At the end of last episode of Season one, upon seeing her in down state, I felt pity for her and walked away without killing her. Yes, I chose to spare Scarlet’s life. Everyone deserves a second chance. But that’s not the reason why I spared her life. I actually enjoy her as an adversary. I was hoping one day she will seduce Trahearne into the dark side and turn a comrade into a foe. With his knowledge of the Pact and intelligence, Trahearne would have been a great adversary as well. Now my dreams has been crushed upon seeing the cut scene of Season 1. My crew disobey my orders and stood there as they watch this Norn woman killed off Scarlet Briar. I don’t know who this mysterious Norn woman is, but if I ever run into her she’s gonna taste the wrath of my 100 blade.
Anyways, I felt betrayed. This is not what heroes do. Heroes do not kill off villains so fast. My crew calls me Boss. Now I just want to go Donald-Trump on them: “You’re fired!” (except Taimi).
The only way to complete the story was to kill her. If you didn’t kill her then you didn’t complete the story which means you haven’t done it at all yet. So you haven’t even found scarlet. When you do find her you will kill her as there is no choice in the matter.
I don’t know who this mysterious Norn woman is, but if I ever run into her she’s gonna taste the wrath of my 100 blade.
Nah friend, this wasn’t just any mysterious stranger, this was a legend walking that couldn’t just stand back as others pondered events. No they determined that the time was up and told us to lets do this. After a successful life on one side they decided to rekindle their spirit and form new legends with an alternate life style. Stranger, no that was the one true Leeroy “Loralee” Jenkins!
It just happened that you had already wiped all of the foes so LJ just kinda came in and stole your kill.
she killed thousands, destroyed LA and wreaked havoc over tyria and you want to give her a 2nd chance? a 2nd chance for what? to return even more powerful as it seems.
lemme guess, you’re one of her minions.
;)
I can assure you, I’m not Sylvari. But I do have a soft spot for plants. Yes, Scarlet did killed thousands and she deserves to die. But early death is too good for her. She must feel the pain of losing a loved one and have her dreams crushed. I wanted her to watch as I destroyed her Lord Mordremoth and his army of thorns. Death meant nothing for Scarlet as long as her purpose was fulfilled. Did you not notice the madness and satisfaction in her face when she died? That’s her soul laughing at all of us. I wanted to spare her life so that I can not only stomp her body but also stomp her soul. Only then will Scarlet feel true defeat.
The only way to complete the story was to kill her. If you didn’t kill her then you didn’t complete the story which means you haven’t done it at all yet. So you haven’t even found scarlet. When you do find her you will kill her as there is no choice in the matter.
But I did not kill her. The story completed and I met my party at the hub. All along, I thought about how we will face her again in season 3 when she makes a triumph return. Now I realize some Norn woman has did my bidding. Uhhh….
I don’t know who this mysterious Norn woman is, but if I ever run into her she’s gonna taste the wrath of my 100 blade.
Nah friend, this wasn’t just any mysterious stranger, this was a legend walking that couldn’t just stand back as others pondered events. No they determined that the time was up and told us to lets do this. After a successful life on one side they decided to rekindle their spirit and form new legends with an alternate life style. Stranger, no that was the one true Leeroy “Loralee” Jenkins!
It just happened that you had already wiped all of the foes so LJ just kinda came in and stole your kill.
Her name is Leeroy? I can’t tell what profession she is. I hope she’s not an OP Mesmer because when I find her, her legend will end and mine begins.
The biggest problem I have with Scarlet, or more importantly the perceptions of her, is that she is thought of as being 100% evil for the same of being evil.
The truth is, I think she is less evil than those of the nightmare court as they willingly turned from the tree, turned from its protection and embraced that darker part of themselves that was calling out to them so they could revel in that pain and anguish then bring it to others.
Scarlet’s biggest crime was one of curiosity and an almost insatiable thirst for knowledge that lead her to an Asura who was willing to use her as a test subject, and unwittingly unlocked in her mind not only deep knowledge of the universe but also opened a direct connection between her and an elder dragon. The dragon then used her as a champion to find a way to deliver to him the biggest “meal” of magical energy possible. Once she became Scarlet, she was no longer her own being with her own wants and needs. She was acting solely as a weapon for her true master. Her mind had been warped beyond belief at this point when we encounter her, and for this reason I feel some amount of pity for her.
