On the 'all about the saving the world' I have wanted to see vignettes of Orr long after the cleansing where the undead are somewhat receded as a setting for even just a momentary meeting as part of another story. We save places but never escape and see the areas *after* we have preserved them.
when I saw the eye of janthir in eparchs room, my mind started SPINNING. Im very excited and hopeful about the next story, great video, Im enjoying the theorizing about the Mursaat, sine GW has such vast lore, this could be really good.
Imagine if the mursaat were responsible for what happen with the demons, maybe they had eparch under their control to take all this power for themselves heads will roll
Stream of consciousness? You do that so well, given I wouldn't have guessed! I wonder how our homestead will be relevant in future expansions if the expansions are based in distant lands? I'd love for us to have a way to expand the homestead into a small village (hamlet) with NPCs (farmers, crafters, traders, etc) we can interact with.. like, a mini resource-producing system. I guess having a carrot farmer/farm producing 50 carrots a day/week (as a random example of many options) will impact economy, but.. I dunno, I'd love to have more than just a homestead to "run". And that other game with housing, YES, do a video! I love the housing concept, and although me finding time for anything besides GW2 is unlikely, I'm still open to temptation!
If livia will be there i hope that they will bring her amazing character from gw1 back. I was in shock how different she was in season 3. I didn't eve recognized her.
Just now noticed while watching/listening to your vid that the lil teaser to Anise coming back in JW, her outfit is slightly tweaked....which means we might finally get her version of the outfit in gemstore xD
I'm always impressed when I see videos like this. Even though I've tried, I just can't connect to the story and characters of GW2. The reason I'm impressed is because videos like this tend to draw me in, whereas the game itself doesn't succeed at that.
I just want Taimi and Aurene back. I loved them. I wish we could get Blish back somehow too!! I have a GW2 playlist I fall asleep to, and I always try to doze off before I hear Blish's Sorrow. It's so pretty but so sad
My guess for the mini exps "saga" is a build up maybe for the come back of the gods, somehow. Some of your ideas are nice but idk if anet can pursue them. This because many things was already said (many times) in the plot. In S3 we know Lazarus as the last Mursaat and with his death the tyrian Eye of Janthir dies. Mabon, is a Mursaat BUT as ascended wizard he is not "tecnically a mursaat anymore" or a mortal being like the others, by the way himself talk about the Eye from the s3 searching him before the Lazarus death. Also is said in some paper that the mursaat were exiled from Nayos. But how and when is not never explained. SO my point on the Eye inside the throne room is a easter egg for the story for the Janthir plotline.Indicating a connection with the region area. A plot with Titans involved. So... maybe place the eye there was just a sign of the old glory of the mursaat in their own world. Or maybe they are alive outthere. But we want really see for the third time the "we are not dead totally" situation? Idk if we will see more Kyrptis in the future but for me is not a wise move, bring back the worst plot ever of the franchise as new story for the second exp in a row. Titans involved bring back Abaddon as powerful entity, but we forgot a point, he can't "come back". Abaddon IS kormir now, she, like aurene, absorbed another magical being and the abaddon magic now live inside the kormir, as she said in GW1 "I'm Kormir but also much more". Balthazar is dead, Joko too but them now are part of Aurene and her magic, they can't come back but they are part of her being. So, for me is more... smart think about something else, in pof we see the realm of Kormir fall about itself for her leaving. My guess (in this case is that) the realm is totally fallen to the corruption again and we will not have a big smart bad at the end but like a monster factory of titan without a master. IF they need to follow a good plot point, the weird behaviour about Lyssa from Pof Eod and other things in game can be a good build up to follow. Ending thing, the Seer story is WELL explained in the Sidony collection from Soto. We know now even the seer from GW1 and the story of all the race... so i dont think is time for a more deep dive into that.
