Director Camillus
From Guild Wars 2 Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
Director Camillus
| Image(s) |
|
Interactive map |
Director Camillus is the leader of the Astral Ward's fractal research division.
Location[edit]
Dialogue[edit]
- Beacon of Ages Command Center
- I'm Director Camillus, head of the ward's fractal research division. I'm sure you have many questions about our work, and I will try to answer the ones I can.
Have the fractals actually been useful?
- Director Camillus: Extremely useful. I personally believe it is our most important area of research.
- Director Camillus: For many problems, it is difficult to see the solutions in advance, but easy in hindsight, after it's too late to fix it.
- Director Camillus: But the fractals allow us to learn from mistakes we didn't actually make.
- Director Camillus: That knowledge is essential in preventing those mistakes we can't afford to make.
- Why did they have to have real people in them?
- Director Camillus: Originally, the wizards tried simulated beings—approximations that could experience life, but couldn't suffer from it.
- Director Camillus: But without that element, they didn't act like they would in our world. The data held no predictive power.
- Director Camillus: Each aspect of real beings was needed: their freedom, their strength. And yes, even their suffering. It was the only way.
- What happens to a fractal once you're done?
- Director Camillus: The wizards have the ability to...well, for lack of a better term, to pause the experiments.
- Director Camillus: They are then kept in that frozen state in case they are needed later. That way, no additional harm comes to them.
- What will happen to the people in the fractals after this?
- Director Camillus: We will help them to survive this ordeal as best as we can. But after? Ultimately, that will be up to them.
- Director Camillus: As long as we could keep them in their fractals, that was the most humane approach. But that is no longer possible.
- Director Camillus: They are living beings, as real as you or I, and they deserve the right to choose their own paths forward.
- (During Mother of Stars)
How do you live with the cost of it all?
- Director Camillus: The same way that you do, Commander. I've watched your career with admiration, seen the choices you've had to make.
- Director Camillus: You know, as I do, that the right thing to do is rarely clean. There are always consequences, and many of them severe.
- Director Camillus: I've spent a long time on this problem, and this is our best option. Part of leading is accepting the cost of that choice.
- Director Camillus: The truth it, as high as the price is to learn what we've learned, I've never regretted it.
That's a good way to think about it.
- Director Camillus: It brings me no joy, but what feels right and what is right aren't always the same. You know that as well as anyone.
- I still don't think it's justified.
- Director Camillus: That is your right. We each try our best to do the right thing, and we leave it to history to decide if we succeeded.
- I don't envy your position, having to decide these things.
- Director Camillus: Ah, but someone must. You've faced those choices yourself. You're likely to again.
I don't have any questions right now.