[OTR] – Greck Howlbane – Guardian
Soraya Mayhew – Thief
Melissa Koris – Engie – SF for Life!
For as irritating as Scarlet was, I’m still sorry she’s dead.
Later, tater.
I started off liking her, truth told. She was vivacious, quirky, a planty, feminine Joker.
But then she never stopped. She never stopped having inane, insane motives, never stopped having an increasingly implausible backstory, never stopped being the same, unflinching villain.
She was a Mary Sue that deserved what she got: a banner in the chest. And yet, it still didn’t end. They had to keep shoehorning her name everywhere.
Many alts; handle it!
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I wasn’t around for Scarlett’s fiasco, but there were some really broken things about her. Almost to the point of mary suisms. A random Sylvari popped out of a tree and while most are naive at birth, she goes and takes on a million different subjects, was a top performing student in two Asuran colleges, becomes a master of machinery and engineering, and gets to be the first to peer directly into the very fabric of the universe itself.
The alliances always struck me a little odd too, since she was apparently able to waltz into Dredge/Fire Legion hangouts and say “heeeyo you two should hook up”. Even weirder seemed the Toxic Alliance, in which I have a hard time imagining a Sylvari hopping into Krait territory and saying she could bring a prophet when Krait loathe anything that isn’t them and normally don’t listen to a single non-Krait word.
Though like I said, I wasn’t around to see how she managed that, so there’s probably details in those I glossed over. Still haven’t seen the cinematic summary woops.
EDIT tfw ninja’d by previous post about mary suisms
[OWLS] Priory Elder Dragon Research Team
[EDS] Elder Dragon Sympathizers
The only way to complete the story was to kill her. If you didn’t kill her then you didn’t complete the story which means you haven’t done it at all yet. So you haven’t even found scarlet. When you do find her you will kill her as there is no choice in the matter.
But I did not kill her. The story completed and I met my party at the hub. All along, I thought about how we will face her again in season 3 when she makes a triumph return. Now I realize some Norn woman has did my bidding. Uhhh….
One time I just stood there in front of Scarlet. She dies no matter what. It is literally an atk mission.
Stand there, and you kill her. Eith death stares. There was no way to not kill her except not do the instant.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
At the end of last episode of Season one, upon seeing her in down state, I felt pity for her and walked away without killing her. Yes, I chose to spare Scarlet’s life. Everyone deserves a second chance. But that’s not the reason why I spared her life. I actually enjoy her as an adversary. I was hoping one day she will seduce Trahearne into the dark side and turn a comrade into a foe. With his knowledge of the Pact and intelligence, Trahearne would have been a great adversary as well. Now my dreams has been crushed upon seeing the cut scene of Season 1. My crew disobey my orders and stood there as they watch this Norn woman killed off Scarlet Briar. I don’t know who this mysterious Norn woman is, but if I ever run into her she’s gonna taste the wrath of my 100 blade.
Anyways, I felt betrayed. This is not what heroes do. Heroes do not kill off villains so fast. My crew calls me Boss. Now I just want to go Donald-Trump on them: “You’re fired!” (except Taimi).
But GW2 is set in a medieval style fantasy, where punishments are more serious like in medieval times, than compared to our real life modern world, where you’re given more choices in life that can lead into completely different outcomes.
Heroes of medival times had to make the choice, either kill the advesary who keeps on killing anyone around them, or spare the advesary and fail the trust of their people who expected you to stop the enemy for good…
I’m a casual PvE adventurer, I enjoy combat, adventure and helping, but not farming.
I rarely do PvP or Hard PvE, unless it’s organized.
I didn’t really care once she got downed, but then a bright red FINISH HER sign popped up, so i dropped a cow on her . “Moooooo” were her last words. Or the cow’s, i’m not too sure.
I don’t want to fight any sprouts. D-R-A-G-O-N-S is what I want to fight, not this filler fluff. It was fine at the start, but its gone on too long now. Bring me on something enormous and winged.
But GW2 is set in a medieval style fantasy, where punishments are more serious like in medieval times, than compared to our real life modern world, where you’re given more choices in life that can lead into completely different outcomes.
Heroes of medival times had to make the choice, either kill the advesary who keeps on killing anyone around them, or spare the advesary and fail the trust of their people who expected you to stop the enemy for good…
I’d argue against the notion that GW2’s universe is a medieval style fantasy. For every castle and traditional sword, there are magic-infused golems and steam-powered monsters.
