The dream is the mind of Mordremoth
1. It’s proven lorefact that dragons do consume magic.
2. For all the love of Sylvari, please – no more ‘Sylvari are dragon minions’. I can accept theories that Scarlet was influenced by a dragon, or maybe even nightmares in the dream are dragon corruptions. But not that all Sylvari are directly bred to be dragon minions.
Nearly all the dragon minions we’ve seen, are mindless, kill-happy, corruptions. Icebrood, branded, and undead. The Sylvari are intelligent, philosophical, and in most cases, very peaceful.
The Dream is part of the Mists. The Dragons have nothing to do with the Mists. There goes your theory!
The Dream is NOT the collective intelligence of the Sylvari, it’s just the place they come from before they are born and which they have a strong link to – it stores memory and experience, it is not a hive mind.
Wyld hunts most often revolve around protecting people or stopping bad things from happening. The ONLY people who had Wyld hunts to do with Orr – dangerous hunts – were Caithe, Trahearne, and the Player Character.
There is not an “unlimited supply” of Sylvari. Nor are they disposable. The death of a Sylvari deeply affects those Sylvari who are alive and also affects the Dream – having Sylvari FEEL their friends die is not conducive to making a mindless unstoppable army.
Also ONLY SOME Sylvari have Wyld hunts. A Wyld hunt I believe isn’t actually hugely common, most Sylvari don’t have one, and a lot of them have nothing to do with fighting or killing.
A Sylvari would be given the task of cleansing Orr/killing Zhaitan BECAUSE THEY IMMUNE TO DRAGON CORRUPTION. The Pale Tree is very obvious about how much she wants to save Tyria. The Sylvari want the dragons dead for the same reason as all the other races – because if they don’t they will be killed. The Sylvari are brand new to Tyria, they don’t want their experience of the world to be short lived because it was consumed by Dragons.
And as Arikyali points out the Sylvari are completely different to any of the other Dragon minions, as is the Pale Tree. These are intelligent beings bent on PRESERVING life.
Sylvari are not dragon minions. This topic has been killed to death on the lore forums.