand in Nightfall campaign. Palawa Joko's conquest of Elona? Yep, GW1. The transformation of dwarves from flesh and bones to stones? Witnessed first hand in Eye of the North campaign.
Since the last dragon in Guild Wars is coming out to fight what do you think the lore will go from here? Been hearing that people not sure what the future holds for Guild Wars.
I'm new to the game, about 1 month invested so far. And I've come across next to no 'law books' giving backstory into the world & events leading up to this point. I'm L50 a.t.m & have explored everything within those level areas for human, so far. I'm used to games like Elder Scrolls which have a great access to world law & law books throughout the game, & exposition from NPCs; about world history & gods etc. Bit disappointed G.W.2 doesn't seem to have anything like that. I've yet to feel quite so invested in G.W.2 as I did in E.S.O; thanks to world law accessibility, knowing what brought 'us' to this point. Maybe my level is too low to have been exposed to much law just yet. It's the 1 disappointing thing about an otherwise good game, even given its 10 yr vintage & (now) some out-dated visualisations in rendering. I'm still having fun, just wish I could get more invested through immersive exposure in the law. May seem like a bit of a rant this, but it is my only issue so far. Which speaks volumes of the game itself considering its age.
I really wish they had handled the peace treaty better. We are just told "oh yes friends now" but some of us old school GW1 players still hold a grudge against the kitties. Yes, yes, they held the territory originally, but they also nuked a city, killing thousands of women and children, then took slaves. Not gonna forgive that.
Dit is regtig eenvoudig, in hierdie wedstryd, Ek is lief vir dit, hierdie conten. Mag die gesin daar gesond en gelukkig wees, kan sodara my konten insette gee? In sommige vidieo om dit beter te maak. Dankie vir jou aandag.
Just ooooone thing. Those lands didn't belong to the Charr either, the Charr took them from others, then the humans came and took them from the Charr. Funny enough, the humans had already lived hundreds of years longer than the Charr did on those lands before the Charr came back claiming those lands were theirs.
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Joko running away into the hills at 09:50 is pure gold, what a character
Man this video really does showcase how many cataclysmic events there were. Like, subconsciously I knew, but I never actively thought of it.
"When Zhaitan awoke and roasted the servers..."
Wait what!?
"When Zhaitan awake and rose to the surface..."
Oh, right, of course!
Great summary of the Lore! Extra points for making it in such a way that this is a timeless video and relevant no matter when someone starts guild wars 2.
Nobody whants to live in Tyria its just permanent war and dead.
@@N0Game permanent war is awesome stfu noob go hold hands in ff14
I sadly wasn't fortunate enough to discover guild wars 1 when it came out. I try to play it now but I feel so sad that I missed out on this experience. But even tho I didn't see the fall of Ascalon when it happened, I still get the feeling that I was when I hear the soundtrack of Ascalon in Guild Wars 2 and see the broken walls.
Thank you for making this video, it was really fun to listen to. The lore of Guild Wars is so fascinating and inspiring.
Like thanks to guild wars 2 I started to work on my own world with many races, inspired by the folks of Guild Wars
But I could listen to the lore and stories of Guild Wars for hours! :D
It's by far my favourite fantasy universe out there! Absolutely love it
This is exactly what I was looking for as a new player of Guild Wars 2. I have played through much of the story already, but as I never played Guild Wars 1, I was uncertain of the basic lore and setting of the game. There were many references and names mentioned during the story that I didn't recognise or understand their importance while playing through. I think this will clear up many of my questions moving forward. Thanks for the great video!
As a returning GW2 player and lore enthusiast, this is literally what I needed!
A music guild leader tries to explain GW2 lore
Oh how I would've loved to have this video when I started 4 years ago xD As a lore nerd myself, if I had known all this, starting playing GW2 would've been a much bigger treat than it was! And hey, I was today years old when I learned that it was the Charr that caused the Orr kingdom to sink to its depths :o They were serious about their revenge!
You summarized it beautifully, will give this video to anyone I know that considers starting playing GW2 :D
I'm 30 hours into Guild Wars 2 and have been watching cinematic compilations of Guild Wars 1, but this filled in a lot of the blanks, so thank you!
Love this video! After watching the your 'why Cantha is so special' video I got very excited when I saw you posted a new lore video, and I was not dissapointed (: Please do more :D I started playing GuildWars 2 when it came out, but never having played GuildWars one it can get a little confusing.
Heck yeah another lore video!!
Finally found this video, really great summary of the game's lore!
As someone who started the game this week, this guide was extremely helpful in understanding what the heck is going on in this world. Thank you for taking the time to explain the setting in such a clear and spoiler-free way for us newbies starting out!
Superb video at exactly the right moment for anyone recent to Guild Wars 2 and lots of detail for many longtime players too. Thanks for the excellent audio and video editing too, a real pleasure. One expects nothing less from Laranity, of course!
by far the best video summary out there!! thank you so much for doing it!! it is the most complete, well synthezised, full of relevant video clips from gw1, great narration, you included the most important things and yet you didnt spoil any of gw2 content. Awesome work
Loved watching this before starting with the story, thank you so much for keeping it spoiler free but adding so much depth and complexity :)
Nice introduction to the lore of the game. There is so much to tell, so much to explore, and you did a very good summary, with the most important details. Nicely done :)
great, great, great! I needed it so much. thanks!
