Revs up for more character development for Tylliand, Argylwood, and Manyeullan..!
I think beyond what I've said before in a previous post about Tylliand, she, out of all of my Sylvari, is probably connected to the dream the most. She feels as though it's what keeps her going and what fuels her ambitions even when she doesn't know it. As such, she's a big mama's salad and wants to impress the Pale Tree and make her proud. Despite that, she is feels an intense pull towards sylvari camps--and I think that someday that is where she will end up settling down for the most part after she's done exploring the world and seeing all of it's wonders. For such a small salad she has a big heart. Perhaps too big, if you ask me..and excitable. So excitable in fact that she sometimes accidentally causes harm to her friends. She probably plays it off as 'Oh, it didn't hurt that much~!' to hide the bit of guilt she has--but she has very little feelings of guilt for her own actions and chalks it up to 'I was supposed to do that--it's what the dream predicted even if I didn't know it!' She's a bit eccentric but means well. "Act with Wisdom, but act." is not a very well known Ventari teaching to her. Although they have not spent much time together, Tylliand considers Aelestri and Twylph (I believe it's Twy--correct me if im wrong pastry pls) to be her friends and finds great amusement with the three of them together. She also looks up to Yrt a lot because she's been all over Tyria and is one of the best Rangers she's ever gotten to meet. If out of anyone she'll listen to her the most.
That being said, Manyeullan is completely Soundless. Much like Argylwood, he didn't and still doesn't understand how to connect with the dream--or why he should in the first place. It more or less made him uneasy, confused, and annoyed--which are three things he hates the most. This lead him to see if the dream was true...and in doing so he ended up turning to the Nightmare. He had to understand and had to be sure that if the nightmare existed to balance the dream (as some courtiers proclaim) then the dream was real if the nightmare was. Yet, as he remained in the Nightmare Court it seemed as though he felt the same way--a disconnection between him and the other sylvari. Nothing had changed, only their views on the world and he, left in the dark about the connection he was supposed to feel. Now, he is more or less wanted by the Nightmare Court, being called a traitor after he left and never came back from a mission into the swamp. He doesn't mention his nightmare days, merely explaining that he is, and always has been Soundless. For him, unlike many others, it was a path he wished he had never taken and regrets his decisions to this day. Though he's gotten away, there are some scars left from his corruption and sometimes they like to show themselves, though it isnt often. Manyeullan is a quiet sylvari--but not shy or a recluse. Instead he seeks friendship with those he can connect with when it comes to opinions, hobbies, likes and dislikes, just as any other race does, it seems. Just as Tylliand finds great interest in spiders, he finds great interest in fire. Especially since it is such a danger and a hazard to plants and beings alike. To control it is his greatest happiness and has the habit of wondering what something will do if he sets it on fire..when the only answer remains to be 'It's just on fire'. Though Manyeullan has not formed any strong bonds with anyone as of yet, he has had a brush with Argylwood while he had been captured by the Nightmare Court. Manyeullan, for whatever reason, felt compelled to help him and a group of other sylvari escape the Nightmare Court and blamed it on a pack of poorly trained nightmare hounds. He has yet to see Argylwood since, but feels a strange connection with him that he cannot explain. Little does he know, Argyl has slightly similar feelings about the dream and his connection to it.
Argylwood is neither Tylliand or Manyeullan. He is constantly questioning his place in the dream and despite knowing he belongs nowhere else but in The Grove, as it is his home and everything he knows, he can't help but shake the feeling that there is something more to sylvari than just the dream. In some aspects he wonders if the connection he shares with other sylvari were forced upon him by the Pale Tree. Nothing about the idea sits well with him and in most cases it freaks him out to think on it too hard. (Much like many people when thinking about the universe for too long) He prefers not to talk of Ventari's Teachings or the Tablet at all. He also refuses to speak of The Nightmare when asked if he is being lead astray. His fear of the Nightmare Court is something that haunts him and makes an effort to keep himself far, far away from any of their establishments. Which is why he's joined the Order of Whispers. They are not so much action and confrontation as Vigil--and don't require a whole lot of magical understanding or smarts like the Priory. He is stealthy and he uses it to keep away from his fears. Any other enemy, however, he will rampage in, undeterred, fortunately. As much as he finds being Soundless a pleasant concept, he fears that if he does that he will no longer be a 'sylvari' or what they stand for. Though to most sylvari he is viewed as off putting and strange, unfortunately. Despite all of that, however, his affections lay with a Ranger Sylvari named Clove Pink whether she knows it or not--or accepts it, for that matter. When he isn't dungeon-ing or yelling at Craftyhands, he likes to visit Rata Sum and listen to the Asura's talk of the Eternal Alchemy. Though he doesn't have the intellect of an Asura to wrap his head around the concept, the idea sits better with him than the dream. To him, it makes more sense and perhaps that's why he enjoys Asuras as much as he does.
