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Other than the bark face all the male sylvari faces that are “plantlike” rather than just human with twigs glued on have eyes and lips that are just excessively feminine. Quite frankly if you want new female sylvari faces give them the male ones, they already look too female!
When i first played through that storyline i thought I’d accidentally done something wrong when all of my options in dialogue were “NIGHTMARE COURT BAD SMASH NIGHTMARE COURT” i was honestly expecting an option to join them as they are presented as imperfect yes but no worse than the Sylvari.
Caithe is a pyschopath during the Sylvari section of the personal story (later on she seems to calm down) and insists murder and torture are the only possible ways to ever deal with nightmare court and that every single one of them is irredeemable. A theory of hers that has no proof because nobody in any of the quests ever tries to “redeem” the nightmare court they just kill them on sight. No wonder nobody defects back to the dreamers if all that’s waiting is death.
The Nightmare Court during the early segments of the game are depicted as people who embrace all of their emotions rather than clinging to positivity and optimism when it is unwarranted, they are ruthless and view others as prey because they are predators, they are following their nature and rejecting Ventari’s teachings. Later segments of the game show them as villainous sadists who just want to cause suffering but early on the overwhelming message of the nightmare court is “all things have a right to grow” isn’t something the pale tree believes AT ALL. Any kind of political dissent is met with at best fear (the soundless are heavily distrusted) and more commonly violence. If you dont conform to exactly what the Pale Tree wants the Pale Tree SENDS PEOPLE TO KILL YOU.
Overall i really wish the Nightmare Court had been written more consistently as either a viable alternative as the white stag storyline shows them or as super evil sadists that higher level zones show them off as.
Either way Bercilak was a jerk though.
Why not just introduce a craftable version that is a different colour or something to distinguish it from the original?
Just because it looks like Caladbolg doesn’t mean its actually made of the pale tree, replicas could be made from less important magical trees like that one in Brisban Wildlands, Revered Terebrinth, making them powerful weapons but not giving them the bundle powers Caladbolg itself gets and making them far less important lorewise as people take snippings from Terebrinth all the time.