#Wyld Hunt

[guild-wharfs-2]

Okay Ive been thinking about this so much and I need to just put it somewhere. Do you ever think about how if you are a sylvari commander you were basically made to destroy the world. Like your wyld hunt is your purpose your reasoning for being and its destroying the world, point blank period. You were made for doing this. Do you ever think about how fucked up that must make yall commanders? Because I think about it very often. 

Like your wyld hunt doesnt rest til you complete it and I feel like that takes such a toll on my commander. That he was made to destroy

#gw2 #the commander #commander gw2 #sylvari #wyld hunt #xandyr yallawyn #blorbo posting #text posts

[skaald-of-the-hearth-fires]

This one time the power had gone out at our house because of a storm, and our Granny had scared the little ones with a story.

So as I put them to bed, they were afraid, and I, being a writer, asked if they wanted to hear a happy story instead?

They said yes! But not too happy or excitable, because it was bedtime.

So then I, being a fanfiction writer, sat and racked my brain searching for a GW2 narrative that could be described as 'happy.' I was stumped. GW2 does not specialize in happy stories; at best bittersweet victories; and I'm even worse, going by my fic and headcanons.

So I racked my brain until I found one, a bright spot picked out amid the chaos, a victory that has never been compromised - the cleansing of Orr.

#Gw2 #Trahearne #Orr #Wyld Hunt

[anima-banner]

Long ago, during prehistoric times, the gods of Heaven created extraordinary beings known as the Exalted, who possessed immense power and glory. These champions were chosen to fight on behalf of the gods and were given authority over all aspects of Creation, including all living creatures and even the spirits. The Exalted were regarded as heroes and were honored for their service to the gods. As a reward for their loyalty, the gods granted them dominion over all the lands they could see and touch. With their task complete, the gods retreated to Yu-Shan, the Celestial City, leaving the Exalted to govern the world of humanity.

The Exalted were a varied group of individuals, each possessing distinct powers that the gods bestowed upon them. However, a particular subset of the Exalted, known as the Solar Exalted, emerged as the leaders of this group. These individuals were exceptional in their abilities, and as a result, they could easily conquer every part of Creation. With their unparalleled magic and sorcery, the Solars ushered in the First Age, which was marked by great prosperity and success.

The First Age was an era of magnificent marvels and accomplishments that are no longer present in the current age. These wonders were created by the Solar Exalted, who were the rulers of the world, including its gods and other exceptional individuals, for a period of five thousand years. However, at some point, a catastrophic event occurred that brought an end to this golden age.

For thousands of years, the Solar Exalted had been under a terrible curse placed upon them by the enemies of the gods. Over time, the Solars became corrupted and mentally unstable, causing their previously noble and generous nature to transform into cruelty and deceit. They turned on their own people and each other, using the powerful sorcery and strategies that they once employed to protect the world for their own selfish purposes. This led to the brink of civil war, prompting the other types of Exalted to act. The Dragon-Blooded revolted against the Solars and assassinated them during a seasonal celebration.

The majority of the Solar Exalted were killed, and their powerful life force was trapped in a jade prison, as their strength allowed them to be reborn after their death. Despite this, a few of them escaped from the initial attack, and they spent many years engaged in brutal warfare against those who had usurped their power. During this conflict, a significant amount of the magic that was present during the First Age was expended or destroyed in acts of retribution. Eventually, the last of the surviving Solars were hunted down and slain, bringing an end to the First Age.

After the fall of the Solar Exalted, their Realm was left in ruins. The same curse that had corrupted them had also corrupted the world they had built. The Sorcerous mechanisms that the Solars had used to maintain their civilization began to fail and disintegrate rapidly. Entire cities crumbled, and lands were destroyed by the devastating magic of the manses. Mountains were swallowed by the earth, taking entire nations with them. Islands were obliterated as the powerful sorcery that had created them was undone. The Sidereals, who had sided with the Dragon-Blooded, worked to stabilize the world and limit the destruction caused by the fall of the First Age. Though the world survived, it was left significantly diminished.

Following the collapse of the First Age and the destruction of the Solar Exalted, the Dragon-Blooded established a military regime in the aftermath. While their reign lacked the splendor of the Solars' once-glorious Realm, it was also free from the chaos and madness that had ultimately led to its downfall. The Dragon-Blooded maintained order and stability for centuries, working to rebuild and recover from the devastating aftermath of the First Age.

The Usurpation was orchestrated by the Sidereals, a powerful group of Celestial Exalted. After aiding the Dragon-Blooded in their rise to power, the Sidereals deliberately erased all records of their own existence and manipulated the stars to bring about a collective forgetting. To maintain their power and influence, the Sidereals created the Immaculate Philosophy, a religion that taught the spiritual superiority of the Dragon-Blooded. Disguised as monks and followers of this new religion, the Sidereals worked behind the scenes of Dragon-Blooded politics, maintaining control from the shadows.

