Guild Wars 2

We know there are Sylvari who aren’t ‘born’ from the Pale Tree and we know there is more than one of them. As far as I remember the Wardens used to be friendly towards the Kurzicks until the Jade Wind.

We never see any young Wardens, similar to Sylvari, and there general anatomy also resembles them. I am aware they are on different continents but it could be possible there were seeds in Cantha.

What do you think?

I don’t think there is anything to prove or disprove this idea. It’s all speculation, but I could see a relation between Wardens and Sylvari.

Fact one: We only know bout one silvari not born of the pale tree in the grove.
Fact two: We know there once where more seeds then only the seed the pale tree comes from.

We don’t know there are other pale tree’s or what their origin is.
We know from gw1 that it was rumoured (in lore wise) that the wardens where once human but so much merged with spirits they lost touch with humanity.

I think that a warden is more like a juggernaut. A human merged with a tree in the echovald forest and became a warden. We know juggernauts die when their tree is destroyed. But we don’t know what happens if a jade wind turns the tree to stone. My suggestion is that thats the reason why they turned hostile, connected with a piece of rock in a very twisted way.

But like Donut said, it’s all speculation. it is possible that there is a pale tree in the echovald forest (or once was). Personally I doubt it, but thats a feeling.

The one thing that kinda throws a wrench in the problem is that Wardens were corrupted. Now, we don’t know if Sylvari can be corrupted by other means than dragons, but that’s a bit of a difference between the two.
Actually, I’m kinda comparing apples and oranges now, so I’ll just leave this random statement here…

“The mysterious and ancient Wardens guard the areas of Cantha hit hardest by Shiro’s legacy. Protectors of the Echovald that was, they now guard the petrified forest it has become. They may once have been human, perhaps powerful druids or holy men, but they long ago merged with the spirit they served to become something altogether different. "

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Warden

Honestly, they’re more likely to be akin to the Druids or Juggernauts, rather than sylvari. There’s a huge distance between Cantha and Tyria as well.

I’m pretty sure that when we get to Cantha there will definitely be some Durmand Priory research somewhere seeing if at the very least Urgoz and the Pale Tree weren’t somehow related, but yeah speculation is speculation.

If there’s any tree related to the Pale Tree from GW1, I’m betting the Ancestor Trees – their fruits were magical and passed down wisdom of the centaur tribes’ chieftans, but themselves were immobile (like the Pale Tree, and unlike Urgoz even if he were rooted in place (pun intended)).

Also keep in mind that Urgoz is called one of the “forest spirits” (just as Zhu Hunaku is called a sea spirit) – that, to me, gives them both a stronger relation to the Spirits of the Wild. After all, naming dieties is a “quant human thing” so the norn would likely refer to them as Tree and Kraken. And we know from Egil in GW1 that there are sometimes hostile spirits of the mountains, fire, seasons, and darkness – who’s to say there wouldn’t be one of trees? Similarly, through Ascended items we know now of the existence of two distant Spirits of the Wild (distant meaning “not in the Shiverpeaks” – Otter and Gorilla).