Guild Wars 2

So for the longest amount of time I’ve been under the impression the Elder Dragons didn’t have personality. I’ve heard several times that the Elder Dragons are like a force of nature with no real agenda other than to feed. As of recently I am feeling completely opposite about that because of this…

The dragon awoke in 1320 AE in Grothmar Wardowns within the Blood Legion Homelands, where it was once believed to be a mountain; then flew south over the charr territory of Ascalon, with the goal of hunting down its traitorous champion, Glint.

-gw2 wiki in reference to the awakening of Kralkatorrik

That proves it. Revenge is an advanced human like emotion there is no way around it. He actually awoke and went out of his way to settle a score with someone. In addition we know that this wasn’t something unexpected of him or just some coincidence. Glint was fearful that Kralkatorrik would come after her and hid because of it. That is emotion plain and simple. The missing factor in all of this is a detailed look at how the elder dragons view the races of Tyria.

I know most of you lore hounds have long ago pieced this together so if this is nothing new to you I apologize. But maybe it will help a few people from thinking for a whole year that the elder dragons are mindless like I did for a little less than a year.

We can also hear some of the Elder Dragons roar in anger when we act against them.

i think that while they’re not emotionless blobs of destruction, they are savage, brutal, and angry. i can’t imagine an elder dragon calmly strategizing. i imagine they’d be like a wolverine: stupidly territorial and angry. they want to eat, and they want to claim the world for them, and by the six they’ll get what they want, and don’t you dare get in their way (or you’ll get beheaded like glint).

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

We can also hear some of the Elder Dragons roar in anger when we act against them.

The NPCs mention it to be Zhaitan’s anger and fear, but I’m more inclined to go the route of Sea of Sorrows – a roar of pain. It’s impossible for Trahearne and others to truly know what Zhaitan’s thinking and feeling when all they hear is a distant roar.

But anyways, yeah. It’s explicitly shown in EoD that Jormag and Kralkatorrik have emotions (rage and revenge/frustration/fear retroactively) and SoS/personal story shows Zhaitan to have such (anger and fear) as well as intelligence (Zhaitan and Kralkatorrik at least).

@Bruno: Nitpickery but Glint had her neck snapped, not beheaded.

^ having your neck snapped via mauling qualifies as beheading in my book :P