- absolutely giant (suddenly, there's a giant charr behind you, and you didn't notice her approach, nor do you know how long she has been there)
- dislikes mounts, but reluctantly uses a raptor when needed
Thoughts about other OCs:
- Aspen: Fellow Whispers agent, very grateful to her. Listens to her without question.
- Vylaeth: basically a stranger, but has heard a lot about her in passing. Leave as soon as possible when in the same room.
- Tyr: physically fights her when they're in the same room, because she insults Aspen
Vylaeth:
- sylvari
- engineer
- Durmand Priory (the insanely reckless scholar in a room of insanely reckless scholars)
- basically Scarlet if she was loyal to the Dream and followed ethics, not because she believes in them, but because she likes the extra challenge
- charming, and will flirt, but only to get something else
- does everything with a manic apathy (almost always very happy/excited)
- she's going to defeat the dragons with the power of friendship and this gun (flamethrower?!?!) she found!
- loves her springer
Thoughts about other OCs:
- Aspen: cool Commander who has never tried to stop her research. Fellow scientist!
- Tyr: tall norn, interesting to talk to. Does not like being flirted with
- Caerus: Aspen's pet? Can people be pets?
Tyr Vonnsdottir:
- follower of Bear, very spiritual
- joined the Mist Wars to provide for her Mist sister and their elderly grandma (orphans)
- got so much PTSD and decided to join the Vigil about it
- has a warclaw that's like a therapy/service dog
- revenant
- very aggressive/ferocious, but gentle with children, family, her people, etc
Thoughts about other OCs:
- Aspen: not a soldier, should not be commander. Freaky necromancer who does not care when people die.
- Vylaeth: weird sylvari, but nice. Fun to talk with, just make sure she's only doing library style research when nearby.
- Caerus: wants to be friends so bad. She loves charr and thinks Caerus is so cool and cannot understand why she joined Whispers when she's perfect Vigil material.
Link to the post for my Commander:
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 1 · I should probably actually talk about my Commander somewhere on this blog, so here's a basic profile:
Race: asura
Name: A
I should probably actually talk about my Commander somewhere on this blog, so here's a basic profile:
Race: asura
Name: Aspen Wrenn [don't worry that it doesn't follow asura naming conventions. I promise it means nothing :) ], sometimes Aspen or just AW
Profession: necromancer (reaper, for sword reasons)
Height: smallest asura, like 2'9 ¾ at most
College: Synergetics
Personality Attribute: Dignity (started ferocity, but started changing after ch2)
Order: Whispers
- her story mostly follows the canon story
- She's apathetic, asocial, and generally does not have morals at the start of the story. (She does get all of those at some point though). Despite not having these things, she's not cruel, mostly just weird.
- Trahearne is her best friend
Relationships with my other GW2 OCs:
- Caerus (charr): rocky start, good now. Caerus looks to Aspen for orders
- Vylaeth (sylvari): similar opposites. They get along great, but rarely see each other, especially after Aspen leaves the Pact
If anyone's curious about her, feel free to send me an ask!
- Tyr (norn): Aspen thinks she's alright. Tyr despises Aspen because of the apathy. If Aspen asks her to do something that Tyr wants to do, she will do the opposite out of spite.
Other OCs here:
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Post by @sorkel · Companion post for my other gw2 OCs:
Caerus Talon:
- charr
- Order of Whispers (was Ash Legion)
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On one hand I love Trahearne and miss him so much and want Anet to bring him back
On the other hand, I love torturing Lara and making her go through traumatic even after traumatic event, snd Trahearne’s death is definitely traumatic for her
I'm greatly upset by how the Commander has so many plans they never got to follow through on with Trahearne (promising to kill the dragons together at the celebration after Zhaitan; saying they'll share stories over drinks after when they decide not to get on the airship to fight Mordremoth). Also how Trahearne never got to find himself without the burden of his hunt (on screen).
