Guild Wars 2

5:1

Six gods, one is a traitor
Six ancient races , the Mursaat betrayed the rest
Six members of destinys edge – Logan ran off
Twelve Firstborn – Two touched by nightmare (Caithe still struggling)
ca 15% of the Sylvari are nightmare court
Five Modern races – and maybe more behind the next corner.
Six Dragons, the sixth didn’t show up yet – why?
Five blood stones – really?

coincidence?

FIVE ancient races. Two to five touched by Nightmare- we don’t know that the unaccounted three haven’t been. The fifth dragon hasn’t shown up yet either, only Zhaitan, Kralkatorrik, Jormag, and Primordus have. 24 races with demonstrated capacity for language, of which five happen to be playable.

Yes, ANet does a lot of things by fives and sixes- numbers small enough to be easily kept track of, but large enough to provide a sense of variety. It’s a sweet spot. They also did a lot of things by threes back in GW1. In any event, as much as they use sixes, you only have three data points to back up your ratio theory, and the Nightmare Court one is very tenuous. Two might be more accurate… except you got the number of races wrong (I’m assuming you tried to account for the GL?). So that leaves you with one solid one, and one that’s quite a stretch.

So, long story short, that there are five and six of a lot of things is not a coincidence. That one among that number is occasionally going to turn on the others is.

yes

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coincidence and number bending to make it fit.

Were there five or six? I thought it was Dwarves, Norn, Jotun, Forgotten, Seers, and Mursaat.

Statistics, the art of torture numbers till it shows what you want.

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perilisk.1874:

Were there five or six? I thought it was Dwarves, Norn, Jotun, Forgotten, Seers, and Mursaat.

Norn wasn’t part.