Where can learn the Lore of Guild Wars

New player want to know story and friends want to kill me for constantly asking for who is this and why is that. Where can I find the complete story up till likestart of HoT since playing the game will explain stuff at that point and further. Also do I need people to give me the "helpful" thing to get to a second star? It's been a few days and still 1 star

Hello Lazy! Hope this helps you!https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3kdhak/new_player_guide_to_gw2_lore/

@"hauteclaire.4327" said:Hello Lazy! Hope this helps you!https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3kdhak/new_player_guide_to_gw2_lore/

thanks

@Lazytophat.4382 said:

@"hauteclaire.4327" said:Hello Lazy! Hope this helps you!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3kdhak/new_player_guide_to_gw2_lore/

A good way too is to play the original gw1, storylines, prophecies, factions, nightfall, Eye of the North, gw beyond, bonus mission pack to get the most out of the lore. There is also wooden potatoes gw1 play through on YouTube as well.

The wiki can also give a pretty decent summary of the current events as well, although it might be more fun to play through the events for yourself if you can. Also (and someone is going to correct me if I have the syntax wrong on this), you can type "/wiki [subject]" to instantly call up the wiki article related to the person, place or thing.

I created this a few months back, it's more up to date than @"hauteclaire.4327"'s link, if you want to catch up via summary to the current plot (Season 4), but solely directs you to sources rather than summarizes it.

To quote:

Starting with the wiki:

• https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storyline_of_Prophecies
• https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storyline_of_Factions
• https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storyline_of_Nightfall
• https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storyline_of_Eye_of_the_North
• https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storyline_of_Beyond
• Note: No Personal Story summary exists on wiki... Closest that currently exists is https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pact_Commander
• https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Story_Journal - contains links to every non-Season 1 story instance.
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_Season_1
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_Season_2
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Heart_of_Thorns_story
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_Season_3
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Path_of_Fire_story
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_Season_4In regards to background lore, some links:
• https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Category:History_of_Tyria - list of links to verbatim-copied official GW1 lore documents
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Tales - list of links to verbatim-copied official GW2 lore documents
• https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Category:Cultures - list of lists of wiki articles about cultural thingies, as pertained to GW1.
• https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Category:Major_events - list of wiki articles about major events, as pertained to GW1.
• https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Timeline
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Cultures - list of lists of wiki articles about cultural thingies, as pertained to GW2.
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Major_events - list of wiki articles about major events, as pertained to GW2.
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/TimelineDO NOTE: A lot of GW1 gets retconned under the guise of unreliable narrators (intentional or unintentional lies, document alteration over years of re-transcribing, etc. etc.) so what you read on GWW, which is written from the perspective of GW1 and not both games, may be contradicted by what you read on GW2W, which is written from the perspective of GW2 with GW1 knowledge. When this happens: take GW2W over GWW.Summaries that I'd recommend outside the above:
• The series also seems incomplete.
• A decent document summarizing lore related to, and including, Season 3 that was made in preparation for PoF. Which also includes source links.

EDIT: The Abridged Version, for people too lazy to dig and just want "the essentials:"

• Intro to Tyria for GW1: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/History_of_Tyria
• Intro to Elona for GW1: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/History_of_Elona
• Timeline GW1: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Timeline
• Intro to Tyria for GW2: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Movement_of_the_World
• Intro to the Maguuma for GW2: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-story-so-farheart-of-thorns-beats/ (this should get transcribed to wiki, even if it's just an Anet recap...)
• Intro to Elona for GW2: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2:_Path_of_Fire%E2%80%94Road_to_the_Desert
• Timeline GW2: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Timeline