Guild Wars 2

The new trailer is out…

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-dragons-reach-part-2-begins-on-august-12/

Taimi and Braham are both in Dry Top with what appears to be an extra large Mordy minion, and it would seem that the Pale Tree is going to be attacked. I don’t think I saw any racial leaders, so we’ll have to see how that goes.

Taimi is trembling, and Braham’s looking over his shoulder…I’m afraid she’s going to be in danger this time—Inquest trouble, from the looks of it.

Also, what appear to be Vigil soldiers glancing up as everything goes dark, so Mordy’s still got the magical munchies.

I have a feeling that the other racial leaders are just trolling the Pale Tree saying that they are coming but they really aren’t. But I doubt that. I just hope the big boss of this episode is not another giant worm. As if I haven’t killed enough of those things already.

I think Taimi is scared because Scruffy is not working

Interesting. Perhaps Braham gets taken out while saving Taimi, possibly in a history repeating itself scenario. Eir apparently couldn’t save another Asura (cant remember the name) with Destiny’s Edge, perhaps this time her son does save Taimi, but doesn’t make it out alive? Just a thought…

The other scene seems to feature a group of 5 players. Possibly open world, or even dungeon type instance requiring a 5 man group?

ghtchill.7613:

The other scene seems to feature a group of 5 players. Possibly open world, or even dungeon type instance requiring a 5 man group?

A dungeon instance taking place in the Pale Tree would be pretty awesome.

Probably just a story step though since they scale 1-5.

It is time for another dungeon though (hint hint Anet).

Tanith.5264:

Taimi is trembling, and Braham’s looking over his shoulder…I’m afraid she’s going to be in danger this time—Inquest trouble, from the looks of it.

Let’s hope it’s real danger and not Saturday morning cartoon danger.

Whenever I see more Inquest and magitech I yawn. Such boredom.

Besides, when will we see the dragon himself? I seriously doubt that the last scene of trailer (something getting closer to NPCs) is Mordy, more like one, bigger vine or flower or something. Do we have to wait for the end battle to see who are we even fighting with ?

Rym.1469:

Whenever I see more Inquest and magitech I yawn. Such boredom.

Besides, when will we see the dragon himself? I seriously doubt that the last scene of trailer (something getting closer to NPCs) is Mordy, more like one, bigger vine or flower or something. Do we have to wait for the end battle to see who are we even fighting with ?

Well to be fair, we didn’t see Zhaitan until a few minutes before we killed it. Why do you expect we’ll somehow confront Mordy so soon and fully?

Besides, it’s been established that the vines attacking waypoints are Mordy itself. So in a way, you already have seen our newest leafy dragon friend.

Considering the total lack of commitment toward WvW this trailer leaves me more than disappointing about the direction this game is going toward. I do the PvE stuff waiting for new WvW content, but seriously it’s not even that interesting and it’s way too easy.
Specially Part 1, that was quite a disappointment.

At least last month we had new regions to explore, finally.

It’s a living story update… Not WvW

And what would they add to WvW? new maps? Aka some servers throwing their arms up because they can’t afford the numbers to defend even more locations? Or something like edge of the mists which helps somewhat but doesn’t actually affect the scoreboard?

I See No Tomorrow.7302:

Rym.1469:

Whenever I see more Inquest and magitech I yawn. Such boredom.

Besides, when will we see the dragon himself? I seriously doubt that the last scene of trailer (something getting closer to NPCs) is Mordy, more like one, bigger vine or flower or something. Do we have to wait for the end battle to see who are we even fighting with ?

Well to be fair, we didn’t see Zhaitan until a few minutes before we killed it. Why do you expect we’ll somehow confront Mordy so soon and fully?

Besides, it’s been established that the vines attacking waypoints are Mordy itself. So in a way, you already have seen our newest leafy dragon friend.

