Joyce Kwon - A World Without You [LYRICS in Subtitles] - Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons Music 

Actual lyrics: How will our world go on without you? Are we ready for this, Stay above the abyss? There's never been a world without you. Can we find our own way, Keep the darkness at bay? Step by step we press on t'ward tomorrow. Head up high we face all that's unknown. A life of service that's our code to follow. So we will honor your great sacrifice. How will my heart go on without you? Won't you linger a while, Be with me through the trials? There's never been a world without you. I will fight for each day, Live or die, come what may. We will fight for each day, Live or die, come what may!

This song always makes me tear-up a bit when it gets to the line about "honour your great sacrifice". Soo-Won came into existence alone, and created her children in order to not be alone. But in doing so she cursed Tyria to the Dragon Cycle as her children, consumed by a hunger for magic, rampaged across it laying waste to life every 10,000 years or so. All she could do was stay out of the way. And then we, the player character, come along and lead the way in bringing down one after another of her children, and their magics returned to her one-by-one except she was no longer attuned to the whole, only to water. She couldn't control the rest anymore, so the magics combined in her and transformed back into Void. Only Joon's reactor draining the excess out of Soo-Won, where within machines it largely behaved itself, allowed Soo-Won to retain her sanity. WE did that to Soo-Won in our own ignorance, even if we were doing it for reasons of survival. But in the end something good did come out of her creating her five children, the other Elder Dragons. It's because she did that we gained Glint, and then Aurene, via Kralkatorik. And so the tragic life of Soo-Won, the original One Elder Dragon, came to an end and her role passed to her great grand-daughter, Aurene. Soo-Won, the one Elder Dragon who did indeed fear death, but still embraced it for the sake of the life on Tyria. Gosh darn it, Anet! Once again you create a character that we only get to know for a short while, and then they die in tragedy. I felt pity for Kralkatorik when we fought him, but it's nothing compared to the heartrending circumstances of Soo-Won. :(

I didn't think that any gw2 ending track would make me cry the same way after I heard Fear Not This Night and watched the credits roll down back then. However Arenanet have done it again. I think it's a very good track even though Soule isn't doing the OST for GW2 anymore for years. I didn't expect a vocal track at the end of the story after playing like a day straight. I completely caught me off guard and reminded me of the 10 year journey in this game again. Damn, it hit me so hard that it made a grown ass man like me cry. It felt like a true end to something. A grand finale.

It's amazing how at the start of the game, when we were tiny and insignificant people attempting to fight off a natural disaster we knew nothing about, in the depths of our despair we have a song of hope to light our way as the credits roll. (Fear Not This Night) Now, at the end of it all, we have climbed the unclimbable mountain. We have done what we set out to do. We have conquered the hurricane and rewritten fate itself. Now, as we stand victorious basking in the light of the world we have saved, surrounded by our comrades in arms, the song that plays as the credits roll is not victorious... it is a requiem. We have won, but victory is not nearly so sweet as our young and naive selves once believed it to be all those years ago. Can we really return, though? We have grown so much, and our perspectives have... broadened, while those we worked so hard to save remain so blissfully unaware of the true price paid for their savation, or the tragedy of its circumstance. It will be difficult to relate to those who attribute utmost importance to something we now consider so banal as to not even be worth mentioning. Caithe's remarks about the grove were right on target, as were Kuunavang's about how difficult it is for someone like Soo-Won to notice and care about the problems of the little people.

Feels like an epilogue to "Fear not this Night's" prologue

the line where it goes "there has never been a world without you" hurts sooo much. Soo-won has been alive for 10,000's years. She was probably alive since the creation of the world and realized "ah, I'm lonely" and with her innocent greed, she had children who would continuously destroy the world, and yet again she was lonely. It's sad thinking that only after maybe 20 000 years does she finally get aurene to keep her free of loneliness only to die because of Aurene and the commander having killed the other elder dragons which corrupted her. Soo-won was always lonely for 99% of her life......

The lore/story in this franchise is top-tier.

Nearly ten years later...i wasn't expecting an end song that would match "fear not this night" emotion. We've come around a beautiful way fellow Tyrians.

I know nobody will see this comment but got damn this song hit me hard. My beautiful and much loved wife passed away because of cancer. We and specially she fought for years against it. She was so brave yet we both were dead inside - we knew what was coming yet we tried to cherish each day we had. We danced, laughed and loved each other to the fullest but eventually the day came and she was gone.. " Step bu step we press t'ward tomorrow. Head up high we face all that's unknown. A life of service that's our code to follow, so we will honor your great sacrifice. How will my heart go on without you? It doesnt.. I miss you so much my loved and dearest wife, please wont you linger a while.

