Guild Wars 2

So, now I understand Scarlet’s final goal.

Tyria is a fractal. A big fractal, but a fractal nonetheless. Occasionally, people in fractals can realize that they are in a fractal, though at the cost of their sanity or due to the loss of their sanity, like the Asuran in the Uncategorized Fractal.

That’s why Dynamic Events are stuck in an endless loop, why the personal and living story conflict, why time can’t move forward, why the only permanent changes to the world since the start of the game have been nudged by the one person who is crazy enough to understand that the world isn’t real. Like any fractal, Tyria can be stabilized or destabilized. “Chaos”, or the dragons, represent this force of destabilization, so defeating them would stabilize the Tyria fractal. Scarlet, however, wants to exploit chaos energy to remake Tyria in her own image.

I mean that literally, not “she wants to rework it to her liking”. For the end of the LS story arc, Scarlet will succeed in her plan, completely disintegrating and rewriting the Tyria fractal as a giant, planet-sized Scarlet Briar. Players logging in will be dumped into the rewritten remains of Lion’s Arch, which exists inside her bowels, and fight their way through hordes of Scarlet cells, along with Aetherblades, Molten Alliance, etkittenil they reach her brain, which is a dungeon instance where they will fight a Titanic Scarlet that, when killed, will split into two giant Scarlets, that when killed will split into two large Scarlets, and so on until the players are fighting an army of normal-sized Scarlets.

Once the lesser Scarlets are all defeated, the players gain access to a machine built to control the fractal, that lets Dessa and the players write Scarlet completely out of existence, and restore Tyria. Dessa, having come to terms with her nature, takes over as guardian of the fractal, and begins to research how to sync the fractal Tyria with the real Tyrian timeline, allowing the PS and LS to coexist peaceably. As a test of her new, godlike power, she transforms Trahearne into Tybalt.

THE END (OF FIRST LS ARC)

I just hope Arenanet will put this godawful story out of its misery soon.

I think you’re looking into to it too much. It’s undoubtedly more subtle than that.

Dynamic Events are merely a game mechanic and have nothing to with lore apart from the content within it.

Well, I laughed. So Scarlet is Agent Smith… are all the players collectively Neo?

Every MMORPG is Fractal then.

There is no spoon.