Guild Wars 2

After guesting to the maximum 2 servers and having friends pull me onto others, I finally found one with only a handful of people on it. I asked if they wanted to farm or complete these events, they said nothing, so I said in that case we’d be going for completion. One guy replied that he wanted to farm, and I asked if he could please guest to another server because all the higher population servers were farming and this was the first server I’d found that wasn’t.

He told me that guesting was impossible, even though I’d just done it a number of times. Other people jumped in to tell me that it’s impossible to guest now that megaservers are in (and to call me a troll and griefer, like on every other server), I tried to explain that you can do it, you just need to not be in a party and (I think) to make sure that none of your friends are in Frostgorge while you’re trying to guest.

We ended up completing it anyway, but I think the game could benefit from some kind of message explaining how to guest to other servers with the new megaserver technology. (Bolded because this is the most important part of my post. I’m not here just to whine, only partially. :p)

Also…I’m really disappointed in the community. Only one person was willing to help, and that was because they didn’t want the event to be nerfed. Everyone else immediately assumed I was there to grief.

I just tried to help my sister with her story and got called a troll for asking if we could complete the event. I wouldn’t be surprised if I was reported for griefing.

Literally ONE person said they’d help us complete the event, everyone else shouted at us to go join another server because “this is the only one that has a farm on it.” We tried guesting onto other servers with lower population but they were all farming too.

Is there a way we could organize a server that completes the event and keeps it running as a public service? Or are we going to have to wait until this is nerfed?

Wow…I’m speechless! But I’m really glad to hear people enjoyed them!

Khani, since Autumn Nectar in game is actually non-alcoholic (there were no alcoholic sylvari drinks so I had to go with that name) I had planned to make an alternate version that uses sparkling apple cider instead of champagne and maybe elderflower syrup instead of liqueur, but I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. I could post the recipe here when I do, if you’re interested.

I do know that Elixir X tastes fine without the vodka, if you like those flavors, and I actually just made a modified version of Nature’s Renewal without the gin, but you’d probably want to sweeten it. Maybe replace the gin and lime juice with limeade?

Also, there’s my Sparkling Effervescence recipe I posted in another thread, which can be made alcoholic or non-alcoholic:

• 24 oz ginger ale
• 1 c orange juice
• 1 c peach schnapps (substitute with peach nectar for a non-alcoholic version)
• 1/2 c vodka (optional)
• simple syrup
• lots and lots of Pop Rocks (any flavor would work, but blue ones look best)

1. Put the syrup in a saucer or shallow bowl. Twist the rims of your glasses in it, then pour handfuls of Pop Rocks over the rims until they’re all coated. Beware of flying Pop Rocks! If any get inside the glasses, dump them out.
2. Mix everything else up in a large bowl and ladle it into glasses to serve.

Oh wow, thank you so much, Rubi! Now I’m scared that these recipes aren’t good enough though, ack.

If anyone has tips for improving these recipes, please share them; I’m still definitely an amateur when it comes to this kind of thing. Or your own recipes, those would also be nice to see!

I’ve modified Nature’s Renewal a bit. It wasn’t quite green enough for my liking before; gotta get the profession colors right. This way it actually brings out more of the cucumber flavor, so I’m pretty pleased with it!

NATURE’S RENEWAL (ranger)

• 1 cucumber
• 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
• 1/4 oz lime juice
• 3 oz gin (preferably Hendrick’s)
• 6 oz tonic water
• ice cubes, optionally with a few juniper berries and/or pomegranate seeds frozen in each of them
  1. Peel the cucumber, cut it in half lengthwise, scrape out the seeds, and cut it into cubes. Puree the cucumber cubes in a blender. Strain the pulp through a fine strainer (or, ideally, a cheesecloth or flour sack) into a lidded container. It’ll keep for a few days in the fridge.
  2. Muddle the rosemary in a highball glass.
  3. Add the gin, lime juice, and 1/2 oz of cucumber juice and stir.
  4. Pour in the tonic and add the ice cubes.

HOLD THE KITTENING PHONE

I just found out that Absolut Wild Tea vodka is clear. For some reason I thought it was brownish. Must have been confusing it with Firefly!

So anyway, here is Zealot’s Flame as I had envisioned it: strong, focused, zenlike, and “supportive.”

• 1 1/2 oz blue curacao
• 1 1/2 oz Absolut Wild Tea vodka
• ice
• Everclear

Instructions above.

