[Yup! They've actually done it once already at the end of the first living world season. There was this massive attack where the main port/central hub city was destroyed, and then an event to retake the city. After that we had a ruined, under repair version for like a year, until it was finally rebuilt just before the first expansion came out. They did give people prior warning before that event though, so conjecture is that this time at worst maybe one district of the human city will get bombarded (maybe opening a way onto a new map). Also yes, yet is exactly the operative word here--the weird only increases from here on.]
It was true, of course, that any sylvari could technically call any other their brother, since they all came from the same Mother Tree, and there were times when Aurus used the word in a much more casual sort of way, (as was particularly common between the Secondborn and Firstborn). And it was also true that, on occasion, two sylvari could grow within the same pod, though this was rare.
None of these were true in this case, but Aurus took pity on Charles' obvious surprise and confusion and explained: "Yes, we awoke side by side and within minutes of each other, both knowing the other's face from our Dream. There’s no precise word for that sort of relationship, but I believe that brothers comes close." He watched as the sylvari's path turned towards them again, also anticipating a question that he was, by now, quite used to: "And before you ask--yes, he's always like this."
He gave Charles a crooked smile before the blue-green sylvari reached them again, this time to pause with a hand on Aurus’s collar bone.
"Hello Keserhn," Aurus said with a casual, untroubled sort of tone. He didn't need to try and demand attention, because for all the flitting distraction and breezing by, Keserhn seemed to be paying quite good attention to him already. Not so much to Charles though, at least not yet.
"I haven't seen you in quite a long time, Aurus." Keserhn spoke with a low, breathy sort of voice that was intensely placid and calm, like everything was a matter of tranquil musing. "You're not back in the Grove are you? You're somewhere very far away."
Aurus nodded, "A world through the Mists and somewhere beyond them, yes. This is Charles Xavier, my host there, and my guest in the Dream tonight.
"Charles, this is Keserhn."
But evidently Keserhn didn’t require the introduction, since he was already helping himself with an outstretched hand that was reaching slowly towards Charles' hair. Or maybe the introduction was an intervention of sorts, because once Keserhn's attention was actually directed to Charles he at least paused in his attempt to pet him.
He smiled a slow, languid smile, looking the man in the eyes but also somehow seeming as though it wasn't so much Charles' eyes that interested him--like looking at him was a matter of surveying whether there were any particularly intriguing bits of him to touch. "Oh hello." The hand that had been reaching for Charles' hair was now extended in an apparent offer to shake hands. "Thank you for looking after him. I do hope he's not causing you too much trouble," as though Aurus was some sort of errant child.
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It was true, of course, that any sylvari could technically call any other their brother, since they all came from the same Mother Tree, and there were times when Aurus used the word in a much more casual sort of way, (as was particularly common between the Secondborn and Firstborn). And it was also true that, on occasion, two sylvari could grow within the same pod, though this was rare.
None of these were true in this case, but Aurus took pity on Charles' obvious surprise and confusion and explained: "Yes, we awoke side by side and within minutes of each other, both knowing the other's face from our Dream. There’s no precise word for that sort of relationship, but I believe that brothers comes close." He watched as the sylvari's path turned towards them again, also anticipating a question that he was, by now, quite used to: "And before you ask--yes, he's always like this."
He gave Charles a crooked smile before the blue-green sylvari reached them again, this time to pause with a hand on Aurus’s collar bone.
"Hello Keserhn," Aurus said with a casual, untroubled sort of tone. He didn't need to try and demand attention, because for all the flitting distraction and breezing by, Keserhn seemed to be paying quite good attention to him already. Not so much to Charles though, at least not yet.
"I haven't seen you in quite a long time, Aurus." Keserhn spoke with a low, breathy sort of voice that was intensely placid and calm, like everything was a matter of tranquil musing. "You're not back in the Grove are you? You're somewhere very far away."
Aurus nodded, "A world through the Mists and somewhere beyond them, yes. This is Charles Xavier, my host there, and my guest in the Dream tonight.
"Charles, this is Keserhn."
But evidently Keserhn didn’t require the introduction, since he was already helping himself with an outstretched hand that was reaching slowly towards Charles' hair. Or maybe the introduction was an intervention of sorts, because once Keserhn's attention was actually directed to Charles he at least paused in his attempt to pet him.
He smiled a slow, languid smile, looking the man in the eyes but also somehow seeming as though it wasn't so much Charles' eyes that interested him--like looking at him was a matter of surveying whether there were any particularly intriguing bits of him to touch. "Oh hello." The hand that had been reaching for Charles' hair was now extended in an apparent offer to shake hands. "Thank you for looking after him. I do hope he's not causing you too much trouble," as though Aurus was some sort of errant child.