Guild Wars 2

iAsuno, Lyriel, Darktapper, I’ll go ahead and add you guys to the wait list, and I’ll pm you when a slot is free!

Facepunch, sure! I’ll put you on a waiting list

Alright, maha, Scrribble, I just need your guys references and I can get started! Remember, it needs to be within the hour or I’ll open up your slot to someone else!

Looking to build up my portfolio and get some practice so I can do commissions. GW related only.

Basically claim a spot by commenting here, and send me references (either PM or in the comments). Since it’s free, it’s first-come-first-served. I’ll re-open slots once I finish others. It might take me a while since I also am working two jobs, but I’ll get them done as quickly as possible!

Note: if you try to claim a spot on this message board and do not send me references within the hour, I will not take up your project.

Slots:
1. Scrribble.7496 [complete]
2. Lilith Ajit.6173 [sketching]
3. maha.7902

Wait List
1. Facepunch.5710
2. iAsuno.9654
3. Lyriel.5721
4. Darktapper.1278

Completed Requests:

Okay, I’m pretty sure Aerin wasn’t actually searching for the master of peace

Master of Peace: “Aerin.”
Aerin: “What? Huh? You’re here!”

It’s like he’s surprised to find the MoP. Plus, when he was talking to himself, he didn’t say “Where is he?” he asked “where is it?”

I’m hoping MoP isn’t the straight-up bad guy, though. It’d be too straightforward, too cliche.

Alright, I see where the other side is coming from now, and I agree that if they’re going to do a change in the lore, they should be under some sort of obligation to explain themselves so that we can understand what’s really going on in the world. I hope that someone explains whether or not we can trust external-game content anymore. I’m sure ANet has realized this plot hole problem and I sincerely hope they come out with an official statement on what can be considered canon and what can’t.

Ahhh I was not around for the Tower of Nightmares. I’m curious if it would have any mobility because being a stationary tree would be a little problematic, as if it was laid siege to, with enough people, people could starve it of resources and wait it out, and it couldn’t escape if it wanted to.

GOOD GRIEF
It seems someone always has something to complain about.

Basically, you took control during S1. You were the one who took all the action, so people just started treating you with more deference, giving you more of the responsibility, and eventually, it just kind of set in everyone’s mind that you were in charge because you knew what you were doing. If you’re in a group of people, and one person is good at making big decisions, you don’t sit and have a formal discussion and say, “Okay, I think Bobby should be the one in charge.” You just do it. You don’t need to know when. It just happens if everyone recognizes the same thing.

seriously do you really care THAT MUCH about a couple lines of dialogue that make a transition into “power” smoother so much that you can write paragraphs upon paragraphs arguing about it?

Sylvari, I’m assuming, can’t interbreed. Or breed, for that matter (and to answer your question; since the Pale Tree seems to have no knowledge of other Pale Trees, I’m gonna assume that yes, it’s self-pollinating)

I would say, seeing the real-life existence of things like wolphins (whale/dolphin) and ligers (lion/tiger) and mules (horse/donkey), you could technically interbreed them, but the offspring would not be able to reproduce due to the mismatch in genetic chromosome layout/numbers (7th grade bio finally being useful whaddup). Maybe charr and asura are a little too genetically different to interbreed, but norn and human, quite possibly. But like I said, they’d probably be sterile.

Boneheart.3561:

Leallax.1482:

Yeah, the Pale Tree has a physical avatar and gains knowledge and communicates with her children through the Dream, over which she has no direct control, and is only somewhat of a guide through it. The Dream itself originates in the Mists, so the Tree is simply a conduit. If your Blood Thorn is really like this, it would learn and communicate primarily through the same sort of Dream. It may not be the same dream as that of the Pale Tree, so the Dreams may not interfere as FlamingFoxx suggests. But the NPC Sylvari that we encounter that has not encountered the dream had no such thing. Therefore he seems to have had no real contact with his own tree, so I doubt that the Blood Thorn would be able to communicate with its children without severely freaking them out. Unless the NPC Sylvari is lying, in which case my comment goes directly out the window.

