Kardel

The old dwarven city was destroyed. We now live in kal'Ishtul, in the same place.

I can answer this! I did a term paper about this in vietnam war veterans.

It depends on the stimulus associated with the traumatic event and the person. If a visible electric shock, say, a haywire current, were to have been present during the traumatic event or events that eventually led to the PTSD, then yes, lighting, or any manifestation of electricity, would be a trigger.

If the person was shocked, and the shock itself is assosciated with the event, then the shock would be the trigger, but since shocks are hard to come buy and are logically tied to outlets and the such, the person might develop a fear of those. However, most often people develop a fear of objects tangibly present during the event. Here is an example:

Iraq war veterans reportedly identified manholes as triggers due to pipe bombs being placed in the sewers by local resistance forces. 

These veterans identified the manholes as triggers because manholes were the source of and present during explosions. They did not develop a fear of pipes, which would normally be logically tied to the explosion.

Therefore, to answer your question above, no: a person who suffers PTSD from electricity (which does not wholly make sense in of itself) would not find lightning a trigger. A person who saw or experienced a manifestation of plasmatic electricity would find lightning a trigger.

Kek

1. They always advertise themselves
2. They are often led by new players who are not experienced server-wise
3. They are often shunned because they're edgy, meaning that the assassins are some ridiculous dark power wielding, demon-worshiping, black-cloak wearing ilk
4. People participating in such guilds are often bad at pvp. If you want to be a useful assassin, then learn to PvP, as it is the second default
5. Victims of assassinations will PK if the assassin is not some poorly planned, meta-gaming, edgy prick. Skippy PK'd. I know a lot of people who have PK'd. However, if its some dark elf, necromancer wannabe, Ezio Adittore type, a lot of people would rather ignore the RP in general.

Want to start a good assassin guild? DON'T MAKE A ******* FORUM POST ABOUT IT. Get a hidden headquarters. Make your character look NORMAL, not like the WoW avatar of a goth teen. Also, if you character is insane, a nymphomaniac, or both, don't expect your bandit/assassin RP to be taken seriously. The above is too hard to roleplay successfully, and almost everyone that has attempted to make the whole dark-edgy think work has failed. Most bandits or assassins should not be people who like their vocation: they should be people who have no other choice, like uneducated peasants or ex-soldiers.

The harvester events please.

They were such an awesome idea.