Guild Wars 2

At the end of the Marionette event the following conversation can be overheard:

Rox: I’m starting to think Scarlet doesn’t care whether she wins or loses against us.

Marjory: What does that mean?

Rox: She doesn’t fight like she wants to win. She sacrifices her weapons to take some of us out. It’s like she’s culling the herd.

Kasmeer: Our herd.

Rox: Yeah. Tyria’s defenders.

I like this idea but feel a bit separated from the past 13 months of narration for this to have been the original intent for Scarlett. However, the seed is now planted for this to be the plan all along…so…

How believable is this for you? Is she tempering us for the final fight to free her from the clutches of her imprisoned insanity?

well, it would fit her “bwhahahahah, i don’t care if you took me down, i got what i wanted” reaction to every defeat.

now why she wants that is another question entirely.

presumably to help clear her mind of the invasive force that plagues her… that seems to be her only goal is to confront that which is making her go bananas.

This only furthers my suspicions on her goal. The full thought here But in short: I think that she is weakening the supporters of the Pact, being influenced by an Elder Dragon (most likely Mordremoth, but could also be Primordus, the DSD, or Zhaitan (Risen remain fanatical post-Z’s death) from most to least likely).

@pswendel: By her journal, it sounds like she was originally fighting it but eventually accepted it.

How is she, “culling the herd?” The only people who fight her are a handful of heroes, and the infinite tides of players. Are our players being canonically murdered or something?

No army fights a battle without casualties.

In lore, it’s likely to be an army of adventurers, and some no doubt would die. But given that to each one of us, we ourselves are “the hero” we don’t witness this in the story.

The Spiral King.2483:

How is she, “culling the herd?” The only people who fight her are a handful of heroes, and the infinite tides of players. Are our players being canonically murdered or something?

just look at how many people die if you fail the marionette :P

Konig Des Todes.2086:

This only furthers my suspicions on her goal. The full thought here But in short: I think that she is weakening the supporters of the Pact, being influenced by an Elder Dragon (most likely Mordremoth, but could also be Primordus, the DSD, or Zhaitan (Risen remain fanatical post-Z’s death) from most to least likely).

@pswendel: By her journal, it sounds like she was originally fighting it but eventually accepted it.

I dont know. For me it sounded like she wanted to face it now. That she is gathering information and knowledge to hunt down what is driving her nuts and put an end to it. However with an option to get on the same level and beyond her torturer.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

This only furthers my suspicions on her goal. The full thought here But in short: I think that she is weakening the supporters of the Pact, being influenced by an Elder Dragon (most likely Mordremoth, but could also be Primordus, the DSD, or Zhaitan (Risen remain fanatical post-Z’s death) from most to least likely).

@pswendel: By her journal, it sounds like she was originally fighting it but eventually accepted it.

This quote would suggest the opposite. Culling the herd would be making it stronger and removing the weak members.

Edit:

“It communicated with me through images of death, destruction, and destiny. I must know more. I must confront it and put an end to this madness.”

From the last page of the journal. It seems to me she is not lost, as the previous page suggests, but at the point where she is helpless.

You may be right. It could be that her only way out is by giving in, and thereby doing the will of this entity she is saved from the hell she’s in.

A martyr would be more fitting for the villain of this story, however, than a bad guy for the sake of being bad.