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but this is a videogame. and the password is obviously a gameplay mechanic. trying to treat every gameplay thing as lore canon will just lead to inconsistencies (like how does scarlet manage to keep recruiting people if they all die miserable, short deaths? or how she never succeeds, and her grand designs always have painfully obvious design flaws?)
Many of the minions we’re fighting by now are holographic things used to replace the earlier fleshy minions, which helps explain how Scarlet has a seemingly neverending number of mooks to unleash on map-wide events like Scarlet invasions despite us slaying thousands of them. Back in Twilight Arbor Aetherblade dungeon path the Aetherblades were working on "a fleet of airships and an army of holographic pirates to fight alongside the meat variety” (mentioned in the short story Twilight Preparations).
As for Scarlet “failing”, although we defeat her schemes over and over again like the Molten Alliance dungeons, Nightmare Tower and the Twilight Arbor hideout, she still manages to get something out of it which she deems of more value than what she lost (e.g. getting the venom from the tower despite losing the hybrid and the tower itself in the process). As far as she’s concerned, she’s gained from each of her little “experiments” so far and left the “cleaning up” for us to do, like a chess player who is more than willing to sacrifice a few “pawns” to distract us from her real objective. The only time Scarlet has expressed any sort of frustration at us interfering with her was during Queen’s Jubilee when she didn’t catch the Queen and was beaten back by us…and even then her attack had been more of a spur-of-the-moment thing inspired by Jennah’s statement of humanity’s resolve, but she still got the watchwork knights into her army in the end anyway.
It’s hard to say for sure at the moment whether the OMADD password and the time issues with it are intended for actual pinpointing of timeline or if they should indeed be treated as a gameplay and story segregation. I would prefer the former, but until devs tell us more (through the game or on forums), all we can do is speculate.
but this is a videogame. and the password is obviously a gameplay mechanic. trying to treat every gameplay thing as lore canon will just lead to inconsistencies (like how does scarlet manage to keep recruiting people if they all die miserable, short deaths? or how she never succeeds, and her grand designs always have painfully obvious design flaws?)
Many of the minions we’re fighting by now are holographic things used to replace the earlier fleshy minions, which helps explain how Scarlet has a seemingly neverending number of mooks to unleash on map-wide events like Scarlet invasions despite us slaying thousands of them. Back in Twilight Arbor Aetherblade dungeon path the Aetherblades were working on "a fleet of airships and an army of holographic pirates to fight alongside the meat variety” (mentioned in the short story Twilight Preparations).
As for Scarlet “failing”, although we defeat her schemes over and over again like the Molten Alliance dungeons, Nightmare Tower and the Twilight Arbor hideout, she still manages to get something out of it which she deems of more value than what she lost (e.g. getting the venom from the tower despite losing the hybrid and the tower itself in the process). As far as she’s concerned, she’s gained from each of her little “experiments” so far and left the “cleaning up” for us to do, like a chess player who is more than willing to sacrifice a few “pawns” to distract us from her real objective. The only time Scarlet has expressed any sort of frustration at us interfering with her was during Queen’s Jubilee when she didn’t catch the Queen and was beaten back by us…and even then her attack had been more of a spur-of-the-moment thing inspired by Jennah’s statement of humanity’s resolve, but she still got the watchwork knights into her army in the end anyway.
It’s hard to say for sure at the moment whether the OMADD password and the time issues with it are intended for actual pinpointing of timeline or if they should indeed be treated as a gameplay and story segregation. I would prefer the former, but until devs tell us more (through the game or on forums), all we can do is speculate.
yes, she might see it as a victory, but the people she recruits? they’re getting murdered by the hundreds and getting nothing in return.
and as far as we can tell, the holographic pirates were never finished or put to practice, because the ones we kill still fall dead.
point is, this is a videogame, and as such you can’t take everything seriously. i mean, look at how many people we’ve killed by now. or how each one of the player characters are “that one guy that took zhaitan”, even though at best, only four other players were there with you when it happened.
it’s a game, the story will falter on details if you stick to them. there’s no way for the password to be reasonable proof of when the journal was written. can you still argue that it happened before the experiment or after? sure. can you use it as evidence? no.
I don’t really think of using the abaddon fractal as a reasoning for my theory, but it itself is a theory that no matter which path we chose we’d end up with the same ending. That is the only reason I brought up the fractal honestly.
The way I see it, the coming of Dhuum shouldn’t be taken as society isn’t prepared to fight them, but of the implications that it might cause. Dhuum returning would most probably see him wanting to have revenge on the gods (at least Grenth). Not only would that be a confirmation for all races of the gods’ existence, it could be the foundation to branching out and figuring out what happened to the gods since Nightfall. Would be even crazier if Dhuum is tied to the Sylvari race in a way.
I understand that it’s content light but I don’t believe Anet is dumb to want to justify lore related ties for the new WvW map to Scarlet unless it there’s something behind it. If they wanted it tied to lore with no grand reasoning they might as well have just said that the races of tyria found new places in the mists for heroes to do battle.
Edit: Corrected Abaddon. Funny thing is I always right it Abaddon at first then go back before posting and edit it to Abbadon
@Konig: The video says that there was a place that was untouched by Scarlet and chaos till now, and that place was the edge of the mists (or mists in general could be argued). This imo makes it sound that she wants to do something in the mists.
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