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50 free Guild Wars trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Guild Wars rewrote the rules for online role-playing games in 2005. It gave every party its own private copy of the map, kept the level ceiling low so that skill counted for more than hours played, and told a story in which a kingdom could burn down around you. This quiz covers the three campaigns, Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall, and the Eye of the North expansion: the heroes and villains of Tyria, Cantha and Elona, the professions and their signature skills, the PvP arenas, the festivals and in-jokes, and the studio that built it all. A final stretch follows the story into Guild Wars 2. The questions run from ones any returning player will get to deep cuts for people who never wanted to leave pre-Searing Ascalon. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so the quiz works as a refresher before a Reforged playthrough or as a round for trivia night with an old guild.
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Q 01Guild Wars' swappable eight-skill builds are often likened to decks in which collectible card game?
Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering is the usual comparison because skills, like cards, are picked from a huge pool to work together. A build is locked the moment a character leaves town, so choosing it is half the fight.
Q 02Guild Wars launched in 2005 without which charge that rivals such as World of Warcraft relied on?
A monthly subscription fee
A monthly subscription fee was the norm, but ArenaNet reasoned that nobody would pay one for every online game they played. Buying the box once gave unlimited game time.
Q 03Guild Wars studio ArenaNet was founded in 2000 by three veteran programmers from which company?
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment lost Mike O'Brien, Patrick Wyatt and Jeff Strain to the new venture. The studio was called Triforge at first and took the name ArenaNet later.
Q 04In Guild Wars Prophecies, which race rains burning crystals on Ascalon in the Searing?
The Charr
The Charr called down the firestorm with the Cauldron of Cataclysm, then poured over the Great Northern Wall. It turns the green tutorial kingdom into a wasteland that players can never walk back into.
Q 05Which little girl from pre-Searing Ascalon returns as an adult Guild Wars hero in Eye of the North?
Gwen
Gwen tags along with new players almost anywhere and heals them now and then if they hand her a flute. The expansion's official short name, GW:EN, is widely read as a nod to her.
Q 06To complete Ascension at Augury Rock in Guild Wars, each player must defeat which opponent alone?
Their mirror image
Their mirror image, the Doppelganger, copies the challenger's whole skill bar, so the trick is to bring skills its simple AI will misuse. The foe was named Mirror Self until a June 2005 update.
Q 07Which spirit visits Guild Wars towns each Halloween and kills players who disobey his commands?
Mad King Thorn
Mad King Thorn hands Trick-or-Treat Bags to players who obey and strikes down those who don't, reviving them in time for his next order. Magical seals keep him out of Tyria for the rest of the year.
Q 08Which composer, best known for The Elder Scrolls series, scored all three original Guild Wars campaigns?
Jeremy Soule
Jeremy Soule wrote the music for Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall and Eye of the North and is credited with the series' main theme. He has been described as the John Williams of video game music.
Q 09Which Eye of the North trophy room lets Guild Wars veterans unlock exclusive rewards in Guild Wars 2?
Hall of Monuments
Hall of Monuments displays a character's armor, titles, companions and weapons, and each tribute adds reward points. Those points unlock sequel items that cannot be earned any other way.
Q 10Guild Wars characters stop levelling at which cap, after which experience earns skill points instead?
20
20 is the ceiling in every campaign, and characters made only for PvP start there. Each further cycle of experience pays out one skill point, spent on learning new skills from trainers.
Q 11Which Guild Wars heir of Ascalon dies holding off the Stone Summit so refugees can escape?
Rurik
Rurik had been exiled by his own father for urging the people to abandon the kingdom and flee to Kryta. The campaign's undead villain later raises his corpse and forces him to fight his old comrades.
Q 12Which dragon, living inside a grain of sand, wrote Guild Wars' Flameseeker Prophecies?
Glint
Glint was said to be the first creature on Tyria, placed there by the gods as its guardian. She welcomes players who have Ascended as the Chosen, eight centuries after writing about them.
Q 13Which Guild Wars kingdom did Vizier Khilbron sink beneath the sea to destroy an invading army?
Orr
Orr vanished when the king's advisor read from a forbidden scroll, leaving only scattered islands roamed by the restless dead. The disaster is remembered as the Cataclysm.
Q 21Which Guild Wars Nightfall profession swings a scythe and can take on the form of a god?
Dervish
Dervish fighters descend from wandering ascetics who swapped the traveller's staff for a humbler weapon. Its broad sweep strikes several foes at once, so they head for the very heart of a battle.
