The Pale Tree

Started as a Sylvari-themed side blog, now my GW2 sideblog. Main blog is here. My name is Tanalilt, you can call me Tana. I play when I have time, I love gorgeous sylvari and my kickass beautiful norn, and love therorizing about living story stuff. I also occasionally draw things. Add me to play! I need some GW2 friends. Tanalilt.6942

[kintheartist]

Nivereth for the wonderful only_fiends! I asked if I could base her design on lilies and snowdrops after seeing her beautiful in-game model and she graciously said yes 💮 I built her skirt out of a lily blossom, and her wrist cuffs, shoes, and shoulder pieces are designed after snowdrops. Her hair is also made of snowdrops, and the ties in her hair and on her dress are lily stamens.⁠ ⁠ I love working on plant-based designs 💚⁠

[moonlit-grove]

Heartbreaking to me that Aurene wasa year old at most when Balthazar killed the commander

[moonlit-grove]

And since there's a collective agreement that as her champion she could FEEL it happen it just adds to it because. No matter what that killing blow was, feeling it while seeing it would have been agony for her. And she was a baby. She never got to have a childhood. She never got to play and pounce and run around. She had to grow up too fast.

[flame-squad]

a whole new man here The name’s Styxx, used to work for a … an Inquest researcher with a very non-existent moral code. He was one of her test subjects, and she used to send him to look for the other test subject, who escaped.

While he was looking for the other test subject, he got a taste of life outside of the facility, enjoyed it too much, and when he finally found his target, one silent look at each other was enough. He came back to his boss, claiming that he has found the girl, but she was strong enough that he couldn’t drag her back. The researcher was delighted to hear that her test subject wasn’t weak! She kept sending Styxx to find and fight her, and he kept coming back to her with the same claim and freshly invented details about the girl’s progress.

Then at some point the researcher lady died, and he was suddenly a free man… pretending to follow his boss’s last command, he left, never to return.

 - currently is sabotaging inquest operations, freeing their potential test subjects, being a stealthy nuisance

 - his name was inspired by river Styx x)

 - has to figure out how to function around normal people

 - experiments made him look older than he is supposed to, turning his hair white and making him look tired (oooh edgy)

 - unconsciously copied his boss’s facial expressions, now he’s trying to get rid of them and find his own

[thebiscuiteternal]

Any grudge I had towards Caithe has officially been settled because the fact that there’s a variant of Aurene’s story floating around that says Caithe laid the egg is a far funnier revenge than I could ever come up with. God, her voice when she’s like “Hey. Hey. I didn’t lay any egg.” has me in tears every time.

[thebiscuiteternal]

if you hang around Caithe in Dragon’s End during the meta preparation stages, there’s a very enthusiastic and slightly misinformed new Crystal Bloom trainee named Saba who talks about how he’s studied all the lore and it’s so inspiring how Caithe laid the egg. 

[fuuinrei]

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I went through a lot of unencrypted voice audio data from gw2.dat and found this stuff here. There probably are more lines such as these but recorded and patched in later and thus encrypted. I’ll try to collect them when I go through the personal story again on a different alt :V

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[kyodoesdumbthings]

has this been done yet? if not well here you go tumblr- 

tired 1 am meme edits-

[aqours-remade]

friendly reminder <3333 :DDD :)))))!

canonically in GW2 a full 7 years have passed since the main story and Living World Season 4, and due to their experiences over and over with fighting Elder Dragons and other sorts of horrors, your Pact Commander is canonically by this point a traumatized, snappy, bitter, broken shell of the person they once were, plagued with the death of multiple friends and the crushing realization that no matter how hard they try and no matter how many enemies are defeated the world just always seems to get worse and worse ლ ( ◕  ᗜ  ◕ ) ლ   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and that was before All or Nothing  ☆*:. o(≧▽≦)o .:*☆ !

[duskroots]

A relationship meme for Bria since I’ve been dying to do one of these, but I couldn’t find one specifically for GW2, but here we go finally!

The original idea and template (x) was made a few years ago by @trashwarden for the DA fandom, and since I still rlly liked the design I edited it to fit my current needs - with permission, of course. Thanks again to Ajir for that! <3

The gradients show how the relationship developed, starting from the middle.

If anyone else wants to do this I’d be thrilled, I’d love to see what your kids’ relationships look like! Have fun :3

blank template: (x) | blank template + transparent bg: (x) | psd: (x)

[misterstevens]

Tiff is one of my oldest characters, in-game and out, and of all my kids, her story most closely mirrors the player character. Here I’ve lined up all of her past armor sets with her life’s events - through the Vigil, Pact, and now captain of an airship that takes her, her partner, and their team through the hardest-hit regions of Tyria. 

