It seems that Norn week, a week dedicated to those large hulking giants first featured in Guild Wars: Eye of the North are making their way to the official ArenaNet blog this week.

They come from the land of the ice and snow—the norn! A valiant race of shape-changing barbarians, the norn are one of the five playable races in Guild Wars 2. This week we’re going to get within axe-throwing distance of the norn on the ArenaNet Blog with posts full of lore, art, screenshots, audio clips, fiction, and more. On Thursday, Feb 24th, we’ll be updating the GuildWars2.com norn page with a brand new video featuring the Shiverpeaks, the norn hunting grounds.

So it seems that Norn week will be very similar to Human week in content. So we can probably look forward to an article with the voice clips that also gives us a hint at the overarching storyline for the Norn (like Humans it's the political intrigue and all out war), a few articles detailing some in-depth looks at the lore, and then we'll get another amazing (if not astonishing) video of the Norn homeland on Thursday.

What kind of info can we look forward to? Well, we can probably assume that ArenaNet will either be taking a detailed look at the military structure of the Norn (if we all remember from GW:EN that the Norn had no military then) or their relationships with the animal spirits.

The post introducing Norn week did contain a few interesting tidbits:

Aside from their size and their ability to shape-shift into a powerful half-animal form, norn are defined by their unique worldview. They value glory and deeds of valor above all – they’re just built that way. “

“They are by their nature a race of optimists,” says Jeff Grubb, Continuity and Lore Designer. “While humans have a long history, and it feels like their best days may be behind them, the norn project a positive outlook, even though they have been driven from their homeland.”

The Norn appear to have a strong outlook at the future and seem to want to fight forward to create their own glory days (which is something we can kind of pick up on in GW:EN) versus fighting to regain what was once theirs. It's interesting to think that in the GW2 universe that the Humans are not kings of the world anymore and all of these other races are vying for top spot in a chaotic world.

Stay tuned here to Ten Ton Hammer as we cover Norn week all week long and be sure to stop by our forums to discuss your thoughts on these huge northern warriors.