Guild Wars 2

I’ve been wondering about this lately, most Charr missions seem to involve the theme of “let’s beat down the beaten more”.

Several of them involve killing (or should that be rekilling?) Ascalonian Ghosts.

Wouldn’t the other races have issues doing that?

Human: The Ghosts are their ancestors.
Norn: Respect spirits and would deem killing those who fell in battle unworthy.
Syvlari: would feel sympathy for the dead.
Asura: Might fight them out of intellectual curiosity (I wonder, what would it be like to fight to a ghost? Can I study it and make new discoveries?), but would ultimately feel pity for the slain.

They aren’t really dead. Well.. Yes, they are “dead”, but the Foe Fire brings out primal instincts, and they aren’t rational ghosts.

It’s like comparing a resident of Grenth’s Underworld to Aldebern’s ghosts,

Considering Logan Thackery hates Charr, it’s weird they would attack him too. The only explanation is the ghosts act primal.

Yes, anyone who comes near the ghosts is attacked. It doesn’t matter what race they are, the ghosts are stuck in that moment in time and still see as the invading charr. So I think since they are a threat to anyone, sympathy or not, the other races see them as a problem that needs to be taken care of.

I think that some of the Humans would want them attacked and destroyed as a way of giving them peace.

Norns would do it because there’s a disturbance in the Mists or whatever and this is an act of valor to the great Spirits.

Sylvari are all about preserving live and if remenants of the dead are hurting living beings it is their duty to protect.

Asura would bottle ghosts up and sell them as battery packs if given the chance.

Yes they are Ghosts of Ascalon but they are not regular ghosts, more like cursed spirits, even worse they were cursed by their king gone mad. In a way defeating their curse will liberate them.

They attack even humans that hate Charr.
In fact, they see EVERYONE as a Charr or a traitor.

like most have said,
firstly they are stuck in time.
they see other humans as traitors, and would attack them on sight.
they hate Charr to the death.
they no nothing about the Norn, Asura or the sylvari. they see them all as a threat to the Kingdom.

Tilarta.9812:

Several of them involve killing (or should that be rekilling?) Ascalonian Ghosts.

Actually, what happens is that you only banish the ghosts. When the Charr “kill” the ghost of Duke Barradin early on they say something along the lines that it will take him weeks to appear again.

Furthermore:

Wouldn’t the other races have issues doing that?

Human: The Ghosts are their ancestors.

Are they? I’d think most of those who became ancestors of today’s Krytans left Ascalon long before the Foefire.

Norn: Respect spirits and would deem killing those who fell in battle unworthy.

Not that kind of spirits. And challenge trumps all in Norn society, doesn’t it?

Syvlari: would feel sympathy for the dead.

Actually, and to my own surprise, Sylvari fight undead on day to day basis (they are close to the sea from which Zhaitan’s Risen come). Undead corpse might be the first enemy a new Sylvari sees outside the Grove.

Asura: Might fight them out of intellectual curiosity (I wonder, what would it be like to fight to a ghost? Can I study it and make new discoveries?), but would ultimately feel pity for the slain.

This one I’m not sure about.