Q 22Which Guild Wars Factions profession hoods its eyes to commune with spirits and uses urns of ashes?
Ritualist
Ritualist arts are older than magic itself in Tyria, drawn from ancestors who kept a link to their descendants. Their summoned spirits help allies and hinder enemies at once, which no other profession can do.
Q 23Which cancelled Guild Wars campaign, meant to follow Nightfall, had its ideas reused for Guild Wars 2?
Utopia
Q 14Which floating spellcasters do Guild Wars' White Mantle worship as the Unseen Ones?
The Mursaat
The Mursaat can hide from anyone who lacks the gift of True Sight, which is how they earned the name. A dying exile, Saul D'Alessio, took them for gods and founded the White Mantle to worship them.
Q 15Which bodyguard who murdered his own emperor returns as the villain of Guild Wars Factions?
Shiro Tagachi
Shiro Tagachi struck at the Harvest Temple after a demon disguised as a fortune teller told him the emperor meant to kill him. Two heroes are said to have nearly cut him in half with his own swords.
Q 16Guild Wars' Jade Wind made Cantha's sea solid jade and did what to the Echovald Forest?
Turned it to stone
Turned it to stone, along with every bird and deer inside, is what the dying wail of an emperor's killer did. The Kurzicks later carved homes and cathedrals into the fossil trunks.
Q 17In Guild Wars Factions, which seafaring clans of the Jade Sea are at constant war with the Kurzicks?
The Luxons
The Luxons were stranded when their ocean solidified, so they adapted their giant ships to sail it and began mining it. Their three clans are the Serpent, the Turtle and the Crab.
Q 18Guild Wars' Cantha draws on East Asia, while Nightfall's arid Elona is based on which region?
North Africa
North Africa shaped Elona, a land joined to southern Tyria across a vast desert. Nightfall was the third campaign and the one that introduced customisable hero companions.
Q 19Which blinded Sunspear leader absorbs a dying god's power to become a goddess in Guild Wars Nightfall?
Kormir
Kormir is the Spearmarshal who recruits the player, is left for dead early on and is later rescued, sightless, from a Kournan fortress. She takes the title Goddess of Truth.
Q 20Which fallen god of water and secrets is the final enemy of Guild Wars Nightfall?
Abaddon
Abaddon was struck down by his fellow gods in a blow that turned the Crystal Sea into a desert. One of his demons, posing as a fortune teller, also set the Factions villain on his path.
Utopia was designed around quests whose outcomes the whole community would decide, but none of it ever reached a playable state. The team moved its plans into a new game and built Eye of the North as a bridge.
Q 24Which Guild Wars skill lets a player learn an elite skill from a boss they have just killed?
Signet of Capture
Signet of Capture is swapped for the chosen skill for good, and the boss must share one of the player's two professions. Bosses are easy to pick out by the glowing aura around them.
Q 25Which computer-controlled Guild Wars adventurers wait near town gates to fill out a party?
Henchmen
Henchmen take their share of the loot and experience like any other party member. Some players prefer to go it alone, leading a whole team of them through a campaign.
Q 26Which Guild Wars realm, home to the Eternals and the Shadow Army, is also called the Realm of War?
The Fissure of Woe
The Fissure of Woe is locked in a conflict that, its ghostly admiral says, will never end. Ascended parties reach it by paying a Champion of Balthazar at one of the god's statues.
Q 27Which diminutive race of underground inventors debuts in Guild Wars: Eye of the North?
The Asura
The Asura had not been seen above ground for centuries, and many humans thought them a myth. They see the world as a magical machine, the Eternal Alchemy, and became playable in the sequel.
Q 28Which foe foretold in the dwarves' Tome of Rubicon is the villain of Guild Wars: Eye of the North?
The Great Destroyer
The Great Destroyer leads swarms of creatures with hearts of flame and skin as hard as obsidian. Dwarven legend held that it would rise once its true name was read, yet it appeared without that.
Q 29Magni the Bison, final opponent of Guild Wars' Norn Fighting Tournament, nods to which game series?
Street Fighter
Street Fighter gave the Norn champion his name, a play on its villain M. Bison. He is the last of six opponents, and winners can trade championship tokens for trophies such as crowns.
Q 30At Guild Wars' Wintersday finale, players side with Dwayna or which rival god of death and ice?
Grenth
Grenth's supporters stand in his rings and bet candy cane shards against Dwayna's, and the winning god is said to dominate the coming year. Grenth took the Underworld by overthrowing an older god of the dead.