Tell me again how good the personal story was again? I think it would create greater story if we were to see Mordremoth, not the whole dragon but a glimpse of it and the destructional power it has. Not just vines poppin out of the ground for the next coming months.

Ouimette.5902:

I See No Tomorrow.7302:

Rym.1469:

Whenever I see more Inquest and magitech I yawn. Such boredom.

Besides, when will we see the dragon himself? I seriously doubt that the last scene of trailer (something getting closer to NPCs) is Mordy, more like one, bigger vine or flower or something. Do we have to wait for the end battle to see who are we even fighting with ?

Well to be fair, we didn’t see Zhaitan until a few minutes before we killed it. Why do you expect we’ll somehow confront Mordy so soon and fully?

Besides, it’s been established that the vines attacking waypoints are Mordy itself. So in a way, you already have seen our newest leafy dragon friend.

Tell me again how good the personal story was again? I think it would create greater story if we were to see Mordremoth, not the whole dragon but a glimpse of it and the destructional power it has. Not just vines poppin out of the ground for the next coming months.

Tell me again how deadly and awesome this dragon is if he appears at the grove and then leaves and the pale tree is alive and the grove intact?

Because LA could be ruined, it’s not the home city or origin place for any player characters. The grove? If an elder dragon attacked the grove, I’d expect the pale tree to end up heavily wounded or dead. Which means the Sylvari as a race just went endangered or without any way to get more numbers. Which means the Sylvari personal story parts now are super confusing because even with time split and all, they are talking to the pale tree… who as soon as they leave the instance is a dead husk.

I’m sorry, but I don’t support the idea of Mordremoth showing up personally to the summit. A champion sure, but not him.

Breakdown of the video:

ghtchill.7613:

Interesting. Perhaps Braham gets taken out while saving Taimi, possibly in a history repeating itself scenario. Eir apparently couldn’t save another Asura (cant remember the name) with Destiny’s Edge, perhaps this time her son does save Taimi, but doesn’t make it out alive? Just a thought…

The other scene seems to feature a group of 5 players. Possibly open world, or even dungeon type instance requiring a 5 man group?

Snaff. And for that to work (i.e. history repeating itself) Taimi is the one who needs to die
Also Braham would need a bit more characterization before we kill him off, you know get us to really become emotionally invested in the big guy.

I See No Tomorrow.7302:

Rym.1469:

Whenever I see more Inquest and magitech I yawn. Such boredom.

Besides, when will we see the dragon himself? I seriously doubt that the last scene of trailer (something getting closer to NPCs) is Mordy, more like one, bigger vine or flower or something. Do we have to wait for the end battle to see who are we even fighting with ?

Well to be fair, we didn’t see Zhaitan until a few minutes before we killed it. Why do you expect we’ll somehow confront Mordy so soon and fully?

Besides, it’s been established that the vines attacking waypoints are Mordy itself. So in a way, you already have seen our newest leafy dragon friend.

At the very least we have to see him once, maybe even try and kill him but fail just to ensure we know that this isn’t going to be more confetti-business. Mordy shouldn’t be the one running away we should!

Odyssey.2613:

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36 seconds of NPCs reacting to things off screen. They literally stand in place looking left, right, and over their shoulder. :\

Why is that an unsettling thing? It’s meant to build suspense, an ominous presence.

Also looks like a new area to Dry Top is being added. Look at those piles of sand. I forget who uploaded the video during Episode 2 when they broke out of the latest map addition and found new areas but some of those spots (while shot from different angles) are present.

Kalavier.1097:

Ouimette.5902:

I See No Tomorrow.7302:

Rym.1469:

Whenever I see more Inquest and magitech I yawn. Such boredom.

Besides, when will we see the dragon himself? I seriously doubt that the last scene of trailer (something getting closer to NPCs) is Mordy, more like one, bigger vine or flower or something. Do we have to wait for the end battle to see who are we even fighting with ?

Well to be fair, we didn’t see Zhaitan until a few minutes before we killed it. Why do you expect we’ll somehow confront Mordy so soon and fully?

