Here's an unusual official Guild Wars 2 blog entry: Video: Behing the Scenes of German Voice Acting Its unusual that they put it on their English language site.

If you're curious, I was you can hear the French versions of the characters at http://www.guildwars2.com/fr/media/videos/ click on :Les races de la Tyrie".

The website is only available in English, French and German so no other languages available. May not be any others at first anyway. Most people over at guildwars2guru love the German charr.

Guybrush, what did you think of the voices?

I like them.


Some people have too much time on their hand. A British guy is annoyed because Arenanet (an American company) uses the American spelling or words like color (not colour). .

For sure Guybrush, some folks are going to complain no matter what......

Guild Wars 1 did not allow jumping off high places. Guild Wars 2 will allow it, but it could be fatal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC6rgGEw7yw&feature=player_detailpage#t=1957s Whether you are downed and can attempt to rally yourself or go straight to defeated and have to be raised by another player or map out will depend on how far you fell and the amount of damage you receive when you hit the grown. There are several high places some people at conventions tried jumping from like this.

Swimming on the surface of the water is currently dangerous as well. When you are on dry land you have your normal skills. When you are underwater you have your underwater skills. But when you are in betwen, swimming on the surface of any body of water you have no skills. So you can't defend yourself if attacked.

This is just how it was in the demo. Anybody guess as to whether these things will change or not.

Hmmmm.....no skills while swimming....that can't be good, unless of course you are immune to attack during that time.

Okay, it's official now, next week is Asura week: Prepare Your Minds for Asura Week!

Only thing big left after that is the final profession reveal. No date given for that.

BTW this weekend in GW1 its double Sunspear and Lightbringer points. My dervish already maxed Sunspear, so I'll work on Lightbringer.

I absolutely refuse to buy a charr plush. http://www.arena.net/blog/introducing-the-guild-wars-2-charr-plush

Awww I think he's adorable

Don't tell the other members of the Ebon Vanguard group at guildwarsguru2 that I broke down and bought a charr plush (along with the paperback version of the concept art book).

I'll just keep editing this message instead of posting new messages every day during Asura Week.

Asura Week:
Monday part 1: Matt Barrett on Asura Design
Monday part 2: Mr. Sparkles, A Tale of the Asura
Tuesday part 1: Ambition on a Grand Scale – Matt Barrett Talks Asura Environment Art
Tuesday part 2: Hey Bookah!* Smart Asura Answers to Stupid Questions
Wednesday: Snarky Little Geniuses – Angel McCoy on Writing the Asura - features audios clip, the last must be because Talk Like A Pirate Day is coming up
Thursday part 1: Official Guild Wars 2 website on Asura updated
Thursday part 2: Heron Prior on Animating the Asura (hee hee beat everybody and posted it first on guildwarsguru2.com)
Friday: That Old College Try

Asura week has concluded.

*A Bookah is an imaginary creature asura parents use to frighten their misbehaving children. Its supposed to be large, loud, bellowing and dumb. The asura consider anyone not asura to be bookah. In Guild Wars: Eye of the North they are constantly referring to human player characters as bookah.


Other sites on Asura week:
Secret Agent Cat: In The Mind Of Genius - interview with designer Jeff Grubb

OnlineWelten: Interview w/ArenaNet on the Asura | OnlineWelten German site, Enlgish version of the interview. Minor glitch in answer to second question, Arenanet mentions the College of Dynamics twice, most likely the second time actually meant College of Synergetics.

VG 24/7: Inventing Asura: Guild Wars 2?s Ree Soesbee and Jeff Grubb - Reference to Dragonlands should be Dragonlance, Jeff Grubb was involved in the series

Game Reactor: A race of short stature geniuses (English translaton from the Dutch)

There are some clear problems with the translation to English. Example: "Asuras are no gods" should be "The Asura have no gods".

"What makes an Asura in your spare time?

Ree Soesbee: Found it!

Jeff Grubb: Makes things!

Ree Soesbee: Pushing things!"

Should be
"What does an asura do in its spare time?
Ree Sooesbee: discover things!
Jeff Grubb: create things!
Ree Soesbee: blow up things!"

This is an interesting statement:
"Ree Soesbee: We have always said that the magic of Tyria is based on the four elements. Power crystals are nothing more than a piece of matter that has been filled with such magic."

What four elements? In Guild Wars 1 lore magic was divided into preservation, destruction, aggression, and denial not the traditional air, fire, earth and water, though elementalists do specialize in though their spells are still divided inot the other four groups. The story goes that the Tyrian gods made it impossible for any one person to combine all four schools of magic at once so no mortal would be too powerful.

PC Gamer: Guild Wars 2 Asura interview part one: Rata Sum, the floating city

PC Gamer: Guild Wars 2 Asura interview part two: Love and Inquest

Love it!

Arenanet's American merchant messed up. I got a good sized box with a content list showing Art of Guild Wars 2 book and charr plush. The book is here but no charr. I sent them an email.

Edit: Heard from costumer service: charr is being shipped.

Awwww I'm glad he is on his way.

Kill Ten Rats: GW2] Stereotypical Guilds in Five Acts I like this blog entry. A fan's idea of what GW2 racial based guilds would be like. It's funny, if you know the GW2 five playable races.

Very cute....maybe those would help someone decide which race reflects them best.

Got my plush. Those pictures do not at convey how big it actually is. Give you an idea its bigger than Felix.

If you're on facebook there's a contest wo win a charr plush, but hurry ends September 29th. Just post why you should win: http://on.fb.me/pgWweq


You can find all kinds of theories about the elder dragons in Guild Wars 2 in the GW2 forums. Mine is simple. They're insane.

In the the book "Edge of Destiny", Glint (the lesser dragon) says to Snaff (an sura) , "how can you survive in the mind of an Elder Dragon? It has no reason. It has only hunger, rage and greed." She describes her master as a hurricane and a sandstorm.

Mesmers Jennah and Anise sense Kralkatorrik, the elder dragon's mind but what they find is "A sandstorm. A chaos. Bottomless hunger. Endless outrage."

Kralkatorrik is all emotion, no rational thought. When Snaff is able to enter the elder dragon's mind all he finds is hunger, rage, fury. Again, nothing but emotion.

"The Elder dragon was gigantic, twenty times her [Glint's] size, but more sorcery than sinew".

If you ask a sylvari, sarcasticly, "were you born yesterday" it may just answer, "Yes I was." (LOL)