Guild Wars 2

…Charr intimidation died and was replaced by a good-humoured lightheartedness the second I saw an idle Charr, guarding Lion’s Arch with good cheer:

Charr are cats. Cats are funny and cute, but they’ll still want to rule the world.

Is it caturday yet?

I have just noticed that our good Queen Jennah is barefoot. Sign of immortality in ancient Greece, hence all gods and heroes were depicted thus.
Is it humility and modesty in her case?
Reminds one of the case against high heels in Lilliput.

Jennah actually is wearing slippers. Mesmer illusion makes it look like she’s barefoot. Or at least, that’s what she tells anyone who makes issue of it. (Hey, if Kasmeer can be naked yet still PG, this could work, too!)

As for this charr, you’ll notice that nearly everyone standing idle with weapons drawn will idly bounce it in their hand, then give it a flip, if it’s a one-handed weapon. Rox does the same when she has the holy torch of forgotten in chapter 8.

Charr are what happens when cats get opposable thumbs, but not a mani-pedi.

Jennah likes to pretend she has had a mani-pedi, but nobody really knows. Nobody will ever know. She also may decide not to brush her hair one morning, and nobody will ever know. Heck, she could even be a charr playing human with imaginary lollerskates. Nobody knows for sure, do they?

It could be caturday before any of us knows it...

While exploing the Caledon Forest, the Golotl Grounds, to be exact, I got attacked by their hylek NPCs on my Mesmer. Before I knew what had happened, a red hylek threw me back, down, right through the rock and into the water that I have today learnt covered our entire world.

I found myself swimming between earth and sea: the land, in solid, irregular, but nonetheless carefully thought-out arrangements, looked amazing. Everything else stood on a thin transparency, and could be seen from beneath.

It was a marvel. I could travel the entirety of Caledon Forest, unscathed, from below.

This is what it looked like under higher ground. I could see the roots of the world.

The roots of all Life..

All plants and animals appeared suspended in the air.

Then, I wondered, can I venture throughout all of Tyria like this? Especially that terrible Orr. Ohhh! Look! It is the Tengu Wall! Let us see what is beyond!
But no, it wasn’t possible. I kept hitting an invisible wall that was clear when I swum at the surface.

It was quite clear that I was not going anywhere outside the area of my sudden immersion.

For, whenever I tried to swim beyond the zone borders, underwater, I would get this transcendental journey presented to me. Is this another Dream?

There was nothing beyond the Tengu wall, so back I turned to catch the World Boss event of the Jungle Wurm, thinking I would capture the image of everyone’s feet immersed in the water.

On the way, I saw several things. One is how amazingly beautiful the ‘raw’ land of Tyria was.

So..surreal.. It was the same place, yet not the same place.

Haha! Got a giggle from the descriptions, understand what you where going on about on map chat:D

Passed by – or rather under- some players…

..and while going through this wonderland..

I came across something passing strange: Wurms! Suspended in the transparent ‘earth’, and fighting spiders!

…got singed by an Asuran pet volcano..

Found that The Nightmare Court enjoys even more of its peculiar beauty, seen this way..

..all aflame in its own darkness..

..bordered by the Asuran techno-picnic amidst human ruins..

..leading into Wychmire, where the secret of the great, ancient trees is revealed as their being gigantic cones of bark.

However, their being out of sight and deep within the earth did not prevent even clumps of earth and tree-roots of all kinds from being highly detailed and textured. This wasn’t the prettiest thing I had seen, but the diligence behind it was very moving.

Then I found the legendary World Boss Jungle Wurm…In standby mode, with two halos of earth above it.

..and finally got the shot of everyone’s toes in the water that I had travelled so far for.

I had battled the Wurm together with them, but from underneath, giving and receiving damage. When I saw some people fighting a Husk after that, I joined in as well, and was somehow magically pulled back to the surface when I rolled upwards towards the enemy, treading the earth again as I had done before.

Here I stood again among mortals, above the Roots of Life.

Conclusion: our world is vast and beautiful. It has been carefully and thoughtfully made, down to the roots, the places we shall never see.

The placing of the seemingly ‘irregular’ rock formations had a certain aesthetic.

Tyria, how truly beautiful you are!

So glad to meet you, yet again.

New fandom developed for Ulfred.

While trying out Nornishness..

Nice menu effect for Guardians:

Kodan architecture is fun.

Jormag, in all his terrible majesty:

Astride both eaves of the Khylo Clock Tower roof, à la Mary Poppins:

Golem Rrrrumbllleeee!

Looking good in Ascalonian Catacombs:

Skelk training!
And to think I’d learnt to loathe these things from the Ascalonian Catacombs.
Charr- ever progressive.
Figures why they won their war.

THEY’RE BACK! THEY’RE BACK! ZOMNGSS
The nostalgia, the tears, the good times, all rushed back in like a river after the melting snow!

Time and again I am bedazzled by how delicate and beautiful the modelling and animation in Tyria can be. Look at this!

Classical grace!

Tyria is saved! Orr heaves a sigh of relief as it bathes in the light, the cries of victory rising from the thousands of throats of the Pact, as, in the foreground, for an instant, the once-foe Ascalonian and Charr exchange a brief glance.

What is this?
What was left unsaid?
What was left undone?

Did they know what was to come?
Or is there other unfinished business between them, that needs to be sorted before they venture out again?

One must, on occasion, visit the dead.

Those Sylvari are tough thorns.

I see what you mean, right on top of your head.

Daughter of Flame,
Running ’cross the snows,
Whence the wind comes,
Wolf only knows;

How beautiful you are, how beautiful you are!

Warrior, harrier, guardian, shield.
A mountain looks upon you as your hands rise, in delicate greeting
Before their dance of death.

That… boy…‘..just tickles’, huh?
Ben Tenstrikes.

Conversing, peacefully, in the middle of a battlefield.