Besides, it’s been established that the vines attacking waypoints are Mordy itself. So in a way, you already have seen our newest leafy dragon friend.

Tell me again how good the personal story was again? I think it would create greater story if we were to see Mordremoth, not the whole dragon but a glimpse of it and the destructional power it has. Not just vines poppin out of the ground for the next coming months.

Tell me again how deadly and awesome this dragon is if he appears at the grove and then leaves and the pale tree is alive and the grove intact?

Because LA could be ruined, it’s not the home city or origin place for any player characters. The grove? If an elder dragon attacked the grove, I’d expect the pale tree to end up heavily wounded or dead. Which means the Sylvari as a race just went endangered or without any way to get more numbers. Which means the Sylvari personal story parts now are super confusing because even with time split and all, they are talking to the pale tree… who as soon as they leave the instance is a dead husk.

I’m sorry, but I don’t support the idea of Mordremoth showing up personally to the summit. A champion sure, but not him.

I do agree with you, I didn’t mean for Mordremoth to show up at the pale tree. Just sometime in story.

Kalavier.1097:

Ouimette.5902:

I See No Tomorrow.7302:

Rym.1469:

Whenever I see more Inquest and magitech I yawn. Such boredom.

Besides, when will we see the dragon himself? I seriously doubt that the last scene of trailer (something getting closer to NPCs) is Mordy, more like one, bigger vine or flower or something. Do we have to wait for the end battle to see who are we even fighting with ?

Well to be fair, we didn’t see Zhaitan until a few minutes before we killed it. Why do you expect we’ll somehow confront Mordy so soon and fully?

Besides, it’s been established that the vines attacking waypoints are Mordy itself. So in a way, you already have seen our newest leafy dragon friend.

Tell me again how good the personal story was again? I think it would create greater story if we were to see Mordremoth, not the whole dragon but a glimpse of it and the destructional power it has. Not just vines poppin out of the ground for the next coming months.

Tell me again how deadly and awesome this dragon is if he appears at the grove and then leaves and the pale tree is alive and the grove intact?

Because LA could be ruined, it’s not the home city or origin place for any player characters. The grove? If an elder dragon attacked the grove, I’d expect the pale tree to end up heavily wounded or dead. Which means the Sylvari as a race just went endangered or without any way to get more numbers. Which means the Sylvari personal story parts now are super confusing because even with time split and all, they are talking to the pale tree… who as soon as they leave the instance is a dead husk.

I’m sorry, but I don’t support the idea of Mordremoth showing up personally to the summit. A champion sure, but not him.

That “confusing thing” is already here, with LA destoryed and PS ignoring that. Why should we bother If Mordy spills some Randap on Grand Plant?

If an elder dragon attacked the grove, I’d expect the pale tree to end up heavily wounded or dead

And why is it a problem? Maybe not executing, but demolishing the tree heavily seems legit for me and storytelling.

Rym.1469:

And why is it a problem? Maybe not executing, but demolishing the tree heavily seems legit for me and storytelling.

Because it would technically mean that there can be no new PC-Sylvari? ^^

The new trailer looks absolutely fantastic. I can’t wait to see what ArenaNet brings us. I hope it lives up to the suspense of the trailer.

And as for the details of the trailer, obviously it looks like Scruffy’s been destroyed and Taimi is powerless with only Braham to protect her. Then there’s the fact that the Pale Tree looks like it’s going to be attacked (although I don’t think it’s going to be completely destroyed).

Either way, looks like a fun update.

At about 0:18 it looks to me like Taimi’s hand are bound. Trembling because… Inquest takes her prisoner?

Watching it again does make me wonder though. What if that’s the Nightmare Court using Mordremoth’s advances to their benefit to assault the Pale Tree? We know Scarlet struck a deal with the NC but their terms were never revealed even in the new path for Twilight Arbor.

