Further GW1 literal tutorial zone stanning
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anghraineSo, one of the major inspirations of a major location in my original novel is the Catacombs of pre-Searing Ascalon in Guild Wars: Prophecies, which seem fairly dreary at first (as might be expected!) only for you to discover beams of light filtering through the more ruinous sections, and then areas that are just really mysterious or cool, and then awesome "secret" areas. I wanted to see if I could capture that first experience of going into the Catacombs because you have to, ho hum, that underground dreary quality -> oh there are actually some cool oddities -> WHOA of playing as a teenager.
Screenshots don't really capture the whole experience (especially of the bridge; from a better angle you can see that the bones beneath the latticework are gigantic curved ribs, probably of a dragon or something comparable that goes completely unexplained). Still:
Screenshots don't really capture the whole experience (especially of the bridge; from a better angle you can see that the bones beneath the latticework are gigantic curved ribs, probably of a dragon or something comparable that goes completely unexplained). Still:
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