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Neo Nugget · Jul 23, 2006, 11:12 PM // 23:12

What do you think the name for the nightfall world will be?Mabey a dark and mysterious name......

Nevin · Jul 23, 2006, 11:44 PM // 23:44

Elona.. (Is that the right way to spell it?) I'm pretty sure they stated it already.

Neo Nugget · Jul 23, 2006, 11:46 PM // 23:46

Oh musta missed it.Thats not a bad name.Hope its not all deserty and stuff.

Nevin · Jul 23, 2006, 11:52 PM // 23:52

Actually, they said that too. It'll resemble North Africa.

Former Ruling · Jul 24, 2006, 12:26 AM // 00:26

Elona is the spelling.

YOu know them because of the Elonians that visited the Crystal Desert (Elona Reach...)

Canadian Bacon · Jul 24, 2006, 12:35 AM // 00:35

For those unfamiliar with real-world geography, North Africa=Egypt=Desert.

I have a feeling that there will also be some jungle rainforest and open plains as seen in other parts of Africa, just because an entire desert continent would be excessively boring.

gamemagus · Jul 24, 2006, 03:23 AM // 03:23

Looks like we're heading to the land of the people that failed and we wasted our time fixing their mistakes (Crystal Desert). So now we're going to their land this time and we still are helping them fix their mistakes (Chapter 3). o_O

Vahn Roi · Jul 24, 2006, 03:26 AM // 03:26

Elona, can't wait.

brute blake · Jul 24, 2006, 12:42 PM // 12:42

*Hopes for no devourers but maybe Griphons lol*

Snowman · Jul 24, 2006, 01:01 PM // 13:01

If Cantha is south of Tyria, will Elona Be north maybe?.. or will it be further south?... hmmmm

Solar_Takfar · Jul 24, 2006, 03:44 PM // 15:44

EDIT: No politics, please. -Swampgirl

As for the setting of Elona, I doubt it will be all desert. First of all, North Africa/Middle east is not all desert, there are fertile zones, flood plains, oases and whatnot. It IS the area where civilization began (at least the civilizations that directly influenced western civ), and that's for a reason. Besides, a game with only one or two environments would get visually boring quick.

Tyria has pre-searing and post searing ascalon; shiverpeaks; kryta; maguuma; the crystal desert; the ring of fire. That's seven environments, plus some variation within each. Factions has Shing Jea; Kaineng; Echovald; and the Jade Sea. Another four distinct environments (with internal variations, too). It's not a wild guess to say that Nightfall will have at least four different environments.

Ah, and I suspect Elona would be southeast of Tyria, based on the position of the Crystal Desert (to which Elonians fled), possibly on the same landmass. Still north of Cantha, tho (or maybe east).

milias · Jul 24, 2006, 04:47 PM // 16:47

Ascalon = America
Cantha = China (or Cathay)

So by this logic, Nightfall is based on Persia, maybe something like Parenthia or something like that

Solar_Takfar · Jul 24, 2006, 05:39 PM // 17:39

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Originally Posted by milias

Ascalon = America

Is it? I always thought it was more like medieval europe, since, you know. there were no knights and castles and whatnot in medieval America (well, there were the mesoamerican civilizations, but nothing in Prophecies resembles that)

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Originally Posted by milias

So by this logic, Nightfall is based on Persia, maybe something like Parenthia or something like that

It'll probably have some themes reminiscent of middle-eastern culture, yes. If you're talking about the name, however, how does Persia or... Parenthia (wth?), resemble Elona?

milias · Jul 24, 2006, 05:48 PM // 17:48

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Originally Posted by Solar_Takfar

Is it? I always thought it was more like medieval europe, since, you know. there were no knights and castles and whatnot in medieval America (well, there were the mesoamerican civilizations, but nothing in Prophecies resembles that)

Just something I saw:

Ascalon = America
Kryta = Korea
Orr = Europe

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Originally Posted by Solar_Takfar

It'll probably have some themes reminiscent of middle-eastern culture, yes. If you're talking about the name, however, how does Persia or... Parenthia (wth?), resemble Elona?

Hmm, Elona? Aren't the people in Elona long dead? "Parenthia" is just a wild guess on my part, but I just realized that anything with the word "Parent" in it is probably not gonna fly

beanerman_99 · Jul 24, 2006, 05:54 PM // 17:54

Is there a globe or something that shows us where the continents are in relation to each other?

Crimso · Jul 24, 2006, 06:34 PM // 18:34

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Originally Posted by beanerman_99

Is there a globe or something that shows us where the continents are in relation to each other?

Its quite easy to tell cantha is to the south becuase theres no where to go north of lions arch the sea is cut out by land so the boats go south(i think it says on the guildwars calendar in the game manual the canthans vist the tyrians to the north)

and elona should be south east of tyria since they went to the crystal desert it can't be just east or they would of visited ascalon.

prodigy ming · Jul 25, 2006, 01:46 AM // 01:46

How does kryta = korea...?

Shadowfox1125 · Jul 25, 2006, 07:50 AM // 07:50

^ Yeah.. so apparently America's under siege, Europe is under water, and Korea is the only safe place left..

Queenie · Jul 25, 2006, 08:18 AM // 08:18

I think Elona will be like south/north of the desert!

Terra Xin · Jul 25, 2006, 08:34 AM // 08:34

I always thought that Prophecies was a map that contained the common environments that you would find in any RPG game. If Prophecies were only one environment, then noone would have bought chapter two...

I'd say "suckers" but I like factions^^.