Curse

Novalon · Sep 22, 2007, 09:51 PM // 21:51

So I was just thinking about how GW2 is 150 years in the future, and it occurred to me that it would be unlikely that everyone's current characters would even be around.

So, what do your characters do after it's all over? I'll post a few of mine, and you can comment or add your own if you wish.

Arnold Schwrtznggr (Warrior): After basically doing all that there is to do, he wandered off in search of ways to better himself. After spending several years bettering himself through titles, he wrote a book entitled: "GET TO DA CHOPPA: How to manage aggro one squishy at a time".

Of course, based on the whole inheritance idea, one sweet thing would be a character that is based on several of your characters. Like my Male Warrior would hook up with my female Ranger, Assassin, Necro, Paragon, Ele, or Dervish.

Of course, my warrior is the best for me to comment on, my Monk, however...

Tirion Olorin: Gathered dust because he was forced to monk under a satellite connection. He was never the same since.

Mordakai · Sep 23, 2007, 01:12 AM // 01:12

Well, if it turns out the story of the Charr conquering Ascalon while my character is still alive is true; I suspect she must have killed herself in shame.

Either that, or is addicted to Absinthe, and is living in the Crystal Desert "looking at all the pretty colors."

draxynnic · Sep 23, 2007, 12:55 PM // 12:55

Hrrmn. Going with my Ascalonian characters first... and assuming I do actually go to GW2

Aeron (Me/E/N) will be fighting to the bitter end. If the destruction of Ascalon is indeed in her 'living' lifetime, she'll be in Asuran territory at the time, trying to gather some kind of weapon or magic to use against the Charr (after all, we helped you make the weapon to use against your mortal enemy you ungrateful brats...). Afterwards, she'll grow increasingly bitter, turning more towards the necromantic path over the elemental one. She may end up raising a family or taking on an Asuran apprentice, but either way her successors will be taught to hate the Charr.

Gwenyth (W/E) will be teaming up with Akhom (a Dervish) and... any other interested parties to estabolish a school teaching combat styles mixing weapons with elemental magic in the Ascalon Settlement in North Kryta, with many of the trainees likely to turn towards fighting the Charr (either in Ascalon or with the Ebon Vanguard, or to defend against raids). At some stage, she'll come across and adopt a Charr cub - which will eventually want to return to its own society. Any descendants of the Charr in question may or may not know of this piece of family history...

Gawain (Mo/R), being a priest of Melandru, will probably put some work into attempting to restore Ascalon, but will be called to join Ventari in studying and tending the Sylvari tree in Arbor Bay after its fall.

Second installment: Characters created at the start of Factions:

Manfred (N/Rt/Mo) returns to the Echovald Forest and throws himself into the war against the Luxons, taking great glee in sending the corpses of fallen Luxons against their friends and family until his retirement. Nearing his deathbed when Emperor Usoku's troops neared, he requested to be left behind when his settlement was evacuated to aid in delaying the troops, following in Naku's footsteps by sacrificing himself to create an army of minions to throw against the invaders. While it failed to break the Canthan army, it did slow them enough for the refugees to escape.

Elsa (R/Me/pretty much everything) turns her back on the Kurzick/Luxon conflict and joins with the Ebon Vanguard, aiding them in missions against the Charr and hunting game in the Shiverpeaks between sorties before settling in Kryta for her retirement, although she continues to live as a hunter and trapper providing small game and furs to the local community for some years afterwards.

Third installment: Characters created in response to new slots being introduced:

Tien Lung (E/Mo) enters the Mists and disappears.

Cassandra (Rt/Me) came to the realisation that a prophecy that if the Kurzicks and Luxons did not find peace then both would be destroyed was not referring to Shiro's machinations. Like her namesake in Greek mythology, however, she is on the whole disbelieved by both sides - however, while she fails to bring peace in time to resist Usoku's invasion, her efforts do allow her to make the contacts to arrange for some Kurzick settlements to be evacuated through the Jade Sea.

