Talk:Moon

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/moon/

Is Tyria canonically our Earth? Roland of Gilead talk 22:52, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

No, if it was then humans wouldn't be aliens to the planet and Seers the natives, Tyria wouldn't have been created by a dragon. ArenaNet just used stock image of Earth's moon as a shortcut to creating a moon in-game. Konig (talk) 17:10, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Well it's a bit hard to tell from the small image used in the article, but they don't seem to have replaced our moon for GW2, making it canon for sure. Also, how do the inhabitants of Tyria know all these pop-culture references of ours that are used so often in the series, for example Monty Python? Maybe the Seers being the natives is just pro-Seer revisionist history? Roland of Gilead talk 20:44, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

The idea seems to be that Melandru's moon just happens to resemble ours as a happy accident just like Tyria has native wolves resembling Earth's version but its bats look very different from Earth's bats, while many Tyrian races curiously have human-like bodies in full or in part (dwarves, mursaat, and norn among others). Or how native Tyrian non-human races like e.g. dwarves and jotun just happen to have IRL human names despite having no connection with humans originally. Just like the so far unnamed human homeworld (where the gods transported humans to Tyria from) shouldn't have been our Earth either given that it had gods in it and no reference to e.g. Allah or Jahve. We do later learn that at least in one "fractal" version of a potential future Tyria the "future" humans are at war with "future" charr, and the commandos and their K29-Moahawk aircraft from GW1 resemble modern US military a lot; this has been semi-canonized by the appearance of the commandos in GW2 since Jahai Bluffs release. I wouldn't put much weight on pop culture references either as that's just devs goofing around; if you must have a sensible in-universe explanation, however, it could just be that Tyrians came up with similar names, jokes and references on their own without the relevant movies, games, and books to compare them to. Just like Egyptians and Mesoamericans came up with the pyramid shape independently of one another. :) --Kossage (talk) 20:55, 18 May 2026 (UTC)