Guild Wars 2

How Plant like are Sylvari?

Just a resemblence or actuall Plants?

In the later case, sylvari would be walking fruits, meaning they would have the seeds of the Pale Tree or at least the potential to be germinated and produce those seeds (let’s asume this, since no sylvari became a compleat tree, so far)

But what would it need to introduce the growth of a Pale Tree Seeds inside a Sylvari? The pollen of an other plant of their species, Mordremoth – and if we consider Trahearne’s last words, Mordremoth still lives inside him, it doesn’t sound that far away from what we know. (actually if we remember how he looked like – i won’t be sure if no sylvari became a tree…)

Therefore how many Sylvaris could be germinated? I guess nearly all corrupted ones, but i guess we can focus on the special ones, those with a deep story.

Therefore does anybody know what happend to Lady faolains body? Sure, Caithe said she destroyed her body, but she wanted to be alone to do that and she still loved Faolain, how sure can we be she didn’t take a seed out of her Body, maybe not even knowing it is one. Or maybe even knowing it is one?

As a last piece of hope, love or just carelessness.

Also what happend in the story with Caithe after all of this? Where did she travel?
How possible would it be, that she could travel to Orr, planting faolains seed there – i mean Orr is destroyed anyway, a graveyard, if something goes wrong nobody would suffer and most importand – nodody (alive) around her to stop/control her.

Could she start growing a new Tree out of faolain, in hope everything will be better, different – maybe even recreate the Pale Tree after the death – or is it to far away from her Character?

They are actual plants, but not fruits. Their “bones” are wood, hair leaves, and have pollen falling off of them.

This puts them more akin to flowers than fruits.

Though the pods they come out of are compared to fruits, so sylvari are more like grown seeds.

As for geminating… none, best we know. That’s not how dragon minions works. No dragon minion is capable of reproduction beyond making more dragon minions out of changing other material (usually people, but also pre-existing plantlife, landscape, even air and water). Mordremoth does seem a bit more unique in this but we never go into detail about how the Blighting Tree works… probably because it’s such a special snowflake of dragon corruption.

I think the best way to think of sylvari is people made out of plants. Like, some old religions talk about humans being made out of clay. The sylvari were just made out of twigs instead.

As for sylvari origins, we don’t really know where the Pale Tree’s seed came from, or how it got there. I think there was mention of it being in a cave, but no details on where that cave is. However, it’s pretty safe to assume that if the Pale Tree ever dies, the sylvari race will start going the way of the dwarves: extinct. Sylvari have all the… biological functions of humans, except from the ovulating part. And if sylvari could reproduce with a seed… I’m starting to get really weird images in my head, so I’m stopping now.

It’s worth noting that there was some speculation that sylvari might, upon reaching a certain age (which they haven’t yet…) convert into a seed and become another Pale Tree. However, that was predicated on the assumption that sylvari were a natural species.

I don’t hold to Konig’s insistence that dragon minions never reproduce (it’s based on a line in the skritt minor race arc which I consider to be a case of the speaker having incomplete information). Instead, dragon minions seem to behave more like a hive: most don’t reproduce, but some do. You could argue that what most dragon champions do is perform acts of creation rather than reproduction as we know it, but… that’s splitting hairs.

In the case of Glint, we see that a minion (or, rather, a purified ex-minion) can create offspring with the potential to reach their own power, or at least we presume Gleam and Aurene have that potential. So it seems entirely possible that the Pale Tree could create new Pale Tree seeds. However, thus far she either hasn’t or can’t do so.