If it can create a being so incredibly intelligent that makes asura humble (and I used asura and humble together), who knows what it is capable of?
Before that I though the Pale Tree was following human being’s patterns to mold her children (while not confirmed, I though it may have to do with Ronan’s family buried close to it, though we don’t know then why Mallyck looks similar to known sylvari), and that’s why they were human bodies made up with plant components (and that’s why for example they have genitalia even if they don’t need it to reproduce).
But after Scarlet… there is no way a human would be as intelligent as her (this has a lot to do with the “sue-ism” on her “can do anything” character but like it or not, as she is canon, it means that’s where the bar is oficially set now for every possible new sylvari).
Could new generations of sylvari born with the same level of intelligence, could they start borning stronger and bigger than any known race too? Might this be related to the dream and as they get to know new races, the tree has new models to take and that’s why Scarlet was so intelligent, meaning that we could start seeing mutations of the ordinary sylvari?
We had pretty much set what we though the potential of a sylvari could be, but because Scarlet exists, she breaks the mold and now technically, if a writter wants, he can create super powerful sylvaris of all kinds as we already have a “can do anything” kind of super intelligent sylvari (this is one of the principal problems with Scarlet, she is THE MOST intelligent individual documented so far, on a race that isn’t even 30 years old, and faaaaaar more intelligent than any other sylvari which implies some form of anomally or mutation).
I’m an X-Men fan and what I’m about to say feels really wrong but… is it safe for Tyria to have that tree out there with the potential of creating those super beings? I know a lot of sylvari chose to be good, though many of them were teached before being born specific rules about the world (though it is possible that simply by discovering the world, they might be generally good like other races, and there is Mallyck’s case too), but currently we have a 100% of “super sylvari” going mad and creating chaos and destruction. Granted this is mostly because of that experiment, but she was very rebellious in the first place, even working with the Inquest.
In some way, if Sylvari are meant to defeat dragons, it makes sense that they keep evolving and becoming stronger and capable of more things (though the evolutionary jump Scarlet took is way too big)… but the first super evolved one was a disaster, and we don’t know what following super sylvari would do. Or worse, imagine if the Nightmare spreads further and we start having super sylvari fully commited to the evil side… if an anarchic one was capable of so much destruction imagine what an army of super evil ones would do.
Without Scarlet those questions wouldn’t exist. Even with her they could simply be ignored and the writter might imply this is a once and only once anomaly with no further explanations (which may be the case), but the thing is, if she is canon, that’s where the bar is set for any Sylvari even if this isn’t ever explored.
Honestly I think they should’ve though the consequences of creating Scarlet as canon. Or at least with giving her that background. There could be other hundred of ways for her to end up seeing how the universe worked and going mad and starting her anarchic plan, but instead she was created as the most intelligent being on the whole planet, capable of things Asura would need 3 lifetimes in a very reduced amount of time and asimilating knowledge from most cultures.
If she exists, more can. And with a race so young this could be just the tip of the evolutionary iceberg.
The biggest problem is that this is a playable race, but if we start getting super evolved sylvari, then our playable characters are “class b” from their own race, and if those super evolved ones start being a big problem, we might end up needing to attack the pale tree, which migh be genocide against a playable race.
All this wouldn’t be a problem if Scarlet simply had “X and Y very important feats but completly coherent and that doesn’t make her the most intelligent creature on the planet in ways that put to shame the asura colleges” that one way or another conducts her to the same “I saw how reallity works and too much info makes me go mad” result.
Burn the tree? Y/N
(edited by Lokheit.7943)