Ursa's Beans

Jokey: “Asura are fascinating, just ask them.” “I’d love to get my hands on some Charr weaponry. Put the petals to the metal, so to speak.” “Warden gunslingers prefer dual pis-tils.” “When I grow up, I want to be an Oakheart!” “Ever wonder what happens when we die? We compost.”

Flirty: “I may be flora, but you and I could have some fauna.” “Come closer, and let’s see what sprouts.” “The very sight of you makes my leaves tremble.” “I know a meadow where we can get lost among the wildflowers.” “Mind if I try on your armor? You can stay in it.”

more misc edits!

Mesmer type B:

The armour:

a vague set of visual parallels that anet’s kept consistent which i appreciate deeply–

top row are both visuals from the omadd’s machine cinematic, the one on the left being you sort of ‘entering’ The All/your vision, the one on the right being the visual representation of the balance of tyria

bottom row are from two dif sources– the left one is from the shattered observatory fractal and is from the cutscene in which you get portaled deeper into the mists into arkk’s realm, and then the right one is the visual representation of the balance of tyria from the cutscene in the way forward (in pof act II)

anet seems to be going for a sort of ‘sacred geometry’ angle wrt the representation of the tyrian universe!! which is also in line with it’s depictions in asuran culture (as the ‘eternal alchemy’) and this representation from the priory archives’ ceiling:

it also adds extra flavor that the tyrian universe is sometimes referred to antikytheria, named after the antikythera mechanism which is an ancient greek device sometimes referred to as the first computer, and it was used to predict cosmic events!!

it also seems that anet’s favorite shape for representing the All is an octahedron, which, fitting, is considered to represent the heart in accordance to the idea of sacred geometry!! (or rather the heart chakra but yknow, same thing) and then the infinity loop symbol appearing as you portal yourself into deep mists speaks for itself i suppose!! if you want to go even Deeper with cool incidental parallels, the infinity loop in the omadd’s cutscene also bears vague resemblance to a van allen radiation belt for accidental science-y flavor