Guild Wars 2

After completing the LS3, something just didn’t feel right. I felt that it was worse than LS1, Scarlet War.
Then it hit me, the ending if completely against the overall theme of the LS3.
The theme of LS3 was unintended consequences of doing thing that you thought were right. It was discovery the the noble act of killing the elder dragon would bring destruction to the world. All stories revolved around this idea. Braham cracking the tooth doom him to a crusade against Jormag. Taimi attempting to kill the dragons lead to the loss of Omadds Machine. Killing Caduceus lead to Deimi and Aton dieing.
And how did the story end? By committing genocide against a contained foe, with no consequences or objections. Feel completely against the theme, it was just way to get to the ex machina trailer generating triangle. And the xpac trailer show the consequences of killing the elder dragon.
I dunno, I think back to Lord of the Ring, and the conversation about if Bilbo should have killed Gollum after getting the ring. “My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.” Livia’s action may rule the fate, unless the writers just choose to ignore it which they probably will.

Agree to a point. Our character constantly says he/she is looking for Balthazar who is set on killing another elder dragon. He is trying to stop Balthy from doing that so the world will not end.

This part of the LS did veer away from that, but only because our character thought that he/she would find Balthazar where they were searching.

No the theme of s3 was finding out that theres unintended consequeces in your actions and then having taimi fox them. Im kinda glad that we had 1 plot thread close thsi time around.

Theme is fine when you look at it from a high level rather than get stuck on minor specifics.

Ep6 just breaks the character immersion. First of all, our character has to join human-centric secret sociaty that is actually almost as close to the term “cult” or “sect” as their sworn enemy – White Mantle. May be ok for human characters, but my charr and norn characters would rather die then join Shining Blades. And, again, we left Pact to get independance, and now we are Livia’s lap-dogs, with a gun at the back of our head to kill us if we say or do anything that can hurt Kryta.
Then as Op mensioned, the theme of sparing a life of a defeated foe.

So, if a look on Ep6 story, this is what I get out of it as a moral. These are its messages:
1) Joining creepy cults and secret societies is ok.
2) Helping a psycologically unstable and sociopathic person to carry on her revenge is good.
3) Executing prisoners that no longer pose a threat to the society is ok.
4) Genocide can be justified if the guys you exterminate did something bad in the past.

I know how bad the musaats were, and that they got what they deserved. But helping Livia makes me feel unclean. She is so zealotly insane over her revenge that she becomes no better than a mursaat. And so does my character, cause there he is, helping her lunacy.

hmm a prisoner that the wm can find and resurect HMMMM

Ayrilana.1396:

Theme is fine when you look at it from a high level rather than get stuck on minor specifics.

How high is high enough? Will an airship do?

zealex.9410:

hmm a prisoner that the wm can find and resurect HMMMM

You are 100% right. And you know what? These charr guys. Remember the Ascolon? HMMMMM.They definitely can do the same with Kryta. Sooo… lets make ourselves a small prevential species extermination. To the last kitten. Remember your oath, young Shining Blade. And if you happen to be a charr, would you kindly stab yourself to death when you are done with genocide of your people?