Guild Wars 2

Someone who probably guessed by the name of the thread what I’m gonna talk about surely have been playing “Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning” game.

It’s too obvious about relations of these two races across these games, and I want to know more about it. In Kingdoms of Amalur Fea was introduced pretty well, they showed their culture, cities, beliefs, etc there was Summer and Winter Courts (relation to ordinary Sylvari and Nightmare Sylvari). These creatures looks almost the same in both games, they have similar structures and philosophy.
Is there something more to it, or this is just simple coincidence? Because there’s only in
these two game I’ve came across these plant-humans, not to say that setting of both games is very close.

So, who stole who’s ideas? =)

Most likely they both stole heavily from actual Fae lore and old tropes about them (like the plant-based clothing). From what I can see from the wiki the Summer/Winter courts are outright called Seelie/Unseelie, which are the folklore that the Dreamer/Nightmare concept is based off of.

GW2 puts some interesting dressings on the Sylvari but when you get down to it they’re fairies, and fairies are a very old and expansive concept. You find ’em everywhere.

Kingdoms of amalur came out AFTER the sylvari I redesign had been released, neither of them copied the other, both games will have been in development for years.
As the person above me suggests they both follow pretty conventional tree-folk/fae designs.

The fae in KoA are really really ugly though if you ask me. The Sylvari on the other hand are gorgeous.

I’ve seen many concepts of tree-people/fairies myself on some arts and etc, but it’s
kinda strange when games released with pretty small interval, had almost the same
setting and almost same concepts of Fae/Sylvari just with different names, tho it’s
first time I encounter this kinda race in a game.
As for uglyness, I don’t really find any differnce between them in KoA or GW2 since
games are almost on the same level of graphics + as KoA being a singleplayer and
mostly storybased, they showed Fae in more depth than it is in GW2 IMO.