Campaign Story

Act 1: The Races (Lv 1–30)

Each race plays through a unique origin story in its homeland, mentored by a member of the legendary guild Destiny’s Edge. The wider world and the Elder Dragon threat are introduced, and the hero chooses which of Tyria’s three Orders to join.

Act 2: The Orders (Lv 40–60)

After joining an Order, the hero proves themselves and aids Tyria’s races against dragon corruption. The act climaxes with the fall of Claw Island to Zhaitan’s undead, prompting the three Orders to unite into the Pact under Marshal Trahearne.

Act 3: The Pact (Lv 70–80)

The unified Pact invades the Ruins of Orr, weakening Zhaitan by destroying powerful servants such as the Eye of Zhaitan. In the climactic mission "Victory or Death," the hero and the Pact confront and slay the undead Elder Dragon aboard his airship.

Act 1: Flame and Frost

Charr and norn refugees flee mysterious raids in the northern Shiverpeaks. The Commander and the young norn Braham uncover the Molten Alliance — an unnatural union of Flame Legion and dredge — and destroy their underground weapons facility.

Act 2: The Aetherblades and a Hidden Hand

Aetherblade sky-pirates under Mai Trin strike festivals across Tyria, and a mysterious sylvari hijacks Queen Jennah’s Watchknights. At the close of the Queen’s Jubilee the saboteur reveals herself as Scarlet Briar, a brilliant, unhinged sylvari orchestrating the chaos.

Act 3: The Tower of Nightmares

A toxic tower erupts in Kessex Hills as Scarlet allies the krait and the Nightmare Court, poisoning the land. The Commander’s new companions — Kasmeer, Marjory, Braham, and Rox — help craft an antitoxin and topple the tower.

Act 4: The Battle for Lion’s Arch

Scarlet’s army and a colossal drill assault Lion’s Arch, forcing a desperate evacuation. The Commander leads the counterattack and slays Scarlet — only to learn too late that her drill was never meant to take the city, but to bore into a ley line buried beneath it.

Act 1: Gates of Maguuma

Mordrem vines erupt along the ley lines and overrun Brisban Wildlands. Searching Scarlet’s hidden laboratory, the Commander triggers Omadd’s machine and glimpses the Eternal Alchemy — and the truth that Scarlet’s drill woke the jungle Elder Dragon Mordremoth.

Act 2: The Dragon’s Reach

The Commander rallies Tyria’s leaders to a summit at the Pale Tree as Mordrem assault the Grove. Rytlock Brimstone attempts to break Ascalon’s ghostly curse and vanishes into the Mists during the ritual.

Act 3: Glint’s Legacy

The Commander learns the dragon-champion Glint left a final unbroken egg in a Zephyrite’s care. After the Master of Peace dies protecting it, Caithe steals the egg and flees, her motives a mystery.

Act 4: Point of No Return

Memory seeds expose a devastating secret: all sylvari were created as Mordremoth’s minions, and Caithe killed her love Wynne to keep it hidden. The Pact launches an airship assault on the dragon, ending the season poised on the edge of the Heart of Thorns.

Act 1: Verdant Brink

Mordremoth’s vines devastate the Pact fleet, scattering survivors across the jungle canopy. The Commander regroups, frees captured soldiers, and learns that the sylvari are Mordremoth’s creations; Eir Stegalkin is killed by the corrupted Faolain during a prison escape.

Act 2: Auric Basin

The Commander brings Glint’s egg to Tarir, the golden city of the Exalted, passing its trials to receive a prophetic vision. The vision reveals Mordremoth is forging twisted clones of captured heroes, while ley-line maps point to the lost asura city of Rata Novus.

Act 3: Tangled Depths

Battling the insectoid Chak, the party reaches the lost asura city of Rata Novus and finds ancient research confirming each Elder Dragon has a unique weakness — though Mordremoth’s remains unknown. Taimi stays behind to study the ruins.

Act 4: Dragon’s Stand

The final assault reaches Mordremoth’s heart, where Logan and Zojja are freed from blighting pods. The Commander enters the dragon’s mindscape and destroys its avatar, and Trahearne sacrifices himself — channeling the last of Mordremoth’s power through the sword Caladbolg — dying as the Elder Dragon falls.

Act 1: Out of the Shadows

After Eir Stegalkin’s funeral the Commander founds a new guild, Dragon’s Watch. Investigating a Bloodstone explosion in the Maguuma, they discover the White Mantle have returned and resurrected a being claiming to be their mursaat god, Lazarus.

Act 2: Awakening Dragons

Taimi confirms the fire dragon Primordus and the ice dragon Jormag are both stirring, drawn by the loose magic. On a volcanic expedition a dragon egg hatches, and the Commander becomes bonded to the hatchling Aurene, Glint’s scion.

