My problem with Scarlet is that, if someone is so smart, such a genius and the FIRST SYLVARI to graduate all three ASURAN colleges at the top of the grade – why have we -never- heard of her? Why haven’t we heard NPCs in Rata Sum talking about this sylvari that was smart but ‘something happened’ and she was kicked out?
As the story mentioned, she was stripped with all titles, thus was never mentioned.
We haven’t heard of a horrible murder of an asuran professor who made a machine to freaking see the Eternal Alchemy!
That’s easy. Asura dies all the time in some freak accident so it doesn’t cause an alarm when an Asura dies while tinkering with their machine.
We haven’t heard any ambient chatter about her whatsoever, which makes her place in the world very unbelievable and shoehorned.
Perhaps it’s a taboo among the Asuras to speak of her since it will highlight their biggest mistake in allowing a non-Asura to graduate from their colleges.
Good options, but there are other reasons why the asura would never talk about a sylvari who went through the three colleges.
Pride.
Someone who wasn’t an asura, who then wound up ditching them for the Inquest when she felt it wasn’t good enough?
I can almost hear Maurice LaMarche.
“And let us never speak of this bookah again. Agreed?”
Seeking assistants for the Asuran Catapult Project. Applicants will be tested for aerodynamics.
Now this is actually interesting. I like the notion that Scarlet rejects the deterministic notions of the Pale Tree, but still it leaves a lot of her actual motives unclear.
But I have to wonder, why none of this is told to us in-game? Scarlet could actually be an interesting character if you’d constructed her backstory using all you have written in that short story via dialogue and in-game text. This is the kind of exposition we need for the storyline, if we are meant to enjoy it.
Yep.
Now this is more interesting though I kinda wish she wasn’t an outright crazy baddie. Hopefully they build on it properly later. It’s shame in the game all were getting right now is “die die die, die die, die die”.
Although her insane level of education is still really silly to me and she is annoying.
Best to describe this story is liken to putting make-up on a pig.
Everybody already know about the pig and making it nice a pretty doesn’t change the fact — it’s still a pig.
So what exactly did we learn that is useful from the story? Absolutely nothing! The pig is still a pig, only prettier with flowery words to describe what happened.
Besides, this story is not well thought off.
She claims, “So much makes sense now. The Pale Tree, the Nightmare Court, Caithe and Faolain…it’s all part of a grand design.”
Yet she believes that she’s not part of that design and can change things however she wants.
“We can change the rules…well, I can. And I’m going to.”
WHAT THE H’?!
If she’s as smart as the story claims her to be, she would have realized that her every action are perhaps part of that “grand design”; that all her actions are preset and predefined and there’s no way for her to escape that fact.
But whatever, let the reality in Tyria implodes.
Heard about the polished kitten before but not the make up on the pig lol.
She claims, “So much makes sense now. The Pale Tree, the Nightmare Court, Caithe and Faolain…it’s all part of a grand design.”
Yet she believes that she’s not part of that design and can change things however she wants.
“We can change the rules…well, I can. And I’m going to.”
WHAT THE H’?!
If she’s as smart as the story claims her to be, she would have realized that her every action are perhaps part of that “grand design”; that all her actions are preset and predefined and there’s no way for her to escape that fact.
But whatever, let the reality in Tyria implodes.
Think Neo from The Matrix and Scarlet suddenly makes sense
It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
