User:Tetris L/Storyline

Introduction
Disclaimer: This is a draft, and under construction.

This article is an attempt to sum up all the events and background information that a player may need to understand the storyline of Guild Wars. The story is rather complex, and unless you pay close attention to dialogues and cutscenes (often even if you do) you may find yourself lost and asking yourself: "What's going on here?" This summary should help you to get back in the picture.

Be warned, this article is one big spoiler!! If you want to find out about the story yourself through playing the game, hit the back button now!

The story of Guild Wars, in a nutshell, is the story of how the player saves the world of Tyria from its oppressors, the Mursaat and the Lich Lord.

The Details:

The Old Gods

 * The Rift and the Hall of Heroes
 * The Old Gods
 * The Creation of Tryia
 * The Serpents

King Doric and the Bloodstones

 * King Doric
 * The Bloodstones
 * The Exodus

Glint and the Flameseeker Prophecies

 * Glint
 * The Mursaat
 * The Lich Lord
 * The Chosen Ones
 * Ascension
 * The Door of Komalie
 * The Titans

The Guild Wars

 * Guilds and the Guild Wars

Ascalon

 * The conflict between the Royalists and Adelbern
 * The Charr and the Searing
 * The Academies of the Arcane Arts
 * The conflict between Adelbern and Rurik

Kryta and the Maguuma Jungle

 * The King of Kryta and his Lionguard
 * The White Mantle
 * The Shining Blade
 * The Druids

Cantha

 * The sailing merchants of Cantha

Orr

 * Arah
 * The Cataclysm
 * The Role of Vizier Kilbron

The Dwarves

 * Dwarven Culture
 * The Civil War
 * Sorrow's Furnace

The Crystal Desert

 * The Forgotten Ones
 * The Elonians

The Game Storyline
This is the storyline as the player experiences it while he plays through the game:

Phase 1: Over the Shiverpeaks
Ascalon / Northern Shiverpeaks
 * Pre-Searing: The Royalists
 * King Adelbern vs. Prince Rurik
 * Fight the Charr
 * Join Rurik and his refugee treck to Kryta over the Northern Shiverpeaks

Phase 2: Find out about the Unseen Ones and the Chosen Ones
Kryta / Maguuma Jungle
 * Join the White Mantle and help them against the undead
 * Find out the truth about the Chosen Ones and the Shining Blade
 * Join the Shining Blade and flee from Kryta

Phase 3: Ascend and engage the Mursaat
Crystal Desert / Southern Shiverpeaks
 * Ascension
 * Audience with Glint
 * Infusion: The Seer
 * Engange the Mursaat

Phase 4: Showdown
The Ring of Fire Islands
 * Open the Door of Komalie
 * Defeat the Lich Lord
 * Defeat the Army of Titans