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Hi I'm Naiad from naiadestricolor and welcome to my fandom stomping ground sideblog. Here be arts and video games (or whatever else I fancy).

[arcaneidolriots]

a human, minotaur, lizardman, and insectoid walk into a bar are shackled together and thrown into a dungeon...

legend of grimrock was on sale recently and i’ve been wanting to play this series for a while now so i snagged it almost immediately.  you can import custom portraits for your characters, so i painted my own...because i could lol.  they turned out pretty well considering i didn’t really plan them :V

[arcaneidolriots]

I finally finished HoT story.  

I probably would have finish it sooner if I didn’t get the ending spoiled for me like 3 days after the expansion came out (and while I don’t mind spoilers, the fate of a certain someone did kill my enthusiasm a little bit lol) and also if I wasn’t so busy with the material sink known as guild halls.

I have a lot of thoughts I want to get down, but I’m too tired for that now so the tl;dr for now is the story was okay.  I don’t think it’s the most atrocious thing as some people are making it out to be, but it was kind of underwhelming.  But still enjoyable as long as I don’t think too hard on it lol.

[arcaneidolriots]

queenqueso replied to your post:

The death of [[redacted from notes]] is so fucking lazy that it just kills any emotion I have for the actual character :\

part of me thinks that the reason why the writers killed eir and belinda is because they couldn’t figure out a better way to get the various characters invested in killing mordremoth.  so they kill eir and belinda to get braham and marjory personal invested respectively by getting them to seek vengeance, where marjory goes so does kasmeer, and the same to a lesser extent with taimi and rox following braham.  

and like i understand from a story perspective it’s better to have your characters have a personal stake in the story, but like

did we forget that braham is a young norn seeking to make his legend, and his mother is a famous hero who fights elder dragons and just recently help take down zhaitan?  more than any other norn, he would jump at the chance to help take down an elder dragon with his friends if it meant he could begin to live up to her legend.

did we forget that marjory, more than anyone else in the biconics, wanted to investigate the cause of the roar at the end of LS1 (before we knew of mordremoth)?  there’s also the fact that her benefactor is E and that it was E who first alerted her and us about the first mordrem activity in brisban.  we know that E is interested in keeping tabs on, to paraphrase, ‘the forces at work in the world that would take us all down if we let them’ and marjory wouldn’t be working with E unless she agreed with that mindset.  i would also like to think marjory would follow through her investigations no matter what, or at least help her friends whom she stated she’s proud to fight alongside, a camaraderie she never experienced while she was in the ministry guard and that actually means a lot for her character.  if you don’t like that, marjory was once a priory member, an organization that researches and fight elder dragons use that excuse if you have to.

like there’s stuff the writers could have used and built on, but nah let’s go with needlessly fridging some more women because that’s the easy way to get an emotional pull and it’s just very disappointing

[goddessofcheese]

you go, bb

[arcaneidolriots]

HoT spoilers under the cut (do not look unless you’ve completed Act 2), just some thoughts on the story so far because i’ve hit my first real mastery gate lol.

so...eir stegalkin.  let me just get this out of the way.

i’m not upset or mad, but i am kind of disappointed that the writers went the most predictable route.  i mean most of community saw this coming.  granted i fell in with the crowd that wanted eir to become a druid while braham gets her bow and becomes a dragonhunter...but if i want to be perfectly honest i dreaded this coming since the end of LS S2 when eir and braham have their last conversation and eir says, ‘when this is over, let’s go hunting in the shiverpeaks together.’

part of me wonders if i would have been more okay with eir’s death if marjory’s sister wasn’t also fridged early in S2 and if the personal story already didn’t have a lot of norn women dying for no good reason.  (i mean there are A LOT of needless character deaths in the latter half of the orr/pact personal story, but the norn women stick out most in my mind since i was disturbed by that trend.)  i guess i should be glad that i genuinely do care about eir and i don’t have the story telling me that i should be caring about a character whom i just met and is going to die in the next--or even the same--story step...but whatever lol.

why was faolin in the jungle again?  did i miss something somewhere?  like it’s been a LONG time since i’ve done TA story, but all i remember is that we kicked her out of the dungeon...and that’s it lmao.  

