#maguuma jungle

[nerdybookahs]

Caledon Forest in Maguuma Jungle

Caledorn Forest in Maguuma Jungle #GuildWars2

[skaald-of-the-hearth-fires]

First of all YES!! There was SO much urgency. They couldn't wait. Trahearne waited as long as he possibly could for Commander to finish up the egg business before going.

Camp Resolve had been attacked just before this and barely survived, and only did because the Commander was there to throw up a signal flare for help. Nobody else was able to reach it. The Pact and Trahearne and Destiny's Edge was almost finished off BEFORE THE PACT FLEET EVEN LAUNCHED.

Trahearne with his knowledge explained how all dragons have an expansion period: Zhaitan claimed Orr and caused the Great Tsunami, Kralkatorrik created the Dragonbrand, Jormag caused the Dragonstorm and sent the norn south, Primordus took the Depths and sent the asura and skritt to the surface.

Trahearne was desperately trying to take down Mordremoth BEFORE it hit that phase (which happens right after waking up), because it was so close to structured society like asura, humans, etc. in Central Tyria that such a thing would be DEVASTATING.

And we DIDN'T move before that phase - the vines WERE in Ascalon already. Fort Salma was destroyed by vines (killing many, Belinda among others). Fort Concordia in TIMBERLINE FALLS was destroyed (not as thoroughly; fewer people died; but Mordremoth's reach was HUGE). Trahearne was envisioning everything from the Tarnished Coast to the Shiverpeaks being fully and thoroughly covered in the Maguuma Jungle within WEEKS, and every day he waited more people dying, more vines popping up, more corruption advancing. He'd seen Orr. He'd seen the Brand. He knew what devastation awaited.

He was unwise to wait as long as he did for the Commander.

Their flaw wasn't in that they were too hasty. The flaw was that we didn't have the TIME to do anything else. We didn't have the time to get the knowledge that would have helped. It was a lose-lose situation. We just didn't have the knowledge, the tools, or the time to prepare anything decent. There was no way we could have taken on Mordremoth successfully. We had nothing and had no way of getting anything.

Its a miracle that even fragments of the Pact survived. It's a miracle that we actually beat the dragon. As awful as it is to say, what happened - Trahearne's sacrifice and all - was the best thing that could have happened to Tyria, and the odds of it were so shockingly slim that Mordremoth's confidence in our failure wasn't just normal villain arrogance. We literally had maybe 0.1 chance of actually defeating Mordremoth before it took over the rest of Tyria.

And we STILL have no idea how we'd defeat it otherwise without hooking someone (who was strong enough to resist) up to Mordremoth so we could fight its mind and killing them after.

The only thing that would've saved us is if we'd stopped Scarlet before she managed to wake Mordy up - and THEN been able to recognize what she'd been trying to do and taking steps to prepare before Mordremoth woke up on its own.

The other dragons had already had their explosive expansion phase, and yeah it'd devastated norn and asura especially, but at least they'd had somewhere to go. This would have made US - every single playable race - the refugees to Elona, instead of the other way around a year or two later. The other dragons, moreover, could WAIT bc they were moving much more slowly at that point and weren't so close to threatening everything.

Rewatching the end of LS2 and the teaser trailer for HoT and man... I gotta say one thing I really like about Trahearne's writing is how he handled the attack on Mordremoth.

Fighting Zhaitan had us carefully build an alliance of different forces, devise a strategy, take our time and be prepared... but Mordremoth made it personal for the sylvari. Did that make him nervous and that's why he decided to rush an entire fleet into unknown territority without even the glimpse of a plan? Almorra (rightfully) points it out in a later release, Trahearne fucked up big time sending everyone (and ultimately himself) to their death.

And I love that narrative. I love this wise, grounded (though occasionally dorky) figure we've had at our side just making that one fatal mistake out of urgency. (& fear?)

And who knows, ultimately we did come out victorious against the elder dragon, so maybe that was the only right decision after all.

[fleetingmirage]

I tried to draw what I imagine Malyck is looking at in the last post.

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

Flourish AU - Dragonheart Pirkko - Durmond Priory

Champion of the Caustic Elder Dragon

"Lasting change isn't gentle. It's harsh, abrasive, and inescapable. Either we'll adapt or we'll die trying."

"A better world starts with deciding what we're prepared to lose."

