Guild Wars 2

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I keep seeing a lot of very far flung theories about scarlet and what she saw on here so I hate put in my own theory. Beware it’s very simple.

What scarlet saw

It was mentioned last episode of the Los that anything that scarlet saw or encountered in oasis machine must have been taken in by her. This rules out dragons or God’s. So what could scarlet have seen beyond what a net already told us she saw so long ago. The pale tree and then the thorny vines choking it but what beyond that a net never said.

The pale tree provides the dream. A way for her children to be prepared for the world when they wake. This dream is filled with the collective pool of knowledge from all syllabi in the world. This includes everything the nightmare court gathers as well.

If we return. To Scarlets. Vision. The. In can be thought of as the nightmare court. The evil that the tree would prefer to keep from the dreamers.

So let’s say that while in the dream sylvari are like…. Sticks of Ram. The have information. Action pass through the . But only retain so much. What if the remnants of the nightmares are simply ignored and the rest is what sticks. That being what gives each Sylvari. It’s calling.

So here’s the theory. Scarlet saw, possibly all at once, all the horrors of the world. How would an inquisitive mind handle and attempt to process so much information and all at once? Likely it would crumble and Shatter as we see in real human minds causing a split personality and pysice.

Tl;dr

Scarlet saw everything the pale tree holds in its collective memory and it snapped her brain like a pretzel under a steam roller.

Sorry, forgot one part.

Scarlet like all sylvari, not considering those that shut this down, is constantly connected to the pale tree. Meaning that Scarlet would have effectively taken the Pale Tree into omadd’s device with her, which is what ties the above together. It’s even noted in the blog post that the Pale Tree speaks to scarlet while she is inside the device.

Discuss and argue below.

Didn’t read your full first post but, on the second: Scarlet is, in fact, a Soundless. So she’s not connected to the Pale Tree or the Dream of Dreams.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Didn’t read your full first post but, on the second: Scarlet is, in fact, a Soundless. So she’s not connected to the Pale Tree or the Dream of Dreams.

The Soundless are technically still connected, they just actively block it out. The Pale Tree can still contact a Soundless if she wants, it’s just not as easy.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Didn’t read your full first post but, on the second: Scarlet is, in fact, a Soundless. So she’s not connected to the Pale Tree or the Dream of Dreams.

The Soundless are technically still connected, they just actively block it out. The Pale Tree can still contact a Soundless if she wants, it’s just not as easy.

Oh that’s interesting. Any particular in game dialog to support this?

CureForLiving.5360:

Oh that’s interesting. Any particular in game dialog to support this?

It came from an interview.

http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/forum/m/2737230/viewthread/9902543-2rps-lore-interview-arenanet

Question One: Can Soundless permanently cut themselves from the dream, or is it a meditation they must upkeep?

Scott McGough: Most Soundless sylvari perform a specific kind of meditation or mental exercise in order to shut themselves off from the Dream, a technique developed and disseminated by one of the firstborn. They need to perform this exercise often and repeatedly to minimize the empathic bond they share with other awakened sylvari. This minimization can be virtually complete, but it can never be literally complete—in other words, a Soundless sylvari cannot ever fully disconnect from the Dream, but through sustained and repeated meditation, they can minimize the common day-to-day empathic connection they feel with other sylvari. If the Pale Tree needed to speak to a Soundless sylvari, she could, but it would take more effort on her part than it would to speak to a regular sylvari.

Off topic, but I can’t help picturing the Pale Tree going all Kool-Aid on some poor Soundless’ mental connection.

Pale Tree: OH YEAH!!

Erukk.1408:

CureForLiving.5360:

Oh that’s interesting. Any particular in game dialog to support this?

It came from an interview.

http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/forum/m/2737230/viewthread/9902543-2rps-lore-interview-arenanet

Question One: Can Soundless permanently cut themselves from the dream, or is it a meditation they must upkeep?

Scott McGough: Most Soundless sylvari perform a specific kind of meditation or mental exercise in order to shut themselves off from the Dream, a technique developed and disseminated by one of the firstborn. They need to perform this exercise often and repeatedly to minimize the empathic bond they share with other awakened sylvari. This minimization can be virtually complete, but it can never be literally complete—in other words, a Soundless sylvari cannot ever fully disconnect from the Dream, but through sustained and repeated meditation, they can minimize the common day-to-day empathic connection they feel with other sylvari. If the Pale Tree needed to speak to a Soundless sylvari, she could, but it would take more effort on her part than it would to speak to a regular sylvari.

Off topic, but I can’t help picturing the Pale Tree going all Kool-Aid on some poor Soundless’ mental connection.

Pale Tree: OH YEAH!!

This would actually connect very well with the latest comment that scarlet opened a door in her mind that wasn’t meant to be opened.. Or in this case re opened. If the connection. To the pale tree was reversed and scarlet absorbed everything.. Etc etc.. See above.

On another note, after a brief discussion with a few people, the pale tree is capable of seeing into the possible future of tyria and of her children. We only need to look back at the personal story for proof here. If scarlet had seen her own future could her current actions be driven by those visions?

It’s been noted that scarlet was seeking to forge her own destiny and purpose and generally in any story, specially in Greek mythology, those that learn of their future will try to avoid their fate but often if not always end up bring it to fruition by their actions and attempts to change it.

It’s not the pretty and fun to fantasize about dragon or abandon stuff but it’s a grounded and we’ll proven story arch of many people which the writers may have looked to.

I still haven’t a clue what Scarlets end game is but since she has constructed a massive cannon that requires a lot of energy to use, she’s been studying let lines and found an intersection unDer LA, I would guess she is now drilling down to tap this energy for her weapon. What she will be firing it at I haven’t a clue…