i mean the only ideas i can come up with is that faolin was tracking caithe, like she’s done in the past, and got captured by mordrem or that the writers just want caithe to angst more what with faolin being changed into a vinetooth chimera thing.  i’m hoping it’s more the former and not the latter.  and i’m hoping there’s more nightmare court stuff than the little tidbit faolin says when she was in the cage.

oh yeah and i had the fate of a certain character at the end of the story somewhat spoiled for me hahahaah. :’’’)

on a more positive note, i absolutely love canach.  i’ve been tracking this guy’s character arc since LS S1, and i just love how his character has been slowly revealed and elaborated on and how he comes together so well.  i would like to talk about canach more once i finish HoT’s story, but i will just say that the unique conversations and the camaraderie you have with him is worth taking a sylvari character through the story.

[arcaneidolriots]

previewing new genes on more of my dragons

i’m sorely tempted to just change my entire lair to poison/toxin

[arcaneidolriots]

the new genes look amazing on my progens.  Blood Sprig will finally get some genes after so long lol!

[sepiidae]

A Reminder! Please tag your Heart of Thorns spoilers!

So with the hype train hurtling towards its destination and the release of Heart of Thorns looming like a charging teragriff, we can expect a whole lot of new story and lore revelations to come with it! 

However! Not everyone will be able to blaze through the content to access these bits of the story right away. The Halloween event is being released on the same day, and others may not be able to get to the story due real life constraints. Nevertheless, they may want to come across these story bits on their own without being spoiled by others.

So! While I’m sure many would be eager to share and discuss how Caithe kills Dumbledore and Rytlock was a ghost the whole time, it would be great to make use of spoiler tags and read mores to do so! Fandom specific tags like #guild wars 2 spoilers/#gw2 spoilers/#Heart of Thorns spoilers/#HoT spoilers would be appreciated! 

Get ready 4 launch every1 

[arcaneidolriots]

Things I Would Like From Heart of Thorn’s Story:

don’t corrupt/kill Trahearne

or Laranthir for that matter

please for the love of all that’s sacred, do. not. fridge. Eir.

actually, just stop killing [various] [norn women] [for no good reason] in the story

all of Destiny’s Edge and the Biconics survive intact

MALYCK

...that’s it really lol

[arcaneidolriots]

while the idea of staying up for HoT’s launch sounds cool (because i am on pst), i’m also expecting things to just be bugged as all hell and that there’ll be a dozen hotfixes and patches within the first few hours lol.  

i mean, i sincerely hope the launch goes smoothly for everyone, but godspeed to the devs pulling the midnight shift to make sure things get done.

[mudora]

Heart of Thorns hype is getting even worse… GOSH THE MAIN THEME GOT REVAMPED COMPLETELY.

[dothunter-deactivated20171119]

4chan’s HoT predictions

[arcaneidolriots]

this motley crew whom i’ve never really talked about or shown (despite how fond i am of them and have been playing this game for over 3 years jeez lol)

anyways, it’s less than a week before HoT releases, and i decided to take some quick shots of my characters to look back on since i never do this kind of thing enough.

[arcaneidolriots]

GW2 discussions have been so exhausting since BWE3 (raids, ascended armour, and now dungeons), and i honestly think people are blowing things out of proportion in regards to the various changes coming with HoT.

mostly i’m just annoyed that people seem to think the changes are awful or unfair when the content isn’t even live yet and so we don’t even know the full impact of the changes.  because i’m so excited for the expansion and a lot of the changes coming, and i’m happy to wait until the dust settles before passing judgement.

[queenqueso]

I NEED THEM I NEED THEM I NEED THEM I NEED THEM I

[arcaneidolriots]

When I wasn’t having fun on reaper, I used BWE3 to make a proto-revenant to test how I want Darach to look. 8)))

[arcaneidolriots]

Ravenlark uses the ambrite weapons set, and ever since the reaper elite spec was announced, I’ve been dying to see her wield the greatsword.  Was finally able to give it to her this past BWE and she looks so good with it. ;^;

(I’ll also be really happy to get better shots of her with it when I’m not being attacked by mordrem and hostile frogs every 5min lol.)