#orrian

[commander-henrietta]

I am not sure if this is common knowledge and that I am saying already known stuff, but Orrian location names are very much Arabic and I can only assume that is because of Orr being next to the Crystal Desert, which has actual mixes of Arabic elements in many corners of the game. Why do I know this? Because I have an Arab father, and I was raised in the Middle East as a muslim in an Arabic school.

When I was doing map completion yesterday on Henri, I noticed how some points of interests in Orr had ‘Al’ in them, and I immediately assumed it would be gibberish since that is all I find in western made media when it comes to anything ‘exotic’. Bring some sound, put ‘al’ in front of it, and voilà, you have ‘Arabic’ in your media. But no, I reread the names and realized that they actually have a translation, since the team actually written in a way that you can guess how it’s read in Arabic if you’re a native or have experience in native Arabic environments.

I will list all points of interests in Orr that I found that have Arabic and the most likely meant translation (as an Arabic speaker myself):

• Izz-al-Din Sarayi

With the context surrounding Orr’s lore and the Human lore + Charr/Human lore, this can very much be ‘عز الدين صراعي’. It’s a very blotchy sentence since it’s grammatically incorrect, but it basically means ‘I fight with pride for my religion’, ‘I battle with pride for my religion’. It makes sense because Humans are very religious in GW2, and Orr is even more so, while Charr denounce higher power and think Humans for shit. And they had a battle on Orr. BOOM.

• Din al-Jindi

This is a very clear one, words used in Arabic lessons a lot to form simple sentences. ‘دين الجندي’ which means ‘The soldier’s religion’.

• Bakkir Sarayi

Sounds like ‘بكّر صراعي’ or ‘بكير صراعي’, which sounds like ‘Early Battle’ in both. One’s just traditional and the other’s Lebanese dialect.

• Several PoIs in Malchor’s Leap having ‘Bayt’ in them

Which is just like the Grove having ‘House of Caithe’, ‘House of Niamh’ and so on. It’s again, grammatically incorrect, but Bayt means house or home. They even used Arabic names with them, but in wrong order. Still, to me this is like a very big thing.

• Zho'qafa Catacombs area

Sounds like ‘ذو كفه’ which is like ‘with his palms’, or could be with his stance, several different possibilities.

This may seem like a far reach for representation to some people, but these make sense, they mean something, so it can’t be a coincidence. I’m just happy Arabic was acknowledged in some way instead of the fake Arabic they use in media to make it seem ‘exotic’ or made as a parody.

Weeeeooooeeeeooooo

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #commander henrietta #gw2 orr #orrian #gw2 risen

[smallkazoo]

forgot to post this from december oops

my gf’s and my ocs, orrian (left) and floren (right), for her birthday, w orrian in his bg3 outfit (in her favorite color of course)

they also come in cake form

#my ocs #floren #orrian #florrian #bg3 #baldur's gate 3

[coollizzylou]

Ok real quick thought inspired by me messing around in siren’s landing: the wizards have been around since before gw1, right? So they very well could have been around all the way back before Orr sunk, right??? And Orr’s ruins have a lot of gold and glass and large ring motifs, right??????? AND in the Ruined City of Arah dungeon is about Tyria was like before gw1 and also has an astronomy focused path, RIGHT????????

My theory: Wizards = Orrians

#or like. they have orrian technology #I do not have the energy to compare screenshots you must trust me #do you see my vision???? do you see it???? #I have cracked the code I’m connecting the dots (you didn’t connect shit) #SotO spoilers #hehehehhe I’m so excited #orrian wizard conspiracy

[salamanderpie]

Commission of Lemon carrying Westry, their sorcerer party member as he makes an offering to hasten their ascent through the Vampiric Tower, for the DM.

#tiefling #Half elf #dnd sorcerer #dnd barbarian #vampire #DnD 5e #Dungeons and Dragons #ttrpg #oc: lemon lokum #orrian westry

[commanderfloppy]

Little Soto thought that’s been on my mind character lore wise

I’ve been at a standstill with Damia’s story for a while, after HoT it’s kinda just been a big ????? Along with her mental state.

I had played with the idea of things like, her joining the crystal bloom, but it didn’t really stick so much.

But her becoming a wizard?? That is something that has popped into my mind now.

She is sooooo ripe for some wizard shit, especially Ascension. Full of bad memories she wants to forget, and a strong desire for a new purpose.

