Guild Wars 2

I have noticed there are no corrupted female Norn’s only male ones. It has me wondering is there a reason. Are female Norn’s to strong to fall into the corruption or so weak their bodies can’t deal with the change and die. What is everyone’s thoughts?

Sons of Svanir don’t accept females. I believe they simply kill them. Whether that’s something Jormag himself influences or not is up for debate.. Sons of Svanir seem to have more willpower and presence of mind than most minions. It could be a cultural prejudice with them

This was raised in an interview with Ree quite a while back. The response was that the Sons of Svanir kill them, and Jormag doesn’t care either way.

Having recently read Edge of Destiny so it’s fresh in my mind, the above posters are correct, the female norn are killed instead of corrupted.

Thank you I have been extremely curious I love the norn lore. I need to read edge of destiny all I have read is ghost of ascalon.

Wow – between the Sons and the Flame Legion, there’s a lot of misogyny in Anet’s antagonists. What’s up with that theme?

It’s an easy way to make bad guys bad at first blush. With the Sons, they needed that something to push the cult from ‘greyish alternative viewpoint’ to ‘black hat villain’. With the Flame Legion, it was a convenient narrative explanation for why we saw no female charr in GW1, and it meant they weren’t the evil charr just for being religious.

There might be corrupted female norn, but not on their own incentive.
The sons of svanir hate women because the sister of Svanir denied the dragon. To them its kind of like adam and eve, and eve betrayed their ‘god’.
There are icebrood, corrupted norn who have completely lost their mortal sense and become chilled. I dont expect there to be many female norn as without the sons of svanirs its hard to get there.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

It’s an easy way to make bad guys bad at first blush. With the Sons, they needed that something to push the cult from ‘greyish alternative viewpoint’ to ‘black hat villain’.

That’s true – nobody’s ever accused ANet’s writers for having a flair for nuance. They do always go in the direction of comically evil mustache-twisters instead of understandable, relatable villains (say in the Magneto fold).

That’s how we got Mary Sue Scarlet.

I’ve not always been a fan of how ANet handles their writing, but in this case I think we’re looking at a deliberate stylistic choice, not a blunder.

MMOs need a line of unwaveringly hostile foes for you to carve through. That’s what their progression system is predicated on. That, in turn, requires factions that are straight ‘bad guys’, that you’re at least semi-justified for killing on sight. When dealing with intelligent races, especially ones where other members are meant to be interacted with on friendly terms, that takes giving them some reprehensible trait, and whatever it is, it needs to be displayed prominently, not subtly. The alternative is representing the player character as a serial killer, with the law in the world curiously uncaring, or else giving up on intelligent enemies as anything but the main villains. There’s a time and a place for nuance, and the goons out and about in the world just can’t be it. It’s not good storytelling, but it is good game-making.