#lws3

[clemmykins]

This one spot in Bitterfrost Frontier... so pinkish yellow..

[brightwingedbat]

I gotta bring up a thing from LWS3 on GW2 with the Bloodstone Explosion

"That blast would've hit Lion's Arch."

Yeah it would've fucking wiped out a good half of Central Tyria, Almorra.

[sylvaridreams]

can i have stuff.

[konig-varorson]

Fun Lore Fact: On Mursaat genders

With Secrets of the Obscure opening the possibility of us meeting more mursaat, and female mursaat at that, I want to point out a little noticeable fun fact about mursaat in Guild Wars 1.

While there is only one model used for all mursaat, thus leading one to think we only see male mursaat, based on the names of the various bosses it can be concluded that we do see female mursaat as well.

For example:

Willa the Unpleasant

Willem the Demeaning

Male and female form of the same name. Willa and Willem. There are other feminine names seen too, of course. Such as Aily the Innocent and Mercia the Smug.

So what does this mean?

This means mursaat have no notable sexual dimorphism from their models, particularly of note being their chest. Their females' chests look just like their males' chests. This is a female mursaat:

And it is also a male mursaat.

This is NOT accurate female mursaat clothing:

But adapted for the sake of humans and norn to wear (and sylvari just use this because humans and norn get weird seeing nude sylvari).

Let's see if ArenaNet keeps to this idea. #FreeMursaatNonBoobies!

[the-six-official]

i cant believe people dont like livia... the shining blade thing was whatever to me but the banter between her and the commander is SO funny

[redcanoli]

I finally finished the first chapter of Living World S3, and I hate Bloodstone Fen SO MUCH, the amount of constant aggro makes it impossible to explore and I had to listen to Caithe flirt with my boyfriend because he was in control of the instances. Ridiculous.

[soulbeastdragon]

Oh boy, time to re-play LWS3!

[wyldblunt]

little guide i whipped up for our clashing timelines (probably terrible 2 read on desktop if u don't open it in another tab, sorry lol!!)

[jollycryptid]

what if we were both deeply alienated from our people by the horrors we experienced and left forever changed, but grew closer while co-parenting a child.. and we were both lesbians?

[averagebreadslice]

Made a quick doodle of Braham giving Cinalu a hug during Dragon Bash

[praise-joko]

My activity has been a bit sporadic here the past few days because I've been grinding out this baby.

[clemmykins]

can you tell i like ansel adams and bitterfrost frontier no way couldn't be me

[just-eyris-things]

....she?

[sylvaridreams]

WHAT THE FUCK IS HIS PROBLEM

[brightwingedbat]

You hear wild screeching overhead. You look up and see-

[just-norn-things]

Yap away about all of them with 2, 5 and 14!

Ohhhhhhh honey strap yourself in!

Questions from this ask game:

Quick roll call for reference, left to right. Kara: Pact Commander, Soulbeast. Torvi: Warmaster, Scrapper. Aaria: Vindicator, typically Alliance stance, but Jormag often pops in for a chat.

2. How do they feel about norn society's expectations and traditions? Are they comfortable in norn society? Is there anything they wish was different?

Kara is the Norniest Norn who ever Norned, at least until around halfway through POF. Everything is about the legend, nothing is more important, and leaving a legacy is all that matters. Almorra teaches her the selfishness of this way of thinking early on in the PS, but it's only after The Incident that it really hits home for her. She comes back from the Domain of the Lost feeling like the things you do are far more important than being recognised for the things you do. Additionally, when she later has children, she hopes her generation brings in more of a balance of being there for your kids and building a legend, instead of letting others raise them while you get famous. Torvi is very comfortable in Norn society, but she does prefer the company of Charr in general. As an engineer, she feels like her ingenuity is more celebrated amongst those who value the machinery she is so good at fixing, and she is well suited to the Warband lifestyle. Whilst she's not really accepted in the Black Citadel, the Gear Warband thinks of her as one of their own. Aaria typically leads a nomadic lifestyle, but is comfortable among her peers when she returns home. However, she tends to converse openly with the Spirits inside her mind, and others aren't comfortable around her for this reason. She's not a shaman, and not often talking to one of the Spirits of the Wild, so the other Norn tend to give "the woman who talks to herself a lot" a wide berth.

5. Which Spirit of the Wild do they have a connection to? How was the connection forged? How does their Spirit influence them? What do they think of their Spirit? Do they revere any other Spirit?

All three have a connection to Jormag, as all three survived being abandoned at a shrine to Dragon as babies, which caused them to be exposed to Jormag's lingering magic. However, they all deal with this very differently, and were all raised amongst Norn who encouraged them to bond with the other Spirits instead. Until Jormag wakes during LWS3, none of them believed the connection was real at all. Kara is a staunch follower of Wolf, much like her adoptive parents. She lives and breathes Wolf's teachings all her life, even when her connection to Jormag becomes apparent. Wolf gifts her with the ability to become the Wolf when she is 14, just before the start of her PS. Torvi was raised as a ward of the Bear Lodge and reveres Bear in general for their strength. However, she has little connection to the Spirit, and cannot become the Bear. As a revenant, Aaria has a connection to many Spirits, and not just Spirits of the Wild. Because of this, she has little attachment to any of them. If you put a gun to her head and forced her to choose then she would choose Raven, and Raven does often speak to her, however when Jormag is active they tend to completely drown out any other Spirits in her mind. That said, she is fairly nonchalant about this. Another voice in her head is hardly new, and whilst she has no interest in doing the bidding of the ice dragon, they are a decent conversationalist.

14. Do they have any heirlooms? Are there legends behind them or do they only have sentimental value? Or did they earn/find someone else's?

Kara isn't really one for sentimentality, however when Braham gifts her Eir's hairpin in the latter part of LWS4, she does get a rather foreign fuzzy feeling in her chest. Still, she makes him swear to take it back once his hair grows out, because Eir's stuff should be his, no matter how much Kara loved her too. "Yeah yeah, I'll take it back tomorrow." (he never does) Torvi is very attached to an old hunting knife that Forgal gave her when she joined the Vigil, since she broke hers. These days it's brittle and largely useless, but she keeps it in the best condition possible and never uses it, despite it being on her at all times. Aaria wields a hammer rumoured to have belonged to King Jalis. She is highly protective of this and will consider no other weapon, no matter how unsuitable the hammer may be in the moment. Any suggestion that the hammer is merely a replica is met with...well...the hammer.