Being an Elder Dragon servant, do you think the Blood Thorn could “adopt” into her Dream with the power of dragon corruption? I felt like it went without saying in my initial post. Although, Sons of Svanir were only able to invade the Mists because they kept a Spirit Shaman on the brink of death with corrupted ice.

Perhaps, you have a point there. I’m assuming only with sylvari that came directly from Blood Thorn, though, as sylvari from the Pale Tree seem to have no knowledge or connection to the Dream of the Blood Thorn. If you are right and sylvari can be forcibly be corrupted by their mother tree (since even Soundless cannot block out the Dream or the voice of their tree completely), then I guess all sylvari players better watch out and hope the Pale Tree doesn’t get corrupted.

However I’m still on the fence about Pale Tree(s) being champion(s) of Mordy. Perhaps strongly tied, and due to their nature of being plants, of course sylvari are all going to be strongly influenced by him, but how are you supposed to fight a giant tree? Especially one like your Blood Thorn, who, if we’re to trust the words of that foreign Sylvari, doesn’t even have a physical avatar.

Well I just looked it up and the details given about the dates of the secondborns’ awakenings were released like a year before the game actually came out. Soooo if they had decided to tweak that little detail before release, and just failed to mention it, it would clear up a lot of this.

I mean why is there really this much discussion about such a small detail

Yeah, the Pale Tree has a physical avatar and gains knowledge and communicates with her children through the Dream, over which she has no direct control, and is only somewhat of a guide through it. The Dream itself originates in the Mists, so the Tree is simply a conduit. If your Blood Thorn is really like this, it would learn and communicate primarily through the same sort of Dream. It may not be the same dream as that of the Pale Tree, so the Dreams may not interfere as FlamingFoxx suggests. But the NPC Sylvari that we encounter that has not encountered the dream had no such thing. Therefore he seems to have had no real contact with his own tree, so I doubt that the Blood Thorn would be able to communicate with its children without severely freaking them out. Unless the NPC Sylvari is lying, in which case my comment goes directly out the window.

mmm I see your point, but I still feel having an over-arcing story that connects the whole world together is a bit more engaging, and encourages people to delve deeper into the lore. True, they may need some work on their continuity, but I like the fact that they draw in bits from previous seasons, GW1, and so on. It makes the stories a bit more…believable? Detail checking is a must, though, but even with the errors anet has been having, I think it’s a good system they have going.

we don’t know much about him. All we know is that he woke up and seems to have disrupted the homelands of the krait, quaggan and hylek. People will refer to him as “Bubbles” sometimes. But that’s really all we know about him/

Just a thought; I haven’t looked deeply into this theory, so there are probably some flaws.

What if Scarlet was born before the secondborn, as kind of an anomaly, and simply wasn’t acknowledged as part of the first/secondborn because 1) she was born separately from another “group” (ie first/secondborn) or 2) she immediately decided she wanted to cut herself off from the Pale Tree. This way, she could still be born in 1304, and timeline issues aren’t a thing. Just a thought?

Because as far as I can tell, the only dragon we know for sure is put down is Zhaitan (and according to the wiki, he’s actually dead), but other than that, Jormag’s still hanging around, Primordius, Kralkatorrik, and Mr Bubbles, but they’ve just not decided to completely upend Tyria yet? For some reason I was under the impression that they woke up and went to sleep in turn, but there are actually four of them meandering about right now, and presumably Mordremoth is going to pop up soon.

So do they go to sleep voluntarily? Do they have to be forcibly taken down? Do we know?

Also I believe it was theorized that it was the combined powers of the dragons that destroyed the Giants in 10,000 BE, so does this mean they’re all in some sort of alliance to just disrupt everything?

Sooo thoughts and additional commentary would be very welcome here.

Ahhh thanks, I guess I just misread the sentence! Clarification much appreciated!

So I’ve been doing some reading up on the lore, and in the wiki articles about the six human gods, they keep referencing the “truth about the human gods” and “their dealings with the Elder Dragons.” (see http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lore )

As much digging as I do, I can’t seem to find out what it was that the six did with the dragons. Anyone know or have theories (not the one that the six ARE the elder dragons. Read that one already)? I’d like to know