Thank you so much! This is really useful and much appreciated.
What a great video, I couldn't stop watching! Awesome exposition.
As a casual player (mostly living story), I really appreciated that 👍
I just started playing the game and the lore is about my favorite part with just how much there is to it.
Thankyou for this great introduction to the world!
Very nice vid, happy to see finally someone who is doing some lore about GW2. Will enjoy it even more if you go in details about different aspect of the game :)
Such a great Video!! thank you, Loranity
Great summery! I have never heard the GW lore so easy understandable and so good summerized. You did a great job. Another cataclysmic event!
Just starting the game and this was such a cool video to watch! Thanks for sharing! Have a great weekend!
Awesome vid, thank you for this!
Thank you very much for this!
I've downloaded GW2 yesterday but I'm also that kind of lore nerd that I need to learn the lore before I even play the game. So I've been studying the lore of GW all day lol
What a brilliant video. As a new player just working on Living World 2 this gives me a great source of info. so I can appreciate the story even better. Thanks!
Thank you! I just started playing and this is exactly what I needed.
Really good video! I learned a lot. Thank you for making it :D
Great summary thank you!
Cannot wait for more! Great job 😇
As someone who studied/loves the Guild Wars Lore, this was really well done!!! Great video Lara!!!!😁😁
Thanks for an awesome video!
I decided today that i will give the game a chance. Your video was most helpful.
You did a really great job of making this succinct considering how much ground it covers. One thing I'm not sure I've ever seen for someone to do a guild Wars 2 video on is to talk about their favorite aspects of story (with this proficiency of editing behind it), maybe a particular personal story quest that really stood out to you or just a plot twist or a character development, the things that are really great about the story. Too many videos about mechanics, I did not like Taimi and Brahm going through season 2, but after going through heart of thorns and path of fire I really got to appreciate how much those characters had changed.
8:55 I laughed at it. Itwas kinda funny.
I love this, thank you for the summary! even though I played gw2 many years ago, back them I didn't pay attention to the story at all. now I'm back and really wanna understand the story, so this is amazing! now I just gotta go find out what happened with destiny's edge and glint, that was all over the the personal story.
it is so cool that you cam find the gw1 lion's arch under the water in gw2, that is just tingles moment
Really nice video! Great work!
this is such a good and helpful video!
It's weird how nostalgic this video made me feel, considering I haven't played too much of Guild Wars 2. Great job! Now I REALLY need to figure out what race I want to play in GW2 :^)
Daaaaaamn Lara, your videos are getting better and better, i love it \o/
As a veteran player, i did learn more stuff that i was expecting!
Good luck on your futur : )
Nice Vid Lara, very well explained in a concise manner,
As a new player this is great, made the lore way more approachable. Thanks!
i love your lore videos so much
This was fantastic, and easy to follow, as a new GW2 player, thank-you :D
Thanks for the video. I learnt some new stuff.
That was awesome ty.
I think you, and the artist formerly known as silverdisc 😉 make the BEST gw2 lore videos. I want more! I needddd more!
Great job!
Big fan! Thank you so much for your content. Im a WoW veteran since beta in 03, recentlt tried gw2 due to the current and declining state of WoW. I just wisg I would have tried GW2 sooner because its now my favorite MMO. Had i known how great it was i would have been playing this a LONG time ago. Really enjoying pvp.
Great video!
This was an amazing story, thank you. It helps me as well since I am a new player, 30 days today and honestly I cannot get enough of it, the characters, scenery, history, cultures, everything about it seperates it from others and honestly I like that, was never much of a WoW fan and other similar mmos that fell into a similar form, but not GW2. Don't get me wrong WoW and the others are cool games, just not for me. Odd that it took me so long to even learn about gw2 having been gaming a long time, but it's good, I know it's early for just one month, but I really feel like I finally found my home in GW2. Thank you again for all the content you share, definitely avide subscriber and follower. May the spirits of the four winds walk with you as you walk your path. (That is actually a traditional Native Indigenous saying, and since I am one I share this sincere blessing with you).
keep this lore vids coming!
Love the video! GW lore is so rich.
I just started today. this helped.
Thanks for the video Lara! That was great! ... wonder who is this silverdisc you talked about... :D
I've been playing GW2 since shortly after launch and never knew some of this stuff . . . . . thank you so much for making this video! You just earned another YT subscriber, a like for this video, and of course I also activated the notification bell so I won't miss any of your future content. I know you're in the EU, but since you're also an Arenanet partner, so you also play on the NA servers any part of the week? I'd love to play GW2 with you and your guild on a regular basis. I believe that you are the BEST kind of GW2 player. Not too serious, willing to try any of the GW2 content and just have fun doing it. I've seen some of your other videos, and absolutely love how you and your friends enjoy playing this game for the fun of it. I also think it's really cool that Anet put musical instruments into the game, and that players like you take advantage of that feature to entertain yourselves and others with concerts. I hope you will organize more concerts in the future, and advertise them, so more players like me can enjoy them live, in the game, instead of just through a recorded video.
