Guild Wars 2

Konig Des Todes.2086:

@castlemanic: I would attribute that more to ArenaNet making edits to a highly disliked piece of lore (though that wasn’t what was so disliked…) rather than it being a different discussion. It’s also probable that the short story features an “abridged” version of the conversation, and we’re getting a different abridged version.

That is something that wasn’t even on my radar. My bad.

Daniel Handler.4816:

The story has focused a lot on Glint 2.0 and a quasi Mursaat despite the fact we still have a benevolent dragon champion. The last thing that emphasized the Pale Tree’s potential influence was seeing her in All. There are so many unanswered questions.

• How long is she going to be in recovery?
• Will she better humanity with her mind powers?
• Why doesn’t she teach Taimi how to to make a Jormag version of Caladbolg instead of this machine nonesense?
• Why doesn’t she train to expand her ability to process the Dream, especially the prophetic parts?

To the point of why not a Caladbolg custom made for each Elder Dragon, there is no reason the Pale Tree couldn’t do that I suppose. After all, the Pale Tree was a ‘reformed’ dragon minion of Mordremoth, but Caladbolg was used primarily against Zhaitan, so no reason why she couldn’t make a sword effective against other ED’s as well. But that was at a time when the plan was “Hunt down the ED’s and kill them one by one”, but now we are starting to think that just killing them may not be the best idea either. We are trying something different with Aurene I think, sort of a replacement ED that will be on our side. Something to fill the role that killing other ED’s will leave vacant – to regulate the flow of magic on Tyria. Going with Taimi’s plan could be seen as a way to try a different approach. Also the Pale Tree is still recovering, and making a fancy new magic sword would probably take a lot out of her right now.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

@Daniel: Because, as said time and time again (seriously we’re just repeating ourselves now, the answer to everything you bring up is the exact same thing as before), the vision is influenced by Scarlet. Remnants of her vision are left – the path and the dialogue – but what we witness is a modern view of that path, with echoes of the past (literally in this case) going in because this is not the physical reality but a metaphysical state of consciousness.

Was it repetition or clarification? Your explanation was much less meaningful before you described the updated path in full. I accept your current conclusion.