Sorry for the long ramble that is to follow: here are some of my thoughts on Scarlet’s motivations, not necessarily her targets.
Plus the whole ting with Zhaitan falling to his “doom” is a classic – show me the dead body and I’ll believe he’s gone.
“This rose has thorns, and here they are!”
Sylvari shout this when they get Retaliation – Retaliation is a boon that damages anyone who hits the affected target. The attacker will not be damaged if the attack fails to hit. Retaliation does not reduce or prevent damage taken.
A Briar is a form of Rose
Scarlet wants to free the Sylvari (and perhaps everyone else) from their “predestined/predetermined” lives.
To Break the symettry of NIghtfare and Dream etc
Is the Vision she has of the Pale Tree wrapped with the Briar(?) Thorns a vision of the Dream and Nightmare entangled together?
Perhaps there is a symettry with each race/elder dragon/dragon?
Also of Note is the
The Brier score is a proper score function that measures the accuracy of probabilistic predictions. It is applicable to tasks in which predictions must assign probabilities to a set of mutually exclusive discrete outcomes. The set of possible outcomes can be either binary or categorical in nature, and the probabilities assigned to this set of outcomes must sum to one (where each individual probability is in the range of 0 to 1). It was proposed by Glenn W. Brier in 1950.
The Brier score can be thought of as either a measure of the “calibration” of a set of probabilistic predictions, or as a “cost function”. More precisely, across all items i\in{1…N} in a set N predictions, the Brier score measures the mean squared difference between:
The predicted probability assigned to the possible outcomes for item i
The actual outcome o_i
Therefore, the lower the Brier score is for a set of predictions, the better the predictions are calibrated. Note that the Brier score, in its most common formulation, takes on a value between zero and one, since this is the largest possible difference between a predicted probability (which must be between zero and one) and the actual outcome (which can take on values of only 0 and 1). The original (1950) formulation of the Brier score, the range is double, from zero to two.
The Brier score is appropriate for binary and categorical outcomes that can be structured as true or false, but is inappropriate for ordinal variables which can take on three or more values (this is because the Brier score assumes that all possible outcomes are equivalently “distant” from one another).
Which is all about Probability – which is what she was exposed to in Omadd’s experiment, effectively a sea of “Universal probability”.
Also she says
“I’ve learned so much,” Scarlet continued. “Now I have to put that knowledge to use. An insurmountable challenge is rising, and my people have been called to meet it. We are compelled by our creator to do so.
“But I reject that call. I reject the notion that that I must choose the Dream or be lost to Nightmare. The forces that push us this way or that can be redirected. They can be set against one another to the detriment of both, and now I know how.”
Also given this quote from http://www.gamerzines.com/mmo/sacred-destroyed-pondering-guild.html:
This malevolent being out there was so powerful that it started taking over her mind and giving her suggestions in terms of what she should be doing and things like that. There is a big point here, in terms of the battle between Scarlet’s free will versus this creature’s and you’ll see her transformation.”
Yet again breaking the mold/symettry of the Sylvari Destiny (Nightmare/Dream).
She means to remake the world, perhaps to stop and endless cycle of the Eleder Dragons Rising and being Put Down.
Thus the Marrionette – is the weapons test to prove that the strings of destiny can be cut?
