Guild Wars 2

While I’d love to make a chopped salad, I doubt it’d happen. The Pale Tree/Dream helps protect sylvari from corruption, and as a firstborn, Trahearne would probably get extra protection from mama.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

The flat voice acting has been fixed/redone.

As someone who recently finished the story on another character, I can say that the voice acting has not been fixed. It’s still just as dull, unemotional, and condescending. Some phrases do have more inflection with the voice, but they still lack the emotion. Though even with fixing his voice issues, I doubt anything could be done to repair his public image.

kirima san.3760:

What really bothers me are the location of the elder dragons.
They are all very close to eachother, and none is neither in Cantha nor in Elona. They are in Depths of Tyria, Far Shiverpeaks, Ruins of Orr, Dragonbrand, Heart of Maguuma and the last one at a random spot in the ocean. The world is so large but all of them are so close? Really?

Knowing this and knowing that GW2 is all about killing dragons really gives me a feeling we will never see Elona and Cantha again in any future expansion. Silly.

With Kralkatorrik in the Crystal Desert, Elona could potentially come back. Cantha would be harder to reincorporate with solely dragons in mind, but if it were, I’d imagine the deep sea dragon would be involved.

(Potential Spoilers)
The whole Trahearne taking credit thing isn’t necessarily him taking the credit himself. It’s him receiving credit from other NPC dialogue or writing that he doesn’t deserve. Like in The Source of Orr. As everyone who’s done it knows, Trahearne contributes very little to the fight against the Eye of Zhaitain, being little more than a distraction. But then when YOU kill it, it’s all “Your sword! Why does it gleam so brightly? Ahhhhh!” He does nothing in this fight, but he’s essentially credited with killing the thing and releasing the king’s spirit.

Not really an example of him stealing credit, but just him thinking himself so great, he does some things that made me dislike him more. With the “Dishonored by allies” storyline, you get constantly assaulted by illusions that looks like enemies but are really allies, all to make you look bad. Then when you go take to Trahearne in Marshaling the Truth, he’s says, “You’ve been the primary focus of these attacks so far, but it’s clear that I am the real target.”
That response comes across as slightly egocentric, especially with the voice acting.

One part that makes me dislike him as well is more of his mechanics and not character, but still. He doesn’t help in fights and has poor pathfinding. In Against the Corruption, you’re supposed to escort him to the Royal Tombs. But does he follow you? Nope. He leads the way, or doesn’t move at all until you get behind him. Or in Early Parole (OoW) when you rescue Benn Tenstrikes. Beetletun is full of guards, and Trahearne says, “I’ll stay with Tenstrikes. You move ahead. Signal us when the coast is clear.”
Can you signal him? No. He follows right behind you and usually gets a guard’s attention.

There’s also the issue where despite not really caring for him, our characters are made to like him. We have to be his friend.

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He pops up out of nowhere and replaces your order mentor, who are some of the most likable characters in the game. Unless you’re a sylvari, you have no idea who he is and just hear everybody talking about how great he is, and then suddenly your mentor is gone and you have this stranger. Also, his voice acting comes across as sounding condescending and unemotional, the opposite as an inspiring leader should sound.

There’s also the issue of the players doing the work, yet he gets the praise and sometimes takes credit for some of the things we do. The main example that sticks out for me is when Trahearne is talking about what to name the fort.
Player: “We are three groups, coming together as one. How about Fort Trinity?”
Later, Trahearne is all " I’ll begin preparing our new headquarters at the Terzetto site, which I have code-named Fort Trinity." No mention that he wasn’t the one who came up with the name.

Some people also feel like the personal story at times is more like Trahearne’s story, namely with A Light in the Darkness.

Oh, and “Clawr” Island.