Arghore.8340:

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anyone notice that that plant monster spawns right at Omadd’s machine? Apparently Taimi’s work has some effect, not to sure I’m all psyched at the outcome though

I wasn’t expecting the solution to work out anyways. She does look terrified though.

@Ronin, well who says it didn’t work? perhaps it worked so good that it was reason enough to respond to it…

my reaction to the trailer: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
seriously, i’ve seen more interesting and engaging infomercials

darkace.8925:

Tanith.5264:

Taimi is trembling, and Braham’s looking over his shoulder…I’m afraid she’s going to be in danger this time—Inquest trouble, from the looks of it.

Let’s hope it’s real danger and not Saturday morning cartoon danger.

Taimi is unlikely to die. She can’t even be portrayed in fighting scenarios – she needs to be inside her golem due to the game’s rating.

After last season’s finale, none of the biconics are in danger until one dies. The decision to bluff with Marjory’s death make the threat of death very weak with the story now. For death to be a real threat, they have to actually kill people.

lordkrall.7241:

Rym.1469:

And why is it a problem? Maybe not executing, but demolishing the tree heavily seems legit for me and storytelling.

Because it would technically mean that there can be no new PC-Sylvari? ^^

The creation of a sylvari is canonically always taking place almost two years ago. If you create a sylvari character today, in the lore that character was created two years ago. There will be no more NPC sylvari from the Pale Tree, but creating a PC sylvari wouldn’t change – their story always begins with their Wyld Hunt and the quest to take down Zhaitan.

The “trembling” effect was nice, but it was kinda ruined by the fact that Taimi’s still smiling. :P

ghtchill.7613:

Interesting. Perhaps Braham gets taken out while saving Taimi, possibly in a history repeating itself scenario. Eir apparently couldn’t save another Asura (cant remember the name) with Destiny’s Edge, perhaps this time her son does save Taimi, but doesn’t make it out alive? Just a thought…

The other scene seems to feature a group of 5 players. Possibly open world, or even dungeon type instance requiring a 5 man group?

How dare you not know who Snaff is.
Go read a book!

lordkrall.7241:

Rym.1469:

And why is it a problem? Maybe not executing, but demolishing the tree heavily seems legit for me and storytelling.

Because it would technically mean that there can be no new PC-Sylvari? ^^

Because unlike LA, which while being somewhat confusing but can kinda work…

You’d basically be going into a zone (note, they’d HAVE TO keep the original ones or this wouldn’t work at all), talking to the pale tree, then coming out into the grove and seeing the pale tree dead, and probably sylvari in the area talking about it…

That’s more jarring then LA being damaged is. That’s literally “We are talking to a character who in the open world is DEAD!” jarring. You see, Rytlock going missing fits because you only meet him in instances in PS/dungeons, and until you reach that part of LS you wouldn’t know he’s perhaps MIA in the mists. But the pale tree being dead is something that’s a bit hard to hide.

Shiren.9532:

The creation of a sylvari is canonically always taking place almost two years ago. If you create a sylvari character today, in the lore that character was created two years ago. There will be no more NPC sylvari from the Pale Tree, but creating a PC sylvari wouldn’t change – their story always begins with their Wyld Hunt and the quest to take down Zhaitan.

And then you have tons of new players who are going “Wait, if the pale tree is dead why am I talking to her?”

Harmed/wounded I could buy perhaps (Sylvari talking about healing her wounds/patching holes etc)… but dead? No.

Demolished, hurt, injured /= dead already.

Just sayin’ .

hurt/injured doesn’t equal dead yes.

But demolished, in reference to a building or tree, to me implies utterly destroyed. Which would mean dead. So if you are talking about something demolishing the pale tree, my mind takes it as “killing the pale tree.”

Kalavier.1097:

Ouimette.5902:

I See No Tomorrow.7302:

Rym.1469:

Whenever I see more Inquest and magitech I yawn. Such boredom.

