Guild Wars 2 Living World Season 1 Full Story

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Hopefully you caught my video yesterday, in which I discuss the background behind this missing chapter of the game and how everything came to this point. If you missed it, maybe give it a shot after this one. Anyway, enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oH-0loeDo8msrrs

[@RadioActivePDC]

THANK YOU FOR THIS!

[@Balen.s]

Thx for this I missed season 1 and 2 because I stopped playing

[@Feaniel]

@@Balen.s You can still play season 2, buy the pack when it's in sales next.

[@roggtak]

Any chance of doing this for the rest of the expansions/seasons? I just finished playing through everything, and I'd be interested to see how you cover the others. This was very well done, and I hope to see more.

[@LaHuguu]

Wow, old Season 1 seems to have muuuuch more content than the re-release of this year it’s crazy

[@magnusgodrik9870]

Season 1 when looking back was huge. Too bad we cant relive some of those epic moments.

[@Chessrook44]

I mean, you kinda CAN relive some of them in the Fractals...

[@Winterbay]

The Marionette fight was really fun. I wish that could come back, but I see how it would be difficult to do in an instanced form, it would definitely not be as epic.

[@burnbobquist8999]

I think everyone who was a part of the LS 1 can agree that it was one of the best things GW has ever done. The feeling of unity when you were attacking the Marionette, the Karka Queen, the defense and retake of Lion's Arch. Oh what glorious times!

[@Kerbezena]

@@Winterbay It was kinda cool though last week. 🤪

[@Winterbay]

@@Kerbezena I hope I get to experience it some day. My playing schedule didn't work with the public openings and while I was in there was no squads looking for players ☹️

[@adamvojtovic4191]

I started play gw2 when I was 13. I did not know anything, however, you explained me everything and still you are explaining everything. I do not remember anything from the story and so you are here to lead the flagship of lore. Thank you

[@firetarrasque4667]

I’m here four years after release just to say, as someone who has never (and probably will never) play GW2, I would kill to see more summaries in this style. GW2 has an extensive and pretty original world and story, but very few people have ever bothered to talk about it at length, and even the people who did talk about it mostly just give high-level overviews. This is a great resource for people who want to know more about the story and world of GW without necessarily diving into the game itself!

[@fraxism.8637]

I don't think I have ever had that many aha moments ever before, going "so that's why!" at every passing minute. I'm someone who enjoys map completion but even after completing it more than five times, I'm left wondering why the maps are the way they are. (I started playing in April 2018 I think) When I had entered the visions at the eye of the north, I never really knew when those visions took place. Sure, I could explain what was going on in them but other than that, I was totally lost. That is just one of the many examples where the entire context was missing (to me at least), and now it just clicked. Damn, WP, thank you for this mesmerizing summary with great visuals so that (for example) I could easily follow where the events take place. Just wow.

[@isabelryborg9907]

thank you WP, truely, for this very well made and tasteful presentation of the season 1.

[@xdiviinelaw1381]

Couldn't agree more. Kinda makes me sad that we can't play this part of the story anymore, it brings back so many nostalgic memories...

[@naughtydred8538]

i want to lke your comment but it has 69 likes which is too perfect for a comment about being tasteful

[@_Banjo_]

6:10 - Remember this Rox story for when you get to Dragonfall. She gets PTSD during one of the lanes

[@snowblood74]

This is a much needed retelling of LS1. Even though I was playing through the majority of it when it came out, there are so many things I didn't remember anymore.

[@DevilleQueen]

The guy at 44:39 struggling to reach the viewpoint... We've all been there... Lol

[@Cerauos007]

Amazing, concise and highly-welcomed overview of the first Living World S1 for those of us who missed it completely and are now given the LWS2 for free without the slightest idea what happened in between. Thanks for this, I really enjoyed it and it helped me to put things into context :) Also, I really feel the attempts to reach the vista at 44:45. Been there, done that.