Act 3: The Head of the Snake

The White Mantle storm Divinity’s Reach to seize the throne. The Commander foils the coup, exposes Minister Caudecus, and discovers that "Lazarus" is an imposter who absorbed Bloodstone magic to pose as the mursaat.

Act 4: Flashpoint

The false Lazarus is unmasked as Balthazar, the human god of war, who steals Taimi’s device to pit the two dragons against each other. The Commander forces Primordus and Jormag back into dormancy, but Balthazar escapes toward the Crystal Desert to hunt Kralkatorrik — leading into Path of Fire.

Act 1: Sparking the Flame

Arriving in the Crystal Desert and Elona, the Commander moves to stop Balthazar from hunting Kralkatorrik and gathers allies. They learn the god is hunting Vlast, Glint’s first scion, who sacrifices himself to protect them; the Commander tames mounts and collects memory crystals revealing Vlast’s hopes for his sister Aurene.

Act 2: Crystalline Memories

Dragon’s Watch journeys into the Mists to consult the gods and learns Balthazar was imprisoned by the other deities and now seeks Elder Dragon magic for revenge. In the lost city of Kesho they discover Kralkatorrik’s weakness is dragon blood — making Aurene a target — and grasp Glint’s legacy of preserving magical balance.

Act 3: The Departing

After dying and passing through the Realm of the Lost, the Commander is resurrected and rallies Joko’s armies by impersonating Archon Iberu to rescue the captured Aurene. Atop Joko’s Sky Garden the Commander and Aurene defeat Balthazar together, but his death releases magic that empowers Kralkatorrik — awakening the dragon and spreading the Brand across the desert.

Act 1: Daybreak

Kralkatorrik, swollen with Balthazar’s magic, rampages over Elona. The Commander travels to the island of Istan and finds that the lich king Palawa Joko has escaped the Underworld and captured Taimi.

Act 2: Long Live the Lich

Joko unleashes the Scarab Plague on the living as part of his revenge. The Commander rescues Taimi, raises an army, and assaults Joko’s fortress at Gandara — where Aurene devours the defeated lich, ending his reign for good.

Act 3: All or Nothing

Following Glint’s legacy, the Commander forges a crystal spear at Thunderhead Keep and leads an alliance against Kralkatorrik. The assault fails catastrophically when the Elder Dragon kills Aurene before the Commander’s eyes.

Act 4: War Eternal

Aurene resurrects herself through the magic she consumed and pursues her grandfather across the realms. On the shattered battlefield of Dragonfall the Commander drives a true crystal spear into Kralkatorrik’s heart, slaying the dragon — and Aurene ascends as a new, prismatic Elder Dragon.

Act 1: Bound by Blood

At a charr legion celebration in Grothmar Valley, Imperator Bangar Ruinbringer secretly claims a legendary bow and marches his warband north, set on subjugating the Elder Dragon Jormag to forge a weapon against all dragons.

Act 2: Whisper in the Dark

Pursuing Bangar into the frozen Bjora Marches, the Commander finds Jormag’s champion Drakkar corrupting the ancient Spirits of the Wild. After the Spirits are cleansed, Bangar claims the victory for himself and shoots the Commander down.

Act 3: No Quarter

Bangar’s mutiny ignites a charr civil war on the Drizzlewood Coast, pitting his Dominion against the United Legions. The Scrying Pool reveals that Bangar and his lieutenant Ryland murdered General Almorra, and Braham’s meddling frees the corrupted Owl Spirit — letting Jormag fully awaken.

Act 4: Champions

Jormag and the fire dragon Primordus are lured onto a single battlefield to destroy each other. Braham fights as Primordus’s champion against Ryland, now Jormag’s; the two Elder Dragons annihilate one another, and Ryland dies in the arms of his parents Rytlock and Crecia — leaving Tyria reeling and its eyes turning toward Cantha.

Act 1: Convergence

Pursuing the Aetherblades who kidnapped Gorrik, the Commander crash-lands in the newly reopened nation of Cantha. Meeting local allies and probing Aetherblade activity, they discover the last Elder Dragon, Soo-Won, has been hidden in Cantha all along, guarded with jade technology by the innovator Yu Joon.

Act 2: The Future in Jade

Investigation reveals Cantha’s jade power plants run on draconic magic extracted from Soo-Won herself. At the Yong Reactor the group confronts Ankka; Mai Trin sacrifices herself to avert a catastrophic meltdown, while Ankka escapes intent on harnessing Soo-Won’s power.

Act 3: Fallout

Framed for the reactor disaster, the Commander shelters in the Echovald Forest and uncovers the Void, a corrupting force consuming Soo-Won. They track Ankka to the Xunlai Jade Junkyard and defeat her, but the extractor is sabotaged — and Minister Li is exposed as a Purist conspirator.