Besides, when will we see the dragon himself? I seriously doubt that the last scene of trailer (something getting closer to NPCs) is Mordy, more like one, bigger vine or flower or something. Do we have to wait for the end battle to see who are we even fighting with ?

Well to be fair, we didn’t see Zhaitan until a few minutes before we killed it. Why do you expect we’ll somehow confront Mordy so soon and fully?

Besides, it’s been established that the vines attacking waypoints are Mordy itself. So in a way, you already have seen our newest leafy dragon friend.

Tell me again how good the personal story was again? I think it would create greater story if we were to see Mordremoth, not the whole dragon but a glimpse of it and the destructional power it has. Not just vines poppin out of the ground for the next coming months.

Tell me again how deadly and awesome this dragon is if he appears at the grove and then leaves and the pale tree is alive and the grove intact?

Because LA could be ruined, it’s not the home city or origin place for any player characters. The grove? If an elder dragon attacked the grove, I’d expect the pale tree to end up heavily wounded or dead. Which means the Sylvari as a race just went endangered or without any way to get more numbers. Which means the Sylvari personal story parts now are super confusing because even with time split and all, they are talking to the pale tree… who as soon as they leave the instance is a dead husk.

I’m sorry, but I don’t support the idea of Mordremoth showing up personally to the summit. A champion sure, but not him.

In Dragon’s Reach Pt 1 when you’re talking to the Pale Tree about Mordremoth I was sitting there wondering, is this just shabby script writing or is she being too accepting of all this summit business? Suspicions!

Is the Pale Tree already subverted by Mordremoth and she’s pulling in all the leaders for a giant ambush at the summit? Are the Soundless actually the heroes here by not being part of the Dream? The Pale Tree appears to be the plant version of Glint but is she actually? Finkle is Einhorn!! Einhorn is Finkle!! Ohhhhh Myyyyy Goddddddddddddddddd

When that shot in the latest trailer panned towards the Avatar I sorted of hoped it would close in and her eyes would be oily dead black.

The summit is at her place because she’s a kittening tree! She can’t exactly go to them you know. There’s no way Areanet would really be stupid enough to kill her off or make her evil. Like already mentioned it would completely wreck the Personal story beyond repair, especially for new sylvari players and what would happen to all the other Sylvari. If she’s dead, then would new Slyvari players being awakened from the dream even make sense? If she went evil wouldn’t that mean that the Nightmare Court won/were right? Don’t you realize how much that would suck?

They really can’t do that. That would be the stupidest twist ever.

TroublesomeKnight.7809:

The summit is at her place because she’s a kittening tree! She can’t exactly go to them you know. There’s no way Areanet would really be stupid enough to kill her off or make her evil. Like already mentioned it would completely wreck the Personal story beyond repair, especially for new sylvari players and what would happen to all the other Sylvari. If she’s dead, then would new Slyvari players being awakened from the dream even make sense? If she went evil wouldn’t that mean that the Nightmare Court won/were right? Don’t you realize how much that would suck?

They really can’t do that. That would be the stupidest twist ever.

Then all sylvari could be evil from here on and kill on sight! Oh the want..

That’s exactly why it’s not happening, so tough luck for you I guess. Do people really hate the Sylvari so much?

You were talking about timeline in Tyria. All “new” sylvari which are created by us are in 1325 AE, before killing Zhaitan. Sylvari’s personal story will not change. The same with dungeons. Clearing of Ascalonian Catacombs or Citadel of Flame took place in 1325 AE. For new players or characters thats mean, they are in some kind of retrospection in this locations.

Now we have 1327 AE which show our Story Journal. So, living world is taking place after our character begin story, Trahearne form Pact and defeat first Elder Dragon, Zhaitan. Open world is changing and we see it. Kessex Hills, Lion’s Arch, even Dry Top. So now, they can even destroy The Grove, and kill Avatar of Tree, because it consist with lore.

