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On Friday, March 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM PST / 9 PM EST, I am hosting an RP charity event that also benefits an IRL charity on the North American Guild Wars 2 servers. It is inspired by Elonian festivals from Guild Wars 2 - and it is called ZephyrFest!
This 3rd annual festival, modeled after the festivities for the Gods in Elona, celebrates the Goddess of Life & Healing in the best way we know how - on behalf of charity.
This year, we are raising money for NMDP (formerly known as the National Marrow Donor Program and Be the Match) who tries to save lives with bone marrow and stem cell donations.
This event will also be streamed on my Twitch channel to help raise awareness but the chat box will be hidden.
It will feature both RP activities as well as a giveaway. You can enter with a raffle ticket either by donating to the fundraiser above, becoming a sponsor with a prize, or even donating 15+ slot bags we will be giving away with new players! Learn more about how to enter our raffle here. All donors will also receive a coloring book page that you can see the preview of in the banner above!
Reach out if you have any questions or concerns! Hope to see folks there.
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In 2021, I began a project to dig through the Guild Wars 1 websites of all the languages, mostly hoping to recover trailers that were lost to time (mostly successfully too). I also found some lore articles that weren't available to western audiences. Such articles were known to exist - mainly lore on Abaddon for Nightfall - and those were later (mostly) canonized by ArenaNet in Guild Wars 2.
So I decided to gather and begin slowly translate them. They are now completed. And I am making this post as a link to the other posts:
Lyssa
Abaddon
Abaddon (round 2)
Dwayna
Balthazar
Grenth
Melandru
Disclaimer: While there is overlap with canon lore, there is no guarantee this is all canon as well. China is known to have alterations to the story to account for regulations in that nation, so it is unclear how much of this is expanded canon or simply reworked for China and thus non-canon.
Dwayna smiles as she holds the babe, her granddaughter. Such love swells in her heart as the babe, sleeps gently in her arms. Despite being faceless, Dwayna can't help but see her son in her. The goddess smiles as the babe stirs and grips one of her fingers tightly, as if she was afraid the goddess would put her down.
“What is her name?” Dwayna asked, sparing a glance to her son- now the god of death. Grenth shifts closer to his daughter, barely a week old and already his pride and joy.
“I've decided on Caligo, mother.”
The Goddess Mother quirks up an eyebrow, “You've decided? What of her mother?”
“Desmina had made it clear she hadn't cared, as long as Caligo lives.”
Dwayna frowns at the thought of losing the babe, having to watch little Caligo dying of something makes her heart clench and tears spring to her eyes.
Her hand began to glow with a bright teal color, and gently, as to not disturb little Caligo, touched the babe's heart. She could not stop everything from harming her, but she could at least stop age from harming her.
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Okay okay I may have gotten myself hyped from the post @synchrosgw2 made about Lyssa (check here!!!) and though it’s god-related, it’s not about that theory, but yeah, inspo where inspo’s due.
But I did have thoughts about how being blessed by a certain god/dess manifests in real life. I hc there’s a social ritual of joining a church and declaring yourself blessed by that particular god at the age of 8; this is because most gifts manifest themselves by that age and if they haven’t, you kinda pick one (and changing churches if you’ve made a mistake is a bit of a pain in the ass honestly and involves tons of new ritualistic stuff.) There’s a grand celebration (if you can afford it) and there are families for whom this blessing is hereditary, or so it socially stands; this is most prevalent in priestly families and to give you an example, Nyra was named after her mother’s late cousin, Alysannyra Gwent, and lady Gwent was born in a family that mostly worships Lyssa -> her name being Alysannyra (which is translated as “to Lyssa (be) the glory.”) But this is social rules, not actual magical thing.
So how does it magically play out? Spoilers for PoF.
Simple. Enhanced abilities to do something that technically belongs in that god’s realm. Let’s see how this works on my two humans, Nyra and Ren.
1) Nyra was blessed by Lyssa, even if you’d not be too far off if you thought she was blessed by Dwayna due to her guardian magic (I hc there’s a link between Dwayna and light, hence her being a guardian deity.) Lyssa is usually associated with mesmers and water elementalists, illusion, water and beauty, but also chaos, and that’s where Nyra’s gift is. She thrives in chaos to a degree that’s not quite natural. She has a much easier time making sense in chaotic/high stress situations (even if she’s not immune to the effects of too much stress, as seen in Icebrood.)
Chaos also seems to be radiating off her; a combination of being a chaos-magnet and her personality brought about the disruption of the natural world order. As subtle as this gift is, it’s not without it’s impact.
2) Due to being an illusion-based mesmer, Ren thought for a long ass while her goddess was Lyssa too. But it took a trip to Abaddon’s temple in season 3 (a rewrite of the horrible Livia situation I’m working on that features gods sending visions, Nyra and Ren working together, maybe some Mirka in there too) for her to realise that no, her patron god was Abaddon all along; for all his death, he still affects some mortals by the residue power in the world that survived, what, 2 centuries after his death.
And it manifests in her ability to hide the truth aka lie. She is an exceptional liar. If we were to compare her and El, who are both great at lying, Ren beats him because of this. You can’t really catch her tells and she seems to have an ability to track her own lies in a way that would fool 99% of the population. Again, it’s a combo of this + her personality that makes her so good at her job.
So, someone who was blessed by Balthazar might have an earned reputation of being unbeatable on the battlefield; someone blessed by Dwayna could be very very good at healing, Melandru could be very good at being a hunter to the point of being able to parallel norn, etc.
Does this mean that by Balty dying humanity was bereft of these gifts? No! Like with Abaddon, the number of people with Balty’s gifts will only be smaller, not non-existent, and other gods are still around and kicking, though priesthood of Balthazar would like to say otherwise. This is their main point for Nyra being a traitor of humankind but it’s like,, factually incorrect.
