Guild Wars 2

I’m resurrecting this discussion because of the image provided and how it relates to most of what has been said in this thread.
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Alice.8694:

I’m resurrecting this discussion because of the image provided and how it relates to most of what has been said in this thread.
Minor Spoilers!

A mother grieving for her child will obviously have a biased opinion.

Not once did Scarlet begged for her life. Not once did Scarlet show that she was suffering.

In fact I will say she was extremely proud of her achievements, up to the very second of her death.

Alice.8694:

We were promised 6 unfathomable dragons with their own plans and complicated designs. And what did we get? An undead dragon hell bent on… Eating magic.
Not exactly ground breaking is it…

If the dragons are to be antagonists, they need to step up and be less 2 dimensional than scarlet.

Dragons have always been described as being akin to natural disasters. Sure there’s some disagreement as to how intelligent they are (I still think most of the thinking goes on at the middle management level) but for the most part ‘big dragon eat magic’ is kinda there things, so it’s difficult to really go anywhere with that.

Maybe Zhaitan was the underachieving-ED (flunked out of ED-High and didn’t get into ED-U) and we’re going to get a bunch of complex, highly intelligent dragons.
Although since ANet is going for the whole lovecraftian-beyond-mortal-comprehension thing that becomes a bit difficult do, since a talking ED with complex plans filled with twists and turns still seems well within mortal-comprehension.

I’ll pitch my lot in with agreeing I was disappointed that she died. It would have been a much more compelling story for SOMETHING to make her snap and sort of realize the magnitude of what all she had done, and then maybe move forward trying to fight for the good team, even if ultimately she still had to face justice after the smoke cleared.

I still maintain that I think she was trying to draw out the dragon to kill it, basically, to silence its voice in her head, just the lengths to which she was going to do so were very….very horrible. Haven’t really seen anything to contradict this. She did say “my master” as she was dying, but from what I saw her mind seemed very much in a back and forth state. Once she stepped into the light, was killing and active, she was fairly committed. But when she was confined, alone and in her own thoughts, the other half showed.

Ezekiel.1985:

I’ll pitch my lot in with agreeing I was disappointed that she died. It would have been a much more compelling story for SOMETHING to make her snap and sort of realize the magnitude of what all she had done, and then maybe move forward trying to fight for the good team, even if ultimately she still had to face justice after the smoke cleared.

I still maintain that I think she was trying to draw out the dragon to kill it, basically, to silence its voice in her head, just the lengths to which she was going to do so were very….very horrible. Haven’t really seen anything to contradict this. She did say “my master” as she was dying, but from what I saw her mind seemed very much in a back and forth state. Once she stepped into the light, was killing and active, she was fairly committed. But when she was confined, alone and in her own thoughts, the other half showed.

If she said before she died “The dragons are all weakened. They will awake earlier, but much much weaker. Tyria is saved. My purpose, my wyld hunt, is finished…….”

Yes, I would agree.

But she didn’t. Instead she said “You think my death saves you?”