Guild Wars 2

This a unofficial race building post

Since the last episode of the LS chapter at its end and we are given clues to another Elder Dragon awoken in what seems to be Maguuma Jungle this brings up allot of questions

but the question that drive this post is of Malyck child of a Mother Tree that is a sister of the Pale Tree

Even so:
What are these new group of Sylvari culture like?
What is there physical appearance norms?
What are there guideline to there actions and culture?
What is there belief on religion?
How does there environment effects them?
How does there Mother/Father Tree effects them?
What are there social norms?
How does there politics works?
Do they have animal companions that are byproduct of there Moth/Father Tree?
These are just some example to questions we are going to discuss and debate in this post.

Malyck story here: wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Malyck

I would not be surprised to find out that Ventari’s tablet had little to no real impact on the Sylvari, in the way that humans (and in the case of Tyria, a portion of every species) can have a strong moral compass with having no religious influences or faiths in their lives at all.

If we go by malecks appearance looks like insects. He had antennas

Some of the pale trees children also have antennae. I use the face on my ele (top). I actually think Malyck (bottom) uses the same face as the playable one.

Dustfinger, there isn’t a single playable race NPC who shares Malyck’s face. The PCs ability to share it comes from ArenaNet not wanting any NPC to hold faces, armor, or hair that cannot be used by the PC – even the new stuff made are in time added to the makeover kits. Though there’s plenty of town clothing/armor still not available, in total they’re uncommon in the long run.

hmm. I hadn’t noticed that before. Now I won’t be able to not notice it :/

Well we really know very little about these other Sylvari. All we have to go off of is Malyck. Based on what we know about Malyck: no connection to the dream, fair tempered, generally a ‘good guy’. By all account there doesn’t seem to be too much difference between the other sylvari and the grove sylvari. However since Malyck woke up with memory loss and spent some time amongst the wardens it’s highly possible that he might have assumed many of the grove sylvari’s habits and world view (meaning that his sylvari might very well be different).
As an interesting side note, was Malyck a baby when he washed up in the river? Maybe he just hit his head on a rock? Not sure if plants suffer from brain damage, or even have brains. If he was a baby this is and interesting fact since in the grove all sylvari pods are carefully looked after, could this mean that the other sylvari are less socially organised? Maybe their pale tree isn’t sentient, and thus their society lacks a cohesive force.

Malyck didn’t wake up with memory loss. The memory loss was a (false) assumption on the player character’s part due to Malyck not know what the Grove, Pale Tree, or Dream of Dreams were. Malyck shows with perfect memory all that happened once he left his pod if you go with Caithe’s option in that storyline.

He wasn’t a baby, btw, as he was only 2 weeks old by the time players met him. Barely older (if at all older) than the PC her/himself.

There are no Sylvari babies, just saplings and we awake grown too.

CureForLiving was saying that the “born full-grown” could be a unique attribute to the Pale Tree, not all sylvari ever. Though plausible, given the sylvan hounds are born smaller than they end up being after a few months, that’s not the case unless Malyck went from young to adult in a very short timespan (I suppose the Toxic Hybrid did, as he grows within a minute or so).

Konig Des Todes.2086:

CureForLiving was saying that the “born full-grown” could be a unique attribute to the Pale Tree, not all sylvari ever. Though plausible, given the sylvan hounds are born smaller than they end up being after a few months, that’s not the case unless Malyck went from young to adult in a very short timespan (I suppose the Toxic Hybrid did, as he grows within a minute or so).

Actually I was calling them babies because they’re ‘born’ ‘full grown’, thus creating an amusing contradiction. Although now that you mention the Sylvari hounds… something to mull over.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Malyck didn’t wake up with memory loss. The memory loss was a (false) assumption on the player character’s part due to Malyck not know what the Grove, Pale Tree, or Dream of Dreams were. Malyck shows with perfect memory all that happened once he left his pod if you go with Caithe’s option in that storyline.

I went with the oracle lady myself, so I missed that one. But still that reinforced my original point, there’s no way that the Pale Tree and the Grove Sylvari would allow a pod to just flow down the river. They clearly have system in place to ensure the safety of the pods. Now it might have been an accident that his pod got swept away but no search party? I think that this might indicate that the none-Grove Sylvari might not have the same cohesive society as the Grove Sylvari. Or they have so many pods that losing one or two doesn’t really bother them.

It’s been speculated that Malyck could be a Firstborn of his tree, given the lack of knowledge of other sylvari until him, and his lack of a Dream of Dreams experience (though the latter gets debunked by Dagonet recording such experience of the sylvari – including the Firstborn).

keep in mind our own Pale tree can’t guarantee the safety of the pods that sprout from her. Sometimes they fall from such a great height upon “ripening” that they don’t survive.

They are growing in the roots of the Pale Tree. There is no height to fall. Some are born dead, that’s different. Malyck’s tree is either washed-out at the roots or in another bad condition.

Washed out at the roots may not be bad for the trees themselves since the Pale Tree looks like a money tree or mangrove tree and they like flooded conditions. The idea that their roots might have water flowing around them might even be more natural as the tree was planted by a human who had no real idea what the tree was and thus how to care for it. Perhaps sylvari are meant to be spread this way like seed dispersal?

The pods grow on the branches of the Pale Tree. It’s outright stated in a variety of dialogues, and how some don’t make the fall. It was, in fact, one of the first things we learned about the sylvari.

“Look up, Valiant. Do you see those blue fruit? When you awoke, you were lowered from the boughs by the Pale Tree.” -Mender Serimon

edit: and as Konig said, the fact that some don’t survive was one of the first things we learned before the game came out.