Hector (A/N), like Elsa, abandons the Kurzick/Luxon war. For a while he employed his talents as a mercenary assassin for the Ebon Vanguard against the Charr until the Order of Whispers began branching out of Elona, after which he became an agent of that organisation.

Dorvan919 · Sep 23, 2007, 04:39 PM // 16:39

Hmm id like to think my character this way...

He goes to complain to Palawa Joko for cutting the Elon river off which leads to a war between Palawa and his undead army and Dorvan with his Sunspear comrades. (hes a legendary spearmarshal

) They have a huge fight in the gates of desolation where the defeated spirits of Ossa help Dorvan and the sunspears defeat Palawa Joko. But all goes bad as Dorvan and his Sunspears get killed and only a few sunspear survive since they escaped the battlefield. Dorvan was captured while most of sunspear died. He was then killed by Palawa Joko and his grave resides in the hall of monuments as a Legendary Spearmarshal of Elona

. meanwhile Gwen and her ebon vanguard decide to win Ascalon back with the help of Pyre and King Adelbern. It was then they were losing and Adelberns magic killed Pyre, Gwen and the others. It was now a ghost city. Then my new GW2 character stumbles to the HoM where he finds all of Dorvan's belongings and the grave itself.

Well thts wot i think happened to my character

PureEvilYak · Sep 29, 2007, 11:07 PM // 23:07

Vivi Malvagio (Ranger) : Hopelessly addicted to adventure, he never settled down. Along with his companion Enenion Shadowfoot (Assassin), he carried out adventure after adventure that took him all over and under Tyria. His final demise occurred when he was sent by Ascalon on a mission to the Corsair infested remains of Orr for items of power that may be of use in the battle against the Charr. No-one knows if he ever found anything, as his last of the status reports sent by his Rainbow Phoenix told of daily earthquakes, and dark shapes flitting beneath the waters. 3 days after the report was received, the... well, anyone who has read the spoilers elsewhere on the forum will know what happened, I don't want to spoiler it. Needless to say, those who knew him were sure he put up a damn good fight.

Falx Exsecrabilis (Dervish) : Became addicted to Norn feasts. Died of a massive heart attack 3 years later.

OlMurraniKasale · Sep 30, 2007, 03:52 AM // 03:52

"The days of men and sword are over!" Spoke the oldest of the Norn, sitting barely half asleep, half awake by the blazing fire. The blizzard blew in fast, blew in hard and anything beyond ten feet was pure white. "What need of heroes now that even the Great Destroyer is sent to its demise?"

The carousing, ale-drinking Norn all laughed at this and clustered together around the fire, called together by Tyr the Skaald. An upstart, a daring human, was about to tell a story. A story of the Norn. All would agree that he had assisted the Norn, the Asura and the Ebon Vanguard in securing the peace of the Far Shiverpeaks, but that was long ago, and age had caught up to all of them. What need of heroes indeed in such an age?

"Me thinks this will be a tale of how the human managed to crawl from his baby clothing this morning!"

More laughter. Tyr the Skaald appeared from the deep winter blizzard. "Listen well, for this human will tell the tale of the Last Days of Gunnar's Hold!"

The Norn as a group stood, throwing their ale to the ground, swords and axes and hammers raised to the sky. "Outrageous! We will slaughter the lot of them who dare!"

Tyr smiled, laughed and beckoned them to sit. "So! The days of sword are over, heh?"

Gi Shin, the ritualist from Cantha, had stood silent the entire time the Norn threw their insults at him, staring into the blazing fire. He raised his hand high, and the sounds of Norn were vanquished instantly. "Bend your knee to hear my tale, brave Norn, for as Tyr said, this is a tale of how Gunnar's Hold falls!"

Some grumbling, but mostly intent listening.

"This is the Fall of Gunnar's Hold, but this is also the tale of how those bastards pay for throwing down this fine hearthstead!"

Again the Norn stood as one and their shouts of approval and cheers filled the whole of the valley beyond. Even the Jotuns that night slipped fearfully into their dark, cold warrens at such ferocity.

