Guild Wars 2

Reikou.7068:

Now we have cannon that says Sylvari are indeed smarter than Asura.

One Sylvari, one, and for all we know she obtained her knowledge via an outside force that is controling her and without said force she wouldn’t be any smarter than an Asura.

A Massive Headache.1879:

@I See No Tomorrow actually the minions of dragons can’t be corrupted by other dragons, or at least all evidence so far points to that. there are inquest mixing dragon magics; however, I’m not entirely sure that’s relevant

All evidence? The only evidence we have is from the Inquest. If the Inquest hasn’t created a branded, risen, icebrood, or even destroyer sylvari then I’m afraid that your argument falls flat. The Inquest mix dragon magic, if they can do it why wouldn’t the Dragons’ latent magic (i.e. the exact same magical energy) be able to do the same thing?

Juclesia Elcritian.8410:

I See No Tomorrow.7302:

It is interesting that they are incorruptible but it is more likely that they were created to fight the Dragons by an ancient and long dead race than being Dragon minions themselves.

Except that sylari ARE corruptable. The Nightmare Court can corrupt them. Just like Svanir corrupt norn into more svanir, etc.

We don’t fully understand what Nightmare Court corruption is. It certainly isn’t Elder Dragon magic as far as we know so far. If it is Dragon magic it may be our good friend the Jungle Dragon, but until we know that for sure then it is merely sylvari-created corruption: nothing more, nothing less.