Guild Wars 2

Okay, i am getting confused.

Since the nightmare tower update we got the three colors of Scarlet around.
- First they symbolize the three alliances
- then they symbolize the elements these alliances are supposedly bound to
- now they come back and symbolize the three colleges Scarlet has learned at, to the point where they are “in tune” for the final fight.

The last one is certainly a reference to the RGB color model and how only combining the three elements allows to defeat the enemy.
Neat mechanic wise, but nothing more…

Do they even have a point?
We have these colors somwhere else. There is an item, the Triforge pendant, which uses the same coloring. However this is an easter egg based on Zelda:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Triforge_Pendant_%28ascended%29

Are they just trying to be clever? Do they just try to give us an imagery of three elements around her? Is there even a deeper meaning?

They are just the primary colours I think so I dont think there is too much to it. And even if there was there are more important things that need to be answered. Now that I think about it, we havent got an answer as to why Scarlet was “harvesting the elements”. So many things just seem like they should mean something but they are just a weird way of writing like “the forces that shape us”. What does that mean? Sigh..

“Three colors of Scarlet around”

What?

We got the colors of the colleges in the holograms and assaultknights. But that’s pretty much it for “colors of Scarlet”. Scarlet is just red (well, green if you include her skin :P).

I wouldn’t take her alliances having “colors” to mean anything. I mean, the Toxic ALliance isn’t “green” – sure, the krait and NC glow a greenish-yellow, but their weapons and all the Toxic Spores and stuff are blue and black. Aetherblades have blue lightning only because it’s lightning – their aethercannons are red. And the Molten Alliance are only “red” because of fire. Their color scheming is coincidence – especially since the Molten Berserker is a blueish-white.

Fun fact: all alliances have blue alterations made to them (Berserker, Horrik’s lightning cannon, Toxic Oratuss/Warlock, Aetherized Nightmare Weapons, Toxic Spores/Mines/etc.). There’s a lot of blue in Scarlet’s armies. And her Twisted Watchworks (and Marionette) is all green – much like the chaos magic at Thaumanova.

@Blurk: I think Ela’s little comments of gathering elements is just her spouting player speculation. Because each alliance brought something, but dredge wasn’t earth – it was sound (sonic technology). There was no earth in Scarlet’s alliances unless you include plants (Nightmare Court), and there wasn’t much in water even if krait come from water.

I was also baffled by the sudden college thing, especially as, as far as I know, they never give a word of explanation. Suddenly these philosophical/cultural approaches are a form of energy leaking out of Scarlet’s devices- how? Why?

Oh, and they messed up on Statics. It’s supposed to be purple. Red is Inquest.

They were a form of energy leaking out?

I thought that it was just her naming different combat styles in her holograms.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

They were a form of energy leaking out?

I thought that it was just her naming different combat styles in her holograms.

All of those different pools, for lack of a better term, are described as “attuning” you to Statics, Dynamics, or Synergetics- attuning being a term used in GW2 primarily, if not solely, to refer to types of energy, especially magical ones. The pools also give off the respective College symbol in semi-obnoxious fashion. If it is just a matter of Scarlet’s tastes, she went to the extraordinary lengths of aesthetically personalizing what is, to the best I can piece together, a useless byproduct of the harnessing of whatever energy powers the assault knights and her hologram.