What if Scarlet saw the mursaat?
I’ve always had this kind of “Dark Pact” fanwork. Basically, it would be something like this:
It evolved when the Molten Alliance and the Aetherblades appeared, but the original idea is still there, based off the Sinister Triad on Brisban Wildlands. I find it “funny” that some dots connected so well (Aetherblades and Molten Alliance being together, twisted engineering making it to Nightmare Court territory, etc).
On top of all of those leaders, there would be the mursaat. Scarlet Briar would be their personal champion (Or Faolain’s).
Okay, is this madness? Or could it make any sense for you? :P
This Dark Pact or Dark Alliance would seek to defeat the dragons, too, but unlike the other forces, who want to eliminate or nullify them, the Dark Pact would want to control them.
The theory had crossed my mind as well before Scarlet’s big reveal (which was highly disappointing in comparison). I mean, ignoring Scarlet’s actions you get…
Sinister Triad – Inquest, Bandits/White Mantle, Nightmare Court – enemies to Asura, Humans, and Sylvari
Centaur-Bandit alliance – Centaurs and Bandits/White Mantle – enemies to humans and norn (centaurs are also after the norn, but since Kryta’s their ancestral home they put more focus on humans)
Former Dredge Moletariate/Inquest alliance – Dredge and Inquest – enemies of norn and asura
This right there has enemies of four out of five playable races. There’s also hints of ties between Bandits and Separatists (as well as hints of opposition between the two groups), so there’s a possible “enemies of all five playable races” present. This obviously extrapolated with the Molten Alliance and Aetherblades (slapping on “enemies of Lion’s Arch” too). But…
Scarlet kind of destroys the possibility of the MA/Aetherblades/Inquest alliance holding a chance of relations.
Scarlet – though this outright seems contradicted with Twilight Assault – holds a great distaste for joining pre-existing groups. This includes the Nightmare Court. Scarlet would never, ever join another group. She may ally herself with them, and she may use them, but she’d never subject herself to being a subordinant. Her superiority complex and her ego are just too great for this to occur.
About her seeing the mursaat… the thing is, she didn’t really see anything. Scott McGough, in the same interview that talked about her superiority complex and her distaste for joining others’ groups, states that she “may not have seen what she thought she saw” and that the device she went into was basically a sensory deprivation device (jeez, how many times have I had to say this on the forums? I think I’m past 20 times easily… TYVM ArenaNet for not including an important piece of lore in the game/even on the website…). Effectively, what Scarlet saw was 100% hallucination. It was a dream, and not the Dream of Dreams either.
So while there are possibilities for some grand dark alliance, the Molten Alliance, Aetherblades, and Scarlet won’t be part of it any time soon (and if the former two do become such, they’d be going against Scarlet).
Where can we find that interview ? ( its already stupid for Anet to not bring lore un the game and its worse when it’s hidden somewhere in the deep on the Web . ) Also , could the device the Asuras use before the Génie ask us to destroy it be the same kind of Device Scarlet used ?
It’s referenced on Scarlet Briar’s GW2W page. But for ease:
http://wartower.tumblr.com/post/60458277036/this-lorespecial-is-about-scarlet-briar-the-evil
Unfortunately if this Asura device was only a sensory deprivation tank it makes the Scarlet story even less credible. This immature Sylvari madwoman becomes an inexplicably brilliant scientist who goes on to become an inexplicably well resourced weapons manufacturer who goes on to become an inexplicably successful recruiter and commander.
In Twilight Assault, Caithe talks about finding out the source of Scarlet’s secrets. I’m guessing that some Asura gadgets from ‘What Scarlet saw’ will turn up again as the reason for Scarlet’s knowledge. The story may have far less breadth than we are inventing on the forums.
Scarlet didn’t become a genius due to the device. She was already very smart. More of a high IQ kind of figure – easily capable of understanding how things work. So she didn’t “become” – she always was. At least when it came to interlocking systems.
She was also always apparently fairly suave… Despite not really liking people (that to me is one of the things that ruin Scarlet to me – somehow for some reason everyone wants to give her stuff).
Then she went crazy.
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