New lore on the official GW page!

There is a new segment of lore on the Guild Wars page hinting at Grenth's Footprint and its cave Sorrows Furnace!

Hmm . . . So much speculation does this lore add. Whitman's Folly, Tasca's Demise . . . interesting. This makes me jumpy, why dost thou tempt me?

Why do I have a feeling suddenly that the new areas are literally right around the corner?

Why does the Dwarf in the Lore talk with a Scottish accent while all the others are Russian?

You cant really apply the nationalities of the guildwars lore to real life but if you did it would be like- The Ascalonians- Europeans | Dwarves-Norsemen | Krytans- Africans |
Orrians- Portugese (judging by that vazier).

Anyway, this gives a little backround check on the two zones of Tyria (adds it to his lore), oh and Cynn continues to prove that she's a stubborn lady and always be one :P

I cant wait.

Some very nice concept art linked from there too.

Hmmm, woulda peged the Krytans as Native Americans. Imho anyways.

i reaaaally hope it comes out today, as wednesday is the usual update day!

I'm into Warcraft lore, but not GW lore... I haven't tried yet to be honest, but what I liked about Warcraft lore was that it played out over the video games, you weren't just given an entire backstory, you CREATED the backstory, you were just given some simple plot items (Orcs, Medivh, etc.). Not only that, but the journal-entry style in the WCI booklet for explaining the plot was badass and well done.

It was put this way Ascalonians are Americans on the servers which means Canada,US.NZ and Australia the Krytans are Korea and Orrian or European.

I liked that piece, too. I thought Jess did a great job of presenting the appetizers without quite letting us get a nibble. Darn him, huh?

Summer Update will be Summer. Promise!

Summer is over in two weeks. :P

I really love how thought out everything is. The new areas don't just feel like they are thrown in to please the whiners. I can't wait to go exploring!

More places for me to run to and charge extravagantly high prices for? Can't wait.

LOL, you won't believe how many people wanted to be run to Port Sledge because they heard rumors of the boat taking you to the new areas would be there. Woo hoo, more gold for me.

Don't you mean farming?

When these areas are out I'm going to farm farm farm them to hell and back, since you neverknow what will drop in them

*crosses fingers* Please let toggable capes be in the patch

From the sounds of things, people may be able to actually go to and explore the rift, without being in the tournament, possible could be the new UW/FoW style area for Sorrow's Furnace Complection. I think its time to also explore Whitmans Folly and Tascas Demise a bit, make sure its all mapped out.

EDIT: I just had a thought, Tascas Demise (being one of the places linked to the story line) leads to Mineral Springs as most people know, but at the very end of Mineral Springs in the Ice cave (if you manage to get in past the huge mobs) is a statue of Lysaa, then further down is the Eliodon and a Seer. But next to the staue there are two portals, when I first saw them I thought they may be linked somehow to a new area....this may be somehow linked to one of the new areas. I've added screen shots so people know what I mean.

How I hope and dream they will be!

I thought the same thing about Tasca's Demise. I have it all mapped too, heh.

Well if that's true they're going to have to have a outpost to go too, since getting there will be a nightmare, Mineral springs is near impossible to get around in safely.