Gi Shin began the tale as all good Norn tales should start - ale-drinking, womanizing and an enemy whose breath smelled of brim . . ..

Gi Shin would tell many such tales throughout those years, always one eye on the ale, one eye on Jora and his mind on old adventures and old friends - heroes all who had thrown down undead, semi-undead, fire breathing beasties and even a deposed god. A time for heroes? All the time!
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Storytelling by the fire at Gunnar's Hold? You bet!

mazey vorstagg · Sep 30, 2007, 06:04 AM // 06:04

My elementalist, Mazey settles down to have children with a nice hunky Krytan guy. She's gonna buy a house on the Watchtower coast, so she can farm Mergoyles all day long and have a nice view at the same time. :P

Their great, great, granddaughter is called Tamaya, another skilled magic user, and my character in GW2.

draxynnic · Sep 30, 2007, 06:14 AM // 06:14

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Originally Posted by mazey vorstagg

My elementalist, Mazey settles down to have children with a nice hunky Krytan guy. She's gonna buy a house on the Watchtower coast, so she can farm Mergoyles all day long and have a nice view at the same time. :P

Their granddaughter is called Tamaya, another skilled magic user, and my character in GW2.

Might want to tack a few greats onto that.

Komes I · Sep 30, 2007, 07:56 AM // 07:56

Nice thread, so here are some of mine:

Raziel Archer (Ranger, primary char.): Started expedition to the far ends of Magnnuma Jungle with some Mercenaries, never to be seen again...

Shadowblade Ivan (primary Assassin): Joined Kurzick monstery to find him self dead 15 years later after raid of Luxons.

Hellfire Ivan (secondary char.): Got a job in Celestial Monastery, burned half of the Kaigen City and himself with it. By accident.

Luinwe the Assassin (secondary Assassin): Joined Zaishen Elite. Lived there till her life came to an end in age of 67. At the time of her date she was in position of scribe.

Couldn't be bothered to write longer stories than this.

Vanessa Dwager · Oct 03, 2007, 03:44 AM // 03:44

Vanessa Dwager
Necro/Ranger

Her work completed, her deeds done, Vanessa retired to Droknar's forge with her faithful companion Icky Icky the Black Widow spider. There she found a rarity, a human blacksmith learning the art of blacksmithing from the Dwarves before they disappeared. They owned a medium sized cylinder house and raised many children. Vanessa died at the old age of 108.

Dorvan919 · Oct 03, 2007, 02:53 PM // 14:53

oh to add to my bit

after a few decades and stuff he gets ressurected from the dead by the God of Truth as a thank you for helping her in the past and to save Tyria, Cantha and Elona again

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netniwk · Oct 04, 2007, 05:00 PM // 17:00

malicious slime rat will be joining forces with the charr and die of age.
ugh the crazed monk will fall of a cliff while chasing a butterfly,after slaying single handly thousands of char warbands.
thistle dreamrealm will do a kamikaze explosion in the middle of a char camp.

IslandHermet · Oct 04, 2007, 09:59 PM // 21:59

My warrior will have many many children with my goddess monk and teach them all the ways of combat, while showing them the remains of great beast all over Tyria, Elona and Cantha before getting werrie of old age he will lead his entire family to GW:EN and show them something he fears to come, the Great Dragons frozen in time and explain that no one has ever encountered such great power and their is no history explaining them....While on his death bed he commands them to hone there skills in combat and harness the magics of the world, teach their children to do the same. In case a Great Evil comes back to the world. With his last breath he Screams the Great Dragons WILL WAKE UP AND DOOM SHALL FOLLOW THEM!!!!

angmar_nite · Oct 04, 2007, 10:44 PM // 22:44

Dark Lord nitemare, the lord of sunspears, savior of Ascalon and all Tyria, Elder of the Luxons, Conqueror of the darkest of foes, advisor to the Emperor of Cantha himself, finds himself desperately trying to salvage his order while defending against the advancing charr. In the final days of his life, he is summoned by the Luxons to fight one last great war. As the armies of the Empire of the Dragon closes in on the harvest temple, he, like the fell monster, unleashes all the power left in him. Lightning strikes down hundreds while the searing heat of a savannas burns the forest and boils the sea. Meteors cause tremendous tsunamis and earthquakes shatter the land.

