Trivia / Guild Wars 2

• Defictionalization:
  • To promote the Dragon Bash holiday, ArenaNet produced physical versions of the dragon piñatas that appear in game and sent them to assorted gaming journalists.
  • In promotion for Season 2, Episode 5 (the mid-season premiere of the living story) saw real life versions of Glint's Hourglass sent to some press members.
• Dummied Out: There was originally going to be a Canthan (based off the Asian continent of the original game) district in the human capital of Divinity's Reach, but due to Executive Meddling (the Asian market disapproved of multiple Asian cultures being lumped together as one), the whole district was turned into The Great Collapse, which has been rebuilt into the Crown Pavilion.
• Fandom Nod: ArenaNet is well aware of Tybalt Leftpaw's popularity, to the point of bringing in a couple of keepsake items related to him: a Charr plush backpack made in his image (complete with an apple tag), and an ascended accessory with his initials.
• Genius Bonus:
  • During Heart of Thorns' fight against Mordremoth, each of the four illusions he sends against you supplies him with a unique buff which you then take for yourself. The buffs are named Occipital Mastery, Temporal Mastery, Parietal Mastery, and Frontal Mastery - after the four lobes of the brain. Fitting, given how Mordremoth's domain includes Mind...
    • Another interesting that happens during this fight, is when a Sylvari player brings non-Sylvari teammates into the instance. What happens after Mordremoth attempts to influence the Sylvari Player, the non-Sylvari teammates will see them as 'hostile'. However, Sylvari Players will see their allies as 'neutral'. This is a brilliant way to show that despite being affected by Modremoth's influence, the Sylvari player characters are still fighting to see what's right.
  • A charr engineer NPC in Ashford is talking to her pet rat about a new idea she had.
  Engineer: What if we blew air through the molten iron, Whiskers? What do you think of that?

  This is Basic Oxygen Steelmaking, which was a major advance in steel production IRL.

• In Memoriam
  • One of the tombstones in the Ebonhawke cemetery honors Sally "Wynthyst" Trandem, a long-time contributor to both the Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 wikis.
  • Crossing over with Funny Moments — During a pre-release developers tour of New Kaineng City (in End of Dragons) developer Connor somehow accidentally killed a kitten present in one of the city neighborhoods. ^note Which shouldn't have been possible, since the kitten was green-tagged as friendly. If you find that area now that the expansion has been released, you'll find a kitten-sized gravestone at the site of the "death".
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: Of the super-special hard copy variety, with various bits and bobs of physical swag, as well as the digital deluxe edition, with bunches of special in-game stuff, which is also included in the other edition.
• The Other Darrin: Rox's VA got replaced at some point early in Season 4, because ArenaNet wanted to take her in a different direction.
• What Could Have Been: In the earlier stages of development, the Sylvari's vegetative nature was downplayed, to the point where they looked more like traditional elves◊. Caithe (pictured, front row, first from the right) in particular had a much different design. Even that had already drifted a long way from the first piece of concept art revealed◊ when Anet first began discussing a sequel.

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