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I want to use it to RP an Asura’s mechanical bodyguard! This won’t do.
Considering that Sylvari are barren drones, and all are being grown by the Pale Tree, without the Tree they will simply die out (*). End of story.
Which gives me an idea
(goes to pack an axe and a lot of flammables)(*)There might be other trees, but the same applies for them. Sylvari as a race simply cannot exist without their mother trees.
I don’t think that Sylvari are drones. That’s like saying babies born in real life are drones. Yes, they don’t know anything. They were just born and are completely clueless about everything. But to be a drone they need to be controlled and not have their own thoughts or goals or desires. The sylvari have their own thoughts and goals, and they are not directly and fully controlled by the Pale Tree. Even if she does tell them what to do and affect their ways of thinking, that is more akin to brainwashing than actually completely controlling them. A lot of humans in real life are brainwashed too. But none of them are drones.
They mean bee-type drones, not robots. Workers who cannot reproduce. The Queen of a hive also doesn’t “fully control” the worker bees, rather they have different castes and jobs, not very unlike how it works in human society (only we sorta get to choose our caste/job, though not completely if we’re honest). Just like the Queen is the most important since none of the drones can reproduce, the Pale Tree is important because it bears life when the sylvary “drones” cannot.
RL babies are not barren and infertile, so your comparison makes no sense.
What bothers me is that I wanted to use this to RP an Asura friend of mine’s personal assistant-bot, but with a 5m duration and 30m cooldown that is entirely impossible.
I’m not -that- surprised about there being an Asura-level (or even past that?) genius amongst the Sylvari. I’ve long theorized that their intense linking up and the Dream (which is still active, be it to a lesser extent, after their birth) pretty much forms a poor man’s hive mind. Simply put, the more any individual Sylvari learns, the smarter they should become as a race, since all those advanced concepts are stored.
As soon as you get one Sylvari who masters Asura-level engineering, other Sylvari will start to become born with an inherent knowledge of just that kind of thing. They’ll find it easier to get to the same level as their “ancestor”, and will thus have an easier time surpassing said Sylvari as well. Or at least surpassing the level that Sylvari had at the moment of their birth, because hey, who knows what insights that first Sylvari has gained by now?
Hive minds are a personal favourite of mine, and while in some fictions they have disadvantages (loss of individuality and versatility) the Sylvari version seems to retain the best of both worlds, with few weaknesses. (Except, maybe, the burdening of the mind that those who choose to go Silent suffer from)
Conclusion: It’s not Scarlet who’s a Sue, it’s just the inevitable direction of the entire race.