The thoughts are still stewing, haven’t solidified yet but…I can feel something there

#damia rose #gw2 spoilers #Soto spoilers #I could just see her meeting a more important group of wizards who were out on an expedition to an orrian ruin #as she helps them fend of risen #because that’s all she does now is wander and fight things #recognizing her from the whole wizard watching the world events #notifying the council like #‘hey you remember that really powerful lieutenant of the pact? #yeah the one who could channel ghosts and was really driven #yeah they’re here right now and have nothing to do

[anghraine]

I love GW2, but getting zone completion on the Straits of Devastation and the other Orr zones is so incredibly tedious >_<

#and doing it for a second time. good lord. #honestly i feel really really bad for the orrian risen but ALSO. THEY'RE SO IRRITATING. #anghraine whines #ascalonian grudgeblog #anghraine's gaming

[ascalonianlightbringer]

It's been a long time since I first fell in love with pre-Searing Ascalon in Guild Wars: Prophecies. But I'm still nostalgic enough that I periodically visit Ebonhawke just to go home to human Ascalon, and I loved this view of it :)

#t: greetings friend #p: honor the past #r: for ascalon! #guild wars: prophecies #guild wars 2 #i love ebonhawke's story and legacy and (much as i love gw2) wish the founding story hadn't been cut short by the gw2 release #the dialogue options definitely suggest that human characters (ascalonian or not) have no ties to ebonhawke #and i'm like. actually all my characters do #althea fairchild: owes her last name to an ebonhawke npc i appropriated as her aunt #she was born in ebonhawke and half her family still lives there #gwen velazquez: her parents were in the ebon vanguard and died in ascalon while she was on the streets #of divinity's reach with her sister #isabel batista: daughter of immigrants from ebonhawke #xiulan azar: posted in ebonhawke as part of the vigil and sticks up for its people out of orrian-ascalonian solidarity #kate sandford: was literally a separatist #pax vowkeeper: charr priory member trying to atone for war crimes who awkwardly carts ascalonian relics to ebonhawke

[wyldblunt]

OC_TOBER DAY 2: NEW OC the newest addition to the roster is mx. gimmick!!! finally i have a human.... orrian noble is simultaneously turned undead AND falls off a cliff during The Cataclysm, cracks his head extremely fucking bad on the way down, washes up on the shore in kryta a good while later with literally no memory of anything that happened. shenanigans ensue. you know the drill

#oc-tober #bweirdoctober #bweirdoctober 2023 #my ocs #my art #gimmick

[swagtastic-bougie-pompadour]

At risk of making myself sound old: kids these days have so many shinies.

Like, it's the Orrian Gold Rush out here with how much is sparkling in the halls these days! Back in my day, the Red Gyarados was a legend. Now, it just seems kinda bland...

What are you all doing? It can't seriously be the sandwiches... right?

#pkmn irl #pokeblogging #clivespiration

[fire-orchid]

"I have studied Orrian creatures for twenty-five years, but I rarely engage in combat with them. It's terrifying."

#gw2 fan submission #guild wars 2 #trahearne #cw body horror #gw2 #sylvari

[coollizzylou]

so i'm not saying this is a point for the orrian wizards conspiracy, but i'm not not saying that (SotO spoilers)

vs

#I just think its not out of the question!! #gw2 #SotO spoilers #orrian wizard conspiracy

[1ore]

playing Path of Fire now. Yuri is having his edgy moment. Flirting with the inverse function of Blighted Trahearne AU, which is Yuri succumbing to his anger and hurt in killing Balthazar, and filling the void left behind as spirit of despair. spirit of revenge? spirit of unfinished business? spirit of the dispossessed? spirit of the vacuous emptiness left behind by war.

One thing about me you GOTTA know: I’m filling in the gaps. I’m extrapolating. I’m doing everything my damn self around here. Poking around at Yuri being Orrian-Ascalonian. Making up a whole Orrian diaspora. Making up reasons for Yuri to go after Balthazar like Junky Janker going after James Charles in Minecraft. Making up AUs and endings I haven’t even gotten to yet.

Yuri identifies with being Orrian and is compelled by the idea of healing Orr because of this, and yet has a fraught relationship with his family, the very people who taught him what that means. Holding up a mirror to that, he’s taught the generational pain that molded the diaspora’s cosmology… This idea that they can’t trust the Six Gods anymore. At best, they abandoned humanity, and at worst, they betrayed them by giving them magic, leaving them to be preyed upon by the Elder Dragons, and quitting the world while they were distracted. The sinking of Orr and Arah is their wound, and also the lens through which they see the world. Their survival as a scattered people is up to them and them alone.