Dark lord Crusader like his brother, fights to the bitter end. He and his best friends Koss and Goren stood next to Adelbern dropping heaps of dead Charr all around, until a swift arrows slew koss, goren immolated into ashes, and he himself was brought low by 3 swift shots from his onetime friend, Pyre.

Dark lady Mortis, did not get the honor of such glorious defeats. She was awaken one night in her dwelling in Cantha, by a legion of guards for the soul purpose of defeating her. After slaying many and summoning an army of undead so massive, so great, it had never been seeing before, she was brought low as the buildings collapsed around her.

The holy paragon, Dark Lord of Telum stood in the domain of a long dead foe, Rotscale, as he and his old tutor Morghan stood back to back slaying one centaur after another. Shouting noble cries such as "there is nothing to fear" and "Stand your ground," they fell many before the same meteor annihilates both in a flash.

Dark Lord of death was on one last mission; one that may very well be suicidal. The only one he ever failed. As he descended upon the fell Emperor a thousand arrows pierced his body, for he was betrayed by fallen sunspears who had made the journey to cantha.

Dark Lord Purgatory fell in battle as well. Standing over the dead bodies of the last of the Margonites, having hunted them down for many years, he turned around only to see his once mighty sunspears being devoured by an infinite army of undead. Gathering the strength of all gods, he enters a wrath and transforms into the avatar of Abaddon and slays thousands until his own fiery malice consumes himself.

The Canthan ritualist Dark Regicide stood alone back to the wall, surrounded by the bound spirits of Mallyx, the undead Lich, and Shiro. All of whom in his final act of power were bent to his will. This effort costed him his life, but the 3 demonic fiends crushed all of the Emperors finest, decimating half of kaineng city, as the spirits of the 3 were finally broken and spent.

Trelliz · Oct 09, 2007, 12:44 PM // 12:44

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Originally Posted by draxynnic

Aeron (Me/E/N)...Afterwards, she'll grow increasingly bitter, turning more towards the necromantic path...She may end up raising a family

lol, being a necro i found that rather amusing.

Cerberus Blake - Continues to adventure across the world, and being a necromancer may have been able to extend his own life into the time of gw2, but somehow degrades to Level 1 again

, or go into some sort of death-hibernation until the world's really fubar'd and he's needed again, and is awoken by the wave of Magical Awesomness(TM) created by the arrival of the dragons, smiles to himself, dusts off his cap sigs and gets ready to go...maybe.

draxynnic · Oct 09, 2007, 01:48 PM // 13:48

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Originally Posted by Trelliz

lol, being a necro i found that rather amusing.

Bwahaha. As a primary Mesmer, I don't think trying to go full MM will be a good plan... but one of these days I'd like to Arcane Mimicry and Signet of Illusions up a level 26 Flesh Golem just for the WTF factor...

The reference there is that in play Aeron started off as a Mesmer/Air Elementalist combination, but ended up picking up more and more Necromancer skills as time went on (half of them would have fit just as well in the Mesmer line anyway...) and I'm thinking that if GW2 has a similar profession structure, her inheritor will probably start of as a Me/N instead of a Me/E. The story above gives me a basis as to why her inheritors may be trained in that manner...

Should have the next intallment in a few days - I'm still just a little unsure as to what Hector's going to do.

Melajo · Oct 19, 2007, 02:33 AM // 02:33

Ernst Harrowden, Mesmer (Indefinitely Incapacitated; status unknown) :
-Marries Menina Kavkhan after defeating the Great Destroyer. They have several children but fail to produce a son.*
-Fights in Ascalon for a while, fathers a son with Lyla Kavkhan.*
-Knocked into a magical coma after being exposed to the mysterious power of Drakkar Lake.

