ArenaNet''s been dropping some very broad hints over the past few weeks, most recently sending out a couple of very mysterious images.

Today dropped a couple of significant new pieces of information. First, one of the figures in the image (by the incredibly talented Kekai Kotaki) changed to reveal itself as what is almost certainly an Elementalist. Hopefully this is the first in a pattern, and we''ll get a look at the other figures still waiting in the background.

Our excitement over the new image barely had time to register when ArenaNet dropped a second bomb: a Guild Wars 2 blog. Talk about starting off with a bang: this first blog entry -- accurately labeled a manifesto -- takes the main points of GW2, things that we already knew, and expands upon them in a big way. Many points that we''ve wondered about are clarified, and the blog entry is easily the biggest piece of information we''ve gotten from ArenaNet since the last trailer.