I stand by my opinion that his death was the most impactful in the game (only played as much as EoD). Like he's the Commander's closest friend in the personal story. They find out he's been taken hostage when they join the campaign against Mordremoth. Then spend the entire campaign searching for him, find him, successfully kill the dragon, only to have that victory ripped from their hands. Mordremoth isn't actually dead, and they have to kill Trahearne with their own hands to kill the dragon.
Sorry order mentors, Almorra, Blish, Ryland, and everyone else, but you just can't compete with that (still sad deaths, just not as sad). Like he had the close connection, the long journey to find him, the unfulfilled promises, and the intimacy of his death. The other deaths only have some of those elements, and those ideas are nowhere near as strong as they are for Trahearne's death.
All this to say, I'm still very upset that he is dead, and my Commander will never forget him, but I think the story is better for having killed him. But anet should actually acknowledge him more because LET THE FRIEND THE COMMANDER KILLED THEMSELVES HAUNT THEM
Thinking about how everyone agreed Trahearne should lead the Pact, and how funny that is. I get that he was a neutral party respected by all of the Orders for his expertise in Orr. But, they still gave a 23 year old with little combat experience (he admits in dialogue that he rarely engaged the risen) authority over an entire military.
His entire life beforehand was him running off to Orr. The Lion Guard who have seen him when he stops at Claw Island found him to be very creepy. Everyone saw this asocial nerd and went "that one please." And I absolutely love him for it.
Also, since I've already mentioned how much of a nerd Trahearne is, I'm going to add this: Taimi and Trahearne never actually interact on screen (afaik). However, during LW4, Taimi is the one who identifies the poem in Jahai Bluffs as Trahearne's favorite. There's only a brief period near the end of LW2 where these two could have interacted. That implies that Trahearne will just take any opportunity he can to talk about Orr (he's just like me fr).
No for sure! I also generally assumed he didn't necessarily know where or what Orr WAS when he first awakened? Caithe had no idea what her Wyld Hunt really entailed until later either, just something to do with dragons.
So in my headcanon it's less that he was avoiding Orr, and more that he was still figuring out what it was exactly that he was supposed to do. "There's this place that WAS healthy and green and now it's not, and I need to get it back to healthy, what place is it?" Might not even know there's a dragon involved! I can imagine him going to Lion's Arch, grabbing a random stranger and asking questions and nobody having a clue what he's talking about.
Or just that he has responsibilities in the Grove, learning the basics about existing, handling Riannoc and then Malomedies and then the newly awakened... lots to do!
In at least one of my AUs he doesn't figure out exactly what he's supposed to be doing until 1306, when he's six years old! (I prefer to stick with "sylvari born in 1300" instead of 1302 because I built up other headcanons around it before I realized. Unforch.)
I don't think he... REALIZES that his Hunt is overwhelming until he arrives.
Question, how do you think his relationship with his Hunt evolved over time?
I think he was absolutely overwhelmed and terrified at first, but determined to do his duty and dedicated to the Pale Tree and the Dream and his Wyld Hunt. And over time, that sense of obligation morphed into... Affection for Orr itself, a love for its history and the people who once lived there, real anger at Zhaitan for how it abused people's bodies and memories... So that he would have been driven to help Orr even without a Wyld Hunt. He always seems so sad when he talks about the things Orr has suffered.
I think you're correct about him not realizing just how daunting a task cleansing Orr would be until he got there. Personally, I think that as long as he has understood what his hunt entailed, he has felt overwhelmed by it. However, his love for Orrian history and devotion to both the Pale Tree and the Dream all motivate him to pursue the hunt.
I don't think he ever stops seeing it as this insurmountable task. Every time he mentions it to the Commander, he seems honestly lost. Then when everything is in place, on the missions to perform the ritual in both the royal tombs and the artesian well, Trahearne is basically silent. He never shuts up about Orr. But when he's finally finishing his wyld hunt, he has basically nothing to say.