The melodies remind me about "The Prophecy", "Maguuma Overture" and "Aurene Dragon Full of Light"

After just finishing the story today, I was left with a really somber mood. The ending wasn't as hopeful as I expected (just hearing this song added +1 cry for my EoD cry-counter), and I guess I just don't know how to feel. The dragons have been the whole of Guild Wars 2's story, Aurene's arc has been a long one. Same with Destiny's Edge and Dragon's Watch. And now it's just, sort of, over. There was such a feeling of finality in everything. And to be clear, I'm not at all worried for the future of the franchise or anything. I guess it must come to an end someday, but End of Dragons was amazing, and I have high hopes for what's to come. I'm just having a lot of emotions about the past and the future of the story.

These last few notes, Going with Guild wars 2 main theme..and following by Aurene's...Yes, The Age of Aurene has begun, but we will not forget Soo-Won, Mother of All dragons. Tyria will live on, and mortals and Dragons will now live in harmony, together.

Chills down to the bones

I have been playing Guild Wars 2 for half my life. For half my life I have fought against the dragon cycle. Thousands of hours in game, now it is over. Such a wonderful journey. But it is weird seeing it come to an end. I excitedly wait for the future of Guild Wars 2, with the cycle gone I have no idea what the future holds. But I am excited to see it.

if Warcraft has a movie Guild Wars should have one too!!! The OSTs are so good that they alone would qualify

Listening to this gorgeous song kinda makes me sad we couldn't get more time exploring Soo Won character and motivation because the plot went way too fast for such an important character in all of Tyria history. Like why did she create the other elder Dragons why did she go along with the destruction they caused even tho she could stay sane it seems, was it also part of her long term goal to have aurene be born and bound with a champion? etc. If only the expansion story had more time in the second half after the reactor She could really have elevated the GW2 story to an unseen high bar imo. But we all know all the difficulties they faced in production the mmo so I still commend the team for trying to tell this the best way they could!

This is such a beautiful track

OMG ... im crying almost just the vibee ..

Cette musique est sublime la chanteuse a un style incroyable surtout avec ce style

Hits a bit different after the "Forward" quest/mission in latest End of Dragons update

One song ... hours of crying ... amazing amazing

i have to say, despite being the mother of dragons, she was smaller than expected

Soo-Won...

Whose story touched you the most? Who are you thinking about, while listening to this song?

the views on this... I think many ppl skipped the credits 😑

No more mordemoth cabbages.

I wonder if I'm going to see a Soylent Green or Encounter at Far point kina ending

[SPOILER] I came up with a theory while I was disecting the events of EoD..... We know that each dragon is actually fairly docile when it's cleansed from them; ie Glint, Kunuvang and Soo-Won (Also Kralkatorrik as we faught the magics within him). What if, as we were killing dragons, each piece of the Dragonvoid was brought together and After defeating Mordremoth, Kralkatorrik went mad, ended up consuming the energy from Balthazar who had Bloodstone magic within him (Bloodstone being the way the seers contained magics so that the dragons couldn't consume it.) From the expansion, we know that the Dragonvoid will always exist in parallel to the Ley Energies that flow through tyria, the biggest consentration being inside of elder dragons. As Ley energies are consumed, so are traces of Dragonvoid. What if the more Dragonvoid is consumed by the Elder dragons of its sphere, the more the Dragonvoid made the dragons mad. Kralkatorrik at one point had the most magics consumed, and as such the most Void. What if the Void drove him to be hungry so that it could get stronger by Kralkatorrik consuming as much as he could, effectively trying to manifest? When Kralk dies, Aurene becomes the prismatic elder dragon, but as it happened with Mordremoth, I have no doubt what was left (because aurene was definitely not as large) went to Primordus and Jormag, who unknowingly driven by the Dragonvoid to become whole, went at each other's throats. Another attempt to become one. When Jormag and Primordus died, Aurene absorbed their magics with a large amount that just yeeted itself through her. At this point, Aurene has the most Void inside her, but it's contained and filtered. As she was born apart from it, she did not belong. What if the visions pushed her to find the other source... because that's what the Dragonvoid wanted. Soo-Won had the last piece of the Dragonvoid puzzle, and to manifest, it needed all of the pieces. And it eventually got what it wanted when Aurene's magic was combined with Soo-Won's by extracting her power. At that point, all 12 spheres (the 6 hearts of the dragonvoid), had converged making it whole? TLDR: Dragonvoid posessed Kralkatorrik to consume after Zhaitan Mordremoth and Bloodstone magics entered him, and drove Jormag and Primordus to kill each other in an attempt to manifest and That's why Elderdragons always go mad?

Comparing eod to hot.. This expansion is 80% dialogs and fillers if I counted the actual fights throughout the story it's not more than 20 actual mobs fight Hot was constant engaging and a lot of boss fights including mordemoth and the mouth

Boi I dont like this track at all. I liked Fear Not This Night because it sounded very instrumental with a solo lead - this sounds like Billie Eilish's next "deep" single.