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Hello Guild Wars 2 Developers and other readers,
I have only been in guild wars 2 for a few weeks now, but fighting all of the different creatures and areas got me thinking of a unique concept that I wanted to share with everyone.
I would like to introduce the merdra. This is a race that I think would be a great addon to the game. Now here is the description of the race and how the lore would work but clearly would be up to the discretion of the developers to change if necessary.
The merdra would essentially be an aquatic race that would start out in a zone of guild wars 2 where there was a large body of water. They would be depicted as half fish, half human. Essentially, they would be mermaids and mermen. The benefits of having a race like this is the ability to eliminate aquabreathers for this race and perhaps give added racial bonuses when in the water and doing quests or combat in the water.
Now you all are probably wondering how the merdra would go to the other land areas of the guild wars 2 maps. Well that is simple, you would just have to integrate a system where when the merdra are in the water, they are half fish, but when they attempt to go on land, they transform into a human form with noticeable differences to different parts of the body. Obviously, the merdra would do better in the water and have better bonuses there and would have more of a weakness on the ground.
Time for the lore on how the merdra came to be. Again, if this ever got implemented, this could clearly be changed. The story of the merdra would be that in one of the oceans of the world, the krait were secretly taking human captives and experimenting on them in secret to make a human hybrid in their image that would serve them better as slaves. After years of work and experimentation, they finally made the first successful merdra, a splice of human and fish DNA that was a large success. The krait found this to be a mass success and took a majority of their human captives and transformed them into merdra. However, what they did not take into account is that the newly created merdra still retained their human minds and when they eventually realizes that they had this newfound power, they rised up against their krait masters and prevailed. The merdra took control of a small section of the ocean (can be determined if implemented) and started to grow. For the later part of many years, they were a very seclusive and closed society, however, that all changed when the current ruler of Divinity’s Reach sent an expedition to the merdra’s region and asked for assistance with the coming threats. The merdra agreed, but had no way to get to land. This is when a sorcerer (or whatever the name for them in guild wars is) came to the merdra with a workaround. He proposed that with a little bit of magic influence, he could make it where the merdra would be able to transform into a human form when on land, but would not be able to fully change them into a normal looking human. The merdra were willing to try this and took advantage of the ability to return to land. When they returned to the ocean, they would retake their merdra form and get their racial bonuses that they would enjoy.
And that is the lore folks! I am sure that if this is implemented that it would be a huge success and frankly nothing like this has been tried in a large scale MMO. In addition to the new race, lore friendly clothing and other items could accompany the new race.
This is just an idea that I hope will at least be looked at. I do understand that it would be hard to implement something like this but I believe it would bring a lot more value and gameplay to the game.
Anyway, if you guys have any other cool ideas pertaining to this, please post them in the comments. I am just one person, but the more people that talk about stuff like this, the more that the developers would be interested in implementing it.
Thanks for listening!