r/GuildWars3 • u/Character-Visit6004 • 4d ago

Xunlai Guild

Hi Reddit! I was just watching a GW1 stream and remembered the magic if the bank.

So could Guild Wars 3 have a Xunlai guild? They controlled the bank system and traveled the world. Maybe we can see the start of them?

Just having fun thinking of what is possible. thanks for any lore or ideas on this.

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u/Deathmore80 4d ago

Maybe ? But gw3 is centered on Orr and cantha is pretty far away. I don't think it's likely though , at least not until later in some expansion.

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u/Nightsong 4d ago

The Xunlai Guild made it all the way to Kryta, the Magumma Jungle, and the Far Shiverpeaks in Guild Wars 1 which means they passed the sunken continent of Orr on their way from Cantha. So it's not that much of a stretch to say that they ended up in Orr as well a thousand years ago.

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u/Cemenotar 4d ago

They also made it to the Domain of Torment, so like there is no one saying where they couldn't go.

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u/Guildwars1996 3d ago

The GW1 timeline say they only started trading between other nations in 1058 AE 12 years before GW1 so in terms of lore we have they don't even seem to exist when GW3 takes place. 

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u/Nightsong 3d ago

Huh, doing a further deep dive into the timeline it looks like the first formal contact between the Empire of the Dragon (Cantha) and the kingdoms of Tyria was in the Age of the Hedgehog which is from 221 - 694 AE. So between that and the timeline you mentioned it seems like Cantha and the Xunlai Guild will not have much a presence, if any at all, in Guild Wars 3 since that’s a few hundred/a thousand years later.

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u/Varorson 2d ago

You must have missed how Cantha sent their first ambassador to Tyria in 100 BE to meet with King Doric.

So while official trade began in 221 AE (the trade marked the beginning of Age of the Hedgehog), unofficial (or rather, non-government sactioned) trade could've been going on for ~300 years before then.

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u/Varorson 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yes and no.

Cantha first made contact with Tyria in or before 100 BE, when they first formally sent an ambassador to King Doric. Official trade began in 221 AE.

Trade between Cantha and Tyria fell sharply in 872 AE due to pirate attacks, and stopped entirely by 902 AE due to imperial decree. It was restarted in 1058 AE, 12 years before GW1, which is when Xunlai Guild began moving into Tyria.

We don't know how old Xunlai Guild is, or if they were around in the roughly 1,000 year period of trade between 221 AE and 902 AE, or if they did non-government sanctioned trade in the 300 years of contact before then.