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To hopefully start of strong,.guild wars community:

What is your favorite NON playable faction?

For example: the jade brotherhood, the inquest

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𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫

Prob my favorite of the Titans. This work was fun. Lately I've been experimenting with a more... simplistic artstyle. Less is more. It's tricky to pull it off sometimes. But really fun anyways! Sponsored by ArenaNet!

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i miss roleplay in this game... :(

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i try to make most of my asura talk 'asuran' which means using things like 'alchemy' in place of swears, but i have one idiot who's ex-consortium and was raised on southsun with humans and so i think about this every time i have him drop an F bomb

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i need to take better screens later but i finessed gunner's look a bit and im obsessed ... he's like a new guy

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Guild Wars 2 usually has a super fun story if you dont have some annoying person hovering over you telling you it sucks

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i try to make most of my asura talk 'asuran' which means using things like 'alchemy' in place of swears, but i have one idiot who's ex-consortium and was raised on southsun with humans and so i think about this every time i have him drop an F bomb

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im sure itll never come up again but i really wish they would ever touch upon/mention it/its king mists entity razah from gw1...

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desperately need them to add new sexy rat guys with VoE. i think everyone including myself has corn plate’d the current ones though. we need fresh meat

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BELATED asura appreciation week #2 (i am slowly working my way thru these ok i spent most of my day at a ren faire) - "Do you have an Inquest OC? How did they end up in the Inquest?"

oh boy. i have a LOT of inquest characters actually! but here's these two because they're my main two, and also because i actually had an old wip i could finish up for this lmao

gunner graduated from synergetics, with a focus in mists research. his theses and projects hinged largely around the insights he gained while in the mists, but for obvious reasons he did not disclose his experiences or the fact he's a rata novan, and as a result a lot of his research ended up getting brushed up as unfounded and unhinged, which made him very bitter. he desperately needed the funding money for his huge ambitions of trying to rip open the mists (and find his dad), so he ended up getting into the inquest, and his ahead-of-its-time style theories combined with his determination made him quickly climb to overseer rank

plex also sort of entered the inquest for dad-related reasons, with his dad having been (being?) an inquest scientist who has been missing for awhile. he hopes to eventually find out why, but... on top of that im gonna be honest plex is also just kind of a gullible nervous loser who falls too easily for men in positions of authority and is a stickler for Rules And Regulations and has been sucked into this huge pyramid scheme so. he was just plain assigned evil minion at birth.

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dumping my silly little inquest biotechnics divison related doodlings/Book Redraws?? here before i have to move and potentially lose access to my computer lmao. they dont make sense to anyone but me and sasha but its fine im jettisoning them out onto the internet anyway

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hmmmmmmmmmm who are these familiar-looking losers..

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actually putting a holographic guard over your chest window makes your armor compliant with inquest enforcer armory codes. dont worry about it. its fine. just dont sweat it man.

bonus variations under the cut

natural hair color

enforcer barbie <:)

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other ppl making gw2 oc writing/fan lore: this is what my cast of characters did during the events of soto :D

me doing this shit: ive put a fair amount of thought into asuran vehicles and city infrastructure for the explicit purpose of inventing the equivalent of a trailer park in metrica province so that some of my ocs can be neighbors in it

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if you dont play revenant you might not know that revenants have dialogue lines where their own invoked legends (shiro, kalla, etc) talk to them and the revenant responds back, and these happen like CONSTANTLY-- it gets mildly disruptive sometimes when it plays over story voice acting or such, but that aside

i love thinking about this in a world lore context. like, shiro is talking to me in my head, right? is my revenant just standing in a crowd in lions arch and abruptly screaming "DO YOUR WORST! I AM IMPERVIOUS!" at nothing in particular, in front of onlookers? does he ever just suddenly make a Face and then go "sorry, glint was making those weird grunts again"?? i enjoy the thought.

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other people RPing their inquest: oooughh aughh arghhh my life is so saaaad im a half robot angel who was born in a tube:( i have to kill people or ill explode

me rping my inquest: omggggg lets all go to a trade show where they sell us weapons of mass destruction..

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really hoping voe's plot will be decent............. i. kind of wish we got a wholly asura dedicated xpac so we also got non-inquest asura lore, and i wish that the different plotlines from a bug in the system would be followed up on. i'm both excited for more inquest stuff and also kind of exhausted on how the inquest seems to be doled out when anet needs a mad science ex machina villain, but then the narrative usually leaves them as the 'red herring' and focuses on some other big bad.

i have a fear 😬 that this is going to happen again, and the focus of the xpac is going to be whatever nebulous 'ley energy: 2' force that isgarren was warning about. well. at least this xpac will presumably give me new hair and some asuran homestead decor 👍