And the GW2 universe has villains who were captured rather than killed: Mai Trin was held in captivity until she escaped, and Canach was held until he was given a chance to “work off” his debt to society. I’m not saying Scarlet’s story could have ended without her death; I’m just saying that this isn’t the kind of world where killing an enemy is the only option.
I don’t want to fight any sprouts. D-R-A-G-O-N-S is what I want to fight, not this filler fluff. It was fine at the start, but its gone on too long now. Bring me on something enormous and winged.
I just hope that fight doesn’t end up being a “stand here and press 1” kind of fight.
1111122333wwwwwwssssssssdddddddddddaaaaaasdddddwhy aren’t my skills wor—oh.
Please. She was garbage and deserved to burn like garbage. And this is from one who likes the Sylvari. She was a blight upon the lore, upon her own kind, and upon the rest of Tyria.
And before you say Mordremoth did it, feel free to recall that she worked with the Inquest of her own free will before that, had black market dredge contacts, and implied manipulating Omadd for her own purposes (which is even sadder when he was one of the few that did seem to care about her).
I wasn’t around for Scarlett’s fiasco, but there were some really broken things about her. Almost to the point of mary suisms. A random Sylvari popped out of a tree and while most are naive at birth, she goes and takes on a million different subjects, was a top performing student in two Asuran colleges, becomes a master of machinery and engineering, and gets to be the first to peer directly into the very fabric of the universe itself.
The alliances always struck me a little odd too, since she was apparently able to waltz into Dredge/Fire Legion hangouts and say “heeeyo you two should hook up”. Even weirder seemed the Toxic Alliance, in which I have a hard time imagining a Sylvari hopping into Krait territory and saying she could bring a prophet when Krait loathe anything that isn’t them and normally don’t listen to a single non-Krait word.
Though like I said, I wasn’t around to see how she managed that, so there’s probably details in those I glossed over. Still haven’t seen the cinematic summary woops.
EDIT tfw ninja’d by previous post about mary suisms
There’s not any details about all of those things i am afraid. And i guess we will never learn, except if arenanet gets out LS season1 with more details about that stuff.
Also there’s a good chance WoodenPotatoes (youtuber) may have anything relevant to these things.
They called us TEMPESTs, but we can use our elite to cheat death instead
I agree.
From the characters’ perspective, it was more than just logical to kill her—it was unquestionable. She was a mass murderer after all.
But as the player, I liked her. More than liked her. I adored her with Taimi-like intensity. She was, and is, one of my favorite villains ever.
She was nuts, the alliances she formed were nuts, the story behind her was nuts, and I loved every moment of it. Scarlet and Halloween are the most fun I’ve ever had with Guild Wars 2.
Killing Scarlet meant leaving behind the fun I had during Season 1. At least I still have Halloween. All hail Mad King Thorn!
At the end of last episode of Season one, upon seeing her in down state, I felt pity for her and walked away without killing her. Yes, I chose to spare Scarlet’s life. Everyone deserves a second chance. But that’s not the reason why I spared her life. I actually enjoy her as an adversary. I was hoping one day she will seduce Trahearne into the dark side and turn a comrade into a foe. With his knowledge of the Pact and intelligence, Trahearne would have been a great adversary as well. Now my dreams has been crushed upon seeing the cut scene of Season 1. My crew disobey my orders and stood there as they watch this Norn woman killed off Scarlet Briar. I don’t know who this mysterious Norn woman is, but if I ever run into her she’s gonna taste the wrath of my 100 blade.
Anyways, I felt betrayed. This is not what heroes do. Heroes do not kill off villains so fast. My crew calls me Boss. Now I just want to go Donald-Trump on them: “You’re fired!” (except Taimi).
All I got was:“I spared Scarlett so I could kill Trahearne.”
Killing Scarlett or Trahearne… now that is a tough one I’ll admit.
I never did the LS where I had to kill her. I liked Scarlet. And I’d have totally signed up to be one of her minions if she had asked me to. Would rather help out a crazed Sylvari than spend another second listening to Kasmeer’s brain-dead rantings. <Loads shotgun>
I never did the LS where I had to kill her. I liked Scarlet. And I’d have totally signed up to be one of her minions if she had asked me to. Would rather help out a crazed Sylvari than spend another second listening to Kasmeer’s brain-dead rantings. <Loads shotgun>
At first I heard “huehuehue, i wanna be teh ebil!” I loathe that in games about heroes.
