Scarlet’s secret room in Prosperity is filled
with clutter but to take it as junk would be a mistake. Just like Taimi states:
this has to be studied. This could tell
us so much about Scarlet’s motives for what she did. What does it tell us about
the entity that influenced Scarlet? What does it tell us about the Zehpyrites
or Aerin?
What follows
tries to adress all these questions. FULL CREDITS go to Shiren.9532,
who’s the author of the article below.
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In the
final instance, Prosperity’s Mystery, there is a paper written by Snaff. I
think a lot of players miss it because it’s not required reading to progress
the instance.
“A Treatise on the Mental Puppeteering
of Golems” by Snaff.
Some scholars theorize that magic
flows through all things, that we swim in magic as fish swim in water, or as we
ourselves live in air. This magic is said to ebb and flow via currents called
ley lines.
Magic infuses everything in the
world. The building blocks of reality are held together by magic. With the
right connectors, manipulating magical elements with the mind becomes possible.
The mind is a powerful and fragile
quantity in the world equation and the Eternal Alchemy. It can move mountains,
or it can be shattered like glass.
My research has found a thread
between magic and the mind. The two are linked. Where there is one, there must
also be the other. The igniter is belief.
There are
several references in Prosperity to an exposed ley line somewhere in the mine.
Scarlet was looking into it, one of the miners in town mentions it and another
miner in the mine talks about it. So there seems to be unusual exposure to ley
line magic in Prosperity (unlike in Lion’s Arch where it was buried deep).
I don’t
think Scarlet’s exposure to ley lines triggered her behaviour – she was defiant
of the Pale Tree from birth, rejecting her mender’s aid and forging her own
path. It wasn’t until she interacted with Omadd’s device that she began to
change so considerably.
I think
there is some weight to the idea that Aerin could have changed due to proximity
to the ley line in Prosperity. Snaff’s paper seems to explore connections
between magic and the mind, and I think Angel did an interview a long time ago
where she talked about secret mesmer techniques for delving into the minds of
others, people think Aerin’s mind was manipulated in some way. Snaff’s paper
talks about controlling golems with magic, but if magic is connected to the mind,
is it a stretch to control a human (or sylvari) mind with magic? For the
record, Angel was the one who worked on the Prosperity’s Mystery instance
(revealed in the livestream).
Also note
that the pages that (presumably) the Master of Peace (un)intentionally left as
a trail for us to track him down, cover mind magic as well. I think it’s also
implied the Master of Peace is the author.
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They forged an alliance with her and let her
into their minds. They guarded her legacy for as long as they could, but sadly,
their race was not to live forever. Destiny decided otherwise, and thus the
torch was passed to my ancestors. We hid ourselves away for hundreds of years,
helping her as we could and keeping her secrets.
Read the full short story these
pages come from on the wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Short_Story:_The_Trek_of_the_Zephyrites
So we have
a dragon champion who was entering the minds of her dwarven followers, and the
Zephyrites who “guarded her legacy” and were “keeping her secrets” after the
dwarfs transformed. The Zephyrites also harness Glint’s powers in the form of
the aspects – but they have a secret, is it possible there are other powers of
Glint’s they can use that we don’t know about? Glint also had the power of
prophecy (the Flameseeker Prophecies come from her don’t they?).
We’ve seen
Scarlet influenced by the entity and now we’ve seen Aerin change from a Pale
Tree loving sylvari to a defiant, seemingly crazy sylvari similar to Scarlet.
We have a new paper covering magic’s relationship to the mind, a dragon
champion that enters the mind of her followers and the Zephyrites who guard
Glint’s legacy, keep her secrets, and use at least some of her powers.
Honourable
Mention: Kasmeer’s “gift” to tell if someone is lieing. Sounds like it could be
more than posture reading (come on, the Zephyrite was dieing, her posture would
read “This sucks, I’m going to die! Ouch it hurts…” – it’d be like taking a lie
detector test while going through an anxiety attack).
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