[@defrte]

I've played through S1, I've read as much dialogue and Im SUPER into the lore But boy did you pull out a ton of detail even I can't find, and they're so juicy Thanks for this - this fills in some holes in the story that I couldn't find on my own

[@KseniyaInternational]

Fun fact for those who don’t know: scarlets secret lair is still there under the Durmand priory behind an invisible wall.

[@RbDaP]

wait raelly? how, where? I didn't play season 1 so I'd have no idea

[@toastandoatmeal7085]

Kseniya International yea I found it when I first played and quickly was disappointed when I couldn’t open the chests.

[@kandismon]

I wasn't around when season 1 happened, I only saw bits after old LA was destroyed, but never really looked into what was going on back then. I watched a ton of videos on season 1, that 3hr something cutscene movie included and I always thought that was enough of a recap but........ !! This video now was so much more comprehensive and enjoyable, I feel like I understand everything that was going on so much better now! Your reading of this was amazing, listening to the story was so exciting and I love the visuals you put into the video, too! I'm sad I wasn't there to play the whole thing live as it happened but I'm also not sure if I would've understood everything as I do now, so I'd really really love to see this content implemented into the game again to experience as a whole bundle of content like the other living world seasons ; ;)) It's such a good story. Also I think Anet did a great job with all the Dragon's Watch characters, they still became very dear to me despite not having met them during s1 first but I would for sure love to be properly introduced to them as it should have happened. I won't give up hope for that to happen at some point > _

[@anticorrupcao5631]

Fantastic! This is really well done! I love lore videos like this, specially LWS1 lore videos xD

[@Snare3601]

This Ho-Ho-Tron must be a very prominent character to the downfall of Scarlet. He's featured twice in the thumbnail.

[@_Banjo_]

He actually did. His story goes a lot deeper too and he takes up many names

[@sagearbor9414]

His true name is Hero-Tron!

[@MegaEdproductions]

I'll admit while Job-o-Tron wasn't really as important as say Rox or Braham, he still had an arc through the season. Heck I'd argue he is "the asuran companion" in S1 rather than Taimi. Job-o-Tron is in Southsun cove being a jerk who loses his job because of us, Hobo-Tron was hilarious and got captured by Scarlet, raises money as Ho-ho-Tron to repar damages by Scarlet, helps the wounded citizens from LA and later helps you defeat Scarlet's armies and hologram as Heal-o-Tron during LA invasion, and when the city gets rebuilt he works for the Lionguard as Hero-Tron :P

[@MichaelEntwistle]

I'm only a third of the way in - I had no idea Season 1 was so huge! I'm learning so much, thanks WP!

[@microphytobenthos]

WP thank you so much for this. I was there since launch but I missed the first few S1 updates. I felt lost and gave up. When I came back (at the start of S2), I felt so utterly lost and none of the “new” characters ever made any sense to me. This video is important because I can finally understand how it all played out, how storylines and characters were introduced, and I feel like I understand the overall story better. More importantly however, I feel “closer” to the new characters. Thank you, sincerely.

[@scytube]

Thank you for doing this! I've started playing during HoT, so I'd like to know as much as possible about the season 1 story, but also about how it was like to play it. I'd _love_ a video where you not only read from the wiki, but actually talk about it. What were the encounters like? What were some speculations? How did the player base react to certain things? How did ArenaNet communicate? What were your feelings about all of that? Basically, let's sit down by the fire place and let WP tell us a story how it's been back in his days.

[@torreyrg42]

I think his coverage of it as it released kind of does what you are looking for.

[@KseniyaInternational]

He has a series of videos somewhere in the depth of his playlists where he played these pop up events as they appeared.

[@liamaugust]

thanks very much for putting this together. as someone just now getting into GW2, i so wish that this was still playable

[@jessicap8061]

Good thing it's coming back!!

