 Five so-called Elder Dragons sleeping beneath the continent have awoken in the time since "Guild Wars", causing widespread destruction to Tyria and corrupting its inhabitants.The once dominant humans of Tyria are in decline, supplanted from most of their land by natural disasters and war with the Charr, who have finally reclaimed the last vestiges of their ancestral homeland of Ascalon from the humans.To the north, the Norn, a proud race of Nordic hunters, have been forced south by the rise of Jormag, the elder dragon of ice.