Guild Wars 2

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Facet

The Facets encountered in the Tarnished Coast and during The Path to Revelations are said to “reflect the nature of the power that the human gods have harnessed”.

The Facets are a kind of ghostly servants of the gods. All of the known Facets take the form of a semi-transparent dragon.

So… could the human gods (and predecessors) have their gained their power from dragons and or the Elder Dragons? Maybe when the ED sleep, they can draw upon their power for their own use, but when the ED are awake, they need to hide away lest they be caught ‘dipping a hand into the cookie jar’?

The current batch of gods might not have even been aware of the source of their power when they came to Tyria.

Totally a wild theory.

From the Lore, the Human Gods are beings from the Mist but people only see them as Gods due to them uplifting Humans in the world and their incredible powers.

However, the Elder Dragon’s origins are unknown and mortal beings only consider them “Forces of Nature” due to how destructive and unstoppable they appear.

In the end their titles are just what “mortal” see these powerful beings so we can’t really be certain what the Human gods really are nor why they are powerful.

However, with the existance of the Mist guess any reason can go back to “They are what they are because of the Mist”

Thermaltron.6829:

So… could the human gods (and predecessors) have their gained their power from dragons and or the Elder Dragons? Maybe when the ED sleep, they can draw upon their power for their own use, but when the ED are awake, they need to hide away lest they be caught ‘dipping a hand into the cookie jar’?

Before GW2’s release, we were told that the facets represent power which the Six Gods harvested.

In Arah seer path, we learn that the gods harvested Zhaitan’s magic – without knowing – to strengthen the bloodstone.

To your actual question, the answer would be no because at least three but implied all six (of the time) had their godly powers before arriving on Tyria. Grenth is explicitly stated to be the first Tyrian-born god; Dwayna, Balthazar, and Melandru are all explicitly stated to have arrived from another world and performing godly feats right off the bat.

The Six Gods are not hiding from the dragons. They left the world over a thousand years before the dragons began waking, and even today their power is still felt in the world (that’s the actual lore explanation for human racial skills – them answering prayers; which yes, is odd given that everything else says the gods are silent – up until the Cathedral of Silence story mission).

Besides, the gods have divine power, and as we see in Season 2, divine power is used to counter the mordrem (if not other dragon minions).

EdwinLi.1284:

From the Lore, the Human Gods are beings from the Mist but people only see them as Gods due to them uplifting Humans in the world and their incredible powers.

You forgot about the excessive divine magic stored within their bodies that allow them to perform world altering feats without breaking a sweat, but when killed can destroy the world of Tyria from the center of the Realm of Torment; or the fact that no mortal being can look upon a god for an extended time without going blind (see: Malchor).

And the gods didn’t so much uplift humans as transport them – and the Forgotten – to the world from another planet.

I believe that the dragons that represented the Facets in GW1 were just reused assets of something that would be understood as powerful. The same dragon models (or very similar) are present in the Glint’s Lair mission, way back in Prophecies.

I do not think there’s a connection to the current lore.

They are re-used assets, but Jeff Grubb did mention them specifically in an interview, which is where the wiki quote the OP mentioned comes from.

So, what you’re saying is that while the dragon models are used assets, they were acknowledged as something the gods did use, purposely?

Interesting.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

They left the world over a thousand years before the dragons began waking, and even today their power is still felt in the world (that’s the actual lore explanation for human racial skills – them answering prayers; which yes, is odd given that everything else says the gods are silent – up until the Cathedral of Silence story mission).

I’m not sure even the use of those skills represent divine intervention. Lyssa’s Muse gives a spiel about how the gifts of the gods are already in humans at the end of the Gate of Madness mission in Nightfall – it might be that the human racials are not actually the gods granting prayers, but that certain exceptional humans (most humans don’t actually have access to human racial skills, unlike norn where the racial skills are universal unless something disables them) are able to tap into that divinity that is already within them.

When your human character increases in level, they will gain access to a range of special racial skills granted to them by the Six Gods, such as summoning fearsome Hounds of Balthazar or beseeching the healing goddess Dwayna to restore your health.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/races/human/

Take it as you will.