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… That’s actually a plausible theory, if one were supporting the “Scarlet is really a good guy!” theory. Scarlet knows the other Elder Dragons are coming, thinks she is the only one with the smarts to stop it, gathers the technology to build her own Jaegarbot, uses it to fight the Elder Dragons. She’s just not bothered by pesky things like collateral damage and sentient being rights while going about her plan.

The only loose end is… What do the Hallucination spores have to do with the Scarletbot?

Zaxares.5419:

… That’s actually a plausible theory, if one were supporting the “Scarlet is really a good guy!” theory. Scarlet knows the other Elder Dragons are coming, thinks she is the only one with the smarts to stop it, gathers the technology to build her own Jaegarbot, uses it to fight the Elder Dragons. She’s just not bothered by pesky things like collateral damage and sentient being rights while going about her plan.

The only loose end is… What do the Hallucination spores have to do with the Scarletbot?

Maybe you have to be . . . influenced . . . by them in order to make sense of the controls?

The spores enable the neural-bridge.

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OK, fine. Nike has convinced me. But who’s going to be Scarlet’s partner in the neural bridge?? O.o

Wait, was that why Scarlet was growing the Toxic Hybrid? kitten, it all makes sense now!

Why place it out there in lornars pass? It’s not really near a city if her goal is to destroy one.

It’s a test, for one.

Secondly, it is near the Durmand Priory.

KOPPER.1458:

Why place it out there in lornars pass? It’s not really near a city if her goal is to destroy one.

might not be a city so much as her targetting the priory’s HQ. The place with all the collected knowledge on everything they have discovered in ruins and collected in research. seems to be a pretty likely target especially if they found something she wants badly.

“Secondly, it is near the Durmand Priory.”
kitten makes total sense now, not sure how I had forgotten that. lol
Isn’t that supposed to be a secret though? Then again she knows everything.

Zaxares.5419:

The only loose end is… What do the Hallucination spores have to do with the Scarletbot?

The Hallucination gas will be spewing forth from the exhaust pipe of the Scarletbot, raining a gaseous cloud of terror down on us! :-O

webtoehobbit.4201:

Zaxares.5419:

The only loose end is… What do the Hallucination spores have to do with the Scarletbot?

The Hallucination gas will be spewing forth from the exhaust pipe of the Scarletbot, raining a gaseous cloud of terror down on us! :-O

I’d be a little more worried about the foot first :p

I think you’ve got it MOSTLY right. My current theory is that you’re right about the clockwork Jaeger. Don’t forget that the ground pounders aren’t necessarily meant for that giant worm, though. That’s just a side effect. They seem to be placed all over Tyria and, with the hints we’ve gotten from the Thaumanova Reactor fractal, are likely placed at key points meant to agitate the Ley Lines of Tyria. What do the dragons do? They siphon magic from the overloading Ley Lines, which means Scarlet is either: A) Luring the dragons from the far corners of Tyria closer to central Tyria, which would be absolutely DEVASTATING for the world as we know it, or B ) Awakening a new dragon that we haven’t seen yet. It could very well be either of those two, but we have had the most MINOR of hints that it could be Primordus being stirred up from the depths of Tyria, so there’s that. On the OTHER hand, we have had many events which have to do with the ocean, specifically around the arrival of the Karka being pushed from their homeland in Southsun by something. Now, we DO know that Canach had something to do with that AFTER the fact, but what about the original Karka Invasion? What caused them to invade Lion’s Arch? Well…

IF the Jaeger idea proves correct, then the real terror won’t actually be from the ground, but from the depths of the ocean, which COULD mean the reveal of Bubbles, who has actually been built up a fair bit for some time now. Scarlet does use the words horror and terror quite a bit, both have been used in frequent context with the unknown water dragon, who will likely tear scarlet’s little “Jaeger-tron” to pieces.

But THEN we have the notion that Scarlet has been experimenting with the Toxic Alliance. The idea that the hallucinatory spores are need for drifting is, no offense :P, creative, but a little TOO farfetched. Everything that Scarlett has been working on has been for direct application of the research gained: The Sky Pirates provided the airship tech and power systems, and the Molten Alliance provided the ground pounders and fused technology, so where does this bio-tech mesmeric stuff fit in? To be honest, I’m not really sure. The Toxic Hybrid, if I felt magi-scientifically minded, seemed to be a means of testing magic of a specific type, one that directly correlates with the dragons themselves, that of Mesmeric/Chaos magic. We also know that Scarlet first experimented with this magic in the Thamanova reactor, specifically in conjunction with the Ley Lines, which obviously didn’t turn out too well for them.

Now, it may be that even the Elder Dragons can be effected by Scarlett’s spores, since the spores are a chaos-magical creation. Could Scarlett be attempting to infect a dragon with spores in order to study the physically manifested hallucinations? After all, what does a Dragon fear? Or, perhaps, she thinks she can use the spores to directly weaken the dragon’s influence due to its mind-altering properties. Regardless, I think that, out of everything, this is the most difficult one to explain, and hopefully we’ll get a sense of it soon enough. XD

Tyrian Rym. Seems legit.
Almost like “Citizen Kane”

Zaxares.5419:

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OK, fine. Nike has convinced me. But who’s going to be Scarlet’s partner in the neural bridge?? O.o

I say it´ll be Trehearne to tie it in with Personal Story.

This new robot is a puppet of scarlets. Is this also a metaphor for Tyrians being puppets to something else? Like magic maybe?

trehaearne and scarlet are couples 0_0

KOPPER.1458:

“Secondly, it is near the Durmand Priory.”
kitten makes total sense now, not sure how I had forgotten that. lol
Isn’t that supposed to be a secret though? Then again she knows everything.