[@huskywolverine]

Watching this really made me remember just how confusing all the different storylines were at the time. I remember feeling assaulted by all the different aspects of the plot... toxic molten aetherblade steam creatures.... WTF!! And how hard it was to see the link between them. BUT then the glorious excitement of the live events... the magic of the festival of the four winds, the marionette and the wonderful battle on the breachmaker which remains one of my favourite gaming moments of all time. Such a strong feeling of being in it together with the other players who'd managed to get on that transporter up to the ship, and the mechanics of the hologram fight were quite original at the time. Even something small like swimming down into the bay in Lion's arch to see the light that had turned green and wondering what was going on felt exciting somehow. I think, by not making season 1 readily accessible, it's lives on forever in our nostalgic minds through very rose tinted glasses... I was so in love with the game at that point. Nice memories, thanks for the reminder WP!

[@SnowvaBear]

Now if only Anet actually officially did this instead of that really short in-game cutscene that is easily missed.

[@_Banjo_]

Actually glad you used the artwork and not spliced footage of varying quality together.Those shots of areas we already have ingame look great. Your top reshade skills at the ready

[@X1OProductions]

Now's how you do a story summary. Anytime someone is going to ask about S1 I'll send them here. Great job WP!

[@tvadakia]

I’m genuinely glad you took your time to put this together. I just picked up the game for the first time in so many years, but listening to you tell this story gave me so many memories. I remember when Lions Arch was suddenly lain to waste. The immersion of the story into the game at that time was immense and so dramatic. So fun. And here I am now starting to replay Season One again, before finally experiencing the expansion packs. Well done, fantastic narration, great production. Sincerely, thank you for this.

[@JorikPar]

Read out, it sounds so much more consistent than the implementation was in the end.

[@torreyrg42]

TL:DR everything looks more cohesive in hindsight. This Depends on the definition of consistent, in terms of scheduling season 1 had some of the most consistent release schedules, but the community reception to the releases was very mixed for a number of reasons. Primarily different players experienced different levels of engagement since players were not forced to listen to, read, or pay attention to the main story and lore. (They still aren’t) and if the theme of a patch didn’t appeal to a player there wasn’t much incentive to experience the content. From the return to south sun patch (May 2013 to the thaumanova fractal Dec 2013) the update schedule was incredibly consistent and predictable. Content and story being added every two weeks, as 4 week long mini-arcs. Compounding the fractured feeling of releases was that every 2 releases the previous content went away, so If a player missed it, they missed the progression of a number of character and story arcs. Thinking back to my own experience, I knew what to expect, I knew when to expect content and more or less how it would be implemented (new events out in the open world, some dialogue, maybe an optional instance with more dialogue), and that it would be transient, but it felt like the story writers were just seeing what would stick to the dart board of current pop culture trends. They wanted to set up a mystery, but struggled hard to get community speculation rolling in a productive way, then answered every question the same way, with Mary-Scarlett-Sue

[@JorikPar]

@@torreyrg42 Part of what I mean is, I played those patches but did not "get it". I did not realise which NPCs were important (also because I did not remember some from the Personal Story at all - or I never met them because of different branch choice) and sometimes I also missed the "point" of what was happening while mindless doing achievments.

[@patrickk.6641]

Well after all it is a game. There were many distractions from the main story during the patch periods due to daily work, achievements, dungeons, worldbosses etc. I formyself had a bunch of freetime during these period of gw2 so I was lucky to exessively sunk hours into the game but it was kinda odd for a game that was build around the idea of play as you like. To follow the story you had to be extremely active, speaking with every npc during the leveling process and of cause during the events. And even than some things - like ambient dialouges - were pretty easy to miss. So you are - or were given the time that has past since than - not alone. I bet a coin that there were many more players who got lost during the story of season 1 and that is most likely one of the reasons why there was a significant decline in player engagement during that time. It was an ambitous project but it doesn't quite fit into the gametype of an mmo. Till today in some regards.

[@torreyrg42]

JorikPar I agree with such a limited window, lots of player focus became on finishing out achievements before they went away and the details were totally skipped over by the focus on rewards. as Patrick said players with more play time were able to dig a bit deeper, but I always remember that the devs said in interviews that they wanted to do away with forcing big walls of text down the players throats, but that meant that players that wanted those walls of text and dialogue now had to go searching for it.