When he succeeds, it's still viewed as this impossible task. And I'm so sad that his character just disappears until everything with HoT, because there's so much potential there. This impossible goal that he has been pursuing his entire life is now behind him. He was finally free of this obligation, and I don't have all the words right now to say everything I want to, but I hope you get what I mean about the tragedy here
I agree yeah it was always overwhelming! In the vision with the Pale Tree he says he wonders if it's even possible. Imagine having those doubts after so, so long but knowing you can't do anything else!! It's almost a tragedy (but the opposite haha), in the sense that the ending is inevitable because of the character themselves could never have done anything different. Except the ending is good 😂
BUT YES I WANTED TO HEAR MORE ABOUT HIM AFTER ZHAITAN 😭
To me, him turning to the Commander and pledging his service to the Pact to kill all the dragons is everything. Before that he was just in it to free Orr, and everything else was secondary. Or maybe he WAS in it for all the reasons equally, but now he's committing too it for BEYOND just Zhaitan and Orr. He's saying "this isn't over." He's saying "I'm not gonna stop just because we got this one." He's going y'know what... I'm gonna help the Commander. I'm gonna pledge myself to them like they did to me. I'm gonna make THIS my life's direction now. This. You. My friend.
Ahhhhh I don't have words 🫣 but oughgh 😭 I love that moment so much AND I NEEDED MORE OF IT I WANT TO SEE MORE OF THIS KIND KF DEVOTION
IT WOULD HEAL MY SOUL I THINK
But yes! His love and devotion motivate him!! Some people talk about "how tragic" it was that his life was defined by someone else's goal, but no! It was HIS goal also!! It was so deeply a part of him 😭
I can see the argument for it being a tragedy, but never because his hunt was a goal forced onto him. From what I can tell about the Pale Tree and the Dream, wyld hunts are specific to each valiant.
Like Caithe's hunt is to kill Zhaitan, but when Destiny's Edge forms, they go after Kralkatorrik (afaik, this is without any protest from Caithe). She's perfectly content to fight the other dragons. Or Trahearne, his hunt is to cleanse Orr, but he also does things that don't revolve around that. He travels elsewhere and meets other people, and he studies Orr's history, which don't necessarily help him progress towards an Orr free of Zhaitan's corruption. As far as I can tell, the hunts are already something each of the respective valiants would want to do. The hunts are more or less guidance or a framework/goal that can help the valiant feel fulfilled.
The tragedy is that Trahearne never got to find himself or experience life (on screen) without the burden of his hunt hanging over him. He chose to accept the task, it was never something he was reluctant to do. He just didn't know where to start. Cleansing Orr was just the beginning for him.
He pledged himself to his Commander and to the Pact because there were other dragons and their corruption to face. Kralkatorrik left a giant scar across Tyria's east. Jormag poisoned the minds of young norn men and left corrupted ice shards in the north. Primordus displaced the underground races. All of them destroyed homes and forced people to flee. Trahearne felt sorrow for the state of Orr and its former citizens being used by Zhaitan. I think that after Zhaitan, that sorrow turned into a determination to help the living who were currently victimized by the dragons.
Thinking about how everyone agreed Trahearne should lead the Pact, and how funny that is. I get that he was a neutral party respected by all of the Orders for his expertise in Orr. But, they still gave a 23 year old with little combat experience (he admits in dialogue that he rarely engaged the risen) authority over an entire military.
His entire life beforehand was him running off to Orr. The Lion Guard who have seen him when he stops at Claw Island found him to be very creepy. Everyone saw this asocial nerd and went "that one please." And I absolutely love him for it.
Also, since I've already mentioned how much of a nerd Trahearne is, I'm going to add this: Taimi and Trahearne never actually interact on screen (afaik). However, during LW4, Taimi is the one who identifies the poem in Jahai Bluffs as Trahearne's favorite. There's only a brief period near the end of LW2 where these two could have interacted. That implies that Trahearne will just take any opportunity he can to talk about Orr (he's just like me fr).
No for sure! I also generally assumed he didn't necessarily know where or what Orr WAS when he first awakened? Caithe had no idea what her Wyld Hunt really entailed until later either, just something to do with dragons.
So in my headcanon it's less that he was avoiding Orr, and more that he was still figuring out what it was exactly that he was supposed to do. "There's this place that WAS healthy and green and now it's not, and I need to get it back to healthy, what place is it?" Might not even know there's a dragon involved! I can imagine him going to Lion's Arch, grabbing a random stranger and asking questions and nobody having a clue what he's talking about.
