White Mantle / Shining Blade

Was surprised to see no talk about this on the forum, so decided to start it up.

Anet as been doing a viral campaign to advertise there big game update for the 5th birthday of GW. It's started out at GDC by giving out fliers to people at the conference. Than on March 16th "guildwars.com" got some new pages:

http://www.guildwars.com/white_mantle/
http://www.guildwars.com/shining_blade/
http://www.guildwars.com/warinkryta/
http://www.guildwars.com/bladecamp/


The wallpapers were added on later. If you click on the fliers on the guildwars.com page they send you to a facebook account with quotes in a role playing character manner.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-White-Mantle/391341867941
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Shining-Blade/10150122599345327


Today on April 2nd, 2010 there as been an in game update:
The Shining blade camp was added in game secretly with the April 2nd update. Anet is getting ready for a big, Huge update!
It's located in Dakutu Village, the village is in Talmark Wilderness in Tyria.

omg... that is so awesome!! ;P
Do you think anet has big plans for this?
or is it just another "village" like the ascalon settlement?

I will have to check out that area sometime soon. Would like to see it for myself. =D

I can smell more grinding on the horizon, I think. I am still not done getting the Heavy Eq. bags I wanted for my characters from the last big update.

That, of course, isn't a complaint. More content is always good stuff. Way to take care of customers even if there is no ongoing revenue stream.

And this might be more real content. Not just grind... or so I hope.

Better save up some cash, some new items will be introduced.

Other stuff added in secretly on April 2nd, 2010
(Note:Knew the pics would be to big for people Edited with some effort. Ok major edit again for the complete conversation of Gwen and Thackery, doing this unlock Thackery's scavenger hunt.)


Gwen in Hall of Monuments conversation...

Conversation 01


Conversation 02


Conversation 03


Conversation 04


Conversation 05


Conversation 06


Conversation 07



After going in and out of the Hall of monuments to activate all the conversations, after the 7th Which than unlocks Thackery outside of Eye of the North




And Salma was added into ToA...

eek! I hate when the page gets stretched like this! There's no way to resize this? If not that's okay.

So Leohan, can you explain exactly what this new shinning blade camp is, or will be?

There isn't really any info on it yet, I don't think. It seems obviously to be something in advance of the 5th year anniversary though. I'm sure it will do something more once the 5th year mark hits, and they'll probably implment more updates that go along with it.

In other words, we just gotta wait and see.

Yes Anet so far is doing a basic online scavenger hunt with the GW1 website and facebook, were we have to discover clues as a community, it's all just an advertising campaign to get the community talking.
90% of information is just forum talk nothing is 100% fact in what I'm a about to say.

The Shining blade camp is there because on April 23 the birthday update will happen and than the war begins were we can pick up the quests and rage war over Kryta.
They added the camp in secret to go along with the Lore of the Shining Blade are freedom fighters and they have a hidden camp.

The Gwen conversation goes along with a quest line were your supposed to give Thackeray items to win over Gwen's heart, this goes along with the Lore because I suspect that in GW2 there will the children of Gwen.
Gwen needs babies so we can have Gwen 250 years from now.
Here's the wiki page about it him and the quest.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Thackeray


Linsey Murdock as been quoted to saying that things need to happen in GW1 for GW2 story to make sense, so because of this lot's of GW1 content is being made, they have even added more team members to the team now instead of 5, they have 7 employees on the GW1 team...lol


Summary of events all about this on guru:
Guru1
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/obey-vs-dismantle-recap-guide-t10432872.html
Guru2
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/obey-vs-dismantle-recap-guide-t3219.html

Sweetm thanks Leohan!

Wow! thanks for all the great info!

New update, check out the new page... I root for shining blade

*edit - talk to the char at vlox falls to watch a trail, if we can, band up together to watch it

Think what Kaeda is trying to say is the War in Kryta page on guildwars.com got updated on April 8th, now it has actual useful information, teaser image is gone.
http://www.guildwars.com/warinkryta/

and...
Bear witness to the trial of the century! The renowned asuran artificer Zinn will stand before the judgment of the Arcane Council for orchestrating an assassination scheme using golems of his design. Speak with Chark outside of Vlox's Falls to attend the trial.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Chark

Yah, my bad with spelling errors, was being interrupted at that time. Dismantle Ftw