Guild Wars 2

In part VI of the personal story “This Far, No Further”, your mentor dies and Trahearne is introduced. Well, this is not a we all don’t like Trahearne thread because I like him.

What is important in this thread is the mentor! I would love to have a funeral for my mentor after The Battle of Claw Island and be able to recover his body after Retribution. Why? Because he asked me to tell others about his legend.
I later meet Apatia, who is a norn, too. She also dies and I travel to Hoelbrak to mourn her death, but I didn’t do it for my mentor. A missed oportunity in my book.

And now we speak about Trahearne. I think it would be great if he would comfort the player character during the funeral. Perhaps tell a story about how he met the mentor of the PC and what a great person he/she was. Something that gives some emotional bound between Trahearne and the PC.

I wasn’t sure where to post this because this is a suggestion as well as a discussion about the personal story.

My mentor is NOT DEAD i refuse to accept it. Tybalt ill look for you deep into the mist ill beat grenth 1000 times if that means i can bring you back.

Well, the pale tree said something that can be interpreted that he/she died.

Anyway, this would be a great line for the character on the funeral. You see all the charr and whisper agents who mourn his dead and the character has the choise to say: “He is not dead, I refuse to accept it.”

So mayby it is interesting not to recover his body after Retribution to let this question open. ^^

I would prefer if the question of the fate of the mentor doesn’t stay open. It is a common trope that the mentor dies in a story, so I am okay with that. ArenaNet has done that part perfect… regardless how sad it is.

With that said, I also would like to see some kind of funaral. But Trahearne could (and maybe even should) speak with the player character about the mentor earlier (maybe directly after we lose the mentor). If for example he says that we should go recover the body of the mentor and how important that is to him, he would become more sympathic than he currently appears to many players.

Drudenfusz.2971:

ArenaNet has done that part perfect…

I… disagree…
Vehemently.

The whole thing felt contrived and more akin to Seiran just going “OK, Story’s headed towards a new chapter. Gotta die now.” Especially because her sacrifice just seemed so… pointless…

I didn’t feel sad there. Just… unimpressed. The most you could say is that I was kind of surprised since I couldn’t imagine the story had seriously just killed off the only interesting character it had created. And I don’t mean that in the, “Wow! So shocking!” kind of way. Just the, “Seriously? You really thought that was a good idea? Wow…… :-/” kind of way

Of course, my character’s near-complete lack of emotion and personality didn’t help. It was just… “Well, that’s that then. Moving on!” And it really didn’t have any impact in general, honestly. Gixx seemed slightly mournful for about 2 seconds and then we started a (rather horrible) mission where he was basically cracking ‘jokes’ and had seemingly put the whole thing out of his mind.

Then there’s basically nothing until the last mission where:
The Eye of Zhaitan tells you that your mentor is 'waiting for you beneath Zhaitan's wings'.
This… seemed rather… off… to me.
My mentor was Seiran... A Sylvari... Who are known to be incapable of being corrupted/turned by the dragons....

I know that was sort of a mindgame kind of thing, but it seems like a completely ineffectual one given that the above seems to be fairly common-knowledge.

That said, I would appreciate anything that could be added to actually show some degree of thought was paid to the mentor after the whole Claw Island thing. Anything to alleviate the abbreviated and disjointed feeling the story has would honestly be a great improvement. That said, I can’t imagine a funeral actually being all that touching given my character’s apparent inability to genuinely seem to care about anything. And Trahearne is even worse…