(check out the original timeline that inspired mine, about Esfir, Tiff’s partner in love and war, here!) 

[vimpulaattori]

Why is Kralkatorrik such a successful businessman?

He’s very good at Branding.

[marrowy]

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN when i really need some extra money!

currently i’m being scheduled less than 20 hours a week for work which is alright but expensive things i need are racking up pretty quickly. highest priorities being a new computer, mattress and frame second, and some form of transportation that isn’t a bike last.

slot availability and prices listed beneath the cut, thank you 😚

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[marrowy]

i forgot to mention before that i’ll also add gifts with my acrylic paintings!

each will get a free sticker sheet and extra goods like notebooks, pens, pencils and erasers that i’ve accumulated over the years 😎

[pyreo]

One of the things I’m finding fun about Icebrood Saga, and only just realised, is how I’ve changed my perception of the Sons of Svanir from when the game started. Like they’re just the basic norn enemies, the ones that are shitty and you can kill en mass and make the world a better place.

But when we started out I think I assumed that their belief in Jormag as a spirit of the wild was complete nonsense. I thought they’d just made this up out of some cult-like fealty - “this thing was so powerful that we suffered under it so maybe if we pledge allegiance and change sides we’ll benefit instead”. I assumed this was bullshit, that if Jormag ever actually turned up, he (because I thought it was male) would kill any and all of them as a mindless rampaging dragon can. Their loyalty was moronic. And desperate. And clearly deserving of derision. 

And now we come 7 years later to the part of the story about this, and Jormag is an intelligent master manipulator who does desire minions like that, courts worshippers, uses them via mind control or puppets them. I thought the Icebrood were the minions and Sons of Svanir were just fodder who were going to face a nasty wake up call when Jormag rose and caused chaos for all alike. But it’s not. Icebrood and Svanir are all minions alike that it has total control over, and what’s worse, we’re only now seeing how genuinely persuasive it can be and seeing it work on us. And everyone around us. Now it seems so plausible.

[senterya]

We know that Sons of Svanir and Jormag minions kill people. But just listen what Jormag itself does.

Today I spotted a Vigil soldier in the keep, with Jormag’s aura around her head, talking incoherently about surviving and some other stuff over and over, no way to snap her out of it. I was curious and kinda worried as she left the keep, so I followed her as she slowly walked away further and further.

At one point I thought she is going straight to a Svanir camp, but then suddenly she left the road and sat between two trees.

The dialogue changed. I tried to talk some sense into her but nothing really helped. I didn’t want to leave her behind, so I decided to sit with her for a while, hoping she’ll come to her senses.

She did nothing. She was just sitting there.

Then after a while I realized her health bar is dropping. She died on the spot, and there was nothing I could do against it. That fucking dragon just made her walk away and froze to death.

Alone.

In the middle of nowhere.

[slmb3rjack]

ah shit another commander/canach ficlet

you know ya boi gotta do it

Temptation

~1000 words No spoilers. I think. Unspecified Commander, though pronouns are he/ bcause i’m lazy, sorry. Commander/Canach, SFW

Mini Summary It’s cold and comfort is fleeting. Even the Commander grows lonely sometimes. Perhaps he should’ve expected it wouldn’t be quite so simple to seek comfort from someone so far away, safe from the whispers and calls of the dragon that seek those in the Bjora Marches.

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[dizzymilo]

Jormag: They’ll betray you… You can’t trust them… I can protect you…

Sylvari Commander: That voice… the one in the back of my head.

Braham: Y-you hear it too, don’t you?

Sylvari Commander:

[condiscum]

So that one birb meme?

Yeah…

[gw2collective]

Tyrian Gazette: 3200 Gem & Signed Book Giveaway

>> Gleam Giveaway Link: https://gleam.io/hwYxo/tyrian-gazette-3200-gem-signed-book-giveaway

The contest asks you to help us pick one of the designs from the stream (painted with Qesque and Zorav)! The exclusive enamel pin design will be pulled from the results (provided for free to anyone who does the cross-promotion between Echoes of Thunder and Tyrian Gazette).

You can also get entries from completing the other steps and watching the streams from Sunday, July 7th on ArenaNet’s official Twitch channel. There’s one code per stream (21 hours total). There are 9 ways to enter total.

GIVEAWAY ITEMS:

1 Signed Book by the ArenaNet team

3,200 gems total (3 winners - 1200, 1200, 800 gems)

3 enamel pin winners

3 sticker sheet winners

No purchase required. Ships internationally, tracked to door. Runs until 7/10 at 11:59 PM PDT (timer can be found in the link). Gem portion of the giveaway sponsored by @guildwars2. The project is officially promoted and sponsored by ArenaNet.