Guild Wars 2

I was working on map completion on my HUMAN guardian, and i talked to an NPC who said something along the lines of “I bet on you for the great hunt”. That may not have been exactly what he said, but he obviously was saying that he wanted me to win the great hunt, and I did.

this was in the Norn lands, and it would make sense if I was a norn, but i am a human yet he said it anyways. It shouldnt be a hard fix for Anet to make it so non-norn get a different message than Norn do. I don’t role play, but i would imagine that kinda ruins things lol

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Hoelbrak/first#post1850458

MatthewMedina.5419:

So, to answer 1, there’s certainly cases where this may be an oversight, or a bug, but there’s also cases where we deliberately give NPC’s knowledge of the player – the presumption being that you’re a hero and carry a reputation with you. It’s true that this might seem odd if you have a sylvari sapling barely out of the Grove, but to cover every possible contingency in NPC conversations would have taken a tremendous amount of time so this can sometimes just be a conceit we’ve used to give the narrative a bit more of a personal connection.

For 2 – the “spirit heads” are common on all the lodges. But, you’re right that there is a significant difference here for the norn in how they chose to depict the shrines, because the spirit of Owl was not just lost, it was devoured by Jormag. Since absolutely nothing of Owl remains, the norn chose to convey that by sculpting Owl’s memorial from wood.

I do roleplay, and it doesn’t ‘ruin things’ for me. I saw that and thought “haha, look, a bug, this NPC doesn’t register that I’m not norn.” Then I left.

All in all there are a lot of good places in the game where you get slightly different interactions based on details of your character. Given how many there are, the small number that don’t work aren’t a huge problem.