Guild Wars 2

So, I was running for my life in the verdant brink, as one tends to do. I run up a ramp here, jump a mushroom there, and lo! I spot a sleeping Black Moa. At first it didn’t register that this was a big Moa, but then it hit me. It’s a wild Black Moa, out in the open. Having played guild wars 1, it makes me wonder what on Tyria a Black Moa is doing in the Maguuma Jungle? The only other Black Moa that can be spotted in the Wild is an elusive one that only spawns as part of a hidden dynamic event. Is this precedent for fighting Black Moas in the wild in the future? What’s it doing in the Verdant brink? One would think that only the hardiest of creatures can survive out there. I suppose the Black Moa is one of them.

Wasn’t it the corruption from the jade wind that turned a regular Moa into a black Moa? Maybe this is another corrupted Moa, but from the dragon, and that’s what Moas do when corrupted.

Zho’s Journal
“I’ve found an interesting account from an Ascalonian entrepreneur searching for amber in the forest. He claims that his pet Moa became increasingly agitated when they entered the forest. Eventually, the Moa was driven mad, attacking its owner and running off into the woods. Perhaps this is how the Black Moa came to be. Twisted and insane from exposure to the woods, pets and other imported animals are routinely abandoned in the woods. Facing betrayal, their unlucky owners have little choice but to leave them to their own devices.”

Well, theoretically, all the Jade Wind was comprised of was the same magic that came from the Gods. So it is possible that dragon magic would do the same. I didn’t remember that particular theory about the origins of the Black Moa. It would make sense. There were some normal moas surrounding this particular Black Moa. Maybe he was once a normal Moa too.