History Headscratchers / GuildWars2

** You have to actively go find and complete a mission for the gladium you select (the thief's about to commit StupidSacrifice revenge on his warband's ghostly killer), so there might just be a time limit thing. On the other paw, between the ghosts and dragons and military conflicts, there's also a surfeit of Blood Legion warbands down several members, and Rytlock might only give you the option of one because he knows other warbands that would be in need of a good Necromancer or Thief. Or Charr of Rytlock's ideology might have cultural reasons to not want multiple 'untrustworthy' gladium in one warband.

* In the Charr personal story quest, after you take control of the warband, Rytlock orders you to refill your ranks after two members desert. You're given the choice between two honorable gladium, a veteran thief who's warband was wiped out, and a talented necromancer who was wrongly accused of being a flame legion traitor. You can only pick one of them. Technically speaking, your warband is down by three men after you kill/banish your old legionnaire and his two cronies go AWOL. Why can't you recruit both of them? You need the manpower, and depending on your class selection and who you picked as your sparing partner it's fairly easy to end up in a situation where your warband is in need of both stealth and magic.

* So, Locust Swarm gives you swiftness. Why do you gain swiftness from a locust swarm?

* I believe Word Of God stated that the Centuars can't be made as a playable race due to the coding nightmare of having to make armour that'd fit not just them but the other races. For other bipedals, Expansions are planned so who knows, Aparently players of the beta have noticed that the Tengu wall is large enough to house say Oh one starting area...

** Despite that they took a ''lot'' of creative liberties with it to make them stand out...and you know that this is indeed the ''perfect'' opportunity to develop them more - I mean, they don't see anything wrong with Shapeshifting vikings (Come on, ''how'' many societies are we going to see based off of Nordic culture?) or plant people that look more like nature sprites from popular mythology. The Centaurs in Guild Wars were actually not so much half-man half horse but were half ''gazelle'' and were ''african'' - something that's ''very'' underrepresented in {{RPG}} settings. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter They wasted a few perfectly good societies]].

* I think another important reason is that areanet wanted to make its own races, which is why the dwarfs who [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame were made in the same mold as Tolkien's dwarfs]] got the shaft in Eye of the North. Tengu, similarly, are named after Japanese mytholical creatures, just as centaurs are based on Europian mythology and will also not be playable.

* The Tengu are busy hanging out in the Dominion of Winds. So their probably either going to be an expansion race or A-net just don't see the Tengu as playable race?

* Where are the playable Tengu? I always wondered why the devs decided to develop new races (Norn, Sylvari, Asura) and make them playable, rather than the existing ones like the Tengu? Yeah, they certainly went with Charr, which people have wanted since ''Prophecies'', but why were the Tengu given the short end of the stick?

Not to be rude, but this statement has a huge hole in it. The Norn may be wise, but as a race the Norn are individuals. Period. Their entire "society" if such a term can even be applied to them since they do what they want, when they want and are as organized as a bar-room brawl, is to be [[FamedinStory Famed in Story]]. They drink till they bust a gut, climb mountains and take on the biggest damn monsters they can, alone more often than not, for the sake of living forever in legend. Many of them are wiser than they lead on or are very attached to the spirits, but to other races much of what they do is suicidal and extreme. They throw themselves into life seeking glory and consequences be damned. The same Gullik who is wiser than he looks or comes off to be is also the same guy who screwed up an honor duel before he grasped the bigger picture, and threw himself axe-first at a monster the size of a hill on his own, Leeroy Jenkins style. Granted he's a 9-foot-tall,badass, but the point is that while norn like Eir seek wisdom and fame through their craft, many norn aren't viewed as overly wise or overly brash, just hungry for prestige in what they do. For all other questions see [[http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Norn The Other Wiki]] in fact all other questions can basically be solved with GW2 wiki for anyone actually wanting to do their research.