I think us seeing Kashmeer and Jory is unlikely since Anise is there in person. That shows how important this is since she's there. Jenna is also present, so it makes additional sense that Anise has followed. Braham will also be there 100% as there's a screenshot that shows him being there (the same screenshot that shows Jenna) as a bodyguard to the emissary of the Norns. I think that Taimi has a 0% chance of being there since she really has nothing to do with the Asura anymore, she spends her time in Cantha with Joon developing new tech and medical tech.¨ Canach also wants to be as far away from Anise as possible so the chances of him being there are low to none.
This could just be me, but I feel Peitha's design (as well as other major Kryptis characters) share a resemblance (particularly in head and arm shape) to the Exalted in Tarir. There are also hints scattered through lore tablets and books that Exalted have some connections to the Forgotten (who once shared knowledge with the Murssat, but were later at war with them). So I think it would not be such a leap to suggest that perhaps the Murasaat are infact related to the Kryptis and/or have a strong relationship with them. My biggest head-canon atm is that the Mursaat and Kryptis existed in the same plane of the mists, and that they sought help from the Forgotten to try eradicate the Kyrptis. In their efforts, they failed to do so, and had to flee to Tyria. This of course, leads them to betray the Forgotten and later enslave people as false gods. Also, the two dragons you get on the pre-order shoulder pads seem to alot like the two dragons on the EoD logo. I wonder if major plot points were changed for EoD...
Return? Why? it is the Master in the Genre with PvE Open World Feeling, sPvP, massive PvP / WvW = 220+ ppl Content (all Game Modes are separately Balanced), Best Fashion, Gameplay, Mechanics, Story, COMMUNITY and much more! When I play other games, everything seems so Sterile! It's not for nothing that WoW is becoming a GW2!
The problem with gw2 story is that nobody is the bad guy anymore we see this in every game this days its called the woke safe story telling to not offend anybody the demons in gw2 should have never been given human characteristics they are the bad guys as much as a nature event like a tsunami is and its not offensive to tell this, they hunger and they ate like the locusts the same for the elder dragons now what they gonna do with this story? introduce the mursaat who wanted to return to their homeworld that was eaten by the demons and let us sing together in friendship forget all past wrongs? lmfao
The Mursaat Mystery has easily been the most intriguing strory threat so far to me. And i have said for years Now that it's highly unlikely, that they are extinct.
Wonderful video! I've not been this hyped for a release since Heart of Thorns. I feel like the devs have a huge opportunity in Janthir Wilds to bring back some intriguing characters that have been missing from the story for a few years. Anise's presence could lead to shenanigans with the Mesmer Collective, Krytan politics, or even Lyssa (super unlikely but I would flip out). There are so many cool possibilities the story could go in. Fingers crossed they deliver in August.
What about E? The last time we heard about E was during Season 3. Now that we have more lore connected to the White Mantle and the Mursaat is E coming back? Are we finally going to meet E? Anet I have questions... lol
Hi Herald! Loving your videos which I only discovered recently. I have to say how impressive it is that this was a stream of consciousness video from you. You are very well articulated and I love seeing creators like you bringin the lore of this game to light. I only started with GW2, never delved into GW1 I was too young at that point, so videos like these with links to previous stories that I might have only heard of but never delved deeper into is very helpful
With exploring Janthir, something that strikes me is the particular everlasting harvesting tools that came with preordering: the eldritch tools. A lot of the harvesting tools are themed to story/what's going on in the world, and I can't help but be reminded of the Eidolons (them big floaty kraken bois) from Prophecies and their connection to the Seers, Mursaat, and Titans. I'm excited to go to the birth place of the White Mantle! Also, Braham can take an indefinite sabbatical. Doesn't matter which story it is, he's just... Not great. On the other hand, anything SOTO character related (especially Isgarren) and/or Canach I'm stoked for.
well i hope that means Mabon is not dead been a mursaat cause he was cool character they shouldnt have off him that fast just because a feminist in anet doent like men
I would love it if they didnt tie in everything into the most recent ideas. Not a fan of Abaddon being a Mursaat or Kryptis, if anything i think it would be significantly more interesting to find out that he was from one of the lesser races, perhaps the Krait
I'd like to see Braham revived, not as a youth but as a wise soul tempered by being at one with a Dragon. He was a Chosen one all along, and Janthir Wilds is his kind of territory. I could see him eventually replacing Knut White Bear as leader, therefore sent by Knut as an emissary to the Lowland Kodan. Caithe is a given from the footage, a bit of a wild card as too why, other than she could find no comfort in the grove anymore. Countess Anise and Livia makes sense.
