Which trailer narration you liked better?

Ariel

Both incarnates of Isha gave speech in trailers, which one you liked better? And which trailer you liked better?

Ariel


Vs

Alarielle


Also for all lore nerds like me, who do you think is a better character?

RikRiorik

Ariel. The neon, the voice, the music. CAs response to Cyberpunk 2077.

sykall

RikRiorik said:

Ariel. The neon, the voice, the music. CAs response to Cyberpunk 2077.

I disliked this trailer for almost the same reasons. So as far as pure narration I am with Alarielle, but I favor Ariel as a character more

Ariel

RikRiorik said:

Ariel. The neon, the voice, the music. CAs response to Cyberpunk 2077.

It’s true that Ariel’s trailer had this “mysterious” tone. I think, I liked that one better, but that might be caused by me liking Ariel more in the lore than Alarielle.

lucibuis

Ariel, it’s Galadriel level iconic. She sounds crazy, like she actually enjoys the fight, my queen is coo coo

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Schwarzhelm said:

I will go with Alarielle.
I found Ariels lines a bit cheesy.

What do you mean by cheesy? 🙂

lucibuis

Also the model of Ariel looks so much better, she is very realistic and the dress as well, while Alarielle looks like a mannequin? Look at her shoulder, and the dress looks painted over. I think they spent lots of time on Ariel

veresh1989

If Ariel had her usual appearance and then had a transformation, then I would have chosen her.

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Valkaar

Ariel’s narration was better between those two.... but both were kinda bland/derivative tbh. Ariel was an inferior, Kmart version of Galadriel’s ‘love me and despair’ scene. Alarielle’s was pretty generic with no specifically stand out lines. At least Ariel had a standout line, so if I had to pick, I’d say Ariel.

But Makekith’s “No.” and Mannfred’s trailer monologue were far more memorable aspects of their trailers for example.

As for which character is best lorewise?? I’d again say they’re both similarly mediocre/mishandled. Alarielle doesn’t do much for example.... she’s a behind the scenes figure for Tyrion more than anything. She’s so inactive there was originally lore purist backlash at making her playable in the first place.

I personally enjoy playing her, she’s my favorite of the Ulthuan starting positions, but any story you create on your own with her will be better than her lore.

Ariel is more active/prominent. But she’s kinda written as incompetent. Basically making a ton of mistakes, accidentally jeopardizing the forest, and locking herself in a tree for penance..., to the degree that there was also once again backlash from lore purists at the idea of making her playable, as in the present time, she should technically still be in her tree.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m tremendously hyped to play her, I feel the wood elves were lacking a high tier caster, so she fills a previous gap in the roster quite nicely.

In terms of character ARCHETYPE, I like the idea of a demigod guardian of the forest way more interesting than a passive queen who works through princes primarily. So if I had to pick, I’d again pick Ariel. But neither character is really handled all that well in the lore.

BOTH are/will be extremely fun to play imo, Alarielle is an absolute BEAST with her full kit, and I imagine Ariel will be too with all the DLC power creep but I wouldn’t strongly roleplay either of them. They make better ‘choose your own adventure’ characters.

Ariel

lucibuis said:

Also the model of Ariel looks so much better, she is very realistic and the dress as well, while Alarielle looks like a mannequin? Look at her shoulder, and the dress looks painted over. I think they spent lots of time on Ariel

Don’t know about that, but she certainly won the sleeve contest. Alarielle’s sleeves were reduced to nothing 😂

Ariel

Schwarzhelm said:

Dubinekdubajs said:

Schwarzhelm said:

I will go with Alarielle.
I found Ariels lines a bit cheesy.

What do you mean by cheesy? 🙂

It's just personal taste but the line "Come my children and deliver natures glory!" didn't really work for me. I found it somehow corny/cheesy the way she said it.

That was nature’s glory? I thought that she says: “Isha’s fury”, but I might be wrong.

Valkaar

Dubinekdubajs said:

Schwarzhelm said:

Dubinekdubajs said:

Schwarzhelm said:

I will go with Alarielle.
I found Ariels lines a bit cheesy.

What do you mean by cheesy? 🙂

It's just personal taste but the line "Come my children and deliver natures glory!" didn't really work for me. I found it somehow corny/cheesy the way she said it.

That was nature’s glory? I thought that she says: “Isha’s fury”, but I might be wrong.

It was ‘nature’s fury’. But it doesn’t strongly change the meaning either way.

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ArneSo

Alarielle

Arsenic

Ariel.

Alarielle didn't sound ethereal and otherworldly, she sounded like one of those women who work in New Age stores and try and sell you healing crystals and incense with names like "Dragon's Breath"( which logically would smell of burned flesh and kerosense), whilst wearing a ludicrous amount of bangles.

Plus Ariel had epic synth music, whilst Alarielle had a chorus of Amazonian types "Wooah-ho-hooooah"-ing in the background.

Wyvax

Both are pretty cool, but neither can compare to the inspiration.