Mejor músico de Bahia de Baruch.
Queen Jenna
You’re over thinking.
Initially, everyone has magic in this game. The queen is no exception. And she’s the queen before she’s a mesmer.
She’s pretty real i assure you.
While it would make for a good ploy, in its current setup it would make no sense for anise to fake a royal family. I don’t even think there’s a mesmer that strong. You’d have to be a stronger mesmer than livia is a necromancer.
And she does diplomatic stuff. Read the books, play the human story and living story and you’ll see plenty of her. And she has plenty of security. Plus, she uses her mesmer abilities well, during ls1 she needed to appear before the people, but she received threats. So she made an image which the aetherblade tried to kidnap. So where her guards fail, her mesmer magic saves her
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So where her guards fail, her mesmer magic saves her
This. Besides S1, we also have Caudecus’ Manor, where the queen is kidnapped and only survives thanks to her own magic, and the novel Edge of Destiny, where she uses her power to trick away the enemies besieging the fortress she was trapped in. Without her mesmer training, she’d be dead three times over (and Ebonhawke would’ve been wiped out by the Branded). In a world where a monarch faces those kinds of risks, it absolutely makes sense that they should be able to defend themselves.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
So where her guards fail, her mesmer magic saves her
This. Besides S1, we also have Caudecus’ Manor, where the queen is kidnapped and only survives thanks to her own magic, and the novel Edge of Destiny, where she uses her power to trick away the enemies besieging the fortress she was trapped in. Without her mesmer training, she’d be dead three times over (and Ebonhawke would’ve been wiped out by the Branded). In a world where a monarch faces those kinds of risks, it absolutely makes sense that they should be able to defend themselves.
Exactly, if anything, her mesmerismic abilities of her expertise, not her shortcomings
So where her guards fail, her mesmer magic saves her
This. Besides S1, we also have Caudecus’ Manor, where the queen is kidnapped and only survives thanks to her own magic, and the novel Edge of Destiny, where she uses her power to trick away the enemies besieging the fortress she was trapped in. Without her mesmer training, she’d be dead three times over (and Ebonhawke would’ve been wiped out by the Branded). In a world where a monarch faces those kinds of risks, it absolutely makes sense that they should be able to defend themselves.
While not her Mesmer ability but Anise’s. When Scarlet took over the jubilee, she used an illusion of the queen to trick scarlet.
Did they say it was Anise? I know it was something the two of them planned out together, but I thought Jennah had to control the illusion in order to make the speech through it.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
Historically, any noble, including monarchs, that was seen as having the capability was trained to fight, on the basis that it was expected that they’d be able to lead their army into battle if need be, or at least be able to defend themselves if attacked. In our history, one of the requirements for being viewed as having the capability was ‘be male’, but Tyria isn’t as chauvinistic as medieval Europe, and the presence of magic means that there are more ways of fighting than hitting your opponent with a sharpened instrument.
So at the most basic level, Jennah being a mesmer is simply a matter of the royal heir being likely to be trained in whichever combat profession they have the most affinity for, and in Jennah’s case that turned out to be mesmer.
At a more advanced level, it’s possible that mesmer was a profession that she was directed towards due to the benefits it provides in politics and the skills that it has in common with politics. Mesmerism is a branch of magic based on understanding and manipulating the thoughts and perceptions of others – while the arts of diplomacy and politics are based on… understanding and manipulating the thoughts and perceptions of others. It’s entirely likely that her training in politics and diplomacy might have primed her to become a good mesmer, or that her teachers influenced her towards becoming a mesmer because they could see how it would be useful in politics.
(It’s worth noting that most human royalty whose profession is known or suspected, when not a member of a campaign-specific profession, have been mesmers, monks, and warriors. We know of one necromancer, who is clearly a special case (Joko), although Mazdak may also count, and off the top of my head I can’t think of any elementalist or ranger royalty among humans.)
To those who think Scarlet hate means she’s succeeded as a villain:
People don’t hate Scarlet like Game of Thrones fans hate Joffrey.
They hate her the way Star Wars fans hate Jar Jar Binks.
People don’t hate Scarlet like Game of Thrones fans hate Joffrey.
They hate her the way Star Wars fans hate Jar Jar Binks.
Also, it should be noted that Jennah has been seen without Anise anywhere nearby, such as Caudecus’ Manor story mode.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
( …and off the top of my head I can’t think of any elementalist or ranger royalty among humans.)
King Baede had both an elementalist and a ranger among his children, although in the event it was seemingly another warrior who got the crown.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.