The Sidereals, through their mystical powers and instruments, carefully monitored the world for any signs of new Solar Exalted who might be reborn. They used this information to guide the Dragon-Blooded in organized groups called the Wyld Hunt to eliminate the Solars before they could become a threat. The Wyld Hunt became known for their brutal inquisitions, which were intertwined with the Immaculate religion. For many years, the Wyld Hunt hunted down and killed any new Solar Exalted without fear of reprisal.

#exalted #ex3 #exalted third edition #exalted 3e #solar exalted #solars #dragon-blooded #terrestrial exalted #sidereals #first age #roleplaying #roleplaying games #tabletop rpg #celestial exalted #wyld hunt #usurpation

[queer-as-used-by-tolkien]

He's not visiting revenge upon those who rejected him, exactly, but...

Here's a little ficlet I found in my drafts. This is the second half and I don't know where the first half is, but I think it's understandable.

~oOoOo~

He's not visiting revenge upon those who rejected him, exactly, but he isn't going to worry if he hurts them in his quest. Through the Dream, he radiates resentfulness, and everyone learns to fear it. It seems directed everywhere. All these Dreamers, especially the Valiants, who had had nothing but scorn for him and his Wyld Hunt. He has no reason to care for them.

And everybody just sees him as a villain. Sylvari feel him through the Dream but have been pre-influenced by the fact he's a villain, and only see the anger, not the kindness behind it. They can tell he's lonely and say 'look, he's so evil he doesn't have any friends' instead of realizing it's the other way around.

He used to be afraid of his power because he didn't want to be like Zhaitan, but now that he's embraced it, he sort of… usurps Zhaitan's place, magically, so that now he rules the Risen, and turned against and killed Zhaitan. He never became corrupted himself; sylvari cannot be. But he could control the corruption.

He never cleansed Orr. He couldn't; his magic didn't work that way. Zhaitan's power was death, and even a new master didn't change that. Trahearne spent most of his time in on the continent, commanding undead, trying to build a safe space for those who weren't safe elsewhere.

And the whole time he's just lonely. He has only his necromancer minions and the Risen (and the line between them is incredibly blurry; are they his or were they once Zhaitan's? doesn't matter) for company, and even Caithe has turned against him.

Then the Commander comes along, a sylvari; they sees Trahearne in their Dream and everybody interprets it to mean that this young Valiant will kill him and end his menace forever.

The Pale Tree says it must be done, while weeping over the loss of her Firstborn, but Caithe's face is stony and she says she'd never known him, and that Trahearne is not her brother.

The Valiant believes it, but there's always something telling them something isn't right. They ignores it, but after first seeing him (and feeling him through the Dream) it grows stronger.

There is no hate in him, no cruelty, not even rage as many would explain it. Just anger. And pain.

The Valiant still trusts Caithe and the Pale Tree and everyone else.

The Valiant first sees Trahearne surrounded by Risen, directing them with gestures, in a pitched battle with the Wardens.

There is a confrontation between Caithe and Trahearne; she shows her emotions, for once, and screams at him. "You were supposed to cleanse Orr, not take the side of corruption!"

It's a long and slow process, the Valiant learning about everything. The fact he'd spent two decades in Orr already, trying, without success. The fact that most people didn't care even before he turned evil. Only Caithe had ever been genuinely happy to see him when he came home. How much home stopped feeling like home for him.

But… that is just his past. Everyone has a reason for going evil, but they must be stopped.

The Valiant doesn't try reasoning with him for a long time. Just fighting. Caithe had described Zhaitan, and corruption, and how sylvari could not be corrupted. This path had been deliberately chosen. The Valiant knew there was no compromise with corruption.

They found his camp one day, full of Risen under Trahearne's control. The Valiant and Caithe tried to sneak in and kill him. He was alone in his tent, and through the Dream the Valiant could feel… loneliness, sharp and bitter and painful. There was also fear. Those emotions made sense.

But it was the disappointment that gave the Valiant pause. They stood still and let themself feel. It was like a deep chasm, a pit of despair. Active. He was feeling these right now, alone in his tent. The disappointment and despair was an emotion that enclosed all the others. There was the anger and the resentment that everyone feared so much. Deeper, there was the loneliness and pain and fear that the Valiant had felt. Even more deeply, desperation, failure, and… self-loathing?

The Valiant wanted to pry more, but then Caithe revealed herself to Trahearne, and it was all washed away in the familiar anger, more strongly than the Valiant had ever felt before, nearly white-hot rage. Alongside it was the furiously boiling resentment, and a - strange sense of betrayal.