[@fr4ncke]

Best hour, 6 minutes and 35 seconds of this week. Truly amazing narration and explanation of season one, which to this day remains my favourite part of Gw2. Even though I was young and I didn't understand everything back in the day these missions and epic cinematic moments shaped my late childhood, my friendships and improved my social and English skills. Sadly I no longer appreciate the game as I did when I was younger, but this video brought back so many memories. I shed a tear and gave you a big thumbs up WP, thank you for this video!

[@alpine_chr]

Ah, WP, you are a blessing for this community! Thank you so much for this video, I was hoping something like that would come, after your video a few days ago. Anet should legit just add this video to the LWS1 recap in game.

[@Albsterz]

Thank you so much for making this. This was so awesome :D much love

[@the6shadow]

yup i always show/tell new people about this after they done with core story

[@Albsterz]

@@the6shadow I can see why, helps so many people. That missed out on it.

[@novaknight30]

I am absolutely speechless. This video is so well done i think it should be in game. Amazing job wp you nailed it.

[@cchir0n]

Came here after your last video in which you spoke about this one. I watched quite a few of your videos and this one never got recommended to me - shame. Thanks for this! Its really good and I hope more people will see this in the future

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Thanks very much man glad you like it

[@shamblora123]

As one of the players who were fortunate enough to explore old LA at time... This video hits nostalgia like a truck, thank you for this -- it made me remember the good-ol-days! It's always nice to relive the past lore and to learn something new about it.

[@kaas2597]

You sound so epic and interesting. You had my attention 100% of the video. Really great presentation!

[@DraconicApologies]

As someone who joined the game years after Season One, this entire video was an absolute eye-opening godsend - especially as I really adore the story. There's so many things which I knew nothing to little about, such as the Tower of Nightmares and the toxic stuff, the Aetherblade, and the Molten Alliance - and the fact ALL of these things were tied together in so many ways? That's both mind-blowing and super interesting! It truly is a huge shame we haven't got anything playable for season one, given just how much stuff happened, and how much of it was grand, super fascinating events which also introduce us to the cast we still run with nowadays! The in-game recap being so incredibly vauge really doesn't help matters at all either, but that's all been complained about before. Anyway, this big rambling comment is essentially a way of saying thank you for this video, and for clearing up such a big story blindspot, and reavealing that said blindspot was even larger than I even realised! I can't wait to see what more Vids you do in the future WP!

[@a1ecu]

Exceptional storytelling WP! I forgot many of these details after playing this so long ago.. I wish ANet would implement this literally more than anything else

[@joycemoenen9092]

Thank you and all the contributors so much~ It's nice to see old screenshots and scenes again! Thank you for taking the time to make this.

[@SheriKinMA]

Loved this. I've already listened 3 times trying to absorb everything I missed. Thanks for this video!

[@MegaThefuture]

I feel like a kid that just listened to an amazing story told by a patent. Thank you for this experience.

[@ryanjansenvanrensburg3281]

Thank you so much for this. Really well done and fills a giant hole in the story for me, and honestly makes a lot of things make sense. Pity I missed out though, as S1 looked awesome! Thanks again, excellent job!

[@PanBelacqua]

52:30 or so - "...a part of the sylvari..." is some pretty clever wording.

[@joshuahatfield6435]

WP, thank you so much for this beautiful recap of season 1. I started playing shortly before HoT and I've always felt lost since I could not play season 1. But now I feel like I was right there during all the action. Thank you again, great video.

[@RobynPinderify]

That was absolutely epic to listen to and watch the landscapes. It played out just like a movie in my head as you told the story, and I felt truly immersed in the action. A real pleasure to experience as I was someone who did not play the game during season 1.

[@ThePaddleBattle]

Well done WP. Really enjoyable despite the circumstances of S1 not being playable in the game. You're a natural story teller!

