Just a Choya

This festival is the only time you can visit Labyrinthine Cliffs, where the Zephyrites - a solitary group of humans who live on airships - come to moor once a year and trade with mainlanders, one of the few stops around the world they ever make.

They play into the history of the plot a large degree. They stewarded the last of Glint's eggs after her death, ensuring its safety while it was in stasis. They were the first direct victims of Mordremoth. They're staunch pacifists who accept all converts, revere their own Glint-specific type of magic, and have a specific naming convention.

While you're in Labyrinthine Cliffs, this music plays:

It's got a very slow build, and it's very airy, it's like a folk tune these nomadic people might play to themselves and you overhear it as you investigate the bazaar.

This song actually has lyrics. The only way to find out what they are is to happen to overhear the Zephyrite NPCs singing the words when you're nearby.

I didn't realise this for years of playing. It really is a folk tune that has words being passed around by word of mouth. You're not even very likely to hear any of the words being sung, or even realise it maps onto the background music.

This person did the work of grabbing all the snippets from the Zephyrites on the tethered ship - a ship which doesn't exist any more.

Alas, her magic strewn in sand. Alas, her soul undone. The clouds shed tears upon the land for the loss of our crystal sun. No more to tame the wind and rain, the skies to swallow whole. She flies no more in glinting beam and leaves a hollow hole.

"And in the end, everything will belong to him."

GW2 fanart from last year, I thought I might as well reupload it since I deactivated my old blog. :o Sylvari are cool!

Print shop open!

“Across the ridge, spikes of stone flexed slowly. Rocks sloughed from scaly ribs. Talons cracked out of bedrock.

A great storm raged, tearing down the heavens and churning up the sands. The winds scoured away rock and rill, tree and blade, flesh and bone–and tossed them all in a crystalline tempest.