The Valiant quickly hurried to join the fight, and disdain appeared in the mix of Trahearne's emotions. Disdain and scorn. Was it directed at themself? The Valiant wasn't sure. Betrayal or no betrayal, nobody took dragon minions and went around raiding villages. People were betrayed all the time and handled it and moved on. There was no excuse for this. At least he seemed to feel shame for it, if that self-loathing was any indicator.

Trahearne snarled at Caithe; no, asked; he asked her how old the Valiant was, how long they'd conspired against him.

---

Trahearne had seen the Valiant before, of course. He knew who they were. Another Valiant. The Valiants, he knew, had mocked his Wyld Hunt, his failure, his dedication. They had spoken to him, never even trying to conceal their contempt.

Not as bad as Caithe, the one sylvari he thought would understand, but… it was still painful. The loneliess, the rejection, the scorn. How could they be sylvari, with the Dream, and have no sympathy? Now they feared him. Now they saw his power.

No. He was not here for them. He was here for the non-sylvari who had to work to feel sympathy, who valued it more highly.

So he disregarded them. All these Valiants, especially this one who had drawn Caithe's interest. That one must be even worse than the others.

But… a friend of Caithe's. The hollow pit of loneliness never left him. A friend who might have been his friend, if he'd just… lain down and taken it for another year or two. No. No, he could not have done that. He wouldn't debase himself that far.

~oOoOo~

Feel free to expand on this if you want! (Just tell me about it XD)

#gw2 #trahearne #caithe #sylvari #risen #zhaitan #valiant #wyld hunt

[the-wolf-fiendling]

Given the whole thing with Dream, given THIS face reveal takes place amidst a battlefield of atrocities... I just had to:

#witcher 3 #trans #me #gaming #youtube #cute #help #egirl #lets play #pretty #the witcher #witcher eskel #geralt #ciri #yennefer of vengerberg #wyld hunt #wild hunt #Youtube

[mirage-of-the-virtuoso]

Y'know what? Maybe I'm crazy for this, but I am curious if others had similar things with their characters.

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #gw2 pact commander #pact commander #polls #for Chrysallus he has always felt drawn to the dragons. but he has never wanted to kill them-- #--but others based his wyld hunt on Caithe's; who believes her's to be killing Zhaitan #Chrys wants to; in some way; coexist with the dragons. but given the circumstances was an impossible task #up until Aurene; that is. then; he finds a dragon that basically shares his purpose. #before Aurene; he wondered if he was meant to be Mordremoth's champion. but resisted because he doesn't want to be-- #--a pawn used to destroy the world #he is a pacifist and a kind-hearted sylvari. he wants to help; to understand; to be the support misunderstood souls needed-- #--when they have been forsaken by others. he can't do that as a corrupted dragon minion #sorry i am rambling. please share your stories!! OwO

[praise-joko]

Love imagining an exchange between characters play out in my head and then desperately trying to get it in writing afterwords. Sometimes I can capture it properly but a lot of the time I lose it.

#I don’t like to write it while I’m imagining it because then I end up putting too much thought into it #and it ends up feeling less natural #I managed to capture the essence of it this time thankfully #Basmani is finding out what happens now that he’s completed his wyld hunt

[tricos-here]

I think today I will be going insane over this dialogue (again)

#(blasts ryan with the horrors™ beam) #and myrnah technically.... if she got a wyld hunt later on

[icebrooding]

I know its just an inconsistency but Gavin calling Sariel 'young' when she's a secondborn is like... what, is he meant to be a secondborn too? Cause damn, if that was the case then Aileana was waiting in the Dream for Kaushue for a VERY, VERY long time...

My boy didn't just sleep in past his own cycle awakening but took like abt 20 or so years to even show in up the Dream, wheezes. Ai's life is suffering indeed

#text #kaushue #aileana celyn #im not rlly gonna put any thought into it beyond Gavin has Old Man vibes anyway #but its funny to imagine Ai just like 'EUGH WHERE THE FUCK IS HEEEEE' about kaushue waiting for him #when u get a wyld hunt but u have to wait two decades for it to even start smh

[wylde-lore]

*radio transmision*hey cedric you there i have seen a shuttle with evelyn land on copper 5 and she doesnt look good

Respond soon

I already know about that, and that's not her. It's someone who merely looks like her.

(I already have this whole event planned out. She won't be back until tomorrow.)

#dr. wylde speaks #murder drones rp #the hunt for evelyn

[commanderfloppy]

So thing I haven't really mentioned before is that Canach and Damia are friends, mostly through letters written back and forth from Orr and wherever Canach's work took him.

Anyways here's their first meeting from when they were both little saplings, it was uhh.... an interesting one.