[@thisiskitta]

I loooooooove the framed shots, they're so pretty. Amazing work all around! You've done it so much more justice than I could ever imagined. Presented in such a way made it look much better than I remembered it at the time.

[@necreitha6149]

They did an incredible job doing the Battle of Lion's Arch, my god. I got to that point and just couldn't watch anymore because I keep hearing the screams from the NPCs. It still haunts me, this many years later.

[@HBK299]

This is surely the best video to appear on the whole of KZbin since WP's Guild Wars 2 Story Summary series

[@MyuNeptune]

Thanks to all the people putting effort to keep the lore out there written properly. And thank you WP for making this video and reading for us. I enjoyed it a lot! I've missed everything during lw s1...not knowing English and going through my first mmo afraid of every step. I regret I didn't push myself more to understand the game. It made me miss the most interesting times in the Tyria's history. All I've seen was old LA, dragon hologram and LA rebuilt...all that very briefly. It hurts since I'm deeply into this game.

[@divinkitty9452]

Thank you for this video. As someone who only started playing Guild Wars 2 recently, it's nice now getting context for various events and monuments scattered around the map. It's a shame Season 1 isn't playable, but I imagine some locations looked vastly different back then as this seemed to have had a somewhat, if lesser, similarity to how WoW's Cataclysm changed the map.

[@oooSKYLIGHTooo]

This really helped me! I started playing the game on a warrior just after the game came out but didn't really get into it and took about a year out before I came back to the game to see friends. I missed all of Season 1. This was perfect to catch me up on what I had missed. Thank you WP, super helpful!

[@Dracadin]

Thank you for retelling this part of the story. As someone who came to GW2 later, I was unable to enjoy season 1. Small brief summary from a NPS was not enough. Once again... thank you.

[@cattysplat]

I missed out playing back then so I appreciate the retelling of the story. It was referenced a lot during Living story S.2 and HoT so its probably very confusing for a lot of newer players when they reference something that happened during Season 1 without a detailed retelling or way to experience it in game.

[@VirtualTeds]

Thank you for this. I am relatively new to Guild Wars 2 and the brief summary of Living World Season 1 was not much. Now the events of Season 2 and HoT, which I have only just started makes more sense.

[@yojimarusilverfang]

Just think... Braham wouldn't have even been in the plot (as much) if Rox hadn't dragged him to Divinity's Reach for the Queen's Jubilee after Ottilia dumped him.

[@IcewolfBrett]

This is better than the video the game shows as a summary of season 1. Thank you WP thank you!!! I have been playing off and on since launch and did not understand what living world seasons meant. I only got into and finally understood living world seasons after HoT.

[@rikiba851]

This is much appreciated. I checked out of gw2 at some point around the Gnashblade/Kiel election event and the pavillion opening, and only went back within the last year. Not being able to get a decent recap of what happened before season 2 was annoying, especially considering how good the story has been recently.

[@no1uknow32]

Wow, I totally missed the Karka and Molten alliance updates. I missed a bunch of other details too. Thanks for this!

[@ricardovillegas3465]

Trully marvelous, thank you so much for this, i recently played the story with a new chatacter and couldnt remember half of the season 1 events or what order they had ocurred. Keep up the good work!

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Not a problem at all man enjoy!

[@lexy1210]

Excellent job in presenting this content for those who couldn't experience it. I really enjoyed reliving it too, thanks!

[@gamer2617]

That was nice, thank you Wiki editors and WP

[@royruganijr8857]

Thank you so much for this man! You did an awesome job and I loved listening/watching every minute of it!!!

[@tobipop6350]

I just got chills :o Very well done WP!

[@martaszabo465]

Whew, I've played through like 90% if Se1 (sadly missed the beginning), but a refresher was badly needed. Thank you!

[@Silentreaver]

Very well done! It was unfortunate for me that I semi-quit the game just after the events of Southsun Cove and this video clears up a lot of what I've missed hence forth entering season 2. Good job!

[@Augwa]

Comming back to gw2 over a decade later. Thanks fo the lore update! It feels so good playing a game designed for fun over profit.