A big fortress on a mountain isn’t much of a secret. You can see the place for miles.

" big fortress on a mountain isn’t much of a secret. You can see the place for miles."

Lol Very true. But in your personal story they make it seem like the HQ for all the orders were a secret. Maybe I misunderstood that.

KOPPER.1458:

Why place it out there in lornars pass? It’s not really near a city if her goal is to destroy one.

One thing I see that no one has mentioned so far: What about the steam creatures in Lornars Pass? We’ve seen many times now Scarlet in command of Steam creatures (or at the very least, a sub group of them she took control of). Looking carefully at the preview video, the giant Clockwork seems to be in the same area that the steam creatures are in, or very close to it.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lake_of_Lamentation
Coincidence?

“Coincidence?”
Doubtful and nice catch. I hardly go to lornar’s pass so I had forgotten a lot of this.

Manijin.3428:

Scarlet is either: A) Luring the dragons from the far corners of Tyria closer to central Tyria, which would be absolutely DEVASTATING for the world as we know it …

Now, it may be that even the Elder Dragons can be effected by Scarlett’s spores, since the spores are a chaos-magical creation. Could Scarlett be attempting to infect a dragon with spores in order to study the physically manifested hallucinations?

Now THIS is another very plausible theory. What if Scarlet is attempting to lure ALL the Elder Dragons to a central location, infect them all with her Hallucinatory Spores, and then have them fight each other while confused? When only one remains, gravely weakened from the battle, that’s when Scarlet steps in with her army, kills it, and becomes the Savior/New Supreme Overlord of Tyria.

Zaxares.5419:

Manijin.3428:

Scarlet is either: A) Luring the dragons from the far corners of Tyria closer to central Tyria, which would be absolutely DEVASTATING for the world as we know it …

Now, it may be that even the Elder Dragons can be effected by Scarlett’s spores, since the spores are a chaos-magical creation. Could Scarlett be attempting to infect a dragon with spores in order to study the physically manifested hallucinations?

Now THIS is another very plausible theory. What if Scarlet is attempting to lure ALL the Elder Dragons to a central location, infect them all with her Hallucinatory Spores, and then have them fight each other while confused? When only one remains, gravely weakened from the battle, that’s when Scarlet steps in with her army, kills it, and becomes the Savior/New Supreme Overlord of Tyria.

That… is brilliant. A long shot, but brilliant.

KOPPER.1458:

" big fortress on a mountain isn’t much of a secret. You can see the place for miles."

Lol Very true. But in your personal story they make it seem like the HQ for all the orders were a secret. Maybe I misunderstood that.

I recall the location of the Priory base was supposed to be a secret from Zhaitan, but obviously that didn’t work out. So if it was a secret, it’s not anymore.

Thats stupid. It should obviously be called “Attack of the fifty-foot whatever”.
(This is a joke. Pls dont infract me again)

KOPPER.1458:

Why place it out there in lornars pass? It’s not really near a city if her goal is to destroy one.

Lions Arch is right next to it.

Zaxares.5419:

Manijin.3428:

Scarlet is either: A) Luring the dragons from the far corners of Tyria closer to central Tyria, which would be absolutely DEVASTATING for the world as we know it …

Now, it may be that even the Elder Dragons can be effected by Scarlett’s spores, since the spores are a chaos-magical creation. Could Scarlett be attempting to infect a dragon with spores in order to study the physically manifested hallucinations?

Now THIS is another very plausible theory. What if Scarlet is attempting to lure ALL the Elder Dragons to a central location, infect them all with her Hallucinatory Spores, and then have them fight each other while confused? When only one remains, gravely weakened from the battle, that’s when Scarlet steps in with her army, kills it, and becomes the Savior/New Supreme Overlord of Tyria.

Yeah, problem is that Elder Dragons aren´t friendly toward each other by default…It´d be sufficient to just lure them all on one place and they would start to fight right away. The other question is…what would happen if so many ED´s would start to fight at one location…

when this is released, someone please make an attack on titan amv with this :P

I thought it was more Pacific Rim because of the Omega Golem fighting the Twisted Watchknight in the trailer video.

The Charr should definitely be getting in on this jaeger action! Now if someone could make a version of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv73Me9hTQs with a Charr themed jaeger and where Knifehead is replaced with a dragon, that would be great.

Here is my theory, scarpet is messing with the leylines to summon the one that must not be counted.

And in effect, may rapture some of tyrias lands, changing zones. Thus, at the end of each LS arc, it is a ‘new expansion’.

I think we are going to see Searing 2.0

Serophous.9085:

Here is my theory, scarpet is messing with the leylines to summon the one that must not be counted.

And in effect, may rapture some of tyrias lands, changing zones. Thus, at the end of each LS arc, it is a ‘new expansion’.

I think we are going to see Searing 2.0

So in essence, we’re going to see the End of an Era?

That would actually drop my jaw to the ground! To have over a year of game, defeating Zhaitan, preparing the Pact to move again for another relatively easy (easier than expected at least) Dragon kill, only to have the world fall apart around us (let’s say Primordus and Destroyers swarm everywhere, drowning Tyria in dragon Minions) and instead of triumphant march, we’d be facing hard fight for survival?

kitten , I’d love it! I think something as awesome would definetly make me easily forgive Scarlet’s story up to that point. But yeah, dream on.

Primordus has his home under the shiverpeaks, close to the Central Transfer Chamber in GW1.
Scarlet happens to test her bot in the shiverpeaks… Just saying… Although she’s a bit further south.

No, the giant robot is to fight the Tarrasque that comes in the next patch!

But the giant robot isn’t a dwarf with a staff and a gem in it’s hand that spews Green Flames… I call bs.