A kind of GW Viking land - the land beyond Giant's Basin

Ok, I had a previous thread about gaps in the map ( click here if interested ), and one of the ideas was a land beyond the Giant's Basin.

The Giant's Basin is the one on the left of the two seas above Kryta. There is a bit of land in between the two that goes up and round. This is where the new land would be.

Now. I've been in Watchtower Coast a number of times and looked out across the sea from the beach. And there are all these watchtowers all along the coast. Somewhere, I forget where, either in-game or in the manual, it says that these watchtowers were built to defend against invasions from across the sea. So what I've been wondering: Who were the invaders? What was the land they lived in?

GW Vikings! And they sailed across the sea in their longboats to raid Kryta! And where do they live? A chilly, foresty land like Scandinavia!


(to see the big pic just click on the image...)

Ok, so, it's the land of the 'GW Vikings'(well they're not called that). The first little area coming off Nebo Terrace there 'Wallmoor County' is still in Kryta and is kinda like it with a few little buildings and a bridge. Then you reach a big ancient wall built by the ancient krytans to defend against the northeners. You go through a portal at it into 'Saerfor wood' which is like shusky suggested, all foresty a bit like some areas of pre-searing ascalon. It is barren and the road running north kinda wears out in the north. There are a few trails through the forest too. Then there is another portal and you go into 'Varlund Hills' which is the country of the 'Gw Vikings'. There is more forest, some cliffy hills, beaches, and areas of buildings. At the corner of it is a little outpost (adapted from 'Stockholm') which is a little walled town/village with a keep and port and crap. Maybe some quests can go from there.
In wallmoor county the enemies could be mostly normal krytan ones like ettins. Then in saerfor woods there could be more krytan things but also some other things, and also some 'viking' troops who would be a bit like the stone summit but they would have different armour and looks and stuff. Then in Varlund Hills there could be pretty much all 'vikings', maybe some mergoyles and skale near the beach and a few ettins.

sounds pretty cool. I think the new areas look like golf courses.

yup, looks pretty neat.

I think its pretty creative, i wouldnt mind playing with some vikings.

Was thinking the 'Vikings' could be called 'Varlundians'.

They would have a bronze helmet with horns, then their armour is ragged chainmail with brown padding. There could various types, just like Stone Summit, such as

Varlundian Berserker - Axe warrior
Varlundian Stormer - Sword warrior
Varlundian Hillman - Ranger
Varlundian Caller - Elementalist
Varlundian Darkhand - Necro
Varlundian Charger - Horse-mounted axe raider cavalry

They could roam around whole areas in sort of raiding parties, attacking Krytan NPCs, so obviously you will be rewarded if you save these NPCs.

I was also thinking, maybe you could go up to the outpost in this new land and get some quests that attack Kryta...and you can get quests from Kryta to attack them...'two-faced'

On another note, I've been thinking about actionjack's GW invasion idea. Perhaps this could link to that?
Well I mean, maybe you could go into watchtower coast and you walk to the beach and you can see loads of moving longboats, then the boats land and drop all the soldiers, and its a huge army and you must fight them?

Vikings... == Pirates ?!?!

Yes, Invasion would be cool...

mabye they could do a mission like LOTR??? on top of the wall, tons of krytan npcs, and the vikings come by ship and etc.. you know where im going. but im looking for npc's ON A MASSIVE SCALE, 50+ 100+ etc

A Helms Deep sort of idea would be neat, but goodbye freamrate!

well you would obvoisly need a good comp and internet. i was thinking this mission to be optional, liek a mini-game. for those poor people on dial up....

You say 100+ NPC's, that would mean at least, another 100 enemies fighting against them at the same time, at LEAST. Plus your party, I think it would screw many framerates.

agreed. It would probably have to be a continuous flow of coming enemies rather than 100 all on the screen in one big attack.

ever played star wars battlefront2???? its an army of 250 vs 250. but they come in 5 groups of like 10 every 5 minutes. not all at once..... And frame rates well..... cant help that now can we my advice would be get a non-crap computer

I do think it would be fun to fight these waves of Vikings as they unload from ships, then scale the walls and you can push ladders, etc etc.

Bah this thread died...o well, very nice idea king, love it

I don't think it died, and hey this post will put it back up, I think people have different interests about ideas, to do with professions, land, general in-game features, and some just relatively small issues.
-as you may have guessed my favourite is new land though I do like looking at other ideas.

the ladders bit sounds alot like Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers game, at helms deep you have to stop the ururki from getting on the wall ^^

Sounds good, but maybe in chapter 3, or like SF style area ^^

but like another thread said it could have been the Charr, but i doubt that cus charr are a recent threat to Tyria!!

I definitely don't think the invaders were the Charr, as in the lore manual it states that the Charr came over the mountains, not over the sea. And, of course, the description for these watchtowers is that they were built to defend against invaders a long time ago...the Charr only invaded in recent years!

I was hoping to see this thread revived, so...great!

It's a pretty cool idea, but to be honest, I would rather see a Norse theme for chapter 4.

GW Vikings --> Pirates --> Luxons!


Anyway, I think it'd rock to have Vikings (I'm a Dane, of course I love Vikings), but yeah, change the name. Vikings are cool, but the name Viking doesn't fit with the Guildwars theme somehow.

Glitched: Why not a Norse theme for chapter 3?