the Maiden, Mother, and Crone

Devastated Garenhoff An emergency simulation to find out what would happen if the Wizard's Tower exploded, leaving the Garenhoff inhabitants scared and confused and the elemental constructs turning on them. It is inhabited by copies of the current population of Garenhoff, meaning everyone who lives there has a real, living clone now.

Rata Novus Promenade Instead of being overrun by chak and abandoned, this area explores what could've happened if Rata Novus, which we discovered in Heart of Thorns, had thrived. The asura here are kind of just going about their daily lives, and still have to manage pushback against chak from inside their hi-tech energy-pulsing city. They are aware that their home was ripped out of space and shoved into the archipelago, but they're used to shit like that. I don't think they know they originated as a simulation. Most important of all, though, in this fractal, Zinn is alive. The guy who founded Rata Novus and Rata Arcanum. Had a secret lab at the Falls in Auric Basin. Who made several unique robots, including M.O.X., the one from Draconis Mons you can adopt. The first person to develop a counter to the Mursaat's Spectral Agony, saving humankind from them 250 years ago. He is scattered through the DNA of both games and he's alive again. And his society, propelled forward into the future (for them), is actually ahead of all currently existing ones! This HAS to go somewhere!

Jade Mech Habitation Zone 03 A section of Kaineng city, if the jade mechs they rely on became sentient. The humans here don't seem to be copies of existing ones, and this fractal is more just a sad, violent eventuality. The sapient mechs have turned on their masters. Also Mr Bots is dead in this reality, making it the worst one.

Skyward Marches A segment of Elona from a reality where Balthazar was never defeated. This fractal has the clearest inflection point - it's what would have happened if The Commander had not managed to win their rebirth after being killed by Balthazar in The Departing. Filled with despair, the traumatised humans here react badly to the Commander's presence, understandably blaming them for what really appear to be the end times. Interestingly, Palawa Joko remains at large, trying to push back the Forged armies by himself. Perhaps the one thing that stopped the Commander from returning was if they had taken Joko's plea for allegiance and then been double-crossed, leaving them forever stranded in the Domain of the Lost.

Primal Maguuma A fractal made by Dagda for reasons sort of unknown, though Zojja says:

Maybe…this is an ideal version of Maguuma. One without Mordremoth. One that Eir didn't die in. One that…I didn't die in.

Seemingly a jungle that was untainted by Mordremoth and allowed to thrive, teeming with ley energy that was not absorbed and eaten.

Droknar's Light: The location of this fractal is deliberately a town area from GW1, and apparently this reality pocket was formed so that the Wizards could use the dwarven forge - the way they do in the meta event to re-open the tower. The only reality to contain the forge was one where the Deldrimor Dwarves, such as Ogden Stonehealer, were overpowered by their Stone Summit breathren who refused to undergo the rite that turned them all to stone. This may have resulted from a fork in history where the team of heroes in GW1 did not help in defeating Dagnar Stonepate at Thunderhead Keep. As well as being long-lost kin to Lyhr, the emergence of this fractal means dwarves are no longer an effectively extinct species with all known individuals either turned to stone, ghosts, or Primordus-enslaved husks. They are real again.

So, it is made damn clear in game that these chunks of potential realities now completely and fully exist. There is no undoing this. This has such massive implications for the future of the world. The foremost concerns being a living Zinn, restored dwarves, three different sets of humans from ruined homes. It's just. It is impossible to now overlook this.

I don't care if it's a sidebar to future content, or if we just hear back from the developments of the fractals occasionally, I don't care if this is the basis of the groundwork for GW3. It just needs to have its impact on the world at large be shown somewhere because god damn.