Dec 24, 2021
Just like mama used to make.
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Just like mama used to make.
Gwen, pre-searing <3
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RIP GATE MONKEYS 2005-2018
thank you for your service for all these years
Excuse you, Sasscalon Guard
GW Countdown, Week Two: 7 Shocking Moments
7. The Searing
When you first start Guild Wars Prophecies, you are dropped into one of the most beautiful and idyllic lands in Guild Wars: Ascalon.
Sure, there are Skale and other monsters galloping about, the Charr may be brutally attacking just outside the wall and King Adelbern is sounding a call for heroes to help fight them
But who cares about all of that! This place is pretty!
Falling autumn leaves, fields of flowers, flowing majestic waterfalls, melted snow dancing on tent tops, tons of green grass everywhere: it honestly is one of my favorite places in any video game ever.
And then...
The Charr make it rain and destroy Ascalon. Giant crystals kill handfuls of humans in one plop, the earth is scorched, rivers and lakes dry up and we are spit out 2 years later to this ugly, brown-hued land that we once loved greatly.
This moment was really shocking (to me, at least). I figured we would go fight the Charr beyond the wall, but I never thought Ascalon would be fully destroyed. If anything, the flower fields might be trampled by troops, trees cut down for trebuchets...but the sense of Ascalon and how it was would still be there. As an amazing character ever once said, "Instead of pools and streams we have pools of bubbling tar and rivers of sludge. It saddens me to see Ascalon in ruins." I totally agree! All the beauty of presearing Ascalon is wiped away and we are left with these haunting ruins that whisper sad memories of what was used to be our beautiful city.
As I didn't play Prophecies when it first came out, I don't what the reaction was to the Searing back then. But for me, playing the game later, this whole event was really shocking and a big game changer. Your little world is completely shook up. You have no idea how many have died, who has lived, where people are at. Gone are the flowers, the landmarks, the people you knew. Everything changes after the Searing, and once you get over the shock, you then get to do 34923423 quests (can that be shocking moment 7.1? How long you can spend in Ascalon doing quests? Because damn.)