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I was confused about this before but it turns out there is a SECOND Hekja in the game! Also a Norn, but this one is a Lionguard and has a last name: Ravensbeak. Though interestingly the image file as saved on the GW2 Wiki says "Lionguard Hester".

This of course got me thinking about naming conventions among the different races and which names would be common and/or which historical/religious names would be favoured. How many Norn girls get named Jora? Are there a bunch of little Snaffs running around Rata Sum? Baby Ruriks in Queensdale?

At one point in my life I literally knew six different Amandas (Amandae? Amandii?) and like I wonder how that sort of thing would manifest in Tyria.

How does Sylvari naming work? Do they choose their own names? Does the Pale Tree name them? Do they know their own names before they're born?

I like to think Charr have an official name registry like they do in Hungary, and cub names have to be picked from it, new names being added by petition. It would actually make a certain sort of sense given the communal child rearing in the fahrar.

I don’t mean to alarm anyone but Midona’s entire hairdo is pretty much half a whole Trahearne in size, if not a bit more. 

Kristen Perry wrote about this on her blog entry on redesigning the sylvari:

It’s here on artstation and if you love sylvari you neeeeed to read it :>

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ngogr

Somwhere one developer once compared a sylvari to an apple. The growth socket is where the stalk of an apple grows (and where it is attached to the tree). The belly button is the opposing side, where the flower once was before the fruit formed.

(Sylvari having some kind of flower on their belly buttons is also cute :’D )

German RPers usually attribute a great significance to the main growth socket. It is the most important center of growth in the sylvari body. If it is heavily damaged, the sylvari dies – some even think it’s worse than head injuries (since we don’t even know if they have some kind of brain there) or chest injuries (since they have no heart).

For me, the main growth socket is in some ways like a heart to sylvari.

A short story about hilariously reused assets:

Early in the first episode of the Icebrood Saga, a character is tied to a post. Dark story, serious themes, spooky music.

Except.

This is the same animation used in the Super Adventure Box when you run out of tokens and wind up in Moto’s game over dungeon.

Guild Wars 2 (30/??)

Did I ever share these?

Izzit Rinspark, asura engineer, here. I've run the numbers, and I can assure you the waypoint network is currently almost exactly certainly probably safe. Please compare your risk of death by waypoint mishap (practically zero) to the hazards inherent to walking; a decidedly non-zero percentage, increasing proportionally with distance traveled...

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For anyone looking for colours for a Whisper uniform, these were taken directly from the hero point NPC in front of the Chantry of Secrets in Bloodtide Coast. This is not the only colour combination seen in game, however my opinion is that it has the nicest contrast of the combinations I’ve seen. Feel free to use it if you’d like!

Dark Red = Wrath Dye: ~6 Silver

Light Red = Cherry Dye: ~17 Silver

Brown = Oil Slick Dye: ~45 Silver

Yellow = Lemon Zest Dye: ~12 Silver

Grey = Night Shade Dye: ~27 Silver

Black = Shadow Abyss Dye: ~366 Gold

Shadow Abyss dye will by far be the most expensive here, however Shadow Violet Dye and Shadow Blue Dye also look decent for that slot. Using one of these two will also save you a lot of gold if you don’t have the dye already. They are still mildly expensive.

Shadow Violet Dye: ~29 Gold

Shadow Blue Dye: ~45 Gold

If you don’t have that much gold to spare, using the brown and yellow colours on the hood looks nice as well, and in my opinion matches the uniform nicer than the grey and black do. (See second picture!)

These colours also match the Order of Whispers backpack you can acquire from :GW2:HoT really well!

My theory is that it was an alternate art asset for the standard rifle turret, or a different turret completely that was cut before release... maybe the skill was broken.

Either way, it hasn't appeared anywhere else in the game, as far as I know.

I want that turret.

I take about every chance I get to gush about the Guild Wars novels, so I won’t let Book Lovers Day go by quietly! 📚( ღ’ᴗ’ღ ) I absolutely love these books and I can really recommend them to people who enjoy Guild Wars lore. The first two, Ghosts of Ascalon and Edge of Destiny were released prior to Guild Wars 2. They introduced readers to big events that made an impact on Tyria in Guild Wars 2. Ghosts of Ascalon was about the Foefire, and Edge of Destiny about the origins of Destiny’s Edge. For me, they were a big reason in deciding to getting the game. At that time, I was so busy, I loved the original Guild Wars but I didn’t think I’d have enough time for a new MMO. The third, and sadly the final book, Sea of Sorrows, was released in 2013, which focuses on the flood of Lion’s Arch and Zhaitan’s awakening.