Guild Wars 2

No, not because of cheesy books and movies., but because I like astronomy.

The graphic of Twilight is of a night sky. Neat. but that’s not what twilight is.

Figure a:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plCpEbV158k

The time of twilight doesn’t have just a nights sky, or much of one at all(location dependent), as much as the glow of the sun in the atmosphere before sunrise, and post sunset. (yes, twilight comes twice in a 24 hour period)

Figure b:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Twilight_description_full_day.svg

Real twilight looks more like this:

Figure c, d, e:
http://hdfreewallpapers.com/walls/2012/05/24/amazing_twilight_sky-wide.jpg

http://www.landscape-photo.net/albums/Sky-Clouds/normal_twilight-sky-03.jpg

http://www.wallpapers-place.com/images/wallpapers/twilight_sky_hd_widescreen_wallpapers_1920x1200.jpeg

I think the name should be changed to midnight, or something that is actually what it is.

It only makes sense.

Twilight is when the sun can no longer be seen in the sky, but you can’t still see the stars because of the residual sunlight disseminated in the atmosphere, and only the brightest objects in the sky can be seen.

Changing its name will both be more logical and have the added bonus of not remembering people of that horrible series of books and movies.

A Rose by any other name will still smell as sweet.

Midnight also doesn’t really cut it (cloudy night, no stars?) and all other names including the word “star” that just come to my mind sound silly.

Thanks for the awesome backgrounds!

It’s a great name.

It makes sense since there is a duality concept behind the two swords.

Personally though, I’d have named the weapons Radiance instead of Sunrise and Oblivion instead of Twilight. Which are much more inherent to the swords’ colours and particle effects.

So, in fact, it’s not the name that bothers you but the graphic.

Remove the stars, make it sort of blue-purple, “problem” solved?

Rallar.2986:

A Rose by any other name will still smell as sweet.

No, it won’t. The human brain is a simulator. It doesn’t ‘see’ reality, it creates a simulation of reality based on our senses and its own data.
That’s why we have things like schizophrenia. We can only feel what our brains let us feel.

You give a person two roses from the same bush tree, and say one of them isn’t a rose, but something else, and chances are they’ll say they seem to smell differently, and even believe they smell differently, actually feeling it.

Then its your perception not the name that changes your outlook on it.

I agree that human’s perception changes based on the data provided by it but no one but the wielder sees the name of the legendary.

And you don’t get the legendary for the name..

Idiosincrazy and schizophrenic tendency to want it changed. Definitely.

Rallar.2986:

A Rose by any other name will still smell as sweet.

Astronomically, it’s like calling a dog a cat.
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Iruwen.3164:

Midnight also doesn’t really cut it (cloudy night, no stars?) and all other names including the word “star” that just come to my mind sound silly.

Solar midnight is the exact opposite of noon. The sun being equidistant from dawn and dusk at nadir. In Roman times Midnight literally meant the middle of the night. In modern times Midnight is the transition between days time of night. Where does one get the idea that midnight is a cloudy night with no stars?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight
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Hermes.7014:

It makes sense since there is a duality concept behind the two swords.

Personally though, I’d have named the weapons Radiance instead of Sunrise and Oblivion instead of Twilight. Which are much more inherent to the swords’ colours and particle effects.

No so much sense to me, as there are two twilights in a given day. Sunset to dusk, and dawn to sunrise are the twilight times. While there is only one sunrise. Thematically, Sunrise is after Dawn, both literally, and precursor to legendary. Dusk is the precursor to Twilight, but in in real life the night comes after dusk(dusk is the end of the twilight between sunset to night).

While radiance would be a decent name, I am fine with Sunrise(as it looks like sunrise in the graphics). I think I’d stick with midnight or maybe Cosmos for twilight.

The opposite of sunrise is sunset, but they look kinda ‘samey’ at a glance.
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Chamone.6890:

So, in fact, it’s not the name that bothers you but the graphic.

Remove the stars, make it sort of blue-purple, “problem” solved?

I was just suggesting the easiest solution instead of altering graphics. But hey, if they wanna throw in some purple n blue sky color and maybe some multi colored clouds, to represent an actual twilight, that’s fine too.

Soul.5923:

Solar midnight is the exact opposite of noon. The sun being equidistant from dawn and dusk at nadir. In Roman times Midnight literally meant the middle of the night. In modern times Midnight is the transition between days time of night. Where does one get the idea that midnight is a cloudy night with no stars?

You misread that, probably my fault: I meant if midnight is cloudly, you can’t see stars, you that alone eventually isn’t the best name for this weapon. “starry night” just sounds… meh.

its a fantasy game, its not supposed to make 100% logical sense

Not being realistic doesn’t mean it doesn’t have to be logically consistent within its universe, this is what also destroys many movies.

twilight is a cool word, and that’s literally the only reason it’s called that. the precursor is called “dusk” though, which i think you’d prefer.

I just want Twilight to have a sparkle effect.

I see what you did there :p