Guild Wars 2

pretty much all trees (with a few exceptions) produce some kind of seed to produce offspring and pass on their genes, some bearing fruit with the goal of using animals to disperse the seeds for them. I know the Pale Tree is a very unique tree, but I was thinking, are the pods that Sylvari are born out of a type of ‘fruit’ in which case, Sylvari are the seeds, designed to find their own way away from the main tree to rest literally on the other side of the planet.

I was thinking, at the core of every Sylvari, is there a seed? and when a Sylvari dies and is buried, the seed is ‘planted’ which lead me to think of Killeen’s grave, despite it being in the brand, it is not corrupted, and as we all know, Sylvari do not get corrupted by dragon magic.

Plus there are some very shiny flowers right on her grave. Baby tree? maybe all Sylvari possess a different seed, one that will grow into a very different plant.

Having said that, the cave that Rowan found the pale tree seed in, maybe they’re all the previous generation of Sylvari that fought the elder dragons when they last arose? (the druids?) In which case, the Sylvari family tree (excuse the pun) is more complicated than we thought.

This also kind of gives the reason as to why Sylvari cant bear children like the other races do.

heh so many ‘maybes’ and ‘what ifs’ yeah this is just speculation…

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The sylvari are indeed described as being born from “golden fruit” of the Pale Tree, so they themselves can be viewed as the seeds – or they may indeed have seeds inside them.

However, a few things to note:

1. Killeen’s grave was placed beside the Dragonbrand, not within. She was buried outside of it in the novel Ghosts of Ascalon. The Dragonbrand had already existed for four years when she was buried.
2. Riannoc, the first sylvari to die, has no tree or other special plants growing where he died. And there’s no known case of trees growing where other sylvari have been buried.
3. Technically speaking, while yes sylvari do not get corrupted by dragon magic it should be noted that they simply die before the corruption can take hold of them.
4. I doubt the druids are the “previous generation of sylvari” given that they were once humans from Kryta.

I realised about #4 shortly after posting, then again we never actually see the druids real forms to begin with.
if you look at the map, it seems that the Dragonbrand has spread around the grave site but not on it (kinda?)
as for #2 – where was Riannoc actually buried?

I’m a big supporter of referring to the sylvari as the “fruit” of the Pale Tree. A lot of people like to extrapolate on them based on the fact that they are plants but they seem to forget that they grow off a tree like a fruit does. That said, I also think it’s quite possible that they carry a seed inside themselves. Though, I think that there is something else that determines whether or not they will germinate.

Maybe when Tyria decides they are needed to protect the planet, idk. But if it was simply life and death, we might have known whole groves of Pale Trees and as of yet, the sylvari are a knew people. Personally, it seems the cave of seeds indicate that they have been on Tyria previously but they may not have been “human-like”.

Getefix.9150:

if you look at the map, it seems that the Dragonbrand has spread around the grave site but not on it (kinda?)
as for #2 – where was Riannoc actually buried?

Still stands that Killeen died 4 years after the Brand’s creation Kralkatorrik flew in a semi-zigzag pathing, and Killeen who died within the Dragonbrand was buried on it’s edge. The seeming appearance that it swoops around it is purely coincidental.

Riannoc was, afaik, left where he fell. Sylvari players can go to where his body was seemingly left during the personal storyline, if you go with the Priory in figuring out what happened to Riannoc. It was in the swamp in southwestern Kessex.

one event chain seems to give the impression that the brand can spread, if it can and has left the tomb untouched, may be interesting to know if this has happened