Character throughline

Scarlet Briar

8 moments on the timeline — from Rise of Zhaitan to Heart of Thorns.

Appearances, in order

  1. 1321 AE1,831 CC1,521 DRFirm date

    Ceara emerges from the machine as Scarlet Briar

    The Maguuma Jungle · Maguuma Jungle

    The brilliant, empathy-starved sylvari Ceara enters Headmaster Omadd's experimental isolation module to probe the Eternal Alchemy; she emerges shattered by what she sees, takes the name Scarlet Briar, and kills Omadd.

  2. 1324 AE1,834 CC1,524 DRFirm date

    The Thaumanova Reactor explodes over a ley-line nexus

    The Maguuma Jungle · Metrica Province

    An Inquest reactor built on a ley-line intersection is destroyed when a draconic energy source — slipped in under the urging of consultant Scarlet Briar — is mixed into a chaos-magic experiment, tearing reality open and spawning rifts and elementals.

  3. 1326 AE1,836 CC1,526 DRFirm date

    The Molten Alliance burns the north

    The Shiverpeaks · Shiverpeak Mountains

    Dredge and Flame Legion — unlikely enemies welded into the Molten Alliance — raid the Shiverpeaks and northern Ascalon, driving refugees south, until the heroes destroy their weapons facility.

  4. 1326 AE1,836 CC1,526 DRFirm date

    The Aetherblade sky pirates are exposed

    Central Tyria

    A deadly bombing exposes the Aetherblades, sky pirates backed by Inquest technology; the heroes storm their hideout and capture their leader, Captain Mai Trin.

  5. 1326 AE1,836 CC1,526 DRFirm date

    Scarlet Briar reveals herself at the Queen's Jubilee

    Kryta · Divinity's Reach

    During Queen Jennah's jubilee, the sylvari Scarlet Briar subverts the Watchknight guardians and unleashes her Twisted Watchwork minions, announcing herself to Tyria for the first time.

  6. 1326 AE1,836 CC1,526 DRFirm date

    The Toxic Alliance raises a tower of poison

    Kryta · Kessex Hills

    Scarlet's Toxic Alliance of krait and Nightmare Court erects a towering structure in Kessex Hills that floods the land with toxic miasma, until the heroes brew an antitoxin and destroy it from within.

  7. 1327 AE1,837 CC1,527 DRFirm date

    Lion's Arch falls and Scarlet Briar is slain

    Kryta · Lion's Arch

    Scarlet drives her drill-airship, the Breachmaker, into the heart of Lion's Arch; the heroes evacuate the city and kill her, but the free port is left in ruins.

  8. 1327 AE1,837 CC1,527 DRFirm date

    Mordremoth awakens beneath the jungle

    Central Tyria

    With Scarlet's final strike, the Breachmaker ruptures the ley line hub under Lion's Arch; the surge of magic races into the Maguuma jungle and stirs the Elder Jungle Dragon Mordremoth from its slumber.

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