Guild Wars 2

I’m pretty much over the whole “Marjory and Kasmeer” thing, so I want to focus on a different aspect of Kasmeer’s background. I’d like to know about the “Great and Gorgeous Mesmer Collective” that allegedly sent her to investigate the Tower of Nightmares. This seemed the best forum for it…I decided against posting it in the mesmer forum since that forum’s for the profession’s mechanics and builds, and this is a piece of the story.

Apparently.

So is this Collective her guild, or some college (a la the colleges of Rata Sum) for mesmerism (There’s in imposing thought, a college full of mesmers)? Might we, during a heated battle in a future LS installment, glance up to see a whole troop of mesmers (and their clones) charging forth to save the day?

I’m quite curious about this, but haven’t seen anything about it other than that one line. Have I missed anything?

There was a bit in an interview shortly before the patch.

“Esprits d’Orr : Are the illusions created by mesmers visible to anybody or only to the caster and the spell target ?

Angel McCoy : This depends. Casting an illusion that can only be seen by one person is an extremely advanced skill as it requires getting directly into an individual’s mind. Only the most skilled of mesmers can do this, and mesmers don’t talk about this ability. If people were to find out that mesmers could do this, it would prejudice people against mesmers and damage the trust and love mesmers work so hard to inspire in others.

No documentation of this ability exists outside the Mesmer community because the targets of this kind of spell don’t realize they’ve been duped. No one else can corroborate their experience either, so…it’s often explained away as battle fatigue. Even within the mesmer community, knowledge of this kind of spell is “need to know” only, which means only the most elder and experienced are initiated into the circle. "

So… basically there’s an overarching mesmer community that we’ve never heard of. And that’s all we know.

The interview itself: http://esprits-dorr.fr/node/261

This makes me wonder if the mesmer community is just mesmers in general (aka the players), or some sort of super secret sect, that may have other secret members (Jennah, anyone?).

Kinda like the Illuminati, huh? I likes it!

That article was extremely informative. Pretty unambiguous with the improper noun usage, probably for a valid reason, but nonetheless, was an interesting read.

At present it seems more like Mesmers and probably other professions don’t have any official organisation, or at least exclusive organisation. The Order of Whispers probably had a large percentage of Thiefs by anyone can join, the Vigil probably Warriors but again anyone can join.
It would be nice if we had profession-based organisations in game, would be nice for lore given opportunity to flesh out how some professions are viewed by society and how they view society and mechanically it could introduce profession specific armour, weapons, quests etc.

CureForLiving.5360:

At present it seems more like Mesmers and probably other professions don’t have any official organisation, or at least exclusive organisation. The Order of Whispers probably had a large percentage of Thiefs by anyone can join, the Vigil probably Warriors but again anyone can join.
It would be nice if we had profession-based organisations in game, would be nice for lore given opportunity to flesh out how some professions are viewed by society and how they view society and mechanically it could introduce profession specific armour, weapons, quests etc.

I agree, and there’s probably some great storytelling opportunities in that idea.