Ella Harrowden, Dervish (Undead, Eternal, Eternally Undead or something):
-Settled in Vabbi after defeating Abaddon. Since then she had started hearing whispers from her scythe, those whispers being the voices of the many soldiers and demons she slaughtered.
-Strikes a deal with Palawa Joko to silence the voices in her scythe, becoming one of the early Mordant Cresent knights.
-Her scythe was never silenced; Palawa merely made her unable to hear the shrieks of the dead that now roar twice as loud.

Menina Kavkhan, Elementalist (Thrown off a cliff) :
-Marries Ernst Harrowden right after the Great Destroyer's defeat. They have several children, but they're all girls.*
-Driven mad by the mysterious power of Drakkar lake while on expedition with Ernst, goes on a burning rampage for a few days before throwing herself into the Bottomless Pit of Jaga Moraine.

Lyla Kavkhan, Warrior (KIA, Spirit lives on in Ascalon City) :
-Returns to fight the Charr in Ascalon after the Great Destroyer's defeat. She leads several successful campaigns against them but falls in the final battle of Ascalon city. Her spirit fights on, called back by the power of Adelbern's Magdaer.
-Had a son with Ernst Harrowden while he fought in Ascalon.*

Naomi Nova, Ranger (Dies by old age) :
-Settles in the Maguuma Jungle, befriending a displaced Norn and an unusually humble Asura and starting up a lucrative tourguide business. She has twelve half-norn children with her Norn friend.*

Armand "Sergeant Sunshine" Nova, Paragon (KIA) :
-Fought along the Desolation's borders as Palawa Joko's forces began to pressure the Sunspears.
-Killed in action versus Palawa's Forces. A rogue dervish wearing broken sunspear insignia ambushed his squad, and none were spared. The wounds on the bodies were said to scream in agony if one listened closely enough. Evidence shows Sergeant Sunshine fought back and was able to wound the assailant, but ultimately met the same fate as his men.

Mandingo Florence, Ritualist (Afflicted and disposed of accordingly) :
-Lived his life as a spiritual medium for the Canthan military. He eventually retired and faded into obscurity. However, exposure to an old momento of the time of the plague caused him to contract it; he is cut down by the Canthan Guard after a 4-month killing spree.

Christina Florence, Elementalist (Dies by old age) :
-Joined the Xunlai Guild after the Great Destroyer was defeated and stationed in Kryta.

Mana Marmalade, Monk (Indefinitely Incapacitated; status unknown) :
-Assigned by Monastary Monks to care for the comatose Ernst Harrowden.
-Somehow concieved 3 children during her time caring for Ernst, even though there were no other people around.*
-Her exposure to Ernst's Coma eventually causes her to succumb to it as well.

*Might make a descendant in GW2 based off this.
Sometimes I think I have too many characters.

Celadriel · Oct 20, 2007, 06:59 PM // 18:59

My main character, Celadriel Cel, an elementalist, is chased to the mountains after hitting repeatedly on Cynn. There his mind and body is inflicted great pain due to unhealthy life-expanding experiments. Mountain Wurms becomes his friends and allies though he secretly eats them. Eventually the wurms see the connection between the human's arrival and their own suddenly decrease of numbers, and he escapes down to the Asuran territories.
The Asura respects him in spite of his hate towards them, until he attacks an Asuran orphanage. Once again he is forced to escape, and hides away in a small settlement in Arbor Bay.
He witnesses the birth of the Sylvari, and, with his experience in magic and prominent role in the latest events of the world, becomes the idol for a few of them. Realizing his influence over these selected young Sylvari, he starts acting as a father role for them. He convinces them to live after his selfish ideals, and they are slowly corrupted. Eventually he takes on a major role in destroying the peace of this refugee, and is killed in the following conflicts.

