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Blog solely dedicated to making the commander's story journal irl. This project got buried under reblogs on my main blog @shu-can-art so made a separate one.

[commanders-journal]

I am happy to announce, that the ultimate guild wars 2 story journal text file is out!

It's a resource for anyone who wants to have their story written out, either to make a physical journal, print it, or need some inspiration for a fanfic.

It's 229 pages in total, but every possible race and choice (personal story) takes 79 pages. Version cleaned up for one character only takes 166 pages total.

The file is up to date with the latest expansion and will be updated with every new one.

You can download it from this folder:

[sytiart]

Tomorrow a new chapter of Vision of Eternity is going to be released and i can't wait to see what the Inquest will be up to! T0T i hope the commander won't kill too many of them tho :C

[gw2-khalni]

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B is for... Basilisk! I had a hard time getting the shots cause basilisks tend to have a fairly big sight range related to their dimensions, so they generally attacked me before i could take decent side views.

Please note: this is Kail's journal, and may contain his opinions on various matters; this may not reflect my opinions on specific matters, but i'm happy to discuss them if you want. Also may contain errors, since Kail isn't perfect, and i'm definitely not either.

Model: Basilisk (The Shattered Henge, Brisban Wildlands)

This screenshot edit contains Guild Wars 2 characters, assets, or elements; all races, characters, landscapes, assets and elements are © ArenaNet and NCSOFT. No copyright infringment intended.

[achromant]

Threw together some high legion banners, just in case i need them later for a project. got carried away, resulting in some weird lines and unnecessary details <3

bonus banner under the cut

Keep reading

[soulbeastdragon]

Making a post to put all the flag Emblems of each race + Charr Legions; made by me using Krita

You may use these for fansites, character profiles, blog posts, ect.

Intellectual property of these assets belongs to ArenaNet/NCSoft. Crediting me is cool but not mandatory. Enjoy!

[commanders-journal]

The file guy is back. Do you remember this t-shirt?

I took my time to make high quality logos in vector that are ready to print.

Of course because these are literally icons taken from the game I won't charge a dollar for them. All rights go to Arenanet (and if they decide to put some good old Personal Story merch in the merch store I will be overjoyed. PLEASE THERE IS SO MUCH MERCH POTENTIAL SITTING RIGHT THERE).

Either way, here are the files. Feel free to print them on clothing for yourself, just don't sell them anywhere. Neither I nor you want any legal trouble... Probably.

(btw, because white logo of the Vigil was invisible on .pdf, it has a black version there. PNG is white, PDF is black. The same goes for Inquest logo)

[commanders-journal]

Would you like a GW2 themed pillow?

Why not try to make one yourself!

(link to tutorial and free sewing patterns below)

On my main account @shu-can-art I made a sewing tutorial, but for some reason it got flagged by Tumblr, so by popular demand I made one in Google Docs, which is located in the same folder as the free printable sewing patterns I made.

Even if you're a sewing pro, please read the very beginning of the tutorial, as I did one change that is not in the patterns, and it does affect the final product.

[commanders-journal]

Resource: height chart

May it be useful for someone.

[commanders-journal]

It's kinda journal related, so here you can see my setup~

Not that grand or anything. This calligraphy set at the bottom is even older than I am (I'm 23). My mom used it in her youth, and it's kinda... Barely holding together (but the thin tip is so well broken I just can't use any other that is stiff).

And the blue highlighter is my personal favorite. Both because of the color and because of the name with a super obvious typo - "Thin Postive". (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

[commanders-journal]

All current pages (up to Invitation to Caudecus's Manor after the first mission with Order mentor) with alt text!

More in the reblog.

[commanders-journal]

Will continue adding single pages with alt text as a chain to this post.

[commanders-journal]

All current pages (up to Invitation to Caudecus's Manor after the first mission with Order mentor) with alt text!

More in the reblog.

[commanders-journal]

Two more pages!

First mission with Tybalt, promotion and letter from the Herald.

I will also do a post with each individual page adding alt text. I already did that on Bluesky, but I was STRUGGLING to fit in the character limit. That made me avoid adding it to my older posts here on Tumblr. So to sum up - images with two pages of journal are mostly for aesthetic purposes and if you can't read what is written, seek images with one page and alt text.

