Guild Wars 2

Is it just me or is Taimi becoming more and more like her idol Scarlet?Possible Scarlet 2.0?

*Her dress looks like Scarlet’s dress
*She said she’s gonna use Omadd’s machine and mentioned lots of things could go wrong
*She talked about ruling us all soon during Rising Flames
*Commander said she’s “puppet-mastering one of your superiors”(Rising Flames)
*Commander even warned mentioned Scarlet as a warning after Taimi mentioned she was gonna see the Eternal Alchemy
*Her name means sapling in Finnish.Scarlet’s sapling perhaps?
*Ooh and she’s always been fascinated by Scarlet

Is anet setting her up for a fall?What are your thoughts?Maybe she’ll lose her mind and go Scarlet on Tyria?

No, Taimi is going to be fine.

She will she another orb falling to the middle of the Eterna Alchemy. The fall of Mordremoth, and more stuffs.

The comander of the pact use the machine, and we are fine, even if we are sylvaris.

Scarlet was a Dragon’s Minion, Asuras are not.

Who knows what asura are?

When the escape to surface they were perceiving others races as minors or toolscheaper than golems.

They played polymock and there was npc’s line that they know how to play before they born. Its have two means: they’re inteligent and they could also be living beings to simulate battle data.

Rata sum – their inteligence is individual, thus it doesn’t simply sum, but synergy.
Genious. Explosive mindand intellect.

During experiments on skitts they observed that skritts are the inteligent with more brethen in group.

Above crucible asura have council. Everything is protected by Arcane eye.

Rata sum was there before asura came.

They can be external cores tosimulate combat data, but for who?

To play polymock, you could receive figure, donate it(bind), but when played it actually was creature. Not only low mind creatures.

Looking forward dire arc in rata sum and zoija to save a day.

In last mission we can save one faster: logan or zoija.
If that will be reflected and logan already stand, zoija will be blind and moving on levitating platform or inside scrapped mr. sparkles or on elemental.

Gaurdian and elementalist tossed into blightning pods.

Taimi has long been fascinated with Scarlet, and let’s face it, if Scarlet hadn’t been trying to kill everyone (for reasons that had to have been beyond reviving Mordremoth), she could’ve been a powerful ally. She was a powerful inventor, a trait more asura really ought to have been admiring. And let’s face it, taking inventions too far is so completely in character with the asura race in general. Nothing she’s doing is out of character, but we may be losing our tech support if this goes badly.

She is 100% being set up to be a Scarlet 2.0. The matter of a fall – whether it’s a fall from grace (aka losing her position/smarts/etc), fall from the “light side” (aka going evil), or fall from life (aka dying) – or not, is all up the air.

But she’s becoming a Scarlet 2.0 in a way the OP doesn’t mention, which is the worst thing to happen to Taimi. Two things, actually:

• First, she’s “always right” – just like Scarlet was – even when her “theories” are direct contradictions of old established lore or herself.
• Second, she’s somehow manipulating others by them having the idiot ball (for example, how can dozens if not hundreds pass by an obvious door with a dragon head sign, how we figured out it was the dragon lab, and not know about the dragon lab?).

Then, of course, she’s somehow getting help from dozens of asura who are putting their lives on the line in a very literal sense when by all rights of the race should be more concerned with their own personal progression and discoveries rather than being a footnote on Taimi’s (aka all the Ember Bay asura who are betraying Phlunt to kiss Taimi’s behind in the teenager’s research).

Taimi has, as of Season 3, taken on every single aspect that Scarlet had – both narratively (good) and writing style-y (terrible, horrible, awful, stopitnowanet).

She isn’t becoming a Scarlet 2.0. She already is a Scarlet 2.0.

vier.1327:

No, Taimi is going to be fine.

She will she another orb falling to the middle of the Eterna Alchemy. The fall of Mordremoth, and more stuffs.

The comander of the pact use the machine, and we are fine, even if we are sylvaris.

Scarlet was a Dragon’s Minion, Asuras are not.

I think the fact that a sylvari Pact Commander being fine is proof that it isn’t the fact that Scarlet was a dragon minion that drove her insane when going in the machine, but the long exposure.

Also, the fact that non-sylvari Pact Commanders witnessed Mordremoth and the other Elder Dragons seems to be proof that you don’t have to be a dragon minion to tap the mind of an Elder Dragon enough to get its attention while in the machine.

So yeah, that’s no reason to believe Taimi will be fine.

Mem no Fushia.7604:

Who knows what asura are?

They are very clearly mammals, and no dragon minion are mammals…

Mem no Fushia.7604:

When the escape to surface they were perceiving others races as minors or toolscheaper than golems.

No they weren’t.

Mem no Fushia.7604:

They played polymock and there was npc’s line that they know how to play before they born. Its have two means: they’re inteligent and they could also be living beings to simulate battle data.

