PAPAGENA - your Bird has flown away?

Bird catchers hunted and caught wild birds of all kinds, but especially songbirds - both for consumption and as ornamental or house birds for decoration and edification. Until the 19th century, catching birds was considered a respectable activity in Europe.
Bird-catching took place mainly during the bird migration seasons (autumn/spring) and was therefore a secondary rather than a main occupation. From the early Middle Ages onwards, there were bird catchers in all social classes - while for poorer people it was only an "extra income", for aristocrats and patricians it was an extremely popular pastime. Bird catchers - as they were also called - were already known before antiquity and could be found in many parts of the world.
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The most famous representative of the bird catchers the fictional character PAPAGENO from Mozart's MAGIC FLUTE; not least because of the merry birdcatcher's song, which he sings in the opera. Papageno is the bird catcher. His beloved is called "Papagena", whom he conquers with the help of his glockenspiel.

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Today I present my Sylvari girl as a bird catcher, a Papagena.
I recently bought Foefire Legwraps skin (and created a few looks with it, maybe I'll post that later). In general, the appeal was to make a character with heavy armour look like cloth armour. So I grabbed my Sylvari Revenant (last seen here as Miss Cactus) and this is my interpretation for Papageno - half human and half bird. With colourful feathers, somewhat stylised, so not an exact cosplay.
Diviner's Winged Lantern (Back Item) served as a template for armour colours. That's why everything is colourful, but not flashy and garish but a little pastel. On the pictures you can see the leg armour in two different colours (sometimes yellow, sometimes pink). Since Sylvari itself (and Culture Armour, which I use for chest) glows, there is an interesting play of colours on different maps (and times of day). After a while I found pink too bright and decided to go for soft yellow.

There are many ways to catch a bird. Catching with small wooden boxes, like a bird cage, with a locking mechanism at the top opening. Or the birds are sometimes driven into small to very large stretched net walls, sometimes caught with throw nets or lured into folding nets, fish traps or cobs. On the one hand, long cane poles smeared with glue (sticky berry juice, usually mistletoe berries, was used as bird glue) were used to touch the birds so that they stuck to them. Since GW2 world lacks such tools, I took that as a template :) And fractal weapons don't look so metallic and with some imagination could serve as a rod "with which the birds were touched" (although I could imagine/use many other weapons here too: Tengu, Tribal etc. ).

Have fun with my Papagena!
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Back Item: Diviner's Winged Lantern