Silvary and centaurs

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Posted by: Adrianicus Shield.6803

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Question: If the silvary worship Ventari’s tablet why are they hostile towards centaur? In game I was doing the “choose your order” part of the personal story, when the order of secrets silvary rep. wanted to get the orrian minions to fight the centaurs so that both would destroy each other. IIRC centaurs aren’t completely evil, and just fight humans for their land, they don’t attack silvary specifically. So why the centaur hate? Also, why do the silvary favor humans when the major part of their culture comes straight from a centaur?

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Posted by: Ashes.9586

Ashes.9586

Correct me if I’m wrong but Ventari lived with humans in peace, he was an exception, right? That’s prooobably the main reason why they don’t favor centaurs as a whole.

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Posted by: Dustfinger.9510

Dustfinger.9510

That^ ventari’s tablet came from a centaur but isn’t really “centaur culture”. e.g. The centaur don’t necessarily live by it.

Then we know that sylvari are explicitly imitations of humans. So whether consciously or subconsciously, the Pale tree geared them toward humanity to one extent or another.

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Posted by: Rainbow Sprint.3215

Rainbow Sprint.3215

Ventari is the exception to the rule. On a whole centaurs are a violent race. The ones that arnt for war (and there are a few) are shunned in their society.

Theres a centaur in LA that will tell you this if you bother to talk to him.

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Posted by: Arikyali.5804

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I think I can answer this: The Sylvari revere the teachings of Ventari, and the centaur go against the teachings.

IV. All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed. – The centaur kill and enslave humans, and they consider themselves superior over ‘two legged’ beings.

V. Never leave a wrong to ripen into evil or sorrow. – Not fighting the centaur would mean letting their evil actions go unchecked.

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Posted by: Chadramar.8156

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I think it’s kind of a missed opportunity that there is no storyline of sylvari trying to reach out to the centaur, or even a mention of regret that the culture that spawned the being who shaped the entire sylvari existence is so unlike him. There is no sylvari-centaur interaction at all that I remember, yet there must be some centaur somewhere that aren’t “evil”, or at least could be nudge towards a more peaceful existence, and given how idealistic many sylvari are, I could see at least some of them trying to do that no matter the danger.

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Posted by: Dustfinger.9510

Dustfinger.9510

I think it’s kind of a missed opportunity that there is no storyline of sylvari trying to reach out to the centaur, or even a mention of regret that the culture that spawned the being who shaped the entire sylvari existence is so unlike him. There is no sylvari-centaur interaction at all that I remember, yet there must be some centaur somewhere that aren’t “evil”, or at least could be nudge towards a more peaceful existence, and given how idealistic many sylvari are, I could see at least some of them trying to do that no matter the danger.

There are. But right now they are focusing their efforts toward peaceful solutions with humans. I think this makes sense given the immediate problem of the limited amount of land that both human and centaur compete over.

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Posted by: Sirlath.1672

Sirlath.1672

I remember doing that Order quest with the Centaurs and if I recall correctly, when I met with the centaurs they referred to me as “Nature Spirit” or something like that, they kinda treated me different because I was Sylvari, not with immediate hate like they would a Human. So even if the Centaurs don’t really like the Sylvari, they think of the Sylvari as some kind of mythological creatures or spirits in their beliefs. I don’t think the Sylvari have to think anything of them just because Ventari was the pacifistic exception of a Centaur.

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Posted by: Chadramar.8156

Chadramar.8156

Order of Whispers? Figures, that is the one I have NOT done with a sylvari. :p Thanks, something to keep in mind for possible future characters.