#PoF spoilers

[riessene]

decided to color it actually 🌱🔥

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #sylvari #my art #siyvhe #pof spoilers #path of fire spoilers #tho idk if its spoilers without context pgpgpd

[wyldblunt]

i only really put one little easter egg in my coyh piece but it's one im fond of: glyn's tragic little bell jar of shards of vlast, much like an empty bassinet in a royal portrait to denote Baby Shoes Never Worn

#PoF spoilers #u know i had to do it to him etc etc #god fhis is so low res. its not my fault ok im phoneposting

[otvian]

Internet broke me

#gw2 #gw2 meme #guild wars 2 #guild wars 2 meme #meme #among us #guild wars 2 PoF #pof spoilers

[mystery-salad]

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #guildwars2 #gw2 fan submission #gw2 sylvari #gw2 norn #gw2 human #gw2 charr #gw2 asura #listen im CURIOUS #gw2 pof spoilers #pof spoilers

[icebrooding]

I have been poking at this for far too long it's time to just release it into the wild :cri:. It's time to let all that internalised rage out!

This was entirely too much effort for a joke like this fhhhdhhgfdhg

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #gw2 art #trammander #also i guess i just assume riannoc/trahearne is constantly canon :U #pof spoilers #just in case #also this continues the weird sylvari tradition of being oddly adept at soloing stuff #riannoc vs the million and one risen and canach vs the molten alliance wep facility #now its just trahearne vs god #i just want to see him go feral thats all i want Q^Q

[commanderhorncleaver]

welcome to the danse macabre

pov: the commander has just been murdered by the rogue god Balthazar and his son has decided that you, Rytlock Brimstone, are the problem

(art done by @telltalecoyote)

Grief surrounds me, mixed with confusion and a singular spark of outrage, but I push aside my own pain and focus on Oberon and Sigmund, seizing theirs instead. Their eyes flare a bright pink as they stand rigid–  then their weapons are out and Oberon is charging down Rytlock while his cub nocks a crystal-headed arrow onto his bow. Remorse tugs at my concentration–while Vlast’s echoes may not forgive me, I know Sig will, but that doesn’t make me feel better–but I push on while the rest of the group focuses on evading the tumbleweed that is Rytlock and Oberon. The traitorous charr allows himself to be bowled over, and in that moment Sig halts his fire to avoid skewering his sire.  Though I didn’t expect him to fight smart, the wind is on my side: barely a thought is needed for it to carry me towards them. I drift toward the wrestling charr and command Oberon–the lieutenant kicks Rytlock and rolls away towards his fallen gunblade.  Arrows begin to rain around us, and Rytlock shouts, “Dammit, cub, don’t do this!” “I have every right to kill you!” Arrows that would hit me are torn asunder as I lash a whip of pink energy forward. “Balthazar–” “You won’t have to worry about Balthazar!”

#gw2 #charr oc #Augustus Silverhorn #Sigmund Brighthorn #Oberon Furyhorn #path of fire spoilers #pof spoilers #charr #i will eventually finish this fic

[kerra-and-company]

I was going through my screenshots and found out that I'd taken a bunch of pictures of various loading screens in the game. This is far from all of the loading screens (and these aren't all my favorites!), but I figured I'd post my randomly discovered random assortment from the personal story and beyond, because why not :)

This game has really pretty art, guys!

#gw2 #kai speaks #screens #to be extra safe: #pof spoilers #lws4 spoilers #eod spoilers #no idea why i started doing this or why i skipped over hot and icebrood entirely #not on purpose i don't think a;sjkdlf #but here y'all go anyway

[s0urfangs]

GREAT DLC guys been feeling really NORMAL

#its... past 4am #i #YEEZUS #i KNEW the major spoiler and it DIDNT PREPARE ME AT ALL #i have to take my anger out on the textbox when its so late u see #LORDY! OKAY #you know i loved how gw2 feds was that little bit happier and more innocent than eso feds #lol. doubt #PoF #just in case ppl still avoid spoilers??? #gw2 #screenshot #silvpost #pof spoilers #oc:fedsy

[tricos-here]

it's never stated that sylvari memories and knowledge goes into the dream only after you die, but I imagine if you're an influential sylvari that's had like 10 wyld hunts or something and you do die, then the dream would hit that failsafe switch real quick and hoover those memories up - which is to say I think a bunch of saplings may or may not had been combarded with the secondhand trauma that is the commander's memories

#can't sleep so I'm thinking about daenhi #or more specifically the daenhi ryan dynamic #I was making a whole post about how daenhi awakening at the start of s4 would've thoroughly fucked her up but brain said ✋ nobody cares #ALSO I think daenhi looking up to ryan and then wearing similar armor to her whether intentionally or not is funny. or sad. whichever #pof spoilers #just in case #also like. dying probably severs any connection u have to the dream right.....