[the-blazing-light]

Zemzus, Priory Arcanist, Lion's Arch-raised charr, Necromancer and overall just a big Elder Dragon nerd

[sunsrefuge]

I have to know... it's very important

🕸 for Liifa and Quinn

And 🍴for Phoenix and Qlikk

🕸: How are they reacting to spiderweb on them?

Liifa’s calm about it !! he’s checking to make sure there’s no little hitchhikers on him and then just brushing it off whdjwb If there is, he’s gently returning them to whatever he just accidentally cleared the web off of!

Quinn is STRESSED. a Frenzy. She’s the person who just goes ‘AAGH’ and is swiftly wiping at her arms and Complaining !! she wants a shower now :(

🍴: Weirdest thing they've eaten?

Phoenix… You know that hero point in Orr with the unidentified liquid at the bottom of a river?? That. Absolutely. She also ate the toxic bacon in HoT but I feel like drinking the weird jelly liquid is weirder !!!

Qlikk,, hm!! He’s eaten part of a chak before. :) Thought it’d be fun !! in reality it gave him a tummy ache but it did taste “sparkly” !!

[bigsnaff]

I've said this before on my old old deleted blog somewhere I think, but I personally think that (most) of the in-game renders of the elder dragons are not reflective of their actual sizes.

They're constantly likened to natural disasters in and of themselves. Heaps of old concept art of them depicting them dormant and indiscernible from mountains. Kralkatorrik described as a hurricane. Zhaitan literally shoving an entire nation to the surface of the ocean. You could argue that Mordremoth is technically the size the entirety of the Maguuma Jungle itself.

The in-game renders are considerably scaled back versions of the elder dragons -- both because of the limitations of the game itself and because depicting them as anything larger than they're shown isn't really conducive to, uh, lag-free gameplay. I think the only models that really accurately depict their sizes, or at least close to it, is the mostly concealed Primordus in LWS3 and the entire Dragonfall map of Kralkatorrik.

Not that this is something I see argued or anything. But if I'm trying to envision them accurately, then the creature blowing off the bow of the Glory of Tyria when the Pact flies into Arah isn't the modest version of Zhaitan we see in game, but it's a mountain hurling across the sky.

[talk-of-tyria]

Maguuma Jungle - Caledon Forest - Hamlet of Annwen Annwen Citizen #1: Have you ever met a Soundless? Annwen Citizen #2: Once. It was the strangest experience. Annwen Citizen #1: How so? Annwen Citizen #2: It was like she wasn't even there. I sensed nothing from her as she approached.

[meeeeeeese]

To be fair I didn't have it yet while we were running around so it would have been very spooky if you had spotted it!

But yeah, probably not her finest moment, especially after mordremoth dominated half the pacts sylvari, mind blasting a bug the second you fall to the jungle floor doesn't exactly inspire confidance.

So for the third in my little series on my character's minis, time to talk about Grace's mini.

When mordremoth's assault on the pact fleet destroyed the airship Grace was aboard, she was plunged down a sinkhole into the caverns below the jungle, and dangerously close to a chak hive. It was lucky then, that the first chak she came across was a newborn Gerent, freshly hatched from a glowing blue egg, and uniquely vulnerable to the mental domination of a mesmer.

Being as aggressive as all chak, newborn or otherwise are, the Gerent attacked Grace on sight, it's newborn body already capable of spewing caustic acids. With a spike of magic directed at the hatchling's mind, Grace quickly turned it to her side. At first it was only to stay it's assault on the mesmer, still wounded from the fall, but she quickly found it to be a valuable ally in evading the insectoid menace swarming the tunnels, so she kept it around as a companion throughout her time in Maguuma and beyond.

It's growth seems to have been stunted compared to other's of its kind. Grace keeps it sated with a supply of her own magic but one human mage is a far cry from the raw might of a ley-line. However, that suits her just fine, an adult Gerent would be difficult to keep under control, to say the least.

[enkinaru]

After 110+ hours of playing I am *finally* making up some lore for Yorath, yep

So, loredump incoming

Ultimately decided that I headcanon him too much of an asocial gremlin to be even remotely plot-accurate Pact commander, so he's now a regular run-of-the-mill Priory explorer, just happening to hang around places where the main plot unravels (and suffering its consequences). It seems far more fitting for his "spending 80% of his life sitting under the bush with your pet spider" lifestyle, after all.

