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Also, sylvari technically have no sex at all, so it’s a bit problematic for them to be in either a homosexual or a heterosexual relationship.
Speaking of which, it is also impossible for them to have children, which makes absolutely all kinds of romantic involvement equally “unnatural,” if that’s how you prefer to categorize love with no intent of reproduction.
Sylvari do have sex, they just can’t have babies. They have sex and fall in love and the rest of the schmoozing.
About Malyck’s tree and stuff…
Ronan found the Pale Tree’s seed in a cavern where there was other seeds, what if all those seeds went under some kind of purification ritual event before he found them ? He stole one, planted it far away… And the other ones were maybe planted by someone else in Maguuma to fulfill what they were made for. Maybe Malyck’s tree was one of those seeds.
And that would also imply that yes, there’s also seeds that weren’t cleansed, because I doubt that the ones responsible for the cleansing got all of the existing seeds.
That actually makes a lot of sense and really ties the story. I hope this true
The character is quite likeable in “the story” actually. Just not in game.
Exactly!
A tragic story about a genius, who battled the corruption of Mordremoth. Her passion for the Eternal Alchemy caused her downfall.
I just think that Revenants were always there, but are very rare.
Just for expansion sake Rytlock is the first.
We don’t need another prince rurik
Actually, I’ll take another Rurik, Khilbron, Shiro or Varesh over some annoying Taimi, Caithe, Eir etc every day of the week. But maybe it’s just me. I strongly feel that characters in GW2 lack substance, the story was SO. MUCH. BETTER. in every single campaign of GW1, including characters.
I think Caithe is one of the best written characters in the GW universe, she does good things, bad things and is very mysterious which keeps you guessing if she is either good or evil.
Lore wise it wouldn’t even make sense, a land which was completely dead and corrupted is not going to be completely healed in just 3 years and have forest and beautiful landscapes that takes many many years.
mordrem wolves with single swing of auto? Looking forward to seeing proof.
That’t the core of my beef. If you did not play and see the trailer you’re convinced you’ll be this god of war at endgame running in steampunk heavy armor, major size hammer squishing regular mobs like bugs. We all know that last part is anything but true when facing mordrem, and x-pac promises to be have hardest content yet. If you signed up for dynasty warriors and you get dark souls then you have the right to be dissapointed, and trailers make it look like the first, the engame like the latter (talking silverwastes here and meeting with modrem when you’re all by your lonesome)
Only naive or stupid people would think that. It is kind of common sense that a trailer exaggerates a lot of stuff and if it is not marketed as a gameplay trailer they can do that. You are really just nitpicking.
I dont get what you want, because they are not going to change it these are elements of the game.
Maybe you should just play another game instead of whining
Nah not really…
It has to be the other tree, the whole concept art and the characters give a vibe of just having found another Tree.
If it would, it would have definitly been mentioned along with everything.
I hate birds, so no thankyou to Tengu.
Never liked them anyways
I’m in between a first charr or sylvari female.
Yes.
What kind of question is that haha
It amazes me how people think everything will be anounced in 45 minutes. Have somew kittening patience
I hope they keep throwing festivals in between the expansion.
But LS Season 3 will not continue I think, since HoT seems to take off exactly where season 2 ended.
Maybe the economy will stabilize a little bit.
Check the HoT FAQ, it’s paid digital and boxed, and you will need GW2 to play HoT
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I’d like to offer another point of view: a lot of people with strong opinions about lore won’t be participating in this or similar conversations. I hope the writing team spends their most of their time working on the next evolution of the story and very little time on molehills-turned-into-mountains.
There are a lot of fans who do great work documenting lore. As they do so, they uncover inconsistencies and contradictions, which should be expected in both a well-written and horribly-written story, as well as when the writer(s) aren’t keeping track of the details.
The question is: what are the rest of us to make of this? My feeling is that a few of the self-appointed lore experts go too far, in effect writing fan fiction by interpreting what they see and telling the rest of us how we are supposed to understand the lore. It’s only a few people who do this, but I think it becomes a distraction to the actual story.
For example, “all the sylvari felt it when rhiannoc died” — even when I first encountered this idea, I always thought it was hyperbole. To me, this is the same as people saying that “all Americans felt it when Kennedy died” — people found out at different times, but nevertheless feel they shared a specific experience, even though technically, they did not. But some lore experts would have us believe that this was originally intended to be literal, because that is how they (the expert) interpreted it upon first reading. To be sure, there wasn’t that much evidence one way or another to know what the writers meant with certainty, but that could be a result of both good or bad writing.
It’s also clear from the personal and living stories that NPCs in GW2 aren’t always honest. They tell outright lies, omit critical details, and bend the truth to suit their interests. Because this is an MMO, this tends to be obvious most of the time, but I think it’s great when it’s subtle, too — I’d like to see more of the characters behaving like real people, i.e. full of their own contradictions and other foibles.
A lot of things were left ambiguous in the original personal story, perhaps intentionally, perhaps because (as some believe) the game was rushed to release to make NCSOFT shareholders happy, perhaps because the writing team wasn’t paying that much attention to matters they considered minor. As a player, I don’t really care — as long as the story compels my attention, then I’m okay with some details being inconsistent.
For example, I’m not bothered by luminaries claiming to be the first to be born in their cycle — “first” is obviously a big deal among the sylvari. I’m not concerned that there are contradictions between dreams of some and statements by others — the dreams don’t seem to be literal and sylvari are just as prone to misunderstandings as charr or humans (although not as bad as the asura). But even if I’m mistaken, none of this affects the basics of the story. Wynne’s reveal is still powerful, Scarlet’s motivations are still mysterious in some ways, and the conflict between Mother Tree, firstborn, and Nightmare Court still leaves me wanting to learn more.
tl;dr I hope the writing team focuses on what they perceive as critical, and doesn’t get too distracted by whatever latest “outrage” is posted on the forums. I’m enjoying the living story and I’m looking forward to the next installment.
Preach! Somebody had to say it, cause lately I have seen too much people rely on these self-proclaimed loremasters for answers meanwhile these ‘loremasters’ don’t know everything or are correct about it.
All Quaggans should have been an oversight. They are too much my little pony.
Remember We only saw this after entering the Pale Tree. Everything we saw before entering the Pale Tree was the Eternal Alchemy while everything after we entered the Pale Tree was her mind….
What we saw was her mind not the exact number of Elder Dragons existing…..
Kalkratorik(purple), Jormag(white), Primordus(red), Zhaitan(yellow/black) and the Deep Sea Dragon(blue) seem to be actively feeding off of the Pale Tree while Mordremoth is actively corrupting her…..
Where did you get that it was the Pale Tree’s mind we’re seeing. An evidence?
One thing I do definitly think is that the Pale Tree’s roots go very deep and connect with Ley Lines giving her the ability to grant visions and such.