[kornyo]

Oh well now you have me CURIOUS so, here outside of tags, tell me about those PoF death experiences 👀

@mystery-salad

i’ll never say no to unleashing my oc lore gates 🫶 be warned. this will be long. like 800 words type of long . for context i will be explaining important backstory first that will be related to the pof story descriptions . and obviously spoiler warning !

starting with my first commander, zoya. zoya already has a complicated relationship with life and death from the get go, which only gets worse during path of fire.

zoya is a secondborn, podsister to canach actually. and just like him, she was abducted to vorpp’s research lab and experimented on. vorpp was draining her of her life force to power his golems, and she actually succumbed to these experiments and died in the lab days before caithe and faolain arrived. her body was discarded into the sea, and to canach and everyone else, she was dead.

and she was dead, her body had been drifting in the ocean for weeks, if not months, before she washed up on the cursed shore in orr. when she did, she caught the attention of the eye of zhaitan, who until now had not seen any of mordremoth’s minions.

now, due to the fact she is mordremoth’s minion (despite the pale tree cutting them off), sylvari can’t be corrupted by the other dragons, but i feel like at the time of the secondborn it was not widely known/confirmed for certain yet.

so, like he does, zhaitan tried to corrupt her and convert her into one of his undead minions - after all, if this would work, he could yoink his brother’s minions for his purposes and his army would grow even further. while the „corruption“ did not succeed - her tie to

mordremoth saved her from becoming his minion - he did somewhat revive her in the process, but not fully. zoya, now technically dead and alive at the same time but not having access to zhaitans power to keep her alive, is forced to absorb life force from other creatures to stay alive. hence, her being a necromancer. she stays in orr for a while, no idea of who she is and who she was previously, until she eventually encounters trahearne during his travels in orr and he takes her back with him to the grove. together they both study orr and try to solve his dream of cleansing it.

so when zoya dies during the fight with balthazar (to the sword rammed into her chest), her afterlife is different than the one in game. she wakes up floating in the ocean, like when she was dead for the first time, alone, no memory of who she is and who she is supposed to be yet again. but she’ll swim to the cursed shore this time, and meet the judge who will guide her through the domain of the lost, regaining her memory (even before her first death) to now.

however, it is not necessarily the judge that brings her back to ‚life‘, it is she herself who uses the power from defeating zhaitan in her memories to bring herself back into the realm of the living. she still retains her ‚undead‘ status, and similar to joko, she’s essentially a lich.

and different to the in-game, she was dead for an hour approximately, and she had troubles controlling her body for the rest of that day and needs to rest before she can continue with the fight.

my other commander, rhys, on the other hand has a complicated relationship with balthazar, which makes their encounter in path of fire difficult on a very different level.

rhys was a priest of balthazar prior to becoming known as the commander, and she was VERY devoted to him. still prayed to him frequently, despite his departure during the exodus of the gods. to me, rhys and balthazar have a relationship similar to zeus and achilles in the iliad; a god and his beloved champion, sometimes i think their relationship was as close as zeus and hercules even.

balthazar, despite being chained in the mists, heard and responded to every one of her prayers. he had very big plans for rhys; she, as a descendant of king doric and king adelbern whom were both personally blessed by balthazar and gifted with his swords sohotin and magdaer, was supposed to be his champion by his side while he would slay the dragons and absorb their powers. rhys was also supposed to be the one to free him from the mists initially, but rytlock finding and freeing him first was not a problem at all. another important detail: being a priest of balthazar made rhys immune to any fire damage whatsoever, making them a very powerful berserker.

during the course of season 3 and POF, their relationship with balthazar is strained and tested numerous times — rhys was always tempted to join his side every time he called out to them, but their hesitation was close to a betrayal in balthazars eyes, and so, they were no longer his ally anymore but his most powerful enemy that had to be destroyed. he removes his blessing, and as a result, rhys is incredibly vulnerable to fire damage.

during their battle, rhys doesn’t die by his sword like zoya, a death some could see as a merciful death. instead, he burned rhys to death, FULLY. this was a lesson to his former disciple, one that should follow them into their afterlife.

rhys’ afterlife was a burnt and barren wasteland, full of ash and the occasional leftover fire/ember. they, too, forgot who they are and what their purpose in life. even when they slowly regain their memories, they don’t consider going back to the living but staying dead. in the domain of the lost they have been „dead“ for a few days, but in the domain of the living they have been dead for a whole day.

when rhys decides to come back after all, out of vengeance and out of loyalty to aurene, they willfully step into a raging fire inside a hollow tree trunk which acted as a portal. their body was about to be cremated when they decided to come back, emerging from the fire. their whole body was burnt, but they found new strength in killing balthazar once and for all.

