(edited by EdwinLi.1284)
The Children?
We only know Jormag doesn’t corrupt the children and females of each species but instead have them sent to himself for unknown reasons.
GuildMag (Ollannach): …in Edge of Destiny it’s observed that men who go to fight Jormag’s minions and fail, return as icebroods but women don’t return at all. Is there anything more about what happens to women who fall under Jormag’s power?
ArenaNet (Jeff Grubb): I don’t think they fall as much as they are killed.
ArenaNet (Ree Soesbee) : Yeah, they die.
ArenaNet (Jeff Grubb) : The Sons of Svanir just… the way that they worship Jormag has evolved is very chauvinist, very male chauvinist, in the fact that it is a very boys-only club, they don’t really get to reanimate. The women are just slain.
ArenaNet (Ree Soesbee) : I think it’s less that Jormag won’t corrupt a woman and more that as they are being corrupted, the Sons of Svanir will just kill any woman who is caught being given Svanir’s gift.
ArenaNet (Jeff Grubb) : Jormag doesn’t care. Jormag really does not care. It’s as if ants that are going off, the red ants and the black ants, that’s nice. But the Sons of Svanir…
ArenaNet (Ree Soesbee) : The Sons of Svanir have a cult, it’s a religious organisation.
ArenaNet (Jeff Grubb) : It comes through hat funnel, the Sons of Svanir are his mechanism in the world, so therefore their beliefs, and their prejudices, have that effect.
ArenaNet (Ree Soesbee) : And so they kill the women.
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As far as children go… it’s a real simple answer, and maybe not a particularly satisfying one for you- consideration for the audience. It’s the same reason you can’t kill children in Fallout, or why the reapers in Mass Effect didn’t use horrifying baby banshees. That sort of thing pushes ratings way, way up, in theory locks out the teenage market, and also drives away a large segment of adults. That, and it’s just unsettling. I’d argue not many designers out there would be eager to do the visual design for icebrood babies.
From a lore standing, we see risen spiderlings and drakelings, branded devourer hatchlings… I’d argue that Zhaitan and Kralkatorrik clearly corrupt the young, and it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say Jormag does too. They exist in the universe; we just won’t ever see them in the game.
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(edited by Aaron Ansari.1604)
As Aaron said it’s a ratings thing. This issue is also why we don’t ever see children being in attacked or attacking. In the while of the game there are only three areas where kids are in danger, but the most dangerous scenario is when a Norn kid is trapped in ice. The evtnt says he’d be sacrificed if you fail a timer but even if you do the kid comes out unscathed.
Therating issue is also why Scruffy exists. Taimi will never fight directly, or be damaged directly. If fighting or taking damage, it will be Scruffy who does it.
Again, all for the sake of a teen rating.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.