Guild Wars 2

Because as far as I can tell, the only dragon we know for sure is put down is Zhaitan (and according to the wiki, he’s actually dead), but other than that, Jormag’s still hanging around, Primordius, Kralkatorrik, and Mr Bubbles, but they’ve just not decided to completely upend Tyria yet? For some reason I was under the impression that they woke up and went to sleep in turn, but there are actually four of them meandering about right now, and presumably Mordremoth is going to pop up soon.

So do they go to sleep voluntarily? Do they have to be forcibly taken down? Do we know?

Also I believe it was theorized that it was the combined powers of the dragons that destroyed the Giants in 10,000 BE, so does this mean they’re all in some sort of alliance to just disrupt everything?

Sooo thoughts and additional commentary would be very welcome here.

He’s defeated.

If Anet can choose to say that interviews are lies, it isn’t pass them to say that “defeated” isn’t “dead”.

They aren’t in an alliance, they’re just all after the same thing- magic to consume. They fall asleep, according to current theory, when all the magic is drained from the world, that is, once they have nothing left to eat. It’s not really clear at this point why their pursuit of magic wipes out the races of the time. And the others have made significant upheavals- Primordus and Jormag depopulated entire regions, Bubbles presumably did the same to the ocean-dwellers, and Kralkatorrik’s Dragonbrand may yet prove to be the doom of the charr in Ascalon. The Elder Dragons just don’t move around much- Zhaitan didn’t leave Orr for all his 100+ years- so once they clear their core territory, their power is spread only as quickly as their minions can advance.

Leallax.1482:

So do they go to sleep voluntarily? Do they have to be forcibly taken down? Do we know?

Yes, we know. It is stated that the Elder Dragons absorb magic, so when the worldwide level of magic falls sufficiently low, they go dormant. While dormant they slowly leach out the magic they’ve absorbed back into the world, and when that has gone on long enough they wake up again.

So the Sons of Svanir have something of a point when they refer to Jormag as a force of nature to be respected and not just something evil. Those who oppose them are actually disrupting the natural cycle of life on Tyria.