Guild Wars 2

The Festival Of Lyssa

The Festival

OOC: The Midnight Reveries, and specifically Kourosh Santagar of the Reveries is proud to present the Festival of Lyssa, an rp festival open to all TC players! This promises to be the first of many festivals we would like to hold that will honor the Six Gods and each will take place throughout the year in varying locations based on the God. This Festival with it’s ties to the Festival of Lyss and the Elonian culture will take place in the Ossan Quarter of Divinty’s Reach. We are still in need of volunteers for certain things which will be marked in the post, feel free to pm me on the forum here or whisper me in game if you’d like to volunteer or sign up for the poetry contest.

IC: The Festival Of Lyssa is in honor of the old Elonian festival that was held every year in Vabbi to honor Lyss. Lyssa is the Goddess of illusion and beauty, and also water, energy storage (magical), duality, and some say chaos. The Festival is to honor the first of the three while also providing some Elonian cultural to be showcased as well.

DATE/TIME – June 14th from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Server Time. (8:00 – 11:00 pm CST / 9:00 pm 12:00 am EST)

Location – Ossan Quarter, Divnity’s Reach

The Events/Fare:

1) A kissing both – Lyssa is the goddess of beauty and people turn to her for matters of love. This would be a light hearted, fun item.

2) Food and drink – every good festival needs food and drink for its guests.

3) Blessings of Lyssa – an opening and closing ceremony item where IC a priest of Lyssa would offer a prayer to her and then blessings to the crowd.

4) Mesmer Show – a combination of rp and skills to put on a show highlighting the beauty and powers of illusions in honor of Lyssa. Need: a few mesmer volunteers.

5) Water Show – a combination of rp and skills to put on a show highlighting that beauty and power of water magic in honor of Lyssa. Need: A few elementalist volunteers.

6) Poetry Contest – entrants will share their best original poem written in honor of Lyssa. Need: prize and judges.

Festival Map

• A) Opening/Closing Ceremonies, Blessings
• B) Performance Area for shows, poetry contest
• C) Vendor Area for kissing booth, food, drinks.

Reserved for Poetry Contest Entrants/Volunteer list

Volunteers

Zara – Priestess of Lyssa, Opening and Closing Ceremony

“Tyria Merchant Company” (The Midnight Covenant) – Food and drink vendors
Night Brew Company – Alcoholic Drink Vendors

Kyler Murtugh – Kissing Booth (Male)
Saville Labonne – Kissing Booth (Female)
Kate (Gunnr) Soulguard – Kissing Booth (Female)

Lanz – Class on Mesmerism

Kurtosis (Moral Hazard) – Mesmer Show
Neris Ta’Lorn – Mesmer Show

Daughter of Stars – Water Show
Okamaru – Water Show

Poetry Contest Entrants

Butterfly
Tregarde
Eilir Eirasdottir
Alice Hyun

I’m not too familiar with how Mesmers work from an RP standpoint, but I’d love to learn & be a Mesmer Show participant. Is there an accepted area of mesmer lore/in game mechanisms that I could read up on this?

Mesmers are masters of illusion and control, subverting the enemy’s Energy for their own use, and that of their allies. -Guild Wars Wiki

Mesmers are masters of mirage. They weave mental magic that confounds, controls, or evokes emotion in their enemies. With a wave of the hand, they can shatter their own illusions to produce even greater special effects. -Guild Wars 2 Wiki

Lyssa is the dual-faced goddess of beauty, water, and illusion. She is the patron Goddess of Mesmers and Assassins, and is also associated with the Energy Storage techniques of Elementalists. -GW2 and GW Wiki

So to answer your question, Mesmers (mostly Human ones) see Lyssa as the Goddess who has given them their abilities. It’s like a Guardian who specializes in healing praying to Dwayna since she is the Goddess of healing and life, or a Necromancer worshiping Grenth. Feel free to whisper me in game or I’d any of the mesmers on the list, they’re all devotees of Lyssa as you can tell. But read over the wiki, and if you play a Human or not just look at the in game things that talk about Lyssa, etc (the shrine, so on, so forth.) If you have questions, ask as well!

Uh…. will there be meat? You know…. for our kind? The Charr? Or are we not welcome in this festival? That better not be it, unless you’re planning on this festival of yours to turn into a battleground!

Oh wait, that’s right! We killed out gods. Can we still come for the meat?

TheNerdlyKnight.7035:

Mesmers are masters of illusion and control, subverting the enemy’s Energy for their own use, and that of their allies. -Guild Wars Wiki

Mesmers are masters of mirage. They weave mental magic that confounds, controls, or evokes emotion in their enemies. With a wave of the hand, they can shatter their own illusions to produce even greater special effects. -Guild Wars 2 Wiki

Lyssa is the dual-faced goddess of beauty, water, and illusion. She is the patron Goddess of Mesmers and Assassins, and is also associated with the Energy Storage techniques of Elementalists. -GW2 and GW Wiki

So to answer your question, Mesmers (mostly Human ones) see Lyssa as the Goddess who has given them their abilities. It’s like a Guardian who specializes in healing praying to Dwayna since she is the Goddess of healing and life, or a Necromancer worshiping Grenth. Feel free to whisper me in game or I’d any of the mesmers on the list, they’re all devotees of Lyssa as you can tell. But read over the wiki, and if you play a Human or not just look at the in game things that talk about Lyssa, etc (the shrine, so on, so forth.) If you have questions, ask as well!

I know all of that. What I meant was, what else can mesmers be expected to generally do from a RP standpoint? Can we conjure other kinds of illusions besides ones of ourselves? Can we read minds or block thoughts? That’s mainly what I meant. A lot of people go about RPing the more general/not in game aspects of a professions lore or attributes their own way. I was wondering if there was a widely accepted guideline to that in terms of mesmers specifically. I just don’t want to assume one thing, then be wrong later at the event itself.

Teletric.1980:

Uh…. will there be meat? You know…. for our kind? The Charr? Or are we not welcome in this festival? That better not be it, unless you’re planning on this festival of yours to turn into a battleground!

Oh wait, that’s right! We killed out gods. Can we still come for the meat?

Absolutely, all races are welcome! We’ll have a food and drink vendor and an alcohol vendor there as well! I’m sure they will be serving all kinds of wonderful things.

Arale.4207:

I know all of that. What I meant was, what else can mesmers be expected to generally do from a RP standpoint? Can we conjure other kinds of illusions besides ones of ourselves? Can we read minds or block thoughts? That’s mainly what I meant. A lot of people go about RPing the more general/not in game aspects of a professions lore or attributes their own way. I was wondering if there was a widely accepted guideline to that in terms of mesmers specifically. I just don’t want to assume one thing, then be wrong later at the event itself.

Oh, sorry for the confusion! Mesmer’s from an RP perspective can do a lot of things, it depends on what you want to do! I’ve met Mesmers who read fortunes and are heavy into mysticism through their illusive skills, I’ve seen others who as you suggested are more adapt at mind reading and hypnosis, and others like Kourosh who turn out to be expert duelists thanks to the use of their clones and phantasms; using them as feints, tricks, and weapons in combat or duelist shows.

A friendly reminder that the event is tonight staring at 6pm PST/ 8pm CST/ 9pm EST

Hope to see everyone there!