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A list of some of my sylvari headcanons and interpretations of canon, but delivered in extreme hodgepodge style:

- they have human-analogous internal anatomy, meaning that they are plant matter mimicking animal functionalities, inside and out. This is further supported by Mordrem possessing specialized organs such as brains or kidneys (Mordrem Researcher quests) Since the Pale Tree grew on the graves of Ronan's family, she grew her roots into what remained of the bodies, taking nutrients while also learning their anatomy and establishing a scaffolding for the future sylvari. You know how if you bury a body under a tree and later dig up the soil, the roots are shaped like a human? Something similar happened here.

As such, sylvari hardwood skeletal systems are very accurate copies of human skeletons, but soft tissues are more their own thing due to the Pale Tree having less of an accurate frame of reference (since the bodies would have begun to rot) and going with a mix of her knowledge of human anatomy and "instinctive" Mordrem anatomy.

- The wiki states they don't have hearts and a pulse, but relying on purely osmotic gradients for circulation in an ambulatory creature that is stated to have high energy needs and therefore is even unable to rely solely on photosynthesis and other typical plant processes seems implausible, so I changed it to give them some sort of pump organ, positioned more or less in the center of the chest.

- The sylvari don't really have names for their own organs, so they approximate using human vocabulary.

- Sylvari tend to sleep deeper, but can train themselves to have a lighter sleep if required (such as, in dangerous field jobs.) The extra deep sleep sometimes causes nearby sylvari to synchronize their dreams and even "meet" in a hazy dreamscape, a faint remnant of the actual Dream.

- Sylvari sap does not contain platelets, but injury stimulates phloem cells and/or skin cells to swell and constrict, then release a substrate which reacts with certain substances contained within the sap to create a clot-like resin.

- Given enough time, sylvari resin exposed to outside conditions could potentially turn into amber?

- The fact sylvari breathe with their lungs (since they are unable to rely solely on diffusion) implies they possess blood cells and some sort of chromoprotein to carry oxygen? Further supported by the existence of the Mordrem Spleen. Alternatively, they utilize natural magic to speed up diffusion..?

- Sylvari most likely do not possess adaptive immune systems and rely on innate tissue-level strategies to fend off pathogens, like other plants.

- Sylvari awaken with shaper magic, as in the ability to magically and empathically influence other plants. Some specialized Shapers train this ability to use in plant sculpting and architecture, and creating various purposed species such as turret plants. Wardens find it useful to train themselves to read and use other plants as early warning signs for incoming danger. Very rarely, certain sylvari, particularly necromancers, can awaken with little to no shaper magic.

Shaper abilities can be used to alter one's own body, to the point of completely changing one's appearance and even gender if desired, though such a process takes some time. (Perhaps months?)

- Mordremoth, possessing vast amounts of control over plant shaping, can rearrange a sylvari body completely in a matter of hours to days.

- Considering real-life plants rely predominantly on hydraulics rather than electric signaling, logic-ing out an internally consistent and plausible anatomy for ambulatory plants is very difficult (impossible?) thus sylvari must at least possess predominantly electric pathways, essentially mimicking a human nervous system. Many processes would also likely require "it's magic" as an explanation, which makes sense if we consider they are dragon minions, which were probably originally meant to help process and store magic energy at least to some degree.

- Science of sapient walking plants, what the fuck.

- Thank you Tree Mom 🙏

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guy who keeps going to cemeteries and digging up human corpses but with such an air of innocent curiosity that no one can get angry at him for it and they just try to gently lecture him on why he shouldn’t do it

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Skritt Revenant warmup sketch from this morning! Thinking of finishing it sometime.

The idea was put into my head from here on Twitter! https://twitter.com/Landylachs/status/1350175293982445570?s=20

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i love her so much……

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roughly half of my gw2 characters

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*Cries* i’m in too deep way too quick I only mad my bull boy yesterday

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[ guild wars 2 photo challenge ] day three: fashion wars

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I really love heavy and light armor the most for fashion wars. I love trying to make one weight set look like the other (i.e. making light armor look like heavy). I try to make each character’s outfit fairly unique to them!

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Dey

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GW2 PHOTO CHALLENGE04: ELITE SPEC Not necessarily my favourite spec, but I do really enjoy scourge - specifically healscourge! It’s my main class in strikes and I love how easy and fun it is.

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Some fernhound + character art I did for guildies while I was testing out picarto stream!

Top two fernhounds + Fenele belongs to Aimatsu!

Last fernhound belongs to Niamhel.

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Revamping/tweaking gw2 ocs, first up being Dusky: Now an elementalist named Tiallo. Still playing with his backstory, but rn he is doing some unexpected traveling and learning as he goes while flailing about. Leans towards water & air elemental magic

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i am unfortunately a sucker for articulated wings and got lucky with my keys, so new charr

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Ughhh my heart. I love these two so much huhu I rotoscoped this btw haha

Rye and his boyfriend Hideoshi. They’re such a complicated couple but I wouldn’t have it any other way ;;w;;

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No Quarter, a summary.

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FLAT FUCK FRIDAY

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Rose-Colored Boy

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tfw i watched the pokemon 4ever movie last night again for the first time in years and absolutely had to make a celebi vari. they bab-bee :3