One very bad thing is that, locations in personal story are changing with open world. Cause if we are defending Lion’s Arch in 1325 AE and this location is destroyed by Scarlet (which took place two years later in 1327 AE) it’s very confusing, isn’kitten

Probably it’s hard to change this, but i hope ANET is working about it.

TroublesomeKnight.7809:

The summit is at her place because she’s a kittening tree! She can’t exactly go to them you know. There’s no way Areanet would really be stupid enough to kill her off or make her evil. Like already mentioned it would completely wreck the Personal story beyond repair, especially for new sylvari players and what would happen to all the other Sylvari. If she’s dead, then would new Slyvari players being awakened from the dream even make sense? If she went evil wouldn’t that mean that the Nightmare Court won/were right? Don’t you realize how much that would suck?

They really can’t do that. That would be the stupidest twist ever.

You have no imagination, you can build any plot you want, its a game. You could have the current Pale Tree go berserk but the players/Scooby Gang rescue an offshoot which grows as the new Pale Tree, cleansed in a new location to allow for Sylvari continuity.

Not that I expect any of the above in reality but you can write any story you want.

Glacial.7380:

You were talking about timeline in Tyria. All “new” sylvari which are created by us are in 1325 AE, before killing Zhaitan. Sylvari’s personal story will not change. The same with dungeons. Clearing of Ascalonian Catacombs or Citadel of Flame took place in 1325 AE. For new players or characters thats mean, they are in some kind of retrospection in this locations.

Now we have 1327 AE which show our Story Journal. So, living world is taking place after our character begin story, Trahearne form Pact and defeat first Elder Dragon, Zhaitan. Open world is changing and we see it. Kessex Hills, Lion’s Arch, even Dry Top. So now, they can even destroy The Grove, and kill Avatar of Tree, because it consist with lore.

One very bad thing is that, locations in personal story are changing with open world. Cause if we are defending Lion’s Arch in 1325 AE and this location is destroyed by Scarlet (which took place two years later in 1327 AE) it’s very confusing, isn’kitten

Probably it’s hard to change this, but i hope ANET is working about it.

Again, the point we are making is unlike the rest of the personal story, we’d literally have scenes were we are talking to a DEAD PERSON.

LA being destroyed, kessex hills have that damage is one thing, hell Concordia will be like that too. But none of them actually have characters dead that appear in PS . And more importantly, none of the dead characters appear in the open world explicitly and obviously dead, as the Pale tree would.

Mian.1945:

TroublesomeKnight.7809:

The summit is at her place because she’s a kittening tree! She can’t exactly go to them you know. There’s no way Areanet would really be stupid enough to kill her off or make her evil. Like already mentioned it would completely wreck the Personal story beyond repair, especially for new sylvari players and what would happen to all the other Sylvari. If she’s dead, then would new Slyvari players being awakened from the dream even make sense? If she went evil wouldn’t that mean that the Nightmare Court won/were right? Don’t you realize how much that would suck?

They really can’t do that. That would be the stupidest twist ever.

You have no imagination, you can build any plot you want, its a game. You could have the current Pale Tree go berserk but the players/Scooby Gang rescue an offshoot which grows as the new Pale Tree, cleansed in a new location to allow for Sylvari continuity.

Not that I expect any of the above in reality but you can write any story you want.

If that were to happen, it wouldn’t make sense because this new Pale Tree shouldn’t believe in Ventari’s teachings because she wouldn’t have been cared for by Ventari and had his tablet placed at her roots. She shouldn’t be calling Caithe, Trahearne and the other First Born her children because they wouldn’t be. If she did it would be a cop out, because a new Pale Tree would be a completely different character.

Don’t accuse me of having no imagination when you’re the one who thinks we can just replace the Pale Tree just like that and it would be consistent.

I don’t think the people at the Summit are all going to be racial leaders. I mean even in Dragon’s Reach Pt. 1 we learned that the asura are sending some annoying high ranking officila “if” Taimi’s machine works.