Second to last recipe is guardian. This one spent some time in…development hell, I guess. There aren’t a lot of options when it comes to blue alcohols, and my original plan was to use minty Avalanche for a “cold fire” feel, but then I found out they don’t make that anymore. So I ended up stuck with blue curacao. My next thought was a comforting black-tea-with-orange kind of thing, but the only colorless, tea flavored alcohol that appears to exist is Belvedere lemon tea vodka. I ordered that about a month ago and they still haven’t sent it and I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t have worked anyway, so I decided to go with chocolate and orange. That’s a nice, supportive combination right?

ZEALOT’S FLAME (guardian)

• 1 oz blue curacao
• 2 oz white creme de cacao
• 2 oz vodka
• ice
• Everclear
  1. Combine blue curacao, creme de cacao, and vodka in a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a martini glass.
  2. Float a small splash of Everclear on top.
  3. Set the Everclear on fire right before serving (safety tips), but blow it out carefully before you drink it. Do not set yourself alight. (Also, please do not throw your Zealot’s Flame at a targeted foe.)

Back again with engineer. Like many of my drinks recipes, this is my take on a classic. In this case, a Bloody Mary with a bit of a smoky flavor.

ELIXIR X (engineer)

• 1.5 oz vodka
• 3 oz tomato juice with salt
• 1/2 tsp Worcester sauce (vegans/vegetarians, use Pickapeppa sauce instead)
• 1/2 tsp prepared horseradish
• 1/2 tsp chipotle hot sauce, or more to taste
• 1/2 tsp brine from a jar of deli jalapenos
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• ice
  1. Fill a highball glass roughly halfway with ice.
  2. Combine the remaining ingredients and pour into the glass.
  3. Garnish with whatever you want—celery, bell pepper slices, bacon, a flame turret…get creative, you’re an engineer!

Lindelle.3718:

Visteri.3821:

Correction: termites were part of the order Isoptera, but were reclassified as Blattodea in 2007. Here’s the study. So that one’s correct.

Additionally, are we sure those recipes are correct? The staff looks more like a wasp than a mosquito to me.

I wasn’t aware of this, what I listed were names I learned in an entomology course and as a biologist I definitely know how often Linnean classification gets reorganized and reorganized again. So if I’m wrong, then good to know they got that right.

I suppose the mosquito could be a wasp, but I think they already have a wasp weapon and I believe the item to make it is ‘fossilized mosquito’.

Well, as far as I know, we don’t know which recipes make which weapons yet. At least, I think the Reddit post was speculation—I don’t know if anyone has confirmed it yet.

But you are right, there is a fossilized mosquito and it’s used for one of the weapons, which is probably not Diptera since that one looks like it uses the fossilized grub. So one of them is probably wrong.

Correction: termites were part of the order Isoptera, but were reclassified as Blattodea in 2007. Here’s the study. So that one’s correct.

Additionally, are we sure those recipes are correct? The staff looks more like a wasp than a mosquito to me.

Up next: human.

Winemaker Victoria was forced to get creative after her vineyard was captured by centaurs. To stretch out her remaining supply she combined it with a variety of fruit juices, and then, to appeal to the united spirit of humanity, she added oranges for Kryta, apples for Ascalon, kiwis for Cantha, and cantaloupes for Elona.

VICTORIA’S RED WINE (human)

• 1 bottle of red wine
• 1 c brandy
• 1 c orange juice
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp lime juice
• 3 Tbsp grenadine (or to taste)
• 1/4-1/2 c each of cubed apple, kiwi, cantaloupe, and orange (plus some orange slices for garnish)
  1. Combine all ingredients and leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours, but preferably overnight.
  2. Ladle into wine glasses filled with ice to serve.

Back again with thief! This is…not my kind of drink (neither was the asura one actually, but I know some people like their drinks pretty sweet). But I am a big baby. So this is more or less a saketini, but with an unusual addition.

SMOKE SCREEN (thief)

• 2 1/2 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz sake (if you have habushu, use it; if you don’t…don’t be crazy, just use regular sake)
• a few drops of squid ink
  1. Combine the vodka and sake with ice in a shaker, then pour into a martini glass.
  2. Drop the ink in right before serving to create a smoke “cloud.”

Thanks, AkioFallstar! I hope you like them!

I’ve just finished my asura drink, so I’ll post it here and in the OP. I really wish I knew something about molecular mixology; I bet the asura would be totally into that.