Thank you for this interesting lecture, professor Lore-a 🦐
Thanks
My dumb ahh kept reading it as “Introduction to Lore of Guild Wars part 2” and kept trying to find part 1 😭
Good video I love it.
This is so good!
I really really wanted to learn what the hell was going on xD
I think this is also the first game I've reached max level in with basically no idea of what the world/universe lore is
fun fact. You can actually see a lot of the dragons sleeping or frozen in the environments of gw1
Those are the most human like pictures of the six I have ever seen lol
Merciii
Thank you...
This was so helpful. I can’t even begin to thank you enough. New player still taking in everything system-wise and lore-wise. It’s absolutely wonderful but wrapping my head around the background having not been a GW1 player hasn’t been terribly easy. Do the novels cover pre or post game events?
Okay this is scary, i literally just started playing the game 4 hours before you uploaded💀
I wish we could explore the why The Six gods brought Humans to Tryria. What was so terrible about the human "home world" that Tryria was a better place? Or was it something else? Plus all the unanswered questions PoF left us with about the human gods.
There's no reason to assume the Humans came from anywhere bad.
The Gods just wanted servants.
Also I'm still going with Earth as the homeworld.
List of Catastrophic events:
The Searing
The Foefire
The Catalysm
The Jade Wind
The Great Flood
I just started playing GW2 from FFXIV. Both games excel at different things and I'm really liking splitting my time between the two. Neither is better than the other. FFXIV seems to have a better story, RP and group PVE / raids. GW2 seems to have way better combat, an exceptional art style and the best mounts I have ever seen.
Nice video
Not only the asura Gates are asura technologie. The way points to. They are So coool
This game doesn't have the most exciting, nail-biting plot, but damn is its world-building rich and well realized. It's largely thanks to the wealth of lore inherited from the 4 campaigns of Guild Wars 1. The benevolent dragon Glint? You see her in GW1, flesh and bones (and crystal). The ascension of Kormir to godhood? You witness that first-hand in Nightfall campaign. Palawa Joko's conquest of Elona? Yep, GW1. The transformation of dwarves from flesh and bones to stones? Witnessed first hand in Eye of the North campaign.
Since the last dragon in Guild Wars is coming out to fight what do you think the lore will go from here? Been hearing that people not sure what the future holds for Guild Wars.
I didn’t know lion arch was destroyed another time.
moment of silence for the 3 core story mentors 🥺
me in 2024:
Bangless Lara isn't real, she can't scare you
Bangless Lara:
I'm always teaching my veteran friends that played for 8 years about the lore because they just missed so much lol.
i've noticed a part of a cutscene i'm not familiar with. Can someone tell me, where i can find the scene at 3:06 with Rytlock and Mordremoth?
I'm new to the game, about 1 month invested so far. And I've come across next to no 'law books' giving backstory into the world & events leading up to this point. I'm L50 a.t.m & have explored everything within those level areas for human, so far. I'm used to games like Elder Scrolls which have a great access to world law & law books throughout the game, & exposition from NPCs; about world history & gods etc. Bit disappointed G.W.2 doesn't seem to have anything like that. I've yet to feel quite so invested in G.W.2 as I did in E.S.O; thanks to world law accessibility, knowing what brought 'us' to this point.
Maybe my level is too low to have been exposed to much law just yet. It's the 1 disappointing thing about an otherwise good game, even given its 10 yr vintage & (now) some out-dated visualisations in rendering. I'm still having fun, just wish I could get more invested through immersive exposure in the law. May seem like a bit of a rant this, but it is my only issue so far. Which speaks volumes of the game itself considering its age.
Video actually starts at 5:03
I really wish they had handled the peace treaty better. We are just told "oh yes friends now" but some of us old school GW1 players still hold a grudge against the kitties. Yes, yes, they held the territory originally, but they also nuked a city, killing thousands of women and children, then took slaves.
Not gonna forgive that.
Why can't i find any lore videos around classes and specs?
I thing the sons of svanier are not manubulatet by jormag.
I'm a snaaakeeeee sssssssss
Dit is regtig eenvoudig, in hierdie wedstryd, Ek is lief vir dit, hierdie conten. Mag die gesin daar gesond en gelukkig wees, kan sodara my konten insette gee? In sommige vidieo om dit beter te maak. Dankie vir jou aandag.
Where is your GW1 playthrough :) ?
Just ooooone thing. Those lands didn't belong to the Charr either, the Charr took them from others, then the humans came and took them from the Charr. Funny enough, the humans had already lived hundreds of years longer than the Charr did on those lands before the Charr came back claiming those lands were theirs.
And to live the lore : play GW1 ;D
I love your videos and streams. But please for all that is holy, BLINK! At least once...
👀
Please observe the following verses and analysis these bible verses Revelation 14:12 & 18:23. Please remove the PCR test from being done to you because its scary what people found in them, keep them all away from you