After looking back on Living World Seasons 1 and 2, I’ve noticed some (potential) plot points which have been left unaddressed, many of which are tied to Scarlet and/or her actions in some way. Are the following just meant to be left open, cute little easter eggs, or actually something that will become relevant later?
a) Mysterious people, mysterious locations
First of all, there’s this hidden cave in Lion’s Arch (accessed from the underwater ruins of Old Lion’s Arch since the Battle for Lion’s Arch) with a boat in it and some other stuff, implying that someone may have been inspecting the wreckage of the Breachmaker before leaving discreetly. If this is relevant and not just some random tidbit in the scenery, I wonder if the writers are setting up something they intend to use later. And if so, who would’ve wanted to use the cave? Could that person be related to that mysterious bearded man we saw briefly observing us in a cave in one of the Living World season 2 episodes? What about the sleeping bag in the Forgotten cave before we plant the last Memory Seed?
b) Fate and future of the steam creatures
Remember Scarlet’s hidden room in Prosperity and her holo recordings? She says something very interesting (see ‘Interacting with Scarlet’s holodiary’ section) about the steam creatures. It’s not just about their origin, but also hints at their future:
Ceara: I may have created a new sentient being. My steam brains are mimicking my building techniques, designing their own version of the steam portal.
[…]
Scarlet Briar: The steam brains have shown ingenuity. When threatened, they build steam minotaurs from whatever materials they can find.
Scarlet Briar: I’ve used a portal to send most of my steam creature prototypes into Lornar’s Pass and Brisban Wildlands. I no longer need them.
Key things to take notice of: Steam creatures are sentient beings who mimic Scarlet’s building techniques and show ingenuity.
We’ve met steam creatures in the meta event in Lornar’s pass (back when many of us thought they may have been coming from an alternate reality based on the asura personal story’s Infinity Ball plot until we learned their true origin). To my understanding we’ve never actually seen any of them causing havoc in Brisban Wildlands, however.
We know that the Lornar steam creature invasion is a relatively recent phenomenon as evidenced by Scarlet’s timeline. So, what exactly happened to the prototypes sent to Brisban who are now nowhere to be seen except those few “scouts” coming out of Tekki’s gate? Considering how massive the Lornar’s invasion is, I find it somewhat fishy that we don’t have an invasion of as big a scale happening at Brisban at the same time.
Could some steam creatures have travelled deeper into the Heart of Maguuma, perhaps establishing a civilization of their own there?
Should the writers feel the need to use Scarlet more in some way (since they liked Tara Strong’s performance so much), they could feasibly do so by having the Steam Motherbrain (or whatever the steam creatures’ leader might be, unless they’re led by a collective of Steam Brains) create a sylvari-sized mecha avatar in the likeness of Scarlet, their Machine Mother, who could be voiced by Tara Strong with a distorted voice. Perhaps Scarlet, before succumbing to corruption in full, may have left hidden messages behind for anyone traversing into Heart of Maguuma, and the steam creatures could help us decipher the clues and help us in the fight against Mordrem since as machines they can’t be corrupted my Mordremoth? They could be to the Heart of Maguuma campaign what the Pale Reavers were to the Orr campaign: uncorruptible, unrelenting.
Just imagine the possibilities of having steam ogres and minotaurs fighting by our side while the brains provide tactical assistance! Their engineering skills could help us turn the remains of the Pact fleet into a formidable steam creature army with which to hold Mordremoth’s forces at bay for a little while and thus give us the valuable time we need in our counterattack.
(continued in next post)
(edited by Kossage.9072)