EXPERIMENTAL OOZE BOOZE (asura)

• 2 oz ice
• 2 oz crushed pineapple with juice
• 2 oz coconut rum
• 3 oz blue curacao
• 1 tsp grenadine
  1. Blend the ice cubes and pineapple until slushy.
  2. Add the rum and curacao and blend thoroughly.
  3. Pour into a laboratory flask, then add the grenadine and stir lightly to create a mottled blue-and-purple effect.

Haha, no, definitely not a bartender. I’ve just been cooking for most of my life and have branched out into kittentails recently. (I know that word gets filtered on this forum but it’s too funny not to keep.) Real bartenders would probably find my drinks fairly pedestrian, though there are a few—like Distortion—that I’m particularly proud of. And I can’t really claim some of them, like Nature’s Renewal and Elemental Harmony—cucumber-rosemary gin and tonics and watermelon margaritas are fairly standard drinks, but they worked so well.

I’ll be making asura and guardian pretty soon, either this or next weekend. Guardian is going to be an interesting experiment…

And yes, my current idea for necromancer does include absinthe. :p

Thank you! And it’s okay, my list is done now.

I can post my reasoning behind all the choices I made too, if anyone’s interested. Some of them are pretty obvious though.

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NATURE’S RENEWAL (ranger)

• 1 cucumber
• 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
• 1/4 oz lime juice
• 3 oz gin (preferably Hendrick’s)
• 6 oz tonic water
• ice cubes, optionally with a few juniper berries and/or pomegranate seeds frozen in each of them
  1. Peel the cucumber, cut it in half lengthwise, scrape out the seeds, and cut it into cubes. Puree the cucumber cubes in a blender. Strain the pulp through a fine strainer (or, ideally, a cheesecloth or flour sack) into a lidded container. It’ll keep for a few days in the fridge.
  2. Muddle the rosemary in a highball glass.
  3. Add the gin, lime juice, and 1/2 oz of cucumber juice and stir.
  4. Pour in the tonic and add the ice cubes.

SMOKE SCREEN (thief)

• 2 1/2 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz sake (if you have habushu, use it; if you don’t…don’t be crazy, just use regular sake)
• a few drops of squid ink
  1. Combine the vodka and sake with ice in a shaker, then pour into a martini glass.
  2. Drop the ink in right before serving to create a smoke “cloud.”

BULL’S CHARGE (warrior)

• 2 oz golden tequila
• 1 can Red Bull
• ice
  Combine everything in an Old Fashioned/lowball glass. And don’t drink more than one of these, like, ever or you will have all the heart attacks. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

ELEMENTAL HARMONY (elementalist—yeah I cheated on the name, it was the best I could do)

• 1 c ripe seedless watermelon (hard to measure so call it 6 oz) cubed and frozen on a parchment-lined tray overnight
• 1.5 oz tequila
• 1 oz Cointreau or other orange liqueur
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 1 tsp sugar, if necessary (if your watermelon is on the bland side, you’ll probably want more)
• watermelon Pop Rocks
• coarse salt
  1. Dip the rim of a margarita glass in some lime juice, then into a mixture of Pop Rocks and a bit of salt.
  2. Blend the watermelon, lime juice, and sugar until no more chunks remain.
  3. Add the remaining ingredients, blend thoroughly, and pour into the glass.

ELIXIR X (engineer)

• 1.5 oz vodka
• 3 oz tomato juice with salt
• 1/2 tsp Worcester sauce (vegans/vegetarians, use Pickapeppa sauce instead)
• 1/2 tsp prepared horseradish
• 1/2 tsp chipotle hot sauce, or more to taste
• 1/2 tsp brine from a jar of deli jalapenos
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• ice
  1. Fill a highball glass roughly halfway with ice.
  2. Combine the remaining ingredients and pour into the glass.
  3. Garnish with whatever you want—celery, bell pepper slices, bacon, a flame turret…get creative, you’re an engineer!

ZEALOT’S FLAME (guardian)

• 1 1/2 oz blue curacao
• 1 1/2 oz Absolut Wild Tea vodka
• ice
• Everclear
  1. Combine blue curacao and vodka in a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a martini glass.
  2. Float a small splash of Everclear on top.
  3. Set the Everclear on fire right before serving (safety tips), but blow it out carefully before you drink it. Do not set yourself alight. (Also, please do not throw your Zealot’s Flame at a targeted foe.)

