Fill me in?
That helped, the little that I did read, but could someone summarize everything?
Long version here
Medium version, back at the very start, before we had any idea about the Scarlet mastermind, we were introduced to Braham and Rox as pretty much random characters with ties to Destiny’s Edge (Eir is Braham’s mother, Rox’s S1 plot arc was trying to join Rytlock’s warband) who got pulled into fighting the new Molten Alliance alongside us. At the end the two of them hit off a friendship. That was the January-April 2013 plot. We were left with two new characters we could drop in on and the knowledge that the Molten Alliance was instigated by someone else. May was mostly pointless, but we did meet Kasmeer as a random noble gathering information on a new tourist resort. June saw the introduction of random sky pirates with airships, who assassinated a member of the Captain’s Council. We met Marjory as Kasmeer’s employer, an investigator hired by Logan, who had been a friend of the dead councilor. We captured the Aetherblade leader, which apparently didn’t set them back at all. Said leader promptly fell into just about absolute irrelevance, but she was where we first heard the name Scarlet. July introduced the Zephyrites and got us involved in ultimately pointless LA politics. August we ran into Braham and Rox again, as Rox started what became a string of ever more absurd trials to get into the Stone warband- in this case, attending a celebration in DR. Scarlet got her big reveal, crashing the party in person and stealing the fancy new human robots to add to her forces. We rescue her hostages, after which she swears to take a special interest in us. September was pointless, October we found out Scarlet knew some secret of Caithe’s, and in November the four biconics we’d known so far finally met each other when a massive tower was secretly erected by a new Toxic Alliance. That was also when Marjory and Kasmeer became overtly flirty. We tore the tower down in December to stop its poisonous hallucinogens from messing up the region. January we found out Scarlet had a massive airship and started to get a glimpse of her grand plan, and were introduced to Taimi, an asuran child who was obsessed with Scarlet’s genius. Braham was pressganged into being her babysitter. February we figured out Scarlet’s master plan was to attack LA. Nobody listened to us, so Scarlet burned LA to the ground to get at the ley lines underneath it. In March we counterattacked, killed Scarlet, but not before her messing about with the ley lines using a massive airship drill got Mordremoth’s attention. Forged together by the horrors of the attack or some such, the biconics have stuck together ever since.
It… really wasn’t the best story, especially not drawn out over 15 months. I skipped over the LA subplots and several gameplay changes that got a tacked on story justification, and the Scarlet backstory, because they seem to still be racking that story out so they can keep hanging the unanswered questions inexplicably out of reach.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
(edited by Aaron Ansari.1604)
I’m happy. Sad you didn’t mention the love bird’s kiss scene which some guildie’s told me about after ranting and raving that Marjory loved the human male toon (I had reasons and fairly good evidence and witness for this, which I don’t mind explaining if you want, though I now think otherwise after looking them up in the wiki).
Marjory is a flirt to everyone. Including Braham, right in front of Kasmeer after making a response on Kasmeer’s nudity beneath an illusion during ToN arc.
Marjory is probably not a lesbian, but bisexual, given her antics. Kasmeer on the other hand shows to be a lesbian.
And the kiss wasn’t all that special even though it was the first kiss depicted in-game for GW. It really wasn’t. People just make a bug deal cuz “oh girls kissing” and thus shows the maturity of the gamer community.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
(edited by Konig Des Todes.2086)
To be fair, I can understand it being a big deal as far as inclusion is concerned. It wasn’t just girls kissing, it was the first real non-dysfunctional homosexual relationship to get the spotlight in GW. In that context, it probably mattered quite a lot to the people who consider themselves associated with that term.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
What, the two men from the sylvari Green Knight personal storyline don’t count? Poor them.
The reactions I saw were more jeering and mocking so I guess I just saw the negative “yeah!” comments rather than actual praising you speak of.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
What, the two men from the sylvari Green Knight personal storyline don’t count? Poor them.
The reactions I saw were more jeering and mocking so I guess I just saw the negative “yeah!” comments rather than actual praising you speak of.
Well, I also hear people defending Syvari a lot, stating that Caithe and Faolin aren’t Lesbians, and neither are the 2 men from that storyline because Sylvari don’t have gender, blah blah. But it’s the same thing.
Sylvari don’t have gender roles, but they do have biological sexes. There are male and female sylvari. They are capable of sex (via dev posts), but according to this episode, lack reproductive organs (testicles and ovaries, I presume).
So yes, Caithe and Faolain are both female. They are lesbians.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.