Guild Wars 2

Just recently I saw Avatar again on the TV and was amazed by how much similarity has the Na’Vi with Sylvari. Even part of Caledon Forest resembles Pandorian forest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy#In_literature_and_legend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seelie_and_Unseelie_courts#Seelie_and_Unseelie_Courts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_knight

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herne_the_Hunter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream

They are similar because they draw from the same sources, plus a pinch of modern environmentalism thrown in.

The forests looks similar because… c’mon! They’re magic forests! How many ways can you make a leaf glow?

Transvestosaurus.2381:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy#In_literature_and_legend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seelie_and_Unseelie_courts#Seelie_and_Unseelie_Courts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_knight

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herne_the_Hunter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream

They are similar because they draw from the same sources, plus a pinch of modern environmentalism thrown in.

The forests looks similar because… c’mon! They’re magic forests! How many ways can you make a leaf glow?

Yeah I agree there are many stories talking about forest folks and stuff like that. But there is a physical resemblance between Na’Vi and Sylvari. At least I can see it

The Na’vi are large, blue, cat-like hunters with a living core in their braids that can “plug in” to the plants and animals in their world. The Sylvari are sentient plant-beings, and are literally the fruit of the Pale Tree. They are naturally smaller and more willowy than Humans.

I can perhaps see a resemblance with the ability to give Sylvari cat-like or pixie-like features, but I think that’s more of a “based on fairies and elves” foundation than it is a direct resemblance. Other than that mythological basis, I think the two species are as different as they could possibly be in terms of physicality and culture.