Guild Wars 2

In another thread here on the forum, there is a discussion about revenants and the lore problem about playing the personal story with your revenant. In short: Rythlock is the first revenant, appearing for the first time in HoT a couple of years AFTER we killed Zaithan in personal story. How can we then level a revenant and playing personal story?

Colin has in an interview mentioned that all players should have a sylvari to play for HoT (Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns devs talk new lands, masteries and PvP). This means that the sylvari needs to be lvl 80 and presumly have played both personal story and living story.

In the end of living story season 2 we learn that Sylvaris are mordremoths minions. We don’t know if all or just a few ‘selected’ ones will be on mordremoths side, but Rythlock seems pretty upset and doesn’t seem to trust any of them.

My feelings is that something is going to happen to the sylvari.

What if all Sylvaris player characters are killed? According to lore a ledgendary hero, such as our lvl 80 sylvaris, goes to the Hall of Heroes in the Rift. The Rift is a place in the center of the Mists. The revenant is returning from the Mists.

What if your sylvari is coming back as a sylvari revenant, returning from the Mists?
What if you can’t level a revenant , you can only become one by entering the HoT with a lvl 80 sylvari?

I know, there is probably a lot of holes in my theory, but the biggest question is what happens with all the sylvari players that still wants to be rangers, necros, guardians etc?
I have three sylvaris at the moment, am I prepared to have three revenants?!

To answer your question “what if all Sylvari become Revenants” the answer is simple. Anet would lose a tone of player base to extremely upset players and the game would likely collapse soon after. You can’t take away a toon that somebody has invested potentially more than 2 years. This would be more than a simple class change, but would also render armor sets useless, legendary weapons unusable, and a whole gambit of other issues I’m not thinking about.

As to what will happen with Sylvari, they’ll likely get a unique story perspective. Not all are turning, even the trailer shows that with Canach saying “we are not the enemy!” Colin’s statement was probably just to say that he thinks it will be unique and fun and something people won’t want to miss. The fact of already having a Sylvari ready is because the content being added is all 80th level content so to get it right away you’ll need a toon ready.

If your theory sounds pretty daft and full of holes to you – what makes you think it won’t sound the same to Anet?

Don’t be silly!

And let’s say all my characters are sylvari.
Your theory is more than just bad.

Not gonna happen.

Yeah sylvari’s becoming revenants won’t happen. Revenants are a class, not a race.

I think what Colin means when he says it’ll be helpful to have a Sylvari with HoT, is that it will be more for learning the languages & being able to understand many of the creatures and whatnot in the jungle, if anything.

Then I’m getting pretty kittened, if they take away my guardian I’ll be angry!

sometimes i really wonder ……………. :/