Abbadon, first champion of Zhaitan ?
With these writers, anything is possible.
Their job description is changing the established lore to make elder dragons exist.
The human gods almost definitely knew of the elder dragons
Darkwood Legion [DARK]
Yak’s Bend
But what if the Great Destroyer was actually a champion of Zhaitan? It would make sense since he is made out of lava and everybody knows that lava kills people. Those burned corpses can then be turned into Risen by Zhaitan. Also he is called the Great Destroyer like the destroyers, the minions of Primordus, who as everyone knows is also a champion of Zhaitan.
But here comes the crazy part! Zhaitan is just the champion of the true master mind behind the dragon corruption! Bloomanoo! That’s why he always appears right before tragedies happen!
I was more focused on giving a lot of corpses in and around Orr… I know death happens everywhere, just I was wondering if the place where the dragon using dead had been purposely fuelled of dead corpses.
The undead dragon slumbers under a pile or corpses. The jungle dragon rests in an untamed wilderness. The dragon of ice abides in the frozen northlands.
Coincidence?
How much has been documented of the nature of these dragons in their previous cycles?
If anything, Abaddon gifted the races with the uber overkill magic of infinite destruction to deal with the dragons. Sure, the majority of the intelligent races would die out in the power struggle leading up to the EDs awakening, but the survivors would have an incredibly easy life (refer to the accounts of life in Orr where commoners accomplish impossible tasks through magic).
Consider how the Bloodstones diluting magic made Abaddon angry enough to attack the other gods. You really think he’d be okay with dragons who not only consume magikittenil there’s just about nothing left, but also do so by corrupting it?
Edit: Apparently you can’t say until right after magic, dohohoho.
The human gods almost definitely knew of the elder dragons
The latest LS implied as much, but we lack definite evidence. The most notable piece we have is:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prosperity%27s_Mystery
Namely the line that reads:
“Ancient documents, found now in the Durmand Priory’s collection, reveal accounts passed down by other races such as the powerful Seers and even the human gods themselves.”
If Abbadon is Zhaitan’s champion then maybe the other elder dragons are as well. Maybe instead of them waking up he bring them back from the dead after they starve themselves to death.
I’d think that its the Elder Dragons who effect their surroundings even while sleeping that made these coinciding effect so obvious. Kralkatorrik/Crystals/Searing crystals, Zhaitan/Undeath/Cataclysm of Orr and Undead rising, But these two are the only ones we can point at and draw a connection to Abaddon. The third cataclysmic even associated to Abaddon’s influence is the Jade Wind, but that one is both the most remotely associated with him (debatably), and the one we dont know about having the theme of a dragon.
My theory would be that the two cataclysmic events (the Searing and the Cataclysm) used powers that drew directly from the raw magics of the most nearby Elder Dragons. That would explain why Khilbron’s scroll was locked in the vaults of Arah and declared as forbidden, and how the Flame legion shamans could amplify a single Titan’s power to the magnitude to burn down the entirety of Ascalon.
If the magic that Abaddon gave away so freely had this much potential, and more importantly this kind of source (meaning the Elder Dragons), its no wonder that the other gods wanted to shut him down. While Abaddon would have wanted the races of Tyria to have all the magic they could possibly have to deal with the dragons (which might have been a bad plan, seeing how dragons feast on magic), the other gods wanted to wait out to see how humanity can fit into Tyria, and prevent them from destroying themselves with the unfiltered magical power in the meantime. Hence their disagreement.
I doubt Abaddon was a Champion of Zhaitan. After all, he was a god back then, more or less, a fallen god.
I doubt Gods and Dragons has anything in commen.