Guild Wars 2

I find the sylvari to have certain uncanny, creepy features to them. For one, they always have this air of righteousnesses around them. While that might seem like a positive trait, it applies to the NC as well, the sylvari never doubt their cause, even though they can doubt their ability. If they believe something is evil or against them, they will destroy it without doubt. Another related thing is that they never experienced growing up and most are very young, so they, at least most of them, can’t understand childhood. Their world view is very different from that of humans, their perception of life and death, family, history and purpose radically different.

Namica.2951:

The more I learn about Sylvari and the more I see Sylvari characters, the more I think that they pretty much just make the game’s story suffer.

They’re a young race of people who have a strong tendency to learn faster than anyone due to their giant shared, but not truly shared racial conscious.

Despite humans losing their god, they essentially have their own with the Pale Tree, who is pretty much a demi-god (if not a god outright, as seems implied by the Scarlet short story).

Immune to magics of the series main antagonist (dragons).

So far have one character who is the games main good guy, and another who is the games main villain (that isnt a dragon)

Well loved or at least tolerated by all the races with rather little explanation for it

The one member of destiny’s edge who can’t really be said to be at fault for their breaking up, and who the other 4 all still respect.

Makers and users of pretty much the series most powerful weapon (that we know of).

I mean. So much about them just screams “mary sue”. They’re just so perfect in just about everyway, with no real flaws to speak of. Its like they were just put in the setting for everyone else to love. To be more amazing than anyone else. I really expect for us to get a short story where they outfight a Norn, because they already have outsmarted the Asura, out-dietied the humans, and out-unified the Charr (heck, apparently Traeherne is the series best general too, so take that Smoldur the Unflinching).

I totally agree. The Sylvari feel out-of-place, over-powered, over-focused on, frankly, annoying. They make the other races obsolete in their “we’re good at everything” flavor. Scarlet was the final nail in the wow-sylvari-are-SO-annoying coffin. I’m done with them. They are not one of the more popular races. They are WAY too important to the story & Anet needs to stop getting all hot & bothered by their Sylvari & stop trying to convince us they are great. They aren’t as cool as they apparently think they are.

I agree with the person who says Mary Sue is being overly used. A Mary Sue was originally a character written in fanfic that was unbelievably perfect because it was the author’s fantasy

That fits fantastically. Any “flaws” they put into the Sylvari are conjured up for Sympathy or to make them “quirky” or “cool”. The Sylvari are so fan-fic they feel like they are from deviant art. Scarlet is just the coup de gras, the logical end of the fan-fic.
As far as Eir being a flatter character than Caithe, at least she’s not a sappy angsty DA character. The only thing that makes Eir flat is the fact that they seem to afraid to make Norn important at all in the story. Then they have the token Norn idiot, Brahm.