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Guild Wars 2: Dream & Nightmare
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
As Sylvari Week closes on the Guild Wars 2 blog, the final post has been published that gives a lot of historical background about the race. Called "Dream & Nightmare", the post details lore behind The Pale Tree, describes the Dream of Dreams, biology, the Nightmare Court and more.
The Nightmare Court are sylvari who embrace the darkest parts of their nature, relishing a terrifying nightmare that contains as much horror as the Dream holds inspiration. Their dark vigils are things of legend, filled with depravity, twisted courtliness, and sadistic tournaments that pervert sylvari chivalry. Their greatest ambition: to turn the Pale Tree to nightmare.
These sylvari reject the teachings of Ventari’s tablet and claim that the influence of outside races perverted the true nature of the Pale Tree and the sylvari. They seek the shadow within the Dream, turn away from what they deem false morality, and explore the darker side of their personality. Cold, cruel, and without mercy, they see themselves as true sylvari, untainted by the influence of Ronan, Ventari, and the lessons of the tablet. They consider it to be their noble purpose to bring others of their race away from that forced behavior and into darkness.
Read more on the Guild Wars 2 blog.
Comments
Long article. ArenaNet keep coming up with the goods.
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem
great job Ree! she's got the whole race all fleshed out (pun intended) , goes to show how different the race is from other elf-themed races
Have fun storming the castle! - Miracle Max
Awesome article. Very entertaining lore!
This game is getting me anxious. I need a release date.
Very nice lore! It is making it hard to decide on a race.
"Because we all know the miracle patch fairy shows up the night before release and sprinkles magic dust on the server to make it allllll better." parrotpholk
For Rangers I'd pick Norn (figure they're more attuned to beast and nature), Elementalist I'd go for Sylvari, for now anyways.
good read
Very good lore I enjoyed reading that article very much, these guys seem like a really cool race I'm thinking that we will get to choose one of the Cycles and our racials might possibly be affected or a spells!!!
I really have no interestin the Sylvari.
I would be a lot for excited if we could play the NC. Otherwise right now, they are just meh to me. Not horrible or anything, just meh.