[I'm actually 100% not a gamer at all, which was kind of a joke when I started playing GW2. I'd never played another MMO and hadn't even played many console games, and I just didn't want to. But it turns out that GW2 really breaks the mold of all the stuff I knew I'd hate about about something like WoW. It's a very community focused game; everyone gets rewards so there's not the bitter camping/competing with other players for loot, and there aren't quests in the traditional sense. GW2 did have a substantial content drought in the months before HoT was released but ANet is unusually transparent about their company's inner workings, so we now know things like how many devs are on each team devoted to living world story, raids, the next expansion, etc. All of which I think gives the community confidence that they've ironed out the kinks and we're going to continue to keep seeing updates at a steady pace. (Btw, the cats this tag is referencing? They're part of an in-game scavenger hunt. You go find them around the world and each one wants a specific kind of food and after you feed them they come hang out in your home instance and occasionally leave you dead birds as gifts. "Sigh...clean it up.")]
Aurus watched Charles try to tempt the cat over (and the cat eye him from a careful distance without actually coming up to say hello), realizing as he did that he could feel a sense of the man's confusion--not about the cat, but about...? Oh, of course.
"You remember when we met I introduced myself as being 'of the cycle of night'? Sylvari tend to regard the time of day when one awakes as reflecting something of their personality. I'm not sure how true it is. Malomedies, our Luminary, describes night blooms as 'sentinels, scoundrels, and mathematicians.'" He chuckled a little, "I suppose you can tell me if you think the description fits me."
At Charles' question about the lights, Aurus lifted his head to look up at the space above them. It was odd to him that something so seemingly ordinary caught the man's attention, but when he thought about it of course it was true that one rarely saw these things outside of the Grove.
"It's pollen," he answered softly, "though I could no better explain to you why it glows that way than I could explain why my own body does. Most sylvari have a glow, but some do not. I don't think anyone has ever explained why. It seems, though, that whatever causes it is something shared between our bodies and the Tree itself.
"Actually, you'll notice that some sylvari shed a light dusting of pollen from their bodies too, which is perhaps as odd as the Tree doing so--in neither case do we reproduce through pollination at all."
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Aurus watched Charles try to tempt the cat over (and the cat eye him from a careful distance without actually coming up to say hello), realizing as he did that he could feel a sense of the man's confusion--not about the cat, but about...? Oh, of course.
"You remember when we met I introduced myself as being 'of the cycle of night'? Sylvari tend to regard the time of day when one awakes as reflecting something of their personality. I'm not sure how true it is. Malomedies, our Luminary, describes night blooms as 'sentinels, scoundrels, and mathematicians.'" He chuckled a little, "I suppose you can tell me if you think the description fits me."
At Charles' question about the lights, Aurus lifted his head to look up at the space above them. It was odd to him that something so seemingly ordinary caught the man's attention, but when he thought about it of course it was true that one rarely saw these things outside of the Grove.
"It's pollen," he answered softly, "though I could no better explain to you why it glows that way than I could explain why my own body does. Most sylvari have a glow, but some do not. I don't think anyone has ever explained why. It seems, though, that whatever causes it is something shared between our bodies and the Tree itself.
"Actually, you'll notice that some sylvari shed a light dusting of pollen from their bodies too, which is perhaps as odd as the Tree doing so--in neither case do we reproduce through pollination at all."