#gw2 #my art #Damia rose #Canach #Sapling canach looks so damn goofy to me #of course you got pink hair and pronouns #after this the spirits left Damia's body and Canach questioned her on what the fuck just happened #through that their friendship is born #of course it got a bit stiffed after Damia got whisked away to her Wyld Hunt but #that's why they kept it up a little through letters

[dumb-dumb-mander]

Recently I read back my (old) lemon/smut about all the Largos and Mikhail─

And huh oh, I forgot I played with heat to have an excuse and

I don't know if I like that idea that much anymore fjkez

Which means I'll never finish the part 2 though

#me : “i'm not influenceable” #also me : *get influenced by friend writing about heat cycle* #and now I feel ashamed to have wrote this zabfke #now I'm even thinking that idea of Mikhail without a Wyld Hunt and traveling around as *the* version for that AU #which... wasn't the case when I wrote these lemon

[kerra-and-company]

14 for Kerra !!

(@dumb-dumb-mander)

Oooh, gladly!!

14. If they were an elder dragon, what would their domains be?

At this point, Kerra is so connected to Aurene that I almost just said that she'd have Aurene's domains, but honestly, I think she'd have some version of Mordremoth's. It'd be some combination / variation of plant and mind/persuasion--because Kerra absolutely would have a domain connected to mind, but it'd be somewhere between Mordremoth's domination and Jormag's whispers. Maybe emotion instead, for her empathy ability, or something along those lines.

#gw2 #kerralind #dumb-dumb-mander #thanks a bunch for the ask! :D #she is in some ways absolutely her grandfather's grandchild #which is likely the reason that she was the one who ended up with the wyld hunt to kill him

[i-mybrunettelady]

🌼 for beloved mirka and 🌾🌈💧 for siona [echowilds]

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🌼 What’s your favorite thing about this oc?

Her being very Slavic-inspired? Even her name's intentional in that regard. I mean Nyra is too, but Mirka's purposefully so; Nyra's just a side product of character development. All this is bc I, the Nero, am Slavic and wanted to see it in fantasy, which I don't often do. It's just one of the things that jumped to mind rn lol I love Mirka a lot

🌾How does this oc get along with people they just met?

Pretty well! Siona's a Warden Captain, so she meets new people every day and her calm aura lends way to a lot of pleasant first interactions and impressions.

🌈What does this oc like and dislike about themselves?

Siona likes her polyamory. Yes, Siona's poly, which I feel like I don't talk about enough. She's not looking for new partners right now, she's fine with just Canach and Laranthir and I don't think she'll keep sexual relationships outside those two, but she does enjoy this aspect of her life a lot. She dislikes her hesitancy in making decisions and how she wasn't a military captain by birth (aka it's a learned skill, not an innate desire, like it is with Nyra.)

💧What is this oc most passionate about?

Keeping the sylvari race safe and thriving, keeping the White Stag (which she found as a result of her Wyld Hunt and is in charge of keeping safe, hence her title at my character list being Warden of Hope) and her beloved necromantic minions.

#gw2 #ask meme #vladimira jarsdottir #siona nightthorn #i love it when you guys remind me to write about some OCs #and in doing asks all the lore just comes out gushing #like siona being poly or being the warden of the white stag #or having a wyld hunt at all #gw2 norn #gw2 sylvari

[plantb0t]

Guild wars 2 is so stressful how dare you keep asking me to make decisions in this video game I can't handle this responsibility

#as far as this decision goes I think I'll have to choose the option someone else brought up on my other post hsfzhfhfs #I'm trying to make these decisions in character . the issue is I'm not entirely sure what amarbel's character is yet #main thing about his character to me so far: he was basically just born #doesn't know a lot about the world yet but has already fully accepted his wyld hunt. he doesn't know anything else #as far as these decisions I think he leans more towards minimizing risk. he's a small and slight man. and a caster #not incredibly physically imposing. he relies more on his charm #though he is strong in necromancy magic #that's been an interesting thing to consider story-wise. the sylvari deal with a lot of undead enemies #i think the way they see him is something like ''the mother tree chose him to fight them specifically because his skills are so similar'' #like amarbel was born to fight fire with fire. or something. even so i feel like it unnerves some of the sylvari that he's a necromancer #gw2 #.txt

[rabbitgardens]

ohhh i was trying so hard to not make revyl a courtier/ex-courtier but its just a little clown.....its just a little weirdo....

#talking tag #giving it some title like Jester Of Deceit or some shit #im still attatched to the travelling theatre/nightmare court sect idea... #maybe it becomes commander/begins following its wyld hunt after it gets bored of leading his troupe asldj #i just want it to have a little team rocket group of cronies asldj #i know it wouldve regret having to kill gavin in the personal story anyway maybe it just Refuses and joins the court