I wonder if we will see Aurene again. Do you think it's possible that Isgarren might know where the five remaining gods have gone? we had our encounter with balthy, but remember he had Lyssa's mirror...how and where did he get that? did he get it from Lyssa herself, or was it something she just left behind in the mysts when they left, and he just happened to find it?
the Mursaat ... if they come back, they have to be deadly and unforgiving. if you can beat up a Mursaat on your own, that must be a kind of single player raid .. everything else would not feel right
Great video! I wish the story was more coherent for SOHO. So much was just handwaived or random mentions with no detail. Like the Mursaat connection to Nayos.
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Love to see your videos kicking back up, especially on Janthir! Missed ya Herald!
Thank you so much! /hug
On the 'all about the saving the world' I have wanted to see vignettes of Orr long after the cleansing where the undead are somewhat receded as a setting for even just a momentary meeting as part of another story. We save places but never escape and see the areas *after* we have preserved them.
Enjoying the stream of thought content, oh Herald with your voice that doth entrance us so! Can only recommend doing these more!
Wow, currently running my alts through the story, have looked all around that room and have never noticed the Eye !
when I saw the eye of janthir in eparchs room, my mind started SPINNING. Im very excited and hopeful about the next story, great video, Im enjoying the theorizing about the Mursaat, sine GW has such vast lore, this could be really good.
Imagine if the mursaat were responsible for what happen with the demons, maybe they had eparch under their control to take all this power for themselves
heads will roll
I remember way back SOTO there was so much hype around the demons like Kanaxai, Deimos, etc but everything went so disappointing after that.
I want more than anything for this story to be smaller in scope, but really well paced.
I really appreciate Livia and her story arc.
Didn't know Anet had made a mention to you in game, that's awesome! Congrats! I have to try and find it now.
Stream of consciousness? You do that so well, given I wouldn't have guessed!
I wonder how our homestead will be relevant in future expansions if the expansions are based in distant lands?
I'd love for us to have a way to expand the homestead into a small village (hamlet) with NPCs (farmers, crafters, traders, etc) we can interact with.. like, a mini resource-producing system. I guess having a carrot farmer/farm producing 50 carrots a day/week (as a random example of many options) will impact economy, but.. I dunno, I'd love to have more than just a homestead to "run".
And that other game with housing, YES, do a video! I love the housing concept, and although me finding time for anything besides GW2 is unlikely, I'm still open to temptation!
If livia will be there i hope that they will bring her amazing character from gw1 back. I was in shock how different she was in season 3. I didn't eve recognized her.
WOW - I'm SOOO behind.
Just now noticed while watching/listening to your vid that the lil teaser to Anise coming back in JW, her outfit is slightly tweaked....which means we might finally get her version of the outfit in gemstore xD
I'm always impressed when I see videos like this. Even though I've tried, I just can't connect to the story and characters of GW2. The reason I'm impressed is because videos like this tend to draw me in, whereas the game itself doesn't succeed at that.
I just want Taimi and Aurene back. I loved them. I wish we could get Blish back somehow too!! I have a GW2 playlist I fall asleep to, and I always try to doze off before I hear Blish's Sorrow. It's so pretty but so sad
Dude, I doubt we'll get much of our original dragon saga back. Which does suck. I miss some of them for sure. Heck, I miss the dragons.
I am in the opposing Camp. I am glad we are done with Aurene.
My guess for the mini exps "saga" is a build up maybe for the come back of the gods, somehow. Some of your ideas are nice but idk if anet can pursue them. This because many things was already said (many times) in the plot. In S3 we know Lazarus as the last Mursaat and with his death the tyrian Eye of Janthir dies. Mabon, is a Mursaat BUT as ascended wizard he is not "tecnically a mursaat anymore" or a mortal being like the others, by the way himself talk about the Eye from the s3 searching him before the Lazarus death. Also is said in some paper that the mursaat were exiled from Nayos. But how and when is not never explained. SO my point on the Eye inside the throne room is a easter egg for the story for the Janthir plotline.Indicating a connection with the region area. A plot with Titans involved.