Yuri might have a complicated relationship with his community, but he doesn’t need to be convinced of the Six’s incompetencies. It’s known to him as an urchin on the streets of Divinity’s Reach, and re-affirmed during his time with the Pact, at Orr, at Maguuma, during the ~3 year fallout of his fuckie wuckie with Mordremoth and Trahearne. In particular, he’s no stranger to the banality and evil of war. I think this makes a perfect storm when Balthazar appears—these experiences that otherwise guide him to be big-hearted, compassionate, and non-violent instead drive him to anger.

Rotating this in my head while the game puts that man in a situation. I think it’s fun that it parallels Trahearne’s ~unbecoming in HoT, getting so caught up in the big picture that everything spirals out of control until it reaches its sad, inevitable end. WHO is going to pull Yuri off of Balthazar’s wild ride………………….                 I’m still playing lol don’t answer that. in the mean time I imagine The Bad End.

#haserot angel continues to do the most for society #1ore doesn't want to use her art blog #i got none braincells or time i am so sorry. this is all you get from me #guild wars 2 tag #yuri six-cants tag #trahearne tag #lastborn tag #ximone atropos tag #content warning: blood

[just-eyris-things]

orrian fisher my beloathed....

[anghraine]

I'll put most of this under a cut because GW2 headcanons are irrelevant to most of my followers' fandom experience, but I've been thinking more about headcanons for my two main versions of the GW2 PC.

The storyline does not actually allow for two Pact Commanders to exist simultaneously, so in your character's story, all other people's characters are ... I guess, AU non-Commander versions of themselves you can cooperate with, and I figured the same could go for different PCs of your own. So there is a Xiulan in the Pact Commander Althea verse (pro patria), but an AU version where her backstory doesn't conflict with Althea's.

So stuff about pro patria!verse Xiulan:

Xiulan is tall and rather lean, with brown hair, brown skin, and nearly black eyes.

Although she's descended from both Canthan and Orrian immigrants, and she identifies equally with both peoples, she physically resembles the Canthan side much more and typically presents/describes herself as Canthan (especially when it's assumed she's Ascalonian).

Her last name, Azar, comes from her mother's Orrian family, but the Orrian diaspora is so small, and their culture so unknown to most Krytans, that few can recognize it.

Both sides of her family have managed to quietly scrape by in the Salma District of Divinity's Reach for generations, and Xiulan only knows Cantha and Orr through family accounts passed from her parents.

She's an only child.

Her mother, Judith Azar, came into a little extra money in her youth and promptly gave it to her bff Andrew to help keep his tavern afloat. He never forgot this, and he took Xiulan under his wing when her parents died in an accident when she was fourteen.

His sensible, spirited daughter Petra was Xiulan's best friend as they grew up, and all the more after Xiulan became effectively part of their household.

Xiulan's first kiss was with Petra, though more as a matter of curiosity than romantic feeling. She is 100% lesbian, but she and Petra were too much family at that point to feel altogether comfortable, and they laughed about it afterwards.

Strangers often have the impression that Xiulan is smaller than she really is, both in height and build, and even when they do correctly judge her size, they typically underestimate her strength.

Unusually for someone of her strength, she also has some magical ability with fire—as a child, she would breathe little flames when she got angry, and every weapon she touches becomes encased with flame.

Between these and her flair for strategy, those around her have often said she must be blessed by Balthazar, god of war and fire.

At fifteen, Andrew and Petra convinced an embarrassed Xiulan to ask the local priest of Balthazar if he could tell if it was true. After questioning her and observing her, he assured her that their suspicion was correct, which only deepened the already very devout Xiulan's devotion to the gods, and especially to Balthazar.

dun dun dun

Additionally, the priest offered to recommend her for free training in the military arts, as a way of honoring Balthazar. She eagerly agreed and proved sufficiently gifted to catch the eye of local members of the Vigil.

No members of the Vigil spoke to her yet, but they noted their observations about the local girl in their reports to their higher-ups, and Almorra Soulkeeper herself ordered them to keep a close eye on Xiulan.

Xiulan is privately very fond of "the finer things of life"—fine jewelry, clothes, armor, and weapons, though she doesn't have the resources to actually own much. However, she does own and wear a fine hair piece of Canthan design, which her father had managed to combine with two (very) small heirloom Orrian stones from Judith's family. (It isn't cursed, since her ancestors emigrated before the Cataclysm.)

Xiulan becomes acquainted with Logan Thackeray just after she would in the canonical timeline—that is, not through the battle at Shaemoor (in which Lady Althea Fairchild rushed to his rescue), but in the conflict with local bandits, the rescue of the Queen's Heart orphanage (she has a soft spot for orphans), and their maneuvers against the aristocratic Commander Serentine's plots.