[@Emberrs]

Nice stuff! Thank you Mr Potato! I missed season 1 as it was airing just as I had gotten my first PC and was hopping between games even though I had bought GW2 for $50 at the time.

[@Blaktimus]

Not sure what ye be thinking WP but when you put hour long vids like this out that show something that only a massive amount of work could have produced....Imma watch. I watch alot, I.."Thoroughly enjoy and appreciate" the vid and the work. Ty WP hope you're doing well, keep on tatin'.

[@davidgustavsson4000]

So Southshun was basically Fyre Festival with magic?

[@Winterbay]

Yep. That's a pretty spot on comparison :-D

[@stefanlaurentiu7084]

Season 1 was so good, Scarlet is now my favorite character in the story she was so interesting twisting everyone in fools just to make her agenda at last complete.I didn't knew that season 1 was so interesting with so many clever hints, not only that but establish a new way to look at the magic sistem of Tyria. Btw the Naration was on point, when it finish I was so caught by suprise . Very well done Wp. Thx for this amazing ride.

[@rayrayz4667]

So Mord wanted to wake up early? I thought they didn't care about the cycle they just went about it on instinct alone?

[@Roelski]

Really well done with the scenery and images as footage! I forgot that E was there allready in season 1 :o

[@cynhanrahan4012]

Thank you, this was awesome! It also explains so many of the odd landscape features in central Tyria, such as Kessex, and the weird marionette jumping puzzle. NOW they make sense.

[@nathan5137]

This is some incredible work. Thank you for gathering all this, I missed season 1 and always wanted to know what actually happened back then.

[@labdG]

Many people never got to play through Season 1 but I did and even I missed some parts of it. I wonder how many actually got to experience it all. Until we get a new vesion of Season 1 story to play through, I'm so glad you're doing this for everyne, WP. :)

[@VidralliaArchives]

As a player who is really new to the game; I'm frustrated that I couldn't play through this myself. Thank you for the video, though. Now I at least have a better idea of who Marjory, Kasmeer, Rox, Braham and Taimi are. When I started LW season 2 it was immediately annoying that I had no idea who they were.

[@Northena]

I started playing a month before the PoF launch, and around 5 months later I had gotten enough into the game and decided I wanted to _truly_ understand the story. Jumping right into the PoF storyline when it launched, you kinda felt like those characters from movies that get amnesia and don't remember anything or anyone, yet everyone treats you like a dear friend. I still remember when I saw the first walkie-talkie messages from Taimi and went "I don't know you but I'm sure you're nice." What I greatly miss with the Dragon's Watch members (beside Rytlock) are the story instances where we meet them for the first time. Since you have a memory of the first meeting, the journey with the characters become so much more enjoyable and you notice more clearly the character development they go through. I've created relationships with them all with start from Living World Season 2 - which made me really feel like an amnestic character. I've read through the entire wiki page about Season 1 two times, read forum posts about it - and now I've watched this video. It was a great summary and the visuals helped greatly with imagining how it was. Despite how Anet released Season 1, I _really, really_ hope they will be able to release it in the future and make it replayable.

[@scientio3695]

I do hope this starts hitting GW2 fans recommendeds more

[@reinerei8294]

Thanks for this. This is awesome man. It really helps new players like us to understand the story

[@_Banjo_]

Top work here WP, im a veteran but honestly..had no idea what was going on during season 1. Ive also somewhat forgetten about most of this. I guess these videos are a brilliant place to direct people to.

[@merrickying4264]

WP, this is brilliant. I came to GW2 too late to have experienced LW1. Now I get it; now I understand why veteran players are pissed-off about this deliberate gap in the story's lore. It's like Tolkien expecting his readers to figure out for themselves how the Ring went from Sauron to Frodo without explanation. This vid is every bit as rich in lore, interesting, and entertaining as the Let's Play series. Well done!

[@arcovanduin5087]

Thank you for this fanastic elaboration of the history. Love it.