So... maybe place the eye there was just a sign of the old glory of the mursaat in their own world. Or maybe they are alive outthere. But we want really see for the third time the "we are not dead totally" situation?
Idk if we will see more Kyrptis in the future but for me is not a wise move, bring back the worst plot ever of the franchise as new story for the second exp in a row.
Titans involved bring back Abaddon as powerful entity, but we forgot a point, he can't "come back". Abaddon IS kormir now, she, like aurene, absorbed another magical being and the abaddon magic now live inside the kormir, as she said in GW1 "I'm Kormir but also much more". Balthazar is dead, Joko too but them now are part of Aurene and her magic, they can't come back but they are part of her being.
So, for me is more... smart think about something else, in pof we see the realm of Kormir fall about itself for her leaving. My guess (in this case is that) the realm is totally fallen to the corruption again and we will not have a big smart bad at the end but like a monster factory of titan without a master.
IF they need to follow a good plot point, the weird behaviour about Lyssa from Pof Eod and other things in game can be a good build up to follow.
Ending thing, the Seer story is WELL explained in the Sidony collection from Soto. We know now even the seer from GW1 and the story of all the race... so i dont think is time for a more deep dive into that.
I think us seeing Kashmeer and Jory is unlikely since Anise is there in person. That shows how important this is since she's there. Jenna is also present, so it makes additional sense that Anise has followed.
Braham will also be there 100% as there's a screenshot that shows him being there (the same screenshot that shows Jenna) as a bodyguard to the emissary of the Norns.
I think that Taimi has a 0% chance of being there since she really has nothing to do with the Asura anymore, she spends her time in Cantha with Joon developing new tech and medical tech.¨
Canach also wants to be as far away from Anise as possible so the chances of him being there are low to none.
I looked up astral herald on the wiki and didn't find a thing.
What part of the story or idle area can we find your astral herald?
One small reference in an achievement called what was before.
My speculation STILL remains: Is queen Jennah Lyssa?
Who is it in the second picture from the left on the minature? I don't think it's Eir
It’s Marjory.
No way, thanks
Hopefully the writters of LS4.
If not, meh.
This could just be me, but I feel Peitha's design (as well as other major Kryptis characters) share a resemblance (particularly in head and arm shape) to the Exalted in Tarir. There are also hints scattered through lore tablets and books that Exalted have some connections to the Forgotten (who once shared knowledge with the Murssat, but were later at war with them). So I think it would not be such a leap to suggest that perhaps the Murasaat are infact related to the Kryptis and/or have a strong relationship with them.
My biggest head-canon atm is that the Mursaat and Kryptis existed in the same plane of the mists, and that they sought help from the Forgotten to try eradicate the Kyrptis. In their efforts, they failed to do so, and had to flee to Tyria. This of course, leads them to betray the Forgotten and later enslave people as false gods.
Also, the two dragons you get on the pre-order shoulder pads seem to alot like the two dragons on the EoD logo. I wonder if major plot points were changed for EoD...
I wonder if I can get my future ai phone to watch your videos and copy your voice??? That's morally acceptable right?
Return? Why? it is the Master in the Genre with PvE Open World Feeling, sPvP, massive PvP / WvW = 220+ ppl Content (all Game Modes are separately Balanced), Best Fashion, Gameplay, Mechanics, Story, COMMUNITY and much more! When I play other games, everything seems so Sterile!
It's not for nothing that WoW is becoming a GW2!