[gw2-khalni]

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This is the beginning of my GW2 Encyclopedia, the second long term project i'm starting here on tumblr. This will be alternating with postcards (not regularly tho, cause it take way more time to do), i'll start posting excerpts of Kail's journal on beasts, animals and more. I started by going random on the wiki until i found the first beast, but i'm open to advices for the next pages!

Please note: this is Kail's journal, and may contain his opinions on various matters; this may not reflect my opinions on specific matters, but i'm happy to discuss them if you want. Also may contain errors, since Kail isn't perfect, and i'm definitely not either.

Model: Vetaran Arrowhead

This screenshot edit contains Guild Wars 2 characters, assets, or elements; all races, characters, landscapes, assets and elements are © ArenaNet and NCSOFT. No copyright infringment intended.

[commanders-journal]

OMG! I love projects of this type!

Will be happily waiting for the next installment (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠)

[commanders-journal]

This page deserves it's own post.

It's interactive! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

And the entry excluding letters is freestyled. Gonna watch Catacombs story mode to write the next entry, before meeting Tybalt. Figured out where dungeons are organically placed between story chapters, but it's all on me to wave them into the journal.

[commanders-journal]

Dungeon mail - 4 done, 4 yet to do.

Gonna glue them inside the journal as an interactive part. Of course adding some Gnom's notes and highlights of important bits. And a healthy dose of distrust. Honestly these letters really seem out of the blue when looking through the character's perspective.

Btw, you can try to read these letters, tho I know the photo isn't doing them justice. And some people probably will have problems with reading cursive. But I needed to play with font for the illusion of these being written by someone else.

~IMMERSION~

[commanders-journal]

The journal got two new pages. It's now in "Order Neophyte" phase. At first I wanted to keep it PG with no curse words, but you know what? The politics game is so messed up, that I don't think Gnom would try not to curse them out in his personal journal. He is an asura, it's in his blood.

Either way~ it's apple time :3

Btw, yes, it's a Mulan meme with Zojja.

[system-architect]

it didnt occur to me until a convo i had last night that many people haven't seen the asura personal story, so i want to say PSA: omg. please play it. and the dungeon stories relating to it (SE, CoE, also arah p2). it contextualizes a lot of the insanity you see in VoE soooo goooooood, a lot of it is built off pre-existing asura lore tidbits and doesn't come out of nowhere

asura base game story (PS and dungeon together) has got: political espionage, bodybags, murder fakeouts, secret police, arson, human (and charr. norn. etc) experimentation, a lot of war crimes, kudu trying to kill everybody, communist revolutions?, kudu trying to kill everyone again, women permanently soul-melding with golems and slowly losing their sapience in horrifying fashion, mirror dimensions and evil commanders, Surprise! The Council Has Been Bad The Whole Time!, underground illegal golem fighting rings, mordrem before they were mordrem, experimental dragon magic slop fusions, kudu tries to kill us a third time, dragon corruption (sexy), The Terminator, completely wrong interpretations of snaff's research, moral quandaries for your commander (you get to kill questionably innocent people with a button press if you so desire!), mind controlled risen snipers, experimental mursaat dimensional phase shifting, nuclear disasters, gw1 characters who are already dead trying to kill you... ETC.

please try it 👍

[commanders-journal]

Like literally. Totally recommend. I main asura for over 5 years, but I honestly forgot about all that until I started commander's journal personal project. While transcribing every possible story summary I see so many hints and links that carried over to later story. For example asura lvl 30 story - order neophyte - there appears Gorr for the first time. He is the one who first suggested that dragons eat magic. Later we meet him again (or for the first time) in lvl 75-80 story, when he is relevant for everyone.

But it's not only like that with asura. I also see a ton of foreshadowing in sylvari lvl 10~20 storyline to HoT. Tho it's a little more flowy and open to interpretation in its wording, there are phrases that directly try to hint at the "consuming". It's mostly in chapter titles.

If you don't want to replay the whole storyline in game, I can recommend checking out my journal file, where I am compiling literally the whole in game story journal with every possible choice and important bonus story bits (dungeon mail, very important Gorric audio logs).

I should be done with filling up that file in around 2 days