Guild Wars 2

This is tonight! Really looking forward to this; I have my songlist prepared :p

Really looking forward to this one!

I heard the Iron Legion is working on a space program. They call it the Charrship Enterpride.

The Druids/treants and other humanoid mobile plants are excellent points, I had forgotten about those. And you are right that the passage is more fitting as an explanation for Druids. I would still argue however that the Sylvari are more like Humans than other sentient plants, as they are actively engaged in current affairs and generally more open to other races (I also think their physiology resembles Humans more than these other examples’, but that might be personal).

This ties in with my opinion that, from an in-universe Human point of view, the idolization of Sylvari is not in the least shallow. Quite the opposite: I think the complete acceptance of Sylvari spirituality is far more shallow. The Sylvari have only been around for a very short period, and it is likely a large number of people can still recall a time when they weren’t around, even with the staggering rate they have been (re?)producing. During the first encounters with Sylvari, the Humans must have been confused as to the nature of these “things”, and would have tried to incorporate them into what they already knew of the world (in which the Gods still play a role), rather than throw away their beliefs and accept what the Sylvari tell them. Especially since this spirituality is so different from Human thought, I consider it far more likely Humans would turn to their deities to explain how all this came to be.

“From their limbs sprouted branches, and the blood in their veins was the sap of trees. Then was Ewan and his tribe converted, and became they stewards of nature.”

The previous comes from the Scriptures of Melandru, as found on the official Wiki. To me, this sounds a lot like the Sylvari: It’s a small step from Humans transformed into trees to humanoid trees or plants, the differences simple being attributed to the fact that the Scriptures are ancient (written in 48 BE, so almost fourteen centuries before present-day Tyria) and probably partially metaphorical. What surprises me is how there is, to my knowledge, no mentioning of this in the game itself. While there is a human preacher in Hoelbrak trying to convert Norn, I have never encountered a “Cultist of Ewan,” despite the Sylvari only being in existence for less than 25 years. I would expect at least some priests or devout followers of Melandru to know this passage, and starting to worship these Tree-children as being sent by Melandru herself. Is there perhaps any explanation in the lore why this is not the case, or did the developers simply not think about this possibility?

Same problem here, mini is missing.
Filed bug report in-game.

I tried to get him to glitch back into the normal area… And in the process managed to get my own pet shark to glitch to the other side. He didn’t want to attack the Ancient Shark, unfortunately. Looking forward to the fix!