1) Read the short story. It doesn’t matter that it wasn’t in the game. Fact is, they gave the character depth. Oh sure, complain that its not in the game!
actually it does matter, relying on sources that aren’t in-game is a terrible way to tell a story. So far we have information about Scarlet scattered amongst the game, short stories, interviews with writers, and random posts on these forums… and you’re saying it doesn’t matter. Not everyone knows about them and even still it doesn’t give the character depth instead that created a MarySue type villain which is worse.
2) Your telling me that a seemingly normal area in the game, suddenly gets an illusion in the middle of a lake and all the trees are cut down around it, then the tower gets revealed and there’s toxic spores everywhere, to you assaulting your way to the top of the tower then killing the Krait’s prophet god, isn’t a developing story?
That’s exactly what I’m saying. Its because the story is on a cycle, its an repetitive recipe. Step 1 – Scarlet creates an alliance, Step 2 – we foil her plans, Step 3 – she teleports away, Step 4 – go to Step 1.
Why is no one angry that the Char are working together with humans? They should still be killing each other. Oh wait, that’s right. Time is supposed to change things. a coupld hundred years and elder dragons changed those two races to where they were working together.
So did 250 years pass from the previous patch to this one? No one knows how difficult the process was for the Char and humans to create an alliance. Even now there is the resistance so everything is not all perfect like you may suggest. The Krait have been always the most violent xenophobic race since GW2 was released, this alliance with the Nightmare court hasn’t developed over 250yrs like the Char/Human alliance has.
Here’s the oher problem Thobek. You, and dozens of other people on the forums complain about the Character’s apparent lack of depth, the lack of story development, the lack of questions answered, and the lack of motive, but you don’t offer up any specific examples.
There is plenty of posts on these forums about why Scarlet is a terrible villain. Go read them. Its not like the forums are full of just “I hate scarlet” everyone has their reasons, and there are a lot of them.
But for me personally – I can’t stand her because here is a villain that has suddenly popped up yet she was the only non Asuran to be allowed into the colleges, and trained in them all, she then went on to train with masters of various fields and we have never heard of her before her first introduction at the Jubilee. Not one whisper or mention of her until now, absolutely nothing for someone so accomplished. So that shows poor planning.
Second, her personality. Her childish dialogue and crazy ramblings for someone who is a supposed genius doesn’t match up. People have been speculating why she talks like this, Bobby says there is a reason but won’t say what it is, and he only mentions this in a random forum post. So to the multitudes of others that didn’t stumble across that random post its a contradiction and does not make any sense.
Third is the pacing of the story, and the amount of relevant, story developing information that is given. Its very little. What is Scarlets motive behind all of this, its 6 months in and we still don’t know. She knows Caithe secret – what is it? She has managed to form alliances – how? She managed to build a massive Aetherblade base on the borders of Lions Arch?! how did no one notice this? where did she get the resources? where did she recruit the countless pirates from three main races? How are steamcreatures connected with Scarlet? Was she actually behind the Molten Alliance or was she just taking credit for it (there is no evidence it was actually her)? If it was her how did she convince two groups that dislike each other to work together? what were they promised? Were they even promised anything or were they threaten? who knows?! How is scarlet able to grow red thorns from her body? Where does she keep teleporting to after each patch? Where is she creating this clockwork army? Who is creating it? the pirates?
Bottom line is an annoying, childish, supposed genius sylvari has turned up undeterred and not bothered that all her invasions have failed just teleports safely away at the end of each patch after a pointless monologue where she talks about “fancy panties” with no new information given to develop the story. I feel like this cycle could possibly go on forever if they wanted. No progress is being made. The only thing they are running out of is new alliances to form.
