Iron Marches - Human Burial Grounds
Iron Marches is a map with a bit of history behind it. Many of us have heard about the story of the Cauldron of Searing and how the Flame Legion put it to use to cause the Searing of 1070 AE {255 years before GuildWars 2}. To recap the story for those who may not have known, after the defeat of Vatlaaw Doomtooth by the human Prince Rurik, the Charr Shaman Bonfaaz Burntfur used his magic upon the cauldron of Cataclysm to call upon the Titan gods and caused a rain of burning crystals to fall over the human villages in Ascalon. You can actually see these events unfold in the Guildwars expansion "Prophecies".
This event caused the ruins of Ascalon and the Great wall that we can see today, and stretches much further even than that. Parts of the Blazeridge Mountains and even the Shiverpeaks were also affected by the Searing, and after that cataclysmic event many of the rivers dried, the landscape cracked and most of the living creatures and plants died out. For the rivers that kept flowing, we can find them filled with tar and other foul pollutants and indeed many of the maps events revolve around such things.
However one of the most horrifying things [for the humans at least] stems from Dewclaw Village - a fishing village that is currently (still) under construction.
This event caused the ruins of Ascalon and the Great wall that we can see today, and stretches much further even than that. Parts of the Blazeridge Mountains and even the Shiverpeaks were also affected by the Searing, and after that cataclysmic event many of the rivers dried, the landscape cracked and most of the living creatures and plants died out. For the rivers that kept flowing, we can find them filled with tar and other foul pollutants and indeed many of the maps events revolve around such things.
However one of the most horrifying things [for the humans at least] stems from Dewclaw Village - a fishing village that is currently (still) under construction.
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As you can see from this video, Dewclaw Village, founded by Quaestor Dewclaw himself, is build upon the ruins of a human village - no doubt one of a similar vocation to his own currently being built. In an attempt to fully wipe the traces of humanity from the location, Quaestor appears to have ordered new buildings be built directly above the human houses and any remnants of the past village are now not visible above the surface.
Despite the possibility of the new houses locations being coincidence it is evident, after doing some digging upon the subject, that this is highly unlikely, as Dewclaw himself is well versed upon the story of the Searing, and for all of the new houses to be exactly above the old ones certainly pushes that possibility into the realms of unlikely. |
Whilst the reasoning behind this is unknown, one could assume that Quaestor wanted to follow on the Charr tradition of taking back the Ascalonian grounds as their own, but is also using it as an excuse to help his march upon the Cauldron. Quaestor fears it will be used by the Flame legion to eradicate the Charr they view as 'enemy' for 'standing with the humans' and who knows? Maybe in Guildwars 3 we will find another settlement built above his, built above the humans.