Talk:Cantha

Eye of the North: wtf?

Um, I would like to know WHY it says Eye of the North instead of Factions. --troy frostwind 19:33, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

My guess is that the text in that section belongs to the GW:EN manual, and describes what's happening in Catha around the time of the evennts in Eye of the North. But the placement of the section and its title aren't exactly good, IMO. I'll try to change them a bit. die foos

Dragon Empire...

The Empire of the Dragon link ends up at Cantha, which has no real details of the inner workings of the Empire, beauracracy or otherwise...There needs to be a page for this...somewhere. -- UglyLooking 04:46, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Woah woah woah

I was looking at the online PDF of the "complete collection" game manual, and I noticed for some reason they put the Cantha map above the Tyria one. Then I noticed they sort of line up:

So am I tripping out, or do you think this was intentional? You can see the rest of that island south of Shing Jea on the regular map of Cantha, so why would they have cut that off? >.> – NuclearDuckie 14:40, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

...im confused. so does that mean the entire maps upside down?--Neil2250 14:50, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

lol I agree - but the temperature climates appear slightly different :) and also Jiaju Tai says cantha lies to the far south too :D --File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.pngChieftain Alex 14:51, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Tyria map disagrees with it...Tyria (world) or maybe is like that games (chrono trigger, FF IV...) when you go up to north you appear in the south of the map...--Domador 15:07, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Actually, maybe the north Shiverpeaks is like the north pole and cantha is on the other side of the world?, like, England and Australia? ._.

--Neil2250 15:11, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Very possible in my opinion seeing that most if not all planets are ROUND! so if (Columbus-wise) far enough to the south, you'll eventually come to the north.--Mark, het Beest 15:25, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) A pretty old theory. I find it to be near unlikely as 1) Cantha is to the southwest (the Tyria (world) article page's map is not up to date) and 2) if that were so, since we travel south/southwest to get to Cantha, it would be a very small globe. Not to mention that the origins of humans is south of Cantha, and they moved north to Tyria/Elona, also that Cantha and Tyria are isolated from each other... Yeah, I'd say that old theory is debunked by now. -- Konig/talk 15:45, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Edit:@Mark, the comments were about Tyria being directly south of Cantha, not eventually. There's going to be land between them.

Indeed, the positioning would make it a very small planet, plus the placement of the North arrows on each map would be a little off. I reckon the way the continents are aligned is probably best shown in the "Legendary" monuments in HoM (i.e. this). It also leaves a little indent west of Elona where I believe the continent of the cancelled campaign would have been. But I did find this intriguing. – NuclearDuckie 05:01, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

All true and so, but nobody has just the smallest clue about how much sea is inbetween Cantha and elona/tyria... Or am I missing some things here, if I do please correct me then.--Mark, het Beest 18:35, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

According to An Empire Divided, it's a "few hundred miles" - which probably means about 200-400 miles. -- Konig/talk 23:40, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Touché--Mark, het Beest 17:54, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Actually, I was reading speculation at some point suggesting that the distances in the game's lore are actually on a much larger scale than the distances within the game (using some Assassin skill to measure). Whatever the case, there is a globe shown in a GW2 screenshot on which I think I can make out Istan, Orr … most of Tyria and Elona really. I wonder what that says for Cantha … – NuclearDuckie 09:37, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

no love for the luxon entry?

how come the Kurzick's have a full paragraph and the Luxon but one sentence.... I mean I don't want to write it but some Luxon fan-boys should get on that.The Alice 19:53, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

It's got nothing to do with the two factions. -- Konig/talk 20:39, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Spelling Mistake?

I dont know how to edit the page according to the wiki standards, so I'll post this here: "Five years after Shiro's return, the Ministry of Purity was formed in order to combat the continued threat of the Afflicted. In 1079 AE, the Afflicted were finally destroyed, though Cantha's citizens remained threatened by the relentless "terf wars" between the Am Fah and the Jade Brotherhood, inadvertently inflicting collateral and terror among the innocent." It's spelt "turf war", not terf war. And also, it should say collateral damage, not just "collateral and terror" Lord drekar 19:49, 25 April 2012 (UTC)