@@StickofTrue I was talking about characters returning to the story…
The problem with gw2 story is that nobody is the bad guy anymore we see this in every game this days its called the woke safe story telling to not offend anybody
the demons in gw2 should have never been given human characteristics they are the bad guys as much as a nature event like a tsunami is and its not offensive to tell this, they hunger and they ate like the locusts the same for the elder dragons
now what they gonna do with this story? introduce the mursaat who wanted to return to their homeworld that was eaten by the demons and let us sing together in friendship forget all past wrongs? lmfao
The Mursaat Mystery has easily been the most intriguing strory threat so far to me. And i have said for years Now that it's highly unlikely, that they are extinct.
Wonderful video! I've not been this hyped for a release since Heart of Thorns. I feel like the devs have a huge opportunity in Janthir Wilds to bring back some intriguing characters that have been missing from the story for a few years. Anise's presence could lead to shenanigans with the Mesmer Collective, Krytan politics, or even Lyssa (super unlikely but I would flip out). There are so many cool possibilities the story could go in. Fingers crossed they deliver in August.
Just found this channel , absolutely awesome
and that voice is just a joy to listen , can listen 24/7 :3
thanks you for the vidoes! loving all this !
What about E? The last time we heard about E was during Season 3. Now that we have more lore connected to the White Mantle and the Mursaat is E coming back? Are we finally going to meet E? Anet I have questions... lol
We can but hope
Spoiler: Krytan Herald is the final boss
Excellent video! I'm super excited for this expac!
Hi Herald! Loving your videos which I only discovered recently. I have to say how impressive it is that this was a stream of consciousness video from you. You are very well articulated and I love seeing creators like you bringin the lore of this game to light. I only started with GW2, never delved into GW1 I was too young at that point, so videos like these with links to previous stories that I might have only heard of but never delved deeper into is very helpful
With exploring Janthir, something that strikes me is the particular everlasting harvesting tools that came with preordering: the eldritch tools. A lot of the harvesting tools are themed to story/what's going on in the world, and I can't help but be reminded of the Eidolons (them big floaty kraken bois) from Prophecies and their connection to the Seers, Mursaat, and Titans. I'm excited to go to the birth place of the White Mantle!
Also, Braham can take an indefinite sabbatical. Doesn't matter which story it is, he's just... Not great. On the other hand, anything SOTO character related (especially Isgarren) and/or Canach I'm stoked for.
well i hope that means Mabon is not dead been a mursaat cause he was cool character they shouldnt have off him that fast just because a feminist in anet doent like men
story in this game is beyond bad.
I would love it if they didnt tie in everything into the most recent ideas. Not a fan of Abaddon being a Mursaat or Kryptis, if anything i think it would be significantly more interesting to find out that he was from one of the lesser races, perhaps the Krait
Quaggan.
@@Abyssal86 Well played.
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I'd like to see Braham revived, not as a youth but as a wise soul tempered by being at one with a Dragon. He was a Chosen one all along, and Janthir Wilds is his kind of territory. I could see him eventually replacing Knut White Bear as leader, therefore sent by Knut as an emissary to the Lowland Kodan. Caithe is a given from the footage, a bit of a wild card as too why, other than she could find no comfort in the grove anymore. Countess Anise and Livia makes sense.
I wonder if we will see Aurene again. Do you think it's possible that Isgarren might know where the five remaining gods have gone? we had our encounter with balthy, but remember he had Lyssa's mirror...how and where did he get that? did he get it from Lyssa herself, or was it something she just left behind in the mysts when they left, and he just happened to find it?
Abbadon used to be a Choya. A very secretive Choya. You'll see. Thanks for the video, Heraldine. Be well 🙂
Your voice is so relaxing to hear, I had to watch the video twice, because in the first time I closed my eyes a lot of times
I think it would be cool if the wayfinder ends up going through an ascension like in the first guild wars
I agree 👍 maybe Lazarus will be returning.
yeah it was very subtle but i knew it was the eye watching us
the Mursaat ... if they come back, they have to be deadly and unforgiving. if you can beat up a Mursaat on your own, that must be a kind of single player raid .. everything else would not feel right
Great video! I wish the story was more coherent for SOHO. So much was just handwaived or random mentions with no detail. Like the Mursaat connection to Nayos.
Astral Herald?? Quest accepted!!
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