Act 4: Weight of the World

With its innocence proven and allies rallied, the group persuades Joon to rebuild the extractors. Forces converge on the Jade Sea as the Void spreads across the world, threatening many nations at once and setting the stage for the final stand.

Act 5: The Cycle, Reborn

Using extractors at the Temple of the Harvest, the Commander purges the Void from Soo-Won, then battles the Dragonvoid itself — defeating Void echoes of fallen dragons. As Soo-Won dissipates, Aurene absorbs her remaining magic, ending the Elder Dragon cycle and beginning the Age of Aurene.

Act 1: The Astral Ward

The Wizard’s Tower vanishes from Garenhoff, drawing the Commander into the Astral Ward — a secret order that has guarded Tyria’s wizards for millennia. As the demonic Kryptis invade from the Mists, the Ward names the Commander its "Wayfinder" to defend both the floating realm of Amnytas and Tyria.

Act 2: The Wizard’s Tower

The Wayfinder helps restore the Wizard’s Tower and rescue its wizards, Lyhr and Dagda, from Kryptis possession. When Mabon — a mursaat wizard and Zojja’s mentor — comes to aid the defense, he is possessed and sacrifices himself to save the others, devastating Zojja and the Ward.

Act 3: Into the Obscure

The Wayfinder pursues Isgarren, who is corrupted by the Kryptis general Cerus atop the World Spire. During the battle Peitha — a Kryptis rebel hidden in the Wayfinder’s mind — betrays her brother Cerus to help defeat him, revealing her aim to overthrow the tyrant King Eparch in her homeland of Nayos.

Arc: Through the Veil

The Wayfinder follows Peitha into Nayos, the realm where the Kryptis originate, and finds Astral Ward members who survived there. Led by the survivor Arina, they establish a foothold and open the campaign against Eparch’s loyalist forces.

Arc: The Realm of Dreams

General Nephus, Eparch’s former lieutenant sickened by the king’s tyranny, joins Peitha’s rebellion as a speech in Nyedra rouses the common Kryptis. When Peitha captures Queen Labris, Eparch’s mate sacrifices herself to empower her king, forcing the rebels to ready a final assault on Zakiros.

Arc: The Midnight King

Combining Peitha’s rebels, General Nephus’s army, and Astral Ward volunteers, the Wayfinder launches the final assault on Eparch’s citadel of Zakiros to confront and defeat the tyrannical Midnight King in his own stronghold.

Act 1: The Tyrian Alliance

After Eparch’s defeat the Commander takes the title "Wayfinder" and is sent to ally with the Lowland Kodan of Janthir. They raise a homestead and build ties with the kodan, but when scouts go missing the party encounters a titan — a legendary being of ancient times posing an unprecedented threat to Tyria.

Act 2: Storm Clouds over Janthir

The Commander battles two titans, Greer and Decima, who corrupt Janthir and push their influence toward the Tyrian mainland. A third, more powerful titan, Ura, commands them; despite victories the party must retreat when Ura intervenes, warning that "the door we came through sits wide open."

Godspawn

Researcher Farrah Baelseeker reveals the titans draw power from the Mists Tides, and the party assaults Mount Balrior during a break in the storm to defeat Greer, Decima, and finally Ura. Waiting Sorrow is unveiled as the ancient "Voice of Koda," and Isgarren discloses that Mabon sealed a Mists Gate beneath Bava Nisos before his death.

Repentance

Following Mabon’s memory projections through the Spectral Agony curse, the party explores the outskirts of Bava Nisos and discovers a fourth titan, Saevus Saxum, sealed within the city since the ancient mursaat–titan war. Mabon’s memories reveal he could not bring himself to kill it and imprisoned it instead, leaving the party to race inside before catastrophe.

Absolution

Livia uses the Scepter of Orr to breach Bava Nisos, which has merged with Saevus Saxum, and the party learns a White Mantle expedition unwittingly opened the titan’s Mists Gate. Inside the Foundry of Failed Creations they defeat three tormented White Mantle souls to sever the titan’s link, and Mabon sacrifices himself sealing the gate with the Scepter — ending the threat for good.

Act 1: Unscheduled Departures

The Commander investigates Inquest activity departing en masse from Tyrian ports and uncovers stolen research about an island called Castora. Sayida the Sly lends her ship for the pursuit, and the crew braves storms, sea creatures, and magical fog to reach Castora’s magic-saturated coast.

Act 2: The Island of Castora

The expedition lands and begins exploring Castora’s interior, where the Inquest has allied with pirate Freebooters to cybernetically enhance and weaponize the island’s already dangerous wildlife. (This act is still being documented as the expansion releases.)

The Only Way

The climactic chapters of the expansion. The wiki documents little so far — this finale is still releasing chapter by chapter.