#so sorry for going off but once the gates have been opened i cannot contain myself #rhys #zoya #pof spoilers #and w that i shall go sleep ahjkhdkjdf #askbox #mystery-salad

[seabrine-gw2]

I'm finally getting around to finishing the PoF story achievements and... man. If you know, you know: I'm talking about The Departing.

It's hands down the best story mission in the entire game, and the plot twist had me in a vice grip for WEEKS after playing it for the first time. Even now it still gives me the chills to think/type about it. Everything about it was perfectly executed and just amazing. 10/10

Keeping it spoiler-free for any new folks blowing through, but I might make another post with more in-depth, spoilery thoughts soon. I don't post much on this blog but I think The Departing always warrants it's own post

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #the departing #pof spoilers #pof #spoilers just in case

[riessene]

post PoF Siyvhe.. new haircut!

#path of fire #path of fire spoilers #pof spoilers #sylvari #guild wars 2 #gw2 #siyvhe #redacted put a fire sword right through their chest and then the flesh got pushed together by resurrection healing magic #so the scar is uneven #its the same on their back #my art

[wyldblunt]

one day i'm gonna do these properly with armor changes and everything too but for now..... updated glyndwr hair timeline!!! + notes on what he was up to at the time

(this isn't necessarily an accurate way to plot-date my existing drawings of him, bc for example i only recently decided the smoky stylization was a canon thing connected to his death/mists-hopping etc... but from now on i'm gonna try to stick to this, at least roughly!)

#my art #my ocs #glyndwr #PoF spoilers #lws4 spoilers #required reading: glyndwr

[otvian]

I love path of fire cuz the commander reached maximum levels of doing insane things to save the world.

Well I havent done futher dlcs but I hope they get even crazier.

Everytime a character says "This is an insane idea" Im like yeah, what else do you expect from them?

Clear and reasonable thinking didn't kill a dragon and here we have a dragon, a god and an undead idiot (praise joko)

Go crazy commander <333

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #path of fire #gw2 pof #guild wars 2 path of fire #guild wars 2 pof #pof spoilers

[mystery-salad]

You ever think about how Aurene and the Commander both know what it feels like to die without dying? I don't mean when they each died, I mean when they each felt the other die. Aurene and the Commander have both felt each other die. Aurene knows what it feels like to burn to death, to be ripped apart. The Commander knows what a volatile, sparking crystal feels like when it pierces through you with the force of an explosion.

They both know what is like to feel like part of you is dead while you have to keep living.

But while aurene is guaranteed a return the Commander is so fragile and mortal. That's the only family she has left and their life is hanging by a thread. Sure they came back once, in a special situation involving a favor that could have wiped them from existence just to harness enough power to revive themself. And sure she's saved them, they survived an arrow meant for an elder dragon and the full force of the Void. The Commander, for all intents and purposes, seems every bit as invincible as the dragon they champion. But all it takes is for Aurene to be too late just once. One misstep without help at the right time again. The Judge can not grant endless favors for one hero when history has seen so many others die while their legends live on.

She has her family now, but she will need more. She will always need more. And she will feel that loss so sharply, when the people who helped her find the strength for all of this lose their own for good.

And she already knows how it will feel.

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #spoilers #gw2 spoilers #aurene #eod spoilers #pof spoilers

[herald-of-aurene]

My AU commander, Kenna Baszar:

Born to a dervish mother and a Sunspear father in elona

Mother and father died and became awakened when she was 12

She fleeded joko's wrath at 15 with her 13 year old sister, Deborah, and met Logan, who took the two in and became their ward.

Kenna served him until she was 20, where he pushed her to join the vigil like she wished

She volunteered to undergo the Durmand Priory ritual to become Balthazar's Avatar as she was blessed by him anyway*

Story continues like normal until she and caithe get drunk post Zhaitan's death, where caithe confesses to Kenna about Aurene's egg

Kenna is able to keep caithe rational during LWS2 & HoT, and asks Caithe to chill at tarir while she goes hunt down mordremoth and DE

PoF rolls around, and she is forced into Balthazar's army as his Avatar. She is able to temporarily break out of his control with Dragon's Watch's help, and is forced to confront him at the departing. He mistakes her to be a champion of Aurene, and toys with her till he realizes she's not coming, and simply kills her.

She comes back, and as Aurene isn't there to soak up the majority of Balthazar's power, Kenna accidentally does and becomes a god.

(* the ritual is different here, one it is permanent, two, instead of becoming a blood-crazed psychopath, you have to fight to keep on the path of an honorable warrior and not fall to bloodlust. You aren't doomed to become a "blood-crazed psychopath." You are also bound to Balthazar's will)

#guild wars 2 #oc: Kenna Baszar #this is still a WIP #path of fire spoilers #pof spoilers #hot spoilers