back when blizzard did their thing called "merging accounts" onto battle.net
arena.net did the same thing with guild wars 2
basically they had something similar to the Scroll of restoration but it was like a way to get bring some of your old items into guild wars 2 basically through a veteran system.
yatta yatta yatta
TLR
play guild wars 1 = get stuff guild wars 2
put guild wars 1 account merge it to arena.net website get free stuff
view possible rewards here
https://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=welcome
enjoy some swag and if you happen to be someone who has 'ways' of getting old accounts you could make some business off of selling them. being that you're the original owner and everything