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so i haven’t been online in literal years and in changing my main blog’s name i realized i’ve been hoarding urls this entire time??? so i thought i might as well make a post of names i’ve deleted in case someone wants them lmao:

- trehearne - trahearneofdusk - astorea - cursedshore - clawrisland - hackgate (good ol’ bg salt days lmao)

and some non gw2 ones if any of y’all like these too:

- coatlwaddle (fr) - father-of-mysteries (tes) - clockwork-god (tes) - lord-of-outland (wow)

might go through more later but this should be good for now

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The Once and Future King

It’s no secret that sylvaris borrow a lot to celtic myths and legends, but most specifically to Arthurian mythology. I could (should) put more thought in this and provide a full-length essay on every parallel in game (now that I’ve noticed the pattern, you can be sure I’ll be looking for them and dig out and examine every little piece of lore to see how it fits into the arthurian legend!) but I’ll keep it simple and focus on Trahearne only. Huge revelation to come :

Trahearne is King Arthur.

They bear a weapon that was never forged, Caladbolg, gifted by a magical being.

“But, Arthur’s sword is Excalibur, we all know that!” In some versions of the myth there are two swords - the sword in the Lake, and the sword in the stone. Excalibur and Caliburn. In other versions of the myth, the two swords are one and the same. Excalibur or Caliburn, it matters little, as both names derive from the same root. Caledfwlch in welsh. Calesvol in Middle Cornish. Caladbolg in Irish.

Arthur recieves his sword as a gift from the Lady of the Lake. Trahearne from the Pale Tree.

They are burdened with an impossible task.

For Arthur, unifying Britain and finding the Grail. For Trahearne, unifying the Pact and restoring Orr. One fails, the other succeeds. (Yay for Trahearne!)

They lay mortally wounded against a tree, surrounded by a few of their friends.

Arthur lays against a tree, mortally wounded by his son, Mordred. Trahearne lays entangled in vines, possessed and mortally wounded by his grandfather, Mordremoth.

Their dying breaths are for their swords.

Arthur asks his knight or Merlin (depending on the version) to toss it into the Lake whence it came. Trahearne requests his sword to kill him and free him from Mordremoth.

They are taken by the mist, to Avalon, where they rest until the world needs them and they awaken.

Arthur is taken to the Isle of Avalon (meaning the Isle of apple trees), to take his final rest, or recover till Britain needs him. Trahearne is still found in Caer Aval (meaning the Castle of apple trees) after the events of Heart of Thorns… waiting for the moment he may return, perhaps ?

These are the few parallels I gathered since yesterday, but I’m certain there will be more. Feel free to add to the list if you noticed some! 

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A trae sketch from last month – I forgot to save a larger resolution/uncropped version tho :,I

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This was posted in to a dnd server but I think it applies to gw2 as well

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GW2 Photo Challenge Day 9: Elder Dragon

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A BEAN!!!! a bean a bean a bean a bean a bea n ab ea neab ebeaneabneabeabnaebeanebanebeaneabean

Commission: Alphazi & Ts'ouryen for @alphazi!

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holy HECK it’s been like 4 or 5 years since i first added the alpha/tsouryen and trahearne pics on my blog and FINALLY they’re actually in the bottom right corner. thank you so much @vaixation for explaining it to me and helping me fix it kjHSDGJHSDF

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Commission: Erannos for @alphazi!

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So the new stretch emote…. is something 

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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

Keep reading

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🌿 ӄռɨɢɦȶ օʄ ȶɦօʀռ 🌿 this was started as a re-draw of my old trae headshot to get back into the flow of things and it still kinda counts i think 👀 

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Happy anniversary to Guild Wars 2, and to my guild Diamond Legacy [DIA]!

From left to right: me, Vei, Tali, Luna, @cashew-butter, @jenipedia, @alphazi

To you and to several others not pictured–

I can’t even begin to express how grateful I am that random happenstance and luck brought us all together, and that through these rough times we’ve gotten closer than ever. Knowing that I can look forward to talking to you every week makes everything infinitely more bearable. Thank you for bringing so much love and laughter into my life–I couldn’t ask for better friends. Here’s to the future <3

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ive been playing eso almost every day for months now, and what do i do? make a garbage cosplay alt in gw2. naturally.

anyway y’all, here’s lord seht himself

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begone THOT

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==> trahearne: wield this broken piece of shit 

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PLEASE use them! for whatever your heart desires!!!

You don’t have to credit me, would be nice if you do it tho.

I ran out of creativity juice before I got to use them all…

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famous last words before entering the heart of maguuma