DISTORTION (mesmer)

• 4 oz pink lemonade
• 4 oz Hpnotiq Harmonie
• 1.5 oz whipped cream vodka
• clean, organic violets or violas (make sure you get ones that are specifically labeled as edible!)
  1. 8 hours or so before you make the drink, use 2 oz of the pink lemonade to half-fill a few compartments of an ice cube tray. (You can use shaped ice cube molds if you want—hearts, flowers, anything thematically appropriate.) Drop a few violets in each one and put the tray in the freezer.
  2. Once they’re frozen, fill the compartments the rest of the way with the remaining 2 oz of lemonade and freeze again.
  3. When the ice cubes are done, put them in a pretty wine glass, add the Hpnotiq and vodka, and stir.
  4. For the full effect, drink it slowly; as the ice cubes melt, they’ll make the flavor increasingly tart and release the butterfly-like violets.

Note: I’ve made outlines for all the ones I haven’t provided recipes for, but I haven’t made them yet. I have a limited alcohol budget so it may take a while before I can post all of them, but I’ll update the thread when I do.

EXPERIMENTAL OOZE BOOZE (asura)

• 2 oz ice
• 2 oz crushed pineapple with juice
• 2 oz coconut rum
• 3 oz blue curacao
• 1 tsp grenadine
  1. Blend the ice cubes and pineapple until slushy.
  2. Add the rum and curacao and blend thoroughly.
  3. Pour into a laboratory flask, then add the grenadine and stir lightly to create a mottled blue-and-purple effect.

GLADIATOR SWILL (charr)

• 1.5 Tbsp of extremely fine (Turkish ground if possible) dark roast coffee (use decaf unless you want to risk a heart attack)
• 1 c water
• 2 oz whiskey
  Soldier Version: nothing added
  Fahrar Version: milk rations (recipe below)
  1. Pour water into a small saucepan. Add the coffee but don’t stir it in, then put it on the stove, uncovered, at medium-low heat. Keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t come to a rolling boil, or else it will become too bitter.
  2. When the coffee starts to bubble slightly and develop a light foam, remove it from the heat.
  3. Optionally, let the foam dissipate and then put the saucepan back on the stove until the coffee begins bubbling again. This will help the grounds settle.
  4. Pour slowly into a tin cup, trying to keep most of the grounds in the saucepan. Some will inevitably get in the cup and that’s okay; they’ll settle to the bottom as long as you don’t chug it.
  5. Stir in the whiskey and (optional but recommended) milk rations to taste.

Milk Rations (original recipe from here):

• 12 oz canned evaporated milk
• 14 oz canned sweetened condensed milk
  1. Whisk together the contents of both cans until thoroughly combined.
  2. Store in the fridge and use the leftovers for your coffee—I strongly recommend making the iced coffee in that link!

VICTORIA’S RED WINE (human)

• 1 bottle of red wine
• 1 c brandy
• 1 c orange juice
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp lime juice
• 3 Tbsp grenadine (or to taste)
• 1/4-1/2 c each of cubed apple, kiwi, cantaloupe, and orange (plus some orange slices for garnish)
  1. Combine all ingredients and leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours, but preferably overnight.
  2. Ladle into wine glasses filled with ice to serve.

CELEBRATORY BEER (norn)

• 12 oz beer
• 1 Tbsp salted butter
• 1 1/2 Tbsp molasses
• 1/8 tsp cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp ginger
• 1/8 tsp cloves
• a pinch of nutmeg
  1. Heat the butter in a saucepan until it’s light brown, then add the molasses and spices. Stir and continue heating until it bubbles.
  2. Add the beer, stir some more, and continue heating it until it’s hot but not boiling.
  3. Pour into a stein. You might be able to make it foam if you pour it from high up, but you also might pour it all over your kitchen counter. (Guess which result I got!) If you think it’s worth the risk, give it a shot.

AUTUMN NECTAR (sylvari)

• 1/3 c chilled dry champagne
• 1/3 c chilled pear nectar
• 1/2 oz lemon juice
• 1/2 oz elderflower liqueur
• a few clean, organic edible flowers for garnish (I recommend cucumbery borage or spicy nasturtium; make sure they’re food-grade!)
  1. Pour the champagne into a champagne flute.
  2. Add the remaining ingredients, stir, and drop in the flowers.

Glad you guys are interested in this.

