Colin Johanson recaps Scarlet's journey in 2013 before the Season 1 finale chapters release in the coming weeks.

Last month, Colin Johanson posted a 2013 year in review blog post on the official Guild Wars 2 website. In the post he reviewed the features that players saw over the latter half of the year before announcing that the next four patches would finish off the first season of the Living World initiative with the first patch not coming until January 21st.

With January 21st only a couple weeks away, Colin Johanson has released another blog post today looking back at Scarlet's exploits so far. Scarlet first came center stage when she crashed Queen Jennah's jubilee celebration and turned the Queen's watchknight defenders into the Twisted Clockwork army. Even before we knew of Scarlet however, her presence was felt in Tyria with her orchestration of both the Molten Alliance and Aetherblade Pirates.

Scarlet's exploits didn't stop there, as she took over a corner of Twilight Arbor to create a base where her army could grow and train. Then in Kessex Hills we learned of another alliance between the Nightmare Court and the Krait, a truly Toxic Alliance.

Players were able to band together to topple the Toxic Alliance's Tower of Nightmares, but many questions still remain intact. What did Scarlet hope to gain from the tower and its powerful toxin? What meaning do the ley lines discovered during the Thaumanova Reactor insident have for her plans? And what of these new "do not touch" probes that appear to be of Molten Alliance design?

With all of our victories in against her armies and alliances, it would seem that we were winning. Little did we know that "the worst is yet to come."

Matt "Mattsta" Adams

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