Xiulan has seen Althea before, usually accompanying Faren in the tavern and trying to keep him from getting too drunk. She doesn't know her and has rarely had cause to say much in her presence, but she can recognize her even before Althea's heroics catapult her to local celebrity status.

Xiulan looks vaguely (very vaguely) familiar to Althea, but when their paths cross in a way that involves actual interaction, she can't pin down where she's seen her before.

They meet by chance in Ebonhawke, which Althea is visiting after her induction into the Order of Whispers, while Xiulan has just been successfully recruited into the Vigil and is there to help safeguard the peace talks with the Charr.

The Vigil members stationed at Ebonhawke tend to be disapproving or even bewildered about the Ascalonians' ongoing resentment of the Charr, especially non-human Vigil members. Xiulan, on the other hand, was raised with stories of Orr and the Charr invasion ultimately leading to her people's eternal undead servitude to Zhaitan. She doesn't make a point out of it and she understands their value as fighters and their contributions to The Cause, but she gets the Ascalonians' towering resentment over the 250-year attempt to obliterate them and pride in their own survival.

This becomes relevant when a Vigil member is cluelessly talking to a visibly frustrated Althea about how the people here just don't understand, they're so short-sighted, blahblah, and Xiulan's tolerance finally snaps and she quietly sticks up for Althea and the people of Ebonhawke. It's not flashy, but it's enough for her to be dismissively addressed as "Recruit Xiulan" by the other members.

Althea doesn't forget her name again.

#anghraine babbles #anghraine's headcanons #anghraine's gaming #ascalonian grudgeblog #but as far as xiulan is concerned... #orrian grudgeblog #xiulan azar #althea fairchild #althea x xiulan #fic talk #fic talk: pro patria #long post

[vannahgw2]

Darkness pays Orr a visit.

With billowing robes of blackened silk,

She beckons us, arms outstretched.

I see my brothers walk forward, greet her as a friend.

So many fold themselves into her embrace.

And even over their cries, and the roars of the beasts,

I hear Darkness call to me with a promise.

But I close myself. I will not join her yet.

Another call is more beautiful,

And I will chase it back to you.

-Orrian Soldier's Carved Poem

Im not crying you are, I miss Trahearne, I used Elevenlabs for his voice. I wanted to know how I should animate him, if at all, saying this. What do you think I should do? Any audio editing advice helps too for quality voice (so we can cry harder together)

All character rights go to Anet

#trahearne #gw2 #sylvari #guild wars 2 #gw2 trahearne #orr #fanmade

[i-mybrunettelady]

for your favorite Elementalist 🔥 7: What’s their favorite element and why?, 8: Do they prefer to camp one element, only shifting when needed, or do they shift fluidly between the elements?, 9: What’s the greatest feat of spell-casting that they’ve ever achieved?, 10: Does their magic tend to leave a lot of collateral damage or are they fairly precise in their casting?

my fav elementalist.. my only elementalist.. my second main, my son and my beloved el

7: What’s their favorite element and why?

fire! he awoke attuned to fire and it stayed that way since. he is one of the best fire elementalists currently alive in tyria. he is somewhat attuned to air as well, but not to the extent that he is to fire.

8: Do they prefer to camp one element, only shifting when needed, or do they shift fluidly between the elements?

only really fluent shift he can make is between air and fire, and the rest takes effort. he can do it, but he isn't as effective or good at it. for the most part, he shifts elements only when needed and stays with fire for the most part, because that's what he knows best and knows how to manipulate the best!

9: What’s the greatest feat of spell-casting that they’ve ever achieved?

non ele related? reviving an actual dead person using old orrian grenth magic. ele related? the fact that he is the first originally tyrian weaver, meaning that he invented the profession outside of elonians, and later expanded it under their influence in season 4. but he did invent the usage of two elements at once entirely independently, in his own research and experimentation.

he also crafted a spell that made him largely immune to fire in that it won't damage him, but it took trial and error over many years and he still has burn scars on his wrists from trying it out.

10: Does their magic tend to leave a lot of collateral damage or are they fairly precise in their casting?

el's casting is usually very fucking precise, as is expected of an elementalist of his calibre, but when he wants collateral damage, he will have collateral damage. his baseline powers at awakening were closer to tempest than base ele, so he trained long and hard to control it as well has he does now.

#gw2 #ask meme #elandrin aien #gw2 elementalist #gw2 sylvari