#SotO Spoilers

[vampiirii]

ramona hair dyeing scenes

[where-is-caithe]

👁👄👁

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

One of the things that Guild Wars 2 really masters, that I don't often see in other setting, is treating species and an individual as two different things. And that no species is truly evil. You can see this in the core game with how only a few factions are made up of one species. Even then, those are usually the 'evil' faction within the species. All others can have Charr, Asura, Norn, humans and Sylvari as random mooks.

Through the Living World story, we also get to see members of the 'bad' factions redeem themselves. Flame Legion is now trying to be better and Gorrik was a former Inquest member. It doesn't even stop at playable species, because by Living World season 4's end, the Awakened are free from Joko and resume their lives with their families. Cue a lot of complaining from people whose parents are now undead and nagging them. Or, with the latest Living World story over, the Kryptis. What at first seemed like mindless horror hordes are actually just people. You get to see these creatures that look like standard baddies try to paint or get nervous over jumping from a diving board. I think this is great, because it goes into the message of unity the game is about. Every species has their arseholes and saints, even those that at first seem evil.

[sylvaridreams]

idk what to tell you man boss TOLD me to do this

[icebrooding]

"You do not possess what it takes to match me on the court, Eparch."

[brightwingedbat]

Throwing out a thought I had on something in SotO and LWS2

What if this tapping into Tyria thing that Wizards do is similar in what Omadd's Machine does?

We described seeing how Tyria is woven when in it, and our allies say we were screaming when in the machine.

Maybe Omadd managed to build a machine that performs the action that Wizards normally do.

[mabaki]

I had this stupid thing in my mind and i got lazy so just have the sketch last LMAOOOOO

Mbk's not the Commander so technically he won't hear Peitha but still LMAO

[writtense]

jokes about Lane being dick sucking height then proceeds to die and scream as the npc I joked at leans over to resurrect Lane

[diesvitae]

"Hush now, Wayfinder..." Had to paint the waifu supreme. Peitha my beloved. Sponsored by ArenaNet

[vampiirii]

☆ wallace wells ☆

[cindermetalheadgw2]

Kinda fucked that the Astral Ward made the kryptis agree to a deal where no kryptis are allowed to enter tyria but they have to let the ward into nayos to keep a constant military watch over them at all times. And then isgarren has the AUDACITY to call the commander naive. I don't even care if next expansion peitha turns out to be the most untrustworthy traitorous villain in all the history of tyria i support her no matter what because fuck the wizards. 🖕 If she turns evil good for her I'll become evil too my loyalty is now to the midnight king 💕

[coollizzylou]

Found something (spoiler under cut)

THIS FUCKERS BEEN SPYING ON US THE WHOLE TIME

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF SIR????

awwww thats actually really sweet.

Bonus:

[grumpy-salad]

Wayfinder.... we are fucking UNDER ATTACK!

[commander-henrietta]

Hm

[guardian-instincts-bad]

start of soto like

[icebrooding]

A brief go-over of 'Eparch's Fear' and 'Eparch's Regret' and how Isgarren played a part in what Eparch ultimately became. This is kinda scattered but I think gets across my thoughts Decently Enough.

Isgarren saved Eparch from collapse after he'd just barely escaped Mordremoth, and lost his brother to him in a highly traumatic event. He'd learned fear for the first real time.

And then he comes to adore Isgarren. Resplendent. Even Mabon thinks the two were amicable enough to be friends.

The Wizard's Tower, a safe place. A peaceful one, unlike Nayos, a land of hostility and danger.

Breathe.

A land where even breathing is harder, difficult, unpleasant.

Isgarren teaches the wayward Kryptis of the world, and Eparch is enamoured with it. But there is a problem...

Eparch is a natural predator. He needs to feed. He cannot push this need aside, it drives him, it is his nature that he cannot deny. But he likes Tyria, what can he do?

Wizards do not need to sate physical need after their ascension.

So what he does is explain. He wants to become a Wizard. To free himself of the hunger. To be able to remain in Tyria without it tearing him apart and causing him to be a threat to it.

And Isgarren rejects him. He is unbalanced, in some fashion. Not fit to be a Wizard. But Waiting Sorrow is, he says to Eparch's face.

But Eparch needs this. He must feed. But it seems he rejects his nature on the ground of loving Tyria. And he cannot feed on Isgarren; there is nothing there to consume. He is empty.

His nature is screaming at him, and he cannot find anything to sate it from Isgarren.

He snaps. He is given no choice but to seek out something, anything, to sate that hunger. And it's been so long, he goes berserk. And in the wake of it, regret. He did not want for this.

And Isgarren sees it, and there is judgement. Judgement as Eparch tries to plea and argue how it all came to this; something he never wanted to come to pass to begin with.

And then he is banished, to a hostile world where surviving is a struggle.

A place he belonged, no longer. Rejection, from the one who saved him, who he looked up to and admired.

And when Isgarren talks to Mabon of his actions?

Perhaps he hoped that Eparch's nature could be 'tamed' as Mabon's was. But he brushed aside Eparch's hunger, until it reached that breaking point. And for Eparch's actions, Isgarren condemned all Kryptis to the same standard. (Thank you for this input elder-dragon!)

And then,

when we are led to believe through Eparch's memory (which I would find more honest) that he expressed his desires to Isgarren.

And Eparch's spider form in the meta? The Consumed King. Consumed by his own hunger.

And sadly, thousands of years later...

Isgarren's rejection of him, simply for the way he was, stuck with him.