Character throughline

The Pale Tree

3 moments on the timeline — from The Elder Dragons Awaken.

Appearances, in order

  1. 1180 AE1,690 CC1,380 DRFirm date

    Ventari dies by the Pale Tree, leaving the Ventari Tablet

    The Maguuma Jungle · Tarnished Coast

    The aged centaur Ventari, who tended the young Pale Tree with the human Ronan, dies at its roots — leaving a carved tablet of peaceful values that will become the founding philosophy of the sylvari.

  2. 1302 AE1,812 CC1,502 DRFirm date

    The first sylvari sprout from the Pale Tree

    The Maguuma Jungle · Tarnished Coast

    The Pale Tree awakens her Firstborn — the first twelve sylvari, among them Trahearne and Caithe — bringing an entirely new sapient race into Tyria, raised on the values of the Ventari Tablet.

  3. 1304 AE1,814 CC1,504 DRFirm date

    The sylvari Secondborn awaken

    The Maguuma Jungle · Tarnished Coast

    Two years after the Firstborn, the Pale Tree brings forth her second generation of sylvari, the Secondborn — among them Canach and Cadeyrn, the future founder of the Nightmare Court.

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