Or just that he has responsibilities in the Grove, learning the basics about existing, handling Riannoc and then Malomedies and then the newly awakened... lots to do!
In at least one of my AUs he doesn't figure out exactly what he's supposed to be doing until 1306, when he's six years old! (I prefer to stick with "sylvari born in 1300" instead of 1302 because I built up other headcanons around it before I realized. Unforch.)
I don't think he... REALIZES that his Hunt is overwhelming until he arrives.
Question, how do you think his relationship with his Hunt evolved over time?
I think he was absolutely overwhelmed and terrified at first, but determined to do his duty and dedicated to the Pale Tree and the Dream and his Wyld Hunt. And over time, that sense of obligation morphed into... Affection for Orr itself, a love for its history and the people who once lived there, real anger at Zhaitan for how it abused people's bodies and memories... So that he would have been driven to help Orr even without a Wyld Hunt. He always seems so sad when he talks about the things Orr has suffered.
I think you're correct about him not realizing just how daunting a task cleansing Orr would be until he got there. Personally, I think that as long as he has understood what his hunt entailed, he has felt overwhelmed by it. However, his love for Orrian history and devotion to both the Pale Tree and the Dream all motivate him to pursue the hunt.
I don't think he ever stops seeing it as this insurmountable task. Every time he mentions it to the Commander, he seems honestly lost. Then when everything is in place, on the missions to perform the ritual in both the royal tombs and the artesian well, Trahearne is basically silent. He never shuts up about Orr. But when he's finally finishing his wyld hunt, he has basically nothing to say.
When he succeeds, it's still viewed as this impossible task. And I'm so sad that his character just disappears until everything with HoT, because there's so much potential there. This impossible goal that he has been pursuing his entire life is now behind him. He was finally free of this obligation, and I don't have all the words right now to say everything I want to, but I hope you get what I mean about the tragedy here
It makes me sad how remarkably few references there are in the game after his death. Especially because of how much the dialogue showed that Trahearne and the Commander's fates were entwined (light in the darkness: the pale tree can see the Commander in her visions of Trahearne's destiny, which is insane if you're not playing sylvari). That is a dear friend that they spent an entire campaign chasing after, only to have to kill him WITH THEIR OWN HANDS after thinking they've won.
EoD spoilers ahead:
Personally, I've taken the lack of references of discussion about him as heavy repression. Especially after playing through that episode about the Commander confronting their traumas. Because what do you mean your most severe traumas are Vlast, who died before you really knew him; Cinder, your enemy's friend who died: Aurene growing up (that's adorable ngl); and Blish. Those weren't the people you were hallucinating, Commander.
That reads to me as the Commander continuing to repress things, but wanting to appear to their friends as though they're working through it. And I fully think they're still in denial about Trahearne. He lived his life mostly as a hermit, wandering through ruins. Of course he's still doing that now that he's retired from the Pact. Just don't mention anything about Maguuma.
thr characters? Not that I know. But "units" is the term used by the skill mechanics and such, and you can measure those by various means, such as lying down in an area-target skill, seeing how much distance between you and a waypoint, and since the Tyrian day/night cycle is on a 2hr timer (meaning multiply by 12 to get irl time, or divide irl time by 12 to get Tyrian time) you can do fun things like see how many units you can run in a given time period, adjust your skill cooldowns to see how long they actually are in Tyrian time, etc.
Thinking about how everyone agreed Trahearne should lead the Pact, and how funny that is. I get that he was a neutral party respected by all of the Orders for his expertise in Orr. But, they still gave a 23 year old with little combat experience (he admits in dialogue that he rarely engaged the risen) authority over an entire military.
His entire life beforehand was him running off to Orr. The Lion Guard who have seen him when he stops at Claw Island found him to be very creepy. Everyone saw this asocial nerd and went "that one please." And I absolutely love him for it.