I have all the race and profession drinks outlined but so far I’ve only tested 7/13 (elementalist, mesmer, ranger, warrior, sylvari, norn, and charr), so they’re the only ones I can vouch for. And…well, I really like them, but I think some of them might be a bit of an acquired taste—for example, the norn drink includes hot beer, which was once a common way of serving it but most people nowadays seem to think the idea is really gross, and the charr drink includes a Turkish/cowboy coffee hybrid which is very strong and kind of gritty.

I feel like I should put them all in one thread, though. Don’t want to spam the forum.

Before I get started, is it okay to post alcoholic recipes here? I looked through the rules and it seemed okay, but if it’s not then I’ll remove the alcoholic version.

So I’ve been making “fan drinks” for a while (my version of fan art) and I knew I had to try my hand at sparkling effervescence as soon as I heard about it. Here’s what I came up with:

• 24 oz ginger ale
• 1 c orange juice
• 1 c peach schnapps (substitute with peach nectar for a non-alcoholic version)
• 1/2 c vodka (optional)
• simple syrup
• lots and lots of Pop Rocks (any flavor would work, but blue ones look best)

1. Put the syrup in a saucer or shallow bowl. Twist the rims of your glasses in it, then pour handfuls of Pop Rocks over the rims until they’re all coated. Beware of flying Pop Rocks! If any get inside the glasses, dump them out.
2. Mix everything else up in a large bowl and ladle it into glasses to serve.

I’ve also created drinks for the races and professions, if anyone is interested in those.

Edit: I should mention my reasoning behind everything.

First, it’s obviously supposed to be carbonated. Hence the ginger ale, which I chose because it gives the impression of rare spices from distant shores. I also added some bonus effervescence—and crystals!—in the form of Pop Rocks.

And second, we read in game that it’s supposed to be a blend of fruit juices and you can see in the bowl that it’s a pale peachy-orange. The Zephyrites recently came back from Cantha so I think orange and peach work well. They also blend nicely with the ginger.

What if she wants to plant some kind of seed on that intersection of powerful leylines? Maybe the Tower of Nightmares was a prototype?

The tengu don’t have to all be in agreement on whether or not to join us.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority choose to side with us at the end of the story and the rest go off to become the enemy faction that every playable race has.

Calling it now, E is Marcello Di Giacomo.

He’s probably the kind of person who would think that “Mr. E” is a good alias…

MRA.4758:

I don’t think someone needs to die, and I don’t think someone should die (seriously, grow up, folkz), but we already know that someone WILL die since this has already been revealed by Angel McCoy during the year one anniversary bash panel.

She did mention Scarlet in that list before she talked about “character deaths,” so that could be all she meant. Because Scarlet is almost certainly going to die at the end of this story. Anything else would feel unsatisfying.

Andele.1306:

You know, this just points out that tyria is actually more homophobic than the real world (where across almost all animal species around 15% are openly bisexual to homosexual), which is really weird since no gods or laws seem to exist about that… except maybe in the eternal alchemy because of kinda obvious reproductive limits, would turn it taboo. Ofc without counting sylvari since … well plants.

Still sadly less homophobic than 99% of other fictional worlds.

But I think it’s just a matter of time. ANet seems pretty well on the side of inclusivity, which is one of the things that makes me love GW2 so much.

Serval.6458:

Visteri.3821:

Fronis and his mate

Fronis is female, and so was her mate (before she was killed by flame legion.)

Good to know. I used the wiki for this and they didn’t have a picture of her.

Okay, I’ve added Mad King Thorn’s remaining 6 wives and also 3 more same-sex relationships I found out about through Google. That still leaves us at 6% of non-sylvari relationships, still nowhere near a disproportionate amount, none of which you have to hear about in game. If it offends you to your very soul, you can always run away when Marjory and Kasmeer talk about dating and it won’t affect the plot at all. It’s harder to run away from a cutscene, which I why I labeled those relationships “1.”

Meanwhile, the people who enjoy feeling like they’re finally no longer being treated as completely nonexistent in their entertainment media will continue doing that.

Nike.2631:

I think you left out Mad king Thorn and something like 5 wives .

Nah, I got him. But I decided to use his real name, Oswald, for…reasons I guess.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

I dunno… we never see grawl even remotely close to a jungle in-game.

We also haven’t seen a jungle quite like this one yet. It looks pretty different from the current Maguuma areas.

Ben.2685:

We can conclude that since the promotion of such relationships is so common within the game, there must be a purpose. It doesn’t reflect the demographics of reality, so it can’t be to appeal to the player.

