I’ve spent thousands of hours in Guild Wars, playing since release in 2006. However, unlike a lot of people Guild Wars wasn’t really a social game for me; I spent most of my teenage years (and a lot of my 20s) playing through the game in solitude — wondering about my characters’ place in the world. In 2013 I wrote a vague history of my various characters, so I figured here I’d extrapolate a bit on that as well as my experience playing them for a more ‘holistic look’ at a lifelong fixation.