[@bradkuzniczci894]

TYSVM for this video. I loved season 1 of the living world (yes, the Scarlett Briar story got poo-poo'd as bad writing and lazy, but the events were HUGE! Truly felt like the world was evolving). It was so great to see it recapped in this manner. I left gw2 during the break after season 1 and have re-downloaded it, bought the expansions and the episodes I missed, and am truly enjoying it. Unfortunately I am so far behind that I feel I will never catch back up.

[@Alesthes]

High quality production, as usual, WP! I am thankful I was there when Season 1 unrolled, and could experience it as it was meant to be... Personally, I have only one very minor disappointment about the video: I was surprised you did not use the "Hard Boiled" animated cinematic that depicts Logan hiring Marjory to investigate on the murder of Theo Ashford and ultimately also meeting Kasmeer. Not only that cinematic has a delightful "noir" flavour, but when it came out it was perceived by the community as a distinct step up in quality when it comes to GW2 storytelling. Moreover, and this is probably the most interesting point, that cutscene is one of the few fragments of Season 1 that is still fully available in game by using the Marjory's Journal item. Given all the controversy over Season 1 not being available in game anymore, this relic is an interesting and functioning in-game vestige of it.

[@deannakish2318]

I don't see why anyone would downvote you, especially this video! Too cool!

[@jamestwosheep]

Sweet recap, WP! Man, now I wish Season 1 was replayable even more than ever.

[@Olodus]

Hearing you read it like this it feels like a much better and not as random story as it felt at the time. Now I wish so much that they would implement season 1 again. My version would be to add a change to the map system so that each map could have different versions set at different time in history that you could waypoint to like any other map but separate from the other time-versions. This would also make it possible for the devs to let us come back to places we already been in the world without robbing us of the the how it was before. That together with a story journal for the story steps of season 1 would in my mind in the best way re-create the events. But it would fracture the community over quite a few new maps so I can see why the devs wouldn't do it this way.

[@jdoggivjc]

Amazing summary. If we can’t get an actual “let’s play”, this is a more than adequate substitution.

[@_Banjo_]

50:00 i forget how canon Edge of the Mists was for season 1 yet at the time all seemed a bit of a mish mash of different stories. It was actually pretty coheisve once seeing a video like this. Braham and Taimis relationship is great. You definitly notice it in season 3. Braham springs to action on a number of occasions when he finds Taimi is the one in trouble

[@achileas4895]

it 's very nice to hear the whole story as i was not lucky to play the game at that time and it was a mystery to me what really had happened.

[@jameslin3458]

Oh boy this bring back my memory of the gw days. I stop playing basically a bit after when season 1 ended.

[@GirlPainting]

maybe arenanet could be convinced to link to this video with the NPC on the beach ^^

[@panagiotiskapsalis1872]

Excellent recap, more people need to watch this!

[@Kenji000]

Thank you for making this summary video. I greatly appreciate the detailed recount

[@Auris17]

Thank you for this WP, as a new player who is trying to like the new divinities edge it was enjoyable to listen to the chap 1 story

[@williamwalton9154]

I missed most of season 1 as I was still leveling and casually enjoying regular play. Thanks for the update, I was always felt awkward with the companions I was working with on season 2 since I hadn't properly built up the relationships.

[@alexbusch7174]

O wow..this is top notch. Incredibly well delivered lore and story. Learned a ton.

[@fisherinfocus]

I love this - I was there for all of this but remember so little.

[@mortenya]

Thank you for organizing this info. I wasn’t able to take part in everything in LS1 so it can be hard to find it all.

[@fuyu848]

now you're reminding me how season 1 story is quite awesome

[@Barricka]

Awwww...that shot of old school LA. I miss that place!

[@adabuilder6711]

Thank you so much for this video! It was easy to listen too and I feel much closer to the main characters now.

[@todoviridia3265]

Very well done WP. Have fond memories of LS1. I do hope LS1 will become repeatable content. They have the tech to do it (could even use the latest PoF tech for extended instances), but it will take a lot of time rebuilding it all