Okay.

In real life, usual estimates say that about 10% of the population is gay (supposedly about 20% say they’re “not straight,” but let’s be generous and keep it at the minimum number), and I think it’s safe to assume that that percentage would be the same in Tyria. However, the sylvari as a species are not capable of reproduction and view gender as irrelevant when it comes to love, therefore it would make sense if roughly 50% of sylvari pairings were gay.

So let’s make a list of every couple ever mentioned in GW2, as long as we are sure of their genders, and see if those numbers match up. Married or divorced, alive or dead, requited or unrequited (crushes and flirting count too)…all of them are here. At least, all I could find in my research.

The ones marked 1 on the list had their romances mentioned in one or more full cutscenes, the ones marked 2 were mentioned elsewhere in the living or personal story, the ones marked 3 were mentioned in events and hearts, and the ones marked 4 were mentioned in flavor text, NPC chatter out in the world, optional NPC conversations, or out-of-game writings (short stories, etc.).

Sylvari same-sex pairings:
1. Caithe and Faolain
Dagdar and Eladus
3. Cymbel and Nia (Nia says they’re friends, but it seems like they have stronger feelings than that)
4. Roardina and one of the festival-goers

Sylvari hetero pairings:
1. Morrigu and Leurent
Tiachren and Ysvelta
Gairwen and Evart
4. Variella and Hanar
Lintoina and Garrett
Leanuit and Santach
Erisdae and her partner
A citizen and his love in Ronan’s Bower
Two sylvari citizens in the Garden of Night

Non-sylvari same-sex pairings:
2. Marjory and Kasmeer
3. Linnea and a female player character
4. Fronis and her mate
Saldis and her girlfriend
Wjerd and Fibharr
Exiffa and her partner

Non-sylvari hetero pairings:
1. Jennah and Logan
Kazz and Doxa
Tonn and Ceera
Ralena and Vassar
Snarl and Galina
2. Eir and Borje
Braham and Ottilia
Ottilia and Ebbe
Rox and Nonus
Peneloopee and Bloomanoo
Merri and Fel
Lyrica and Ewan
Lyrica and Oswald
Oswald and Zola
Oswald and Henrietta
Oswald and Estrella
Oswald and 4 other women
Fenn and Maisie
Rufus and his wife
Faren and Jasmina
Minister and Lady Wi
Deborah and Beirne
Elli and Zott
Senna and her partner
Caudecus and his wife
Doern and his wife
Forgal and his wife
Citizen that Faren hits on and her husband
Bartender in “Desperate Medicine” and his wife
Uptown Johnny and a female player character
3. Dwayna and Malchor
Cassie and Mepi
Wrelk and Broga
Jaden and Aaron
Remi and Trundle
Famke and Wjerd (unconfirmed)
Pier and Esmet
Levvi and Blingg
Harlow and Dotta
Kalle and Aldis
Eda and her husband
Myr and her husband
Kimber and her husband
Webb and his wife
Gareth and his wife
Traveling noble and her husband
Kevach and a female player character
Linnea and a male player character
4. Eir and Krennak (his dialogue suggests they had something)
Yngvi and Brynhildr
Aggren and Marcela
Gwen and Keiran
Althea and Rurik
Via and Feros
Knut and Gaerta
Bandito and Seraphette
Lord and Lady Marduke
Nellie and Caden
Dugh and Amaybel
Jorge and Bethsha
Diah and Jeb
Russ and Cicely
Welkin and Alicia
Gunther and Ine
Cobiah and Isaye
Tessa and Logan
Citizen in Rurikton and Tessa
Weyandt and at least 4 of the 12-ish people he married, if not all of them
Eliza and her husband
Arlo and his wife
Kol and his “woman”
Lyasa and her husband
Watchful Moon and his wife
Vollym and his wife
Dessa and her boyfriend
Brother-in-law of the citizen in District Promenade and his wife
Citizen who talks to the Priest of Lyssa in DR and the woman he loves
Noble in Ossan Quarter and his wife
Enthusiastically married couple in Ascalon Settlement
Refugee steadholder and her mate (unknown gender but they had children)
Guard formerly of Blue Ice Shining and his/her mate (unknown genders but they had children)
Everyone’s parents

That makes 31% of sylvari relationships and 6% of non-sylvari relationships. So.