He's a firm believer in Ventari's tenets, generally well-intended and non-conflict sylvari; however, even if you ignore Yorath's questionable social skills (like, complete failure to understand personal space or random animalistic behaviors here and there) he's probably not the most pleasant person to have around. He's constantly dusty and/or damp, smells like he just took a dive in a swamp (because he probably did), and keep stashing venomous snakes into his pockets. He also absolutely will take your food if you leave it unattended.

He's a ranger with druid specialization, though I doubt Yorath really fully understands what he's doing. Most likely, he recovered some random ancient druid rituals during his Heart of Maguuma expeditions and can semi-reliably replicate them.

Yorath rarely runs strictly combat assignments and prefer to not carry heavy weapons; to protect himself, to resorts to his probably-slightly-larger-than-necessary assortment of daggers and throwing knives (and also venomous snakes stashed in his pockets). As his main hand weapon he's carrying a krait ripper just because I thought a scythe would be a very fitting weapon for a druid and kinda like how it looks.

He's currently running around with his irreplacable sylvan hound Buttercup and Violet the jungle spider as his pets (condi druid is all fun, but I just want to try other stuff than the mandatory Jacaranda from every build)

Also, yes, I totally spent all my transmutation charges to make my ascended set look like a mishmash of low-tier armor

[the-desert-beast]

Home of The Twilight Tree,

and The Desert Beast himself.

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[Main Five Lore OCs] The Commander: Belial Soulshatter Aurene's Champion: Louis Ebonpromise + Trahearne Lives and stays Marshal of The Pact.

You can find miscellaneous text posts, memes, and various things tagged as nothing more than the characters first name. ex. "maelgwyn" for random posts, vs. "oc: maelgwyn (he/any)" for lore, 110% accurate posts, and more. #[shitpost voice]

Of personal lore note: Sylvari pick their relationships with eachother and are not, "by default," related. Maelgwyn, Rhosyn, Llacheu, Kynwyl and Lynette are a sibling group. Additionally, Faeryl and Cerwyn regard eachother as siblings, as do Morven and Evnyssyen. None of these groups regards any other group as their siblings- They're nothing more than "fellow firstborn." I thought to clarify since this lore is vague ingame and ive seen plenty of reads across the fandom so far. so! thats how it works here :) to avoid confusion.

|> OC: Maelgwyn (He/Any) 01 / 02 | Born precisely one year before the Pale Tree's very first sylvari would wake, Maelgwyn spent more than two decades utterly alone. The Desert Beast never let that stop him, his life has been dramatic and painful make no mistake- But no hunter stops hunting before their prey is limp before them. |> OC: Rhosyn (They/She) 01 / 02 | A cheerful brawler! Friend of the sunspears and guardian of all elonian citizens. Following in her brother's "hometown hero" footsteps she's continued to protect the innocent and aid the lost and abandoned. She still makes time to knock back some beers at her favorite fighting ring. |> OC: Llacheu (They/He) 01 / 02 | A bitter, cynical jackass. Llacheu is very hard to get along with should anyone ever take up the challenge. Personality made of thorns to keep anyone at bay, to test those who try to get close. A self-fulfilling prophecy really. But not even this secluded little brother can escape the legacy he comes from; Spending time in New Kaineng aiding the poor, the desperate, the downtrodden. |> OC: Faeryl (She/Her) 01 / 02 | Sister to the much younger Cerwyn. Faeryl spends her days collecting books and training the saplings of her tree in their ways of life. She mentors young mesmers & twilight dreamers in all sorts of skills. A sweet and loving personality, a great best friend for support, but she's no pushover. In love with her fellow firstborn, Rhosyn. |> OC: Kynwyl (He/Him) 01 / 02 | The heartthrob of his tree's firstborn, Kynwyl has a charming charismatic air about him. Saplings commonly develop crushes on him and/or Faeryl. He mentors saplings in swordsmanship and shapeshifting, as well as diplomacy and morals. His days are well-scheduled but packed with responsibilities; he's more than happy to bare. He spends half his year in Cantha, training, writing, and relaxing. The other half in elona at home. |> OC: Evnyssyen (She/Him) 01 / 02 | A wanderlusted soul who ran off to explore a mere two weeks after waking! She's seen near all of Elona already and has begun hungering to see The Shiverpeaks, The Maguuma Jungle- Oh so much! Perhaps He'll head off to Cantha next and see what that pink firstborn's fussing about! Whilst exploring Elona, she found a very curious soul- another elonian firstborn! (@ commanderthalys' Marek.) |> OC: Morven (It/It's) 01 / 02 | The most stuck up, judgemental, haughty firstborn the tree has to offer. Morven's made a name for it's self with it's innate skill for elementalist magic. It's experiments lead it to a much more Ritualistic style of grandiose magic in combat. It isn't one to be toyed with whether casually or on the battlefield. Indeed, it's the most strict- yet helpful- teacher the tree can offer in the schools of primal magic. |> OC: Cerwyn (He/Him) 01 / 02 | The most reclusive of the entire tree, Cerwyn spends all of his days shapeshifted into his beastial form. Lazing around as a cat in hide-aways only Faeryl knows of. She's the only one he'll always have time and patience for. Cerwyn's only responsibility is to teach growing aged- about 2-3 years old- saplings about their shapeshifting abilties. |> OC: Lynette (She/Her) 01 / 02 | Stuck up though far less than Morven, Lynette has an eye for all the expensive and rare things in the world. To describe her with a single word would be "Brat." She serves as the ranger mentor and trainer of the tree's young ones. Her and her iboga are well known to be fiercely protective of the tree and her saplings, as well as Lynette's own siblings. She uses her unusually short stature against her opponents, using a hit-and-dodge tactic seen in agile poisonous things.