Also, since I've already mentioned how much of a nerd Trahearne is, I'm going to add this: Taimi and Trahearne never actually interact on screen (afaik). However, during LW4, Taimi is the one who identifies the poem in Jahai Bluffs as Trahearne's favorite. There's only a brief period near the end of LW2 where these two could have interacted. That implies that Trahearne will just take any opportunity he can to talk about Orr (he's just like me fr).
Did anet know they were going to kill Trahearne when they had the Commander tell him "And we'll deal with the other dragons the same way: together" at the celebration after Zhaitan, or was that just an accidental insta kill for my emotional stability?
So I'm replaying the personal story for note taking purposes, and I'm find out that things I thought were my headcanons are actually just canon. Like in the chapter 8 ossuary mission, Trahearne says that the rituals to see Orrian funeral rites are needed so the team can see where the risen are being produced. Except, nothing new about the risen is learned during this process.
Trahearne already knew where the ossuary was and that it was the best theory he had for where the risen were being made. He saw that he had an audience bound by duty in their service to the Pact to see this mission through, and he took his opportunity to infodump.
Also, just in general, that mission was not thought out whatsoever. The Commander meets Trahearne in the tent for a quick mission brief, and then they just grab whatever team of soldiers they find running around outside. This was a very important mission, and they just did not establish a team beforehand.
That actually ties into some of the dialogue in the previous mission where you choose between going to the ossuary or the ship:
Trahearne: "And as much as I hate to risk us both on the same mission, I must join you for this one."
Commander: "Why is that?"
His response is basically to explain why his presence would be helpful at the ossuary, but if you choose the ship mission, he also says he needs to accompany the Commander. He highlighted risking them both on the same mission as a bad thing, does not explain why (even if it's obvious), and that's all ignoring that they have gone on numerous missions together and will go on more in the future.
Personally, I just think he wants to spend time with his friend. In the mission to experiment on the Eye of Zhaitan, there's no reason why the Commander had to be the one to play guard. Or why after returning from Abaddon's Temple, he immediately dismisses the Pact members he was meeting with in favor of hearing the Commander's report when Sayeh had already given hers. Plus there's the whole thing in the retaking Claw Island mission when he promotes the player character (PC) to commander and says that their place is at his side (also parallels how the PC was the one to first suggest him to lead the Pact). Finally, during the Light in the Darkness mission, where Trahearne gets Caladbolg (I have thoughts on that too, just wait for that post, my little nerds), the Pale Tree says something about the Commander being heavily involved with Trahearne's destiny.
Ultimately, this all adds up to there being this heavily repeated sentiment that Trahearne and the Commander are meant to be incredibly important, and nearly inseparable to one another.
With that in mind, I am so upset (for dramatic effect, not actually feeling anything rn) that LW1 moves the story away from the Pact. Trahearne has spent almost his whole life in Orr, and now he's in a position that he only seems to keep out of a sense of duty. That guy is a nerd and so socially awkward (he very often just starts rambling about Orr with zero provocation or response) let him hang out with his friend. Let me see what he's up to after the Zhaitan. The Commander is literally the second highest ranking member in the Pact, it doesn't make sense that they just flat out have no contact or involvement with their operations after the war!!
(I love comments and reblogs, and will try to respond to every one. I love this game and its lore and talking about it, this is my Orr)
Thinking about how everyone agreed Trahearne should lead the Pact, and how funny that is. I get that he was a neutral party respected by all of the Orders for his expertise in Orr. But, they still gave a 23 year old with little combat experience (he admits in dialogue that he rarely engaged the risen) authority over an entire military.
His entire life beforehand was him running off to Orr. The Lion Guard who have seen him when he stops at Claw Island found him to be very creepy. Everyone saw this asocial nerd and went "that one please." And I absolutely love him for it.
Also, since I've already mentioned how much of a nerd Trahearne is, I'm going to add this: Taimi and Trahearne never actually interact on screen (afaik). However, during LW4, Taimi is the one who identifies the poem in Jahai Bluffs as Trahearne's favorite. There's only a brief period near the end of LW2 where these two could have interacted. That implies that Trahearne will just take any opportunity he can to talk about Orr (he's just like me fr).
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