Nike.2631:

Actually, I kind of like it. We’ve seen a number of Charr who, while not making it their top priority, are still aware of family ties. She does seem to be reaching awfully high if she just wants to lose the stigma of being a gladium…

Yeah, I don’t really see what’s lore-breaking about it. I mean, the charr personal story deals with your character’s relationship with his/her father and how it affects your own standing among the charr.

Not sure why everyone in this thread jumped onboard with calling it “fanfic.” Seems pretty weird.

DarcShriek.5829:

Why would the person that owned the object, throw it away? It makes no sense.

According to Sea of Sorrows, she doesn’t have it anymore.

Considering all the focus on Lion’s Arch, the semi-recent release of the Sea of Sorrows book, and Ree’s coy answers to certain questions, how likely do you all think it is that (Sea of Sorrows spoilers)Livia will make an appearance?

Maybe the thing Scarlet’s probe found under Lion’s Arch is actually (maybe this is a spoiler too)the Scepter of Orr?

According to the wiki: “Both male and female Asuras often have two of the same letter in a row somewhere in their name, this being a cultural norm, but it is certainly not required”

Like how most Spanish female names end with -a but not all of them do (Beatriz, etc).

So I just had a thought. It’s a little off topic, but it kind of ties into my last post here about remaking the personal story.

What if they’re planning on destroying Orr?

I’m pretty sure that Lion’s Arch isn’t Scarlet’s ultimate goal, since it seems likely that we’ll be getting the LA attack (if that really is what she’s planning) in the next update and then something else in the final update. So if the whole thing really does revolve around Zhaitan, maybe his second rise will dramatically change the appearance Orr.

It’s not a well-liked region, and they’ve said they can’t use phasing to show a restored Orr to players who have completed the personal story. But maybe they’ve found a way, and it has something to do with reworking the entire area? I can’t for the life of me figure out how they’d be able to pull it off, what with the events and Risen mobs everywhere, but…maybe?

I shouldn’t get my hopes up, but I can dream!

On the other hand, if they are planning to make Zhaitan rise again in order to make a better Zhaitan 2.0 fight, the personal story for newly created characters might change as well. It could become about the second time Zhaitan was killed. That would free them up to do whatever they want with the world.

However, that idea brings a number of problems with it, first in that the part of the story that deals with the Pact would have to change significantly. We can’t have the Pact being canonically founded twice. (Though if they managed to find something better to do with Trahearne…)

Second, I’m sure a lot of players would be mad about it. Newer players because they’re part of the second group instead of the first, meaning they’d feel less important, and older players because they had to go through a less fun version of the story and now the noobs get everything handed to them on a silver platter whine whine. But there’s nothing stopping them from making it playable for older characters as well.

Still, this would also take a massive amount of work and probably wouldn’t even be worth the time and money. Better to direct their focus toward making fun new content.

I guess we’ll have to see.

I would super love it if whatever Scarlet saw is the same “evil” that we’re fighting in the Mist War. It’s plausible, if the Dream is a part of the Mists and the Nightmare is corrupting it. Maybe it’s the same thing that’s allowing the Sons of Svanir into the Mists; maybe all the dragons are establishing a foothold there.

Fighting in the Mists always seemed like such a waste of time to me if we have dragons to be killing, but it would be fantastic if there’s an actual lore reason for it.

They could easily destroy the western side of the city up to the trading post without affecting the usability of the city or the personal story too much. This could have the added bonus of blasting open the wall to the Dominion of Winds…

What if the sylvari were dragon minions at one point but were purified a very long time ago, back during the previous cycle.

Maybe someone, probably the Forgotten, managed to purify one of Mordremoth’s champions in order to use it as an anti-dragon soldier factory. The sylvari are perfect for it, since they’re born fully grown and ready to fight, there’s more or less an infinite supply of them, and they can’t be corrupted which means they can’t turn around and fight for the dragons.

Their incorruptibility might be the result of the Dream, which could be something the Forgotten or someone else attached to the sylvari. I think even they probably didn’t completely understand what it was. I don’t know if the Soundless can be corrupted, since there aren’t that many of them as far as we know, and anyway they can’t completely disconnect themselves from the Dream. They just make it quieter.

When Glint saved the other five races from the dragons, the sylvari weren’t saved with them. Maybe that was because they were considered little more than leafy golems and so not worth saving, or maybe because something went wrong with them—possibly the Nightmare. Regardless, someone saved a few seeds anyway and then put them in a hidden cave where Ronan found them thousands of years later.