| For brevity, only my nine firstborn ocs are listed here. If you want to browse more, here's my toyhouse !

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Personal Lore: Maelgwyn x Trahearne Llacheu x Morven Louis x Pyrs Sugyn x Laranthir

Shared Lore with friends: Ludwig (straywyvern): Conyvld x Maelgwyn, Lusarim x Kynwyl Lynxlee (commanderthalys): Marek x Evnyssyen, Teela x Tixxi Silv (silvesi): Fedsy x Kynwyl Mabi (Mabaki): Lysyldur x Maelgwyn Sable (Sunsrefuge): Quinn x Maelgwyn, Zayvis x Kynwyl, Hemlock x Iniss, Kirari x Eliana (iirc) Dot (The-Dot): Nephele x Kynwyl Stu (Shroomlet): NMC!Stiu x NMC!Kynwyl, Soulmates!StiuxKynwyl, RI-LU! :danceydance:

#sakurapolycule -- Nephele / Kynwyl / Fedsy / Lusarim / Zayvis !

mastery point divider credit goes to @ soulbeastdragon.

[bluebudgie]

pictured: me yelling "what the fuck sylvari house!"

[fleetingmirage]

I had the dubious urge to practice line drawing, which was (as it tends to be for me) a horrible mistake. You can clearly see the parts I lost patience with and just started painting over, hahaha...ha.

Anyway. The idea for this one is it is right after the fleet of Pact ships, lead by Trahearne, is disabled by Mordremoth's vines. I always enjoyed the idea of a Mordremoth-corrupted Malyck, under the Jungle Dragon's orders, being the one who finds him among the rubble. Our poor Firstborn is alone and disoriented (or maybe Malyck/other Mordrem have picked off any nearby survivors).

Malyck, pulling an injured Trahearne from the battered remains of his ship, tells him with vicious delight how his beloved Pact is vanquished. Not only that, but any survivors have surely abandoned him, after his foolish order to fire into the forests of Mordremoth's domain.

"Your Pact is gone, Marshal. You led them right into the Heart of Maguuma."

Malyck triumphantly presents Trahearne to Mordremoth - certain the Firstborn will soon turn and join them, given his weakened mental state due to his failure to protect the Pact.

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

I offer one (1) sketchdump of Regrowth AU Scarlet/Ceara, with some questionably finalized designs of her “““pet””” that definitely isn’t suspicious at all. Any resemblance to mordrem living or dead is purely coincidental.

[brax-was-here]

My Scarlet Briar AU overall story is a story of Ceara finding her redemption after the events of Living World Season 1. It's a story that takes place over the same eight years as from LW2 to End of Dragons, and has Ceara fighting against part of her own mind, taking her from the deep jungle of Maguuma, to the far northern Shiverpeaks, to the deserts of Elona. The first story of my Scarlet Briar AU titled "Scarlet Briar: From the Ashes" (formerly "The Redemption of Ceara") is set during early LW2.

Characters under the cut

The protagonists:

The Allies:

The Antagonist:

Other characters: