#living world season 2

[ratasum]

So there is an event in Drytop that requires you to collect aspect crystals before the Inquest can, and prevent the Inquest from gathering those crystals at the same time. The usual "beat up the Inquest" type event, right?

Well, when S2 dropped, Jenn and I were playing through it and I still had Vezz in his black and red "Inquest" garb, and I don't think I considered in the moment the implications.

So it would inevitably happen, WITHOUT fail, that if we were doing that event back then when it was still super heavily done by a lot of people on the map, someone would take a swing at me whenever I reached for one of the crystals.

It doesn't happen anymore since I've updated his fashion significantly and the event isn't done by that many people, but it was funny in the moment.

[clearlitebergaming]

finally got my bonsai memer, sulestari, into S2 (and eventually HoT). man i feel.... thousands emotions, knowing what will happen, and seeing difference dialogues when PC is sylvari.

if i was super HYPED when playing s2~HoT as human, imagine playing it as sylvari. i know what i'll be disappointed at though, ugh this is too many emotions to process at same times.

hes that big of a threat that the guy got on priority list to be secured the first chance he got; and mordy make sure the last 40 days of his life is thorough, pure unending torture, physically and especially mentally.

anyway

INTO SYLVARI RACIAL PERSECUTION CHAPTERS BOYZZZ LETS GO

[guildtree]

I swear, every time I replay Living World Season 2 I find new stuff. This time I discovered that if you follow Kas and Jory around the Priory library during Hidden Arcana, they say stuff!

Kas is mostly just in awe. There's another I didn't catch where she looks at the jade worm in the back and asks if it's from the Jade Sea with this adorable excited voice.

Jory, meanwhile, seems happier than she's been in a while, considering Belinda just recently died. There's one more dialogue where she says she's never been allowed inside the secret archives before.

From what I can tell, the two of them start wandering around after you talk to Ernswort for the first time, but BEFORE you activate the books to open the stairs and find Ogden (once you do that, they'll immediately go to said stairs and you'll miss the dialogue). They go to the back near Ernswort, then wander into the bookshelf areas and finally loop back to the stairs with the Abaddon statue. Their dialogue is not on the wiki and isn't listed in chat, but it is fully voiced. Very cool!

[eparch]

The World Summit

ft. Commander Kaushue (@icebrooding)

[icebrooding]

I'm slowly making my way through LW S2 with my partner and uh... it's sure Going

[herald-of-aurene]

Revelations

Athinri discovers knowledge from her past that she doesn't take too well.

Oh, and everyone has issues with Caithe. Of course.

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Warning: Spoilers for living world season 2, mentions of death, attempting to kill someone, somewhat of a short lived panic attack, and Caithe slander. :(

Previous Part

Athinri gasps, desperate for air as she flung herself as far away as she could from the seed. As if distance could take away the pain and new memories assaulting her. Tears flooded her eyes and face. She touched her mark- her scar, clutching it as if to shield it from the phantom pain. She could distantly hear Rox talking, and a clawed hand on her around her, but she couldn’t focus on that- on them.

Athinri couldn’t breathe, she could only feel the dagger in her heart, she couldn’t she couldn’t she couldn’t-

There were too many revelations, She couldn’t wrap her head around.

Caithe had killed Wynne, killed Athinri.

And the most confusing fact.

They were dragon minions. They were monsters, creatures to kill and be killed. Nothing more.

As her mind swirled, trying to wrap itself around everything, it felt like being buried alive. 

Until, a voice cut through the static, freeing her from some of the dirt.

“Spite….? Caithe is here what do we-”

Athinri was flooded with rage. 

Caithe.

Adrenalin taking over her body, Athinri sprung up, knocking over Spite, who had been clutching the sylvari to her chest. Athinri ran past them all and pulled out her blade, intent on harming her, like Caithe did to her a lifetime ago. 

Braham’s arms yanked her back and pulled her to his chest. 

“Whoa there Ri, you can’t hurt her. Not yet at least. Calm down and tell us what you saw.”

Athinri thrashed against his arms, trying desperately to break free, to take this pain out on Caithe-  no on anyone.

“She killed me! She killed me! You don’t understand! She killed me so I have to kill her back!”

Kasmeer reached forward, wiping the tears away, “Dear, take a minute. You aren’t dead, that was a vision, she never hurt you! Not physically at least. Breathe!”

Athinri thrashed even more violently, becoming hysterical, “No! No! You don’t understand! She killed me! I still have the scar! She killed me!” 

Caithe reached forward, trying to place a hand on Athinri to comfort her, “Athinri- you don’t understand! You begged me to! I- it was a kinder fate-” 

“Don’t.” Braham practically growled. He placed Athinri in front of Spite, who wrapped her in a protective hug. He stalked towards the firstborn, puffing out his chest as he towered over her, inches away from her face.

“You’ve done enough to her. You don’t get to take a single breath in her direction from now on.”

Caithe wilted a little, “You don’t get it-”

“I got enough.”

“Braham.” Spite cut in, “Stand down.”

Braham made no moves, “She-”

“I know. I’m angry too, but we don’t have time for this. The fleet will leave any second. We can do this on our way to Camp Resolve.”

Braham growled, only moving after a minute. He went straight to Athinri, who wrapped him in a tight, desperate hug.

Spite’s cold look of betrayal returned and locked onto Caithe. 

“Give me the egg and explain. Now.”

Caithe tensed up, but luckily made no moves to run.

“I can’t do that, but I can explain. Almost over two decades ago, Faolain and I tracked another firstborn to this cave. Her name was Wynne.”

As Caithe solemnly spoke the name, Athinri flinched violently, shaking a little harder.

“She carried… a dark secret… I had to kill her to spare her and so many others from a horrid fate.”

“But… why would Athinri react so… horribly to that memory?” Rox question.

“Because-” Caithe started. 

“I was her.”

Athinri wasn’t ready to face Caithe. Not this soon. She could barely process all this information, she didn't even know why she needed to confront her, but she had to. So she pushed past Braham and Spite and walked towards Caithe.

Her sister.

Her hero.

Her mentor.

Her murderer.

Her voice broke and her eyes seared with the pain of trying to cry with long, dried up tears.

“I begged you to help me! I was terrified and cornered by YOU! And instead of helping me, you killed me!” 

“No!” Caithe shook, “Faolin would have never let you rest! I was trying to help you! I released you from an even worse fate!”

“Like you helped our people by sending them to our creator?” 

“Wait- Athinri what do you mean?” Without even looking Athinri knew they were horrified, just as much as she was.

“We come from the jungle dragon. We belong to it. We’re meant to serve it.” Athinri shakily said, not breaking eye contact with Caithe.

Spite rushed forward at the news, rounding on Caithe.

“Give me the egg. Now. I’m not letting a flight risk hold something so important.” 

Caithe pushed Spite away, “No, I can’t trust anyone with it, not even you Commander!”

“Well too bad!” Spite’s claws pushed past Caithe’s hands, trying to get ahold of the egg. “I’m not trusting someone who not only is vulnerable to the dragon, but refuses to trust in others!” 

And then they were knocked to the floor. With an ear piercing roar the entire cave shook as rocks began to fall on top of them and enormous vines began to shatter the golden walls. 

Spite rolled off of the sylvari as a boulder came straight for them.  Caithe, on the other hand, was frozen in fear as the boulder nearly crushed her. 

Athinri reacted on instinct, pushing Caithe away and yelling at everyone to move.

“Go! He’s found us!” Athinri shouted as she pushed her.

“Everyone, weapons ready!” Spite ordered as vines erupted, separating Athinri and Spite from everyone. 

As they tried to get their bearings they heard Kasmeer scream, “Caithe’s gone again!”

Spite snarled, “I’ve done some impossible shit in my life, but how the fuck are we going to kill a shadow?!”

As the words left the charr’s mouth Athinri’s eyes widened with a realization, “Use the divine fire! Shadows don’t like fire right?”

Spite stared at Athinri, dumbfounded. “Really?”

“Do you have a better plan?”

“Burn me! Rox! Toss me the fire!” 

“Alright, but I thought light made shadows?”

Braham laughed and Jory cut off their banter.

“We kind of have a bigger issue right now!”

[soulbeastdragon]

The Golden Cave by Maclaine Diemer · Lena Raine

[rosy-opal-commander]

Playing through living world season two I think when you go in the same machine that drove Scarlet insane and coming out and being like "0h word? There's a dragon to fight? Bet." And your friends just roast you for how dumb you looked seeing the eternal alchemy.

Is so fucking funny and has the same energy as Rytlock going into the mists and coming back just regular af. Just disillusioned at Charr society lol.

[belghast]

Enjoying the Journey

Enjoying the Journey - Today I talk about replaying Living World on my Ranger in GW2, Finishing the Last Epoch story, and prepping for Diablo IV Beta.

Good Morning Friends! I am not entirely certain what it is about the ritual of doing Tequatl the Sunless at server reset that I enjoy so much but it is most definitely a thing. I am honestly a bit annoyed with the time change because it pushes the “start” of my evening back an hour later than it was. There was just something about sitting down with dinner and killing a giant undead dragon as my…

[bbygirl-aemond]

"she permitted it." "as you permitted the murder of a little boy in his bed?" rhaenys please you've had your foot on team black's necks for this entire season

[azulsejos]

s2 + golbetty centric episode prayer circle 🍎💝

[andi-o-geyser]

I hear your “I’m so excited for tlovm season 2! It’s going to be so fun!” and I raise you “The central theme of this season is bone-deep crushing guilt and grief”

[silverthelovebug]

I wanna know what exactly happened between Sammy and her family that caused literally every single member of the Gutierrez family to leave their cattle ranch. I haven't seen anyone bring that up, like where did they all go ??? Usually, businesses like farms rely on the whole family to function, and I can excuse her sisters leaving the farm, but her parents? Her abuelita ?? Bro what did Sammy do 😭

[dxxtruction]

Louis' "You're boring!" Could mean so many things, but I think what's most apparent about that line is that Armand takes no initiative just for himself. He's not really anybody, because he never goes out and finds himself or gets attached to anyone but Louis. Without Louis as his guide he's literally just sitting on a couch picking lint! That's the thing.

He orbits constantly around what would make Louis happy, and never really fully going what would make me happy? Ultimately that drive to please Louis is what drives him to torturing Daniel, not so much that he'd care to just do it. Ultimately, not giving proper care to Louis is just a way to make sure Louis knows he has to orbit around him as well, with shoving Lestat onto him just that other nail on the coffin. So, even if he fails to figure out how to make Louis happy with him, he still knows what Armand is good for, and better than.

That dependency is what drives Armand's abuse. It really just comes down to that. Armand doesn't even realize how suffocated he is by his own dependency. This is just how life is to him. (It shouldn't be lost either that dependency is a theme considering this episode also deals with addiction).

Daniel's fascinating because he's just so driven to be somebody. He's largely independent, he seeks things because he wants them. It's his drug to poke and prod at all the things that he shouldn't. Daniel's exciting because he lets Louis in to something different, lets him in to all this potential in another person that he can also do the same with for himself. It's a real connection. A two way street. It's easy to tell how Armand can be smothering then because he's never introducing him to anything really new, and most the ways both of them connect are all painful and traumatic. It's never just fun because there's always that layer of that pain. Fun died with Claudia.

50 years on they've gotten to a lot better place, both of them, but it's still that same shit. No seriously, "How is this any different from last time, Louis?"

Well... Because Armand's going to be, at the very least, making one [1] decision only for himself - and that's to hold power over Daniel's life. Fucking sick foreshadowing.

They aren't driving each other to the brink anymore but "The vampire is bored" STILL. Maybe it's even worse, despite being in better places, because Louis' sort of just been defeated by it. (I mean, can he even really leave this either?). He's accepting the dependancy cause he kind of has to. He'd literally ended up letting all the enjoyment be up where he can't reach [The book shelves]. Armand so desperately wants Louis happiness but what really ends up happening is that Louis ends up having to give Armand all his own. He's got no one or anything else to get it from. But like an iPad and an over the top eating ritual. Two extremes of what's just more lint picking.

This whole relationship is one I find just tragic inside and out. You have to just pity it, really. There's ways in which you can find yourself feeling bad for both of them. But you can only really be mad at Armand for any of it. Armand, who isn't even 'free' in any sense, having so little concept of his own independence, but is at the same time so controlling over other's. It's a tragic cycle. It's an infuriating one.

Louis at least has the mind to know when enough is enough. If just needing that extra push to get there. Armand's too scared of it being over to even try.

[lokiusly]

Mobius Cinematic Universe

[dragons-and-handcuffs]

How dumb was Viserys? He named Rhaenyra as his heir, then married Alicent and had three sons, reinstated Otto as his hand, and gave so much power to the Hightowers when he should have given it to Rhaenyra. It's almost like he wanted the war to happen.