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* Umm to person that mentioned Dream letting the Sylvari master everything: The Sylvari Dream doesn't work that way... Each Sylvari only get a small portion of the collected memories, which in turn are vague, They'll know it, But will still have to do it
themself and learn it fully. Lore has states that Humanity have the most well documented history, Norn are individuals so while one is Wise like Eir, another can be like Gyda, obnoxious and ignorant.
The Charr are highly intelligent but also have as a whole a distrust of magic especially defensive magic that is almost downright silly. Every Race in GW2 has good and bad points, That is the whole point of the plot, That the races have to -band- together and use their skills. Humanity is just as needed as others and it wasn't so much a case of being not to bright but simply being seriously unlucky between Gw1's time and Gw2.

* "Charr society is fundamentally opposed to the forces of independent thought, personal curiosity, individual desires, and free communication, which fuel research." Really? Tell that to Pyre Fierceshot and Kalla Scorchrazor, both of whom were fiercely independent and individual. It seems to me like you're forcing a very narrow view of the charr which the lore doesn't support and then basing your logic on that, and by doing so your logic is flawed. And this quote in particular - "This is simply bad writing in an attempt to include a redeeming quality in a race which should not logically have it." - makes this 'headscratcher' sound possibly like a case of [[FantasticRacism fantastic racism]].

From what I've seen from the demo (though I haven't personally played it yet: *sadface*), it appears that the majority of humans in Kryta are white. This is... [[UnfortunateImplications weird]], considering that the majority should be Krytan. Even taking into account that there's a sizeable Ascalonian community in Kryta, there shouldn't be ''that many'' white people around. It also bugs me that despite the efforts of the designers to seperate armour from function as much as possible, they've failed to seperate armour from gender. Granted, they're still heads-and-shoulders above most other [=MMOs=] in this respect, so I should just be thankful that female Charr look like Charr and not [[FurryFandom furry fetish fuel]], but it still bugs me. They were so ''close'' to the perfect game, you know?

From what I've seen from the demo (though I haven't personally played it yet: *sadface*), it appears that the majority of humans in Kryta are white. This is... [[UnfortunateImplications weird]], considering that the majority should be Krytan. Even taking into account that there's a sizeable Ascalonian community in Kryta, there shouldn't be ''that many'' white people around. It also bugs me that despite the efforts of the designers to seperate armour from function as much as possible, they've failed to seperate armour from gender. Granted, they're still heads-and-shoulders above most other MMOs in this respect, so I should just be thankful that female Charr look like Charr and not [[{{Furry}} furry fetish fuel]], but it still bugs me. They were so ''close'' to the perfect game, you know?

From what I've seen from the demo (though I haven't personally played it yet: *sadface*), it appears that the majority of humans in Kryta are white. This is... [[UnfortunateImplaications weird]], considering that the majority should be Krytan. Even taking into account that there's a sizeable Ascalonian community in Kryta, there shouldn't be ''that many'' white people around.

* As for the humans not being technologically advanced, you're looking at the humans as they are regularly shown--the well-rounded, highly adaptive "Marios" of the RPG world. These are not those humans. These are highly religious humans who trust in their gods to aid them and show them the way. They're more like the elves of most RPGs, really--very traditional, very unchanging. They're practically the same as they were in the original Guild Wars. Might be FridgeBrilliance, actually--the Charr were humiliated when they realized they had been worshipping false gods, so it makes sense that they would turn to technology. The Human gods, on the other hand, are very much real--they even replaced one of them they weren't happy with. Why should they doubt their worship then?

**** fhqwhgads:You're a bit late. If you'd look at the post you responded to, you'd see that that claim was a mistake and has been fixed.

*** Nick: Except official sources also state that the Charr legions specifically work together to maintain and expand their empire. Research, development and industry are all an integral part of expansion, are they not? And since the Charr raise and school their young, it's entirely possible they form warbands that specifically learn about engineering and chemistry from a young age. Sure, they don't have the freedom to let anyone who wants to create something do it, but if they have Charr who were trained in technology from a young age, all a Charr has to do is see an idea delivered to them, and to give ''them'' ideas in turn. Considering their culture, the idea of the Charr specifically developing the minds of their young for chosen purposes is not far-fetched.