Why not?

#1 - Feb. 2, 2014, 12:21 p.m.
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Dear staff of Arenanet,

First of all I would like to congratulate you guys with the first aniversary of Guild Wars 2 applause

Now, here we go:

I am a great fan of the storyline of Guild Wars 2 and actually of Guild Wars 2 in general! What I really like about it is the fact that your character really can make a diffirence and that it has it’s own storyline but I’m not here about the ‘real’ storyline I’m here about some little detailsin the characterselection where you can answer (choose from some options) a profession-specific question, a personality-specific question and three race-specific questions. Well over the first few months of Guild Wars 2 I made all my five characters and chose the answers on all these questions in a way that I thought fitted the best with my character. Now we’re one year later (and I know that maybe I’m being silly) and I started to read a lot on the Guild Wars wiki (because I never played the first Guild Wars) and Irealised that I chose the wrong answers (to me) for my characters. For example: for my human thief I chose that he lived on the streets, that he’s very charming and that his ‘guardian angel’ is Grenth but now I think it should be Kormir because she’s the godess of secrets and truth and my thief joined the orders of whispers. I have similar ‘issues’ with all of my characters but I have none with the story-related questions so I would like to ask you guys to make it possible to change these answers because it would mean so much to me and to some other players I know too.

I understand if you guys do not give this priority but like they say here in Flanders: ‘If you don’t ask you have a no, if you do ask a yes is what you can get’ and with that attitude I wrote this message.

I hope to hear from you guys soon and keep up the good work.
Yours sincerely
Lukarius.

#4 - Feb. 2, 2014, 3:32 p.m.
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We simply do not have the ability to make these changes. I don’t know that there are plans ever to program such alterations to a character, but I rather think that is not on the table or would be given a low priority.

I’m sorry that you’d like to make changes that are not possible, but when you think about it, the character is “born” when you create it, and going in the character’s personal story, diety, or race would be — in an RP sense — as impossible as changing our personal history in real life.