Then I read why. I’ll admit, it’s a tough call and a reasonable motive. In the back of my mind, I wouldn’t feel too bad if I got mind controlled (by yet another storyline mesmer!) just like in Personal Story and hammer-whacked the b-iconics. Except maybe Rox and Taimi.
Many alts; handle it!
“I’m finding companies should sell access to forums,
it seems many like them better than the games they comment on.” -Horrorscope.7632
But GW2 is set in a medieval style fantasy, where punishments are more serious like in medieval times, than compared to our real life modern world, where you’re given more choices in life that can lead into completely different outcomes.
Heroes of medival times had to make the choice, either kill the advesary who keeps on killing anyone around them, or spare the advesary and fail the trust of their people who expected you to stop the enemy for good…
I’d argue against the notion that GW2’s universe is a medieval style fantasy. For every castle and traditional sword, there are magic-infused golems and steam-powered monsters.
And the GW2 universe has villains who were captured rather than killed: Mai Trin was held in captivity until she escaped, and Canach was held until he was given a chance to “work off” his debt to society. I’m not saying Scarlet’s story could have ended without her death; I’m just saying that this isn’t the kind of world where killing an enemy is the only option.
But what were the benefits of capturing them, compared to Scarlet?
Mai Trin was potential source of information, what information can you get out of ambitious pirate who might work for anyone who pays more. On other hand Mai Trin was not unstable like Scarlet was.
Although he had no connection with Scarlet, Canach was imprisoned, since his intentions were good, but his methods were abit extreme.
As for killing Scarlet, there were no positive reasons given to us to spare her life. She was completely insane from Mordremoths influence (just like Aerin was), who would continue killing people around her with every chance they’d get, to drive forward Mordremoth’s demand for magical energy…
We are not caped crusaders or superheroes, we’re more under pressure of the society’s demands in GW2.
I’m a casual PvE adventurer, I enjoy combat, adventure and helping, but not farming.
I rarely do PvP or Hard PvE, unless it’s organized.
After you spared Scarlet and walked away, I sneaked in and offed her and sold her organs on the navy blue market. (The navy blue market is almost indiscernible from the black market to most people.)
But seriously, when villains like Scarlet die, who’s to say they are really dead? I have a suspicion we’re going to see her reincarnated into a Scarlet Dragon, or a Scarlet Ultra Vine Monster or whatever.
After you spared Scarlet and walked away, I sneaked in and offed her and sold her organs on the navy blue market. (The navy blue market is almost indiscernible from the black market to most people.)
But seriously, when villains like Scarlet die, who’s to say they are really dead? I have a suspicion we’re going to see her reincarnated into a Scarlet Dragon, or a Scarlet Ultra Vine Monster or whatever.
I’m pretty sure some enterprising minion out of Scarlet’s forces kept her head in a pot with a little dirt, after we refused to put her in a woodchipper. I mean, just imagine, you do a map meta event and, BAM, a giant turnip head burrows out of the ground to a reveal a vacant, cackling face with a very familiar hairdo, accompanied by whipping vines and technicolor sprays of poison. (And then maybe those watchknights show up again so people can get the dangblasted cores…)
Many alts; handle it!
“I’m finding companies should sell access to forums,
it seems many like them better than the games they comment on.” -Horrorscope.7632
I’m pretty sure some enterprising minion out of Scarlet’s forces kept her head in a pot with a little dirt, after we refused to put her in a woodchipper. I mean, just imagine, you do a map meta event and, BAM, a giant turnip head burrows out of the ground to a reveal a vacant, cackling face with a very familiar hairdo, accompanied by whipping vines and technicolor sprays of poison. (And then maybe those watchknights show up again so people can get the dangblasted cores…)
So let me get this straight, you decided to spare an evil person when you had them down, even though they killed a bunch of people and didn’t care, all because “everyone deserves a second chance”…………sounds familiar………………………………………
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I killed her so Braham wouldn’t have a chance. That way, he didn’t get that feat to build his legend, and he’ll be forever stuck as the sidekick to someone on the bottom rungs of charr society.
::evil laugh::
Okay, no. I just did it to shut her up.
Sarcasm, delivered with a
delicate, brick-like subtlety.