Also, maybe this is just a gamer’s dream, but wouldn’t it be awesome if there were some LS content that truly “changed the world.” By this I mean, wouldn’t it be great if something we were playing through now actually changed the beginning of the game for new players/new created characters. Where their new character begins in 1327 AE? I mean there is some worry that people would complain they didn’t get to see the same start to the game as everyone else. But its nearly the same concept as not being able to have the achievements from GW1?

A true living world like this would be something new to gaming! This game is going to be severely limited in its ability to provide a “living, breathing and progressing” world if they have to constantly stay confined to the beginning of 5 races of personal story. Being unable to kill off/change things about the world because when you start the game these things aren’t the case. I think they are already showing signs of doing this by allowing new LS content to “assume” you’ve kill Zhaitan.

My hope is they are willing to change the game in ways where they aren’t afraid to alter it and can truly have the artistic liberty to make it an actual LIVING world.

Mian.1945:

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Finkle is Einhorn!! Einhorn is Finkle!! Ohhhhh Myyyyy Goddddddddddddddddd

Related to this, I ran into a player in Rata Sum named “Finkle Is Einhorn”.
I asked them if they also had “Einhorn Is Finkle” and they did!
It was awesome.

Alright, don’t get me wrong. I wouldn’t have a problem with them changing the start of the game for new players and discarding the personal story entirely if I thought Areanet would go through the effort to do so. Maybe they will one of these days, but that would require tons of work and I don’t think such a dramatic change will happen in a living story update. Maybe if they ever made a proper expansion.

Never know. It could be the Humans, Charr, Norn and Asura attacking the Pale Tree. Blaming her for the attack on Lion’s Arch. Everyone seems to be Anit-Sylvari at the moment.

Also, people seem to miss the detail that the Pale tree took 224 (or so) years to grow to the point of creating Sylvari.

Why would a newly planted one start making Sylvari… shortly after planting?

Crimsonjr.4708:

Never know. It could be the Humans, Charr, Norn and Asura attacking the Pale Tree. Blaming her for the attack on Lion’s Arch. Everyone seems to be Anit-Sylvari at the moment.

No.

There are some grieving citizens of LA who leap to hating Sylvari as the easiest answer instead of thinking (Asura council member in bloodtide coast says that), but the majority of citizens don’t hate Sylvari.

And any anti-sylvari hate because of the battle of LA is in LA only, not widespread across the nations.

TroublesomeKnight.7809:

Alright, don’t get me wrong. I wouldn’t have a problem with them changing the start of the game for new players and discarding the personal story entirely if I thought Areanet would go through the effort to do so. Maybe they will one of these days, but that would require tons of work and I don’t think such a dramatic change will happen in a living story update. Maybe if they ever made a proper expansion.

I think it would be kind of cool actually. See the first few chapters for Charr get changed where ghosts aren’t a problem (new dynamic events set in place) and then have their prologue changed to reflect the deed while giving new objectives. This would give existing Charr something to brag about, a trophy of sorts. They could even create some event so existing Charr passed that story could also participate in the new prologue.

That’d be pretty cool. It all boils down to level of interest and the amount of effort put into it.

There is only one thing I am sad about – where’s my cute kitty cat Rytlock? :’(

StinVec.3621:

Mian.1945:

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Finkle is Einhorn!! Einhorn is Finkle!! Ohhhhh Myyyyy Goddddddddddddddddd

Related to this, I ran into a player in Rata Sum named “Finkle Is Einhorn”.
I asked them if they also had “Einhorn Is Finkle” and they did!
It was awesome.

Ahahaahaha

/wipes tear

I don’t worry much about Taimi. Even without Scruffy… to get to her, they’d have to get past Braham. He’s very over-protective of her. He’ll go down before she does, and even then… they still have Rox, Kasmeer, Marjory (if she’s returned) and… you… me… and everyone else to go through as well. That little darling is very protected.