However this somehow manages to give me the opportunity of creating his Sylvari descendants in GW2

Bergil · Oct 21, 2007, 08:53 PM // 20:53

here's what I can think of

Bergil Sunfyre went back to Ascalon, and helped tbecame a leader in the fight against the Charr. When he heard of Adelburn's plan to make Ascalon City uninhabitable, he was so disgusted that he defected, bringing the Charr information enough to drive the Ascalonians back into the besiegrd Ascalon City, and so unintentionally bringing about Adelburn's plan. He lived out the rest of his days among the Charr, and his adopted children kept the Sunfyre name (which already sounded Charr-like). (Feanor Sunfyre is going to be one of my characters in Guild Wars Two)

Emmet Bloodhawk (Sangbuteo, in the original Canthan, but he always went by Bloodhawk) became the assassin trainer at Shing Jea Monastary, and remained a supporter of the Luxons. When Emperor Usoku began his conquests, the now-aging Emmet was a one of his most high-profile critics, so Usoku arranged for him to die of natural causes. However, it is rumored that he has descendants among the Norn. (Bowsarr Sangbutorr Munesson is going to be one of my characters in Guild Wars Two)

Gnaisf the Screamer retired from the Sunspears and wrote several books on philosophy, including Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Popular Opinion-The Greatest Weapon Of All, and The Gods By Mortal Standards. They weren't big hits with the average man on the street (see chapter 17 of Popular Opinion), but had a lot of influence with artists, Asurae, and other lunatics. He scrammed out of Elona before Palawa Joko expanded to Istan, realizing that it was an unwinnable battle. (Karm the Gnaisfian is going to be one of my characters in Guild Wars Two)

Zelyoniy · Oct 22, 2007, 12:30 AM // 00:30

Jericho McFall, who dawned the family title of the Zelyoniy Ranger (the traditional defender of the Ascalon foothills) spent his entire adult life in combat. Raised under the principles of the McFall clan to protect his family, his hamlet, his country, and his race, the Zelyoniy Ranger spent his life fighting the Charr, leading refugees to the lands of Kryta, thwarting the plans of the undead advisor of Orr, slaying the unnamable Canthan betrayer, vanquishing an ancient god, and defeating a Dwarven god. After the revolutionary events of the Destroyer War, the still-young Jericho spent his time sabataging Charr forces bent on destroying his homeland, and maintaining healthy relations with the other races.

When Jericho heard reports of Mantle remnants amassing to destroy the Ascalon refugee camp in Kryta, he immediately traveled to the fledgling town alone to meet with Shining Blade aid. After a 3 day battle, the camp stood, and Jericho with it. Before he left to continue the fight in the north, he caught the eyes of a beautiful Shinging Blade warrior named Delila. At last, the free spirited Ranger was subdued, and married Delila on the D' Alessia Seabord 2 months later.

Fighters at heart, Jericho and Delila fought in the Charr homelands, and dared to build a home on the northwest fringes of the region. 5 years later, Delila gave birth to a boy, who was named Jack McFall. When young Jack was a boy, Jericho brought him to the ruins of Ascalon and promised him that one day, this land would regrow, and the McFall family and the other Ascalonians WILL rule supreme here again.

Jericho passed the torch and dubbed Jack, Zelyoniy Ranger at the age of 14. He continued to fight the Charr and any other threat to the people of Tyria, Cantha, and Elona until he could fight no more. Frail and weak, the elder Jericho lay on his deathbed. He made a request to have his ashes spread on the Ascalon Foothills. He made Jack one final request to his grown son, to defend Ascalon to the end and to never forget the promise that one day, the Ascalonians will reclaim their beautiful, green lands. He told his wife and son how much he loved them, then quietly and peacefully faded away with them by his side.

Jack obeyed his father and passed on the torch. 250 years after the Destroyer War, a young Jedidiah McFall takes on the mantle of Zelyoniy Ranger and steps up to defend Fort Ebonhawke and the remnants of humanity, determined to fulfill a family prophecy of salvation.

Woowee that was long. xD