That line is metaphorical to mean that polymock is a stable part of asura culture at the time – it’s like knowing about anime while living in Japan.

Mem no Fushia.7604:

To play polymock, you could receive figure, donate it(bind), but when played it actually was creature. Not only low mind creatures.

They weren’t actual creatures. They were like miniatures – animated toys.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

• Second, she’s somehow manipulating others by them having the idiot ball (for example, how can dozens if not hundreds pass by an obvious door with a dragon head sign, how we figured out it was the dragon lab, and not know about the dragon lab?).

It’s been a while since I played the instance, but I can think of a couple of reasons. Some might be contradicted by the instance itself, but I don’t feel like replaying it at the moment just to find corroborating evidence.

1. I believe she locked the door, so it’s not easy to open. If asked about it, she might have told them that there is nothing beyond it or that there was a cave-in, destroying what was beyond it.
2. She could’ve masked the dragon logo on the door, hiding it from the others.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Then, of course, she’s somehow getting help from dozens of asura who are putting their lives on the line in a very literal sense when by all rights of the race should be more concerned with their own personal progression and discoveries rather than being a footnote on Taimi’s (aka all the Ember Bay asura who are betraying Phlunt to kiss Taimi’s behind in the teenager’s research).

The asura doing research in Ember Bay could easily be furthering their own careers by making the discovery before she does. In the case of the caldera krewe, I think one of them is testing out their giant golem to ensure it works, and maintain the safety of the others researching in the area. Nobody said the asura can’t multitask.

Phlunt is a member of the council, therefore, not anyone dedicated to investigation, therefore not anyone normal Asura want to follow, obey or be associated with. Taimi, on the other hand, is ofering an opening to a veru interesting area to make discoveries, experiment and in general risk the life in the name of science. This is the biggest call for Asura, bright and dull.

Rognik.2579:

1. She could’ve masked the dragon logo on the door, hiding it from the others.

She definitely didn’t do this.

And honestly, I doubt she could say “there’s nothing there” or “it was destroyed” – or nothing at all – and at least one asura wouldn’t be interested in what’s behind the door.

Rognik.2579:

The asura doing research in Ember Bay could easily be furthering their own careers by making the discovery before she does. In the case of the caldera krewe, I think one of them is testing out their giant golem to ensure it works, and maintain the safety of the others researching in the area. Nobody said the asura can’t multitask.

Never meant to imply they’re multitasking. But when they are betraying the Arcane Council (it may be Phlunt heading the Rata Novus / Ember Bay stuff but ultimately the whole council is interested in it as per the guided tour seen in the first S3 Rata Novus instance), as well as risking their life for her research, honestly there are safer ways to get their own research done unless it specifically requires the Ring of Fire – and given how many are wanting to leave the area to either avoid eruption or destroyer, seems that most of it can be done elsewhere…

Ardid.7203:

Phlunt is a member of the council, therefore, not anyone dedicated to investigation, therefore not anyone normal Asura want to follow, obey or be associated with. Taimi, on the other hand, is ofering an opening to a veru interesting area to make discoveries, experiment and in general risk the life in the name of science. This is the biggest call for Asura, bright and dull.

Nowhere is it ever said that the Arcan Council is “not dedicated to investigation” – they all ultimately want to get back to their own projects, but have a lot of work to do as councillors – though this has changed a bit since Edge of Destiny when such was described, due to the Inquest Councillor taking some of the others’ duties and relegating it to Inquest (per his dialogue in the council chamber instance).

Besides, following Phlunt or Taimi, they’re in the same area doing the same things. The only difference is that they’re becoming effective traitors to the state to spite some old man.

Considering Mordremoth was assailing Scarlet’s mind from the beginning before she looked into the Machine and the fact that she argued with him one would think she was turned into Scarlet by something other than Mordremoth.

Needless to say Mordremoth had her corrupted by the time she started looking for Leylines yet before that time who knows how her mind worked?

I really do hope Taimi, the little annoying kid kitten asura will get infected by all the dragon virus she’s working on in Rata Novus and cuz her legs are still kittenty for some reason and we have to kill her.

That would be an awesome episode!

Or a Norn/Charr will just stomp on her, work’s done!
I would gladly do that.

Alga.6498:

I really do hope Taimi, the little annoying kid kitten asura will get infected by all the dragon virus she’s working on in Rata Novus and cuz her legs are still kittenty for some reason and we have to kill her.

That would be an awesome episode!

Or a Norn/Charr will just stomp on her, work’s done!
I would gladly do that.

I’m sure glad you’re not one of the writers.

I hope Taimi summons Dhuum through an Asura portal of the type that leads into the Mists on grounds that she just discovered that Dhuum is Jormag’s weakness(Jormag does have ties to the Mists that other Elder Dragons seemingly don’t have).