Guild Wars 2

This might be a silly question to some of the more loreknowing people but it has spooked my thoughts for a while.
In the dragon’s lair mission the bonus was to kill glint right? It has been about 6andahalf years ago since I’ve done the mission but was that some sort of illusion or did the player eventually decide to not fully off Glint? In short , why is Glint not dead after Guildwars1?

Well, even if you kill her, she’s still around in GW1. I think killing her is just an extra challenge, and not a thing that actually happened, or else she just got back up after the fight.

Actually Glint is dead.

Whim of developers? Fact that it was a bonus?

Besides, there´s other enemies that seem to be killed but still are encountered further on. (Forgotten bosses in crystal desert for example are the same in all 3 missions before ascension).

I would chalk the bonus mission as simple oversight in lore due to not knowing what was Glint going to do later on.

No, Glint is around like 5 missions after you ‘kill’ her in GW1.

Yeah she’s around “5missions later” as a spectral vision, that’s magic mumbojumbo and doesn’t pass as either dead or living in my book, but I did know she was killed by kralky later but it just struck me as odd that I also did it in dragon;s lair.

you dont kill glint in gw1. you can defeat her, but she’s talking to you afterwords just the same as if you didn’t try the bonus. that fight was never really placed into lore properly it was more just for kittens and giggles. to ease your craving to have every aspect of the game included in lore just think of it more as you knocked her the kitten out instead of killing her.

The Dragon’s Lair bonus mission doesn’t seem to have actually happened – though may be what Glint refers to when she says that the very heroes whom she aided returned to kill her (but obviously didn’t – in fact, I’d say it’s implied that the bonus mission being failed is the true canonical events – that she killed those heroes who returned to kill her and then sent them on their way again).

I think it was even confirmed by developers at some point that the Dragon’s Lair bonus was added in for the sole purpose of fulfilling the fantasy genre archetype of fighting a dragon. Though I may be misremembering on this.

It is confirmed that she is dead in GW2 by the Durmand Priory in the Arah explorable mode dungeon.

Actually if you read Edge of Destiny. Glint tells Destiny Edge that back in GW1 a group of adventures she helped suddenly beat her to near death for some unknown reason before they went to save the world from the titans.

That bonus in GW1 did happen since she mentioned it in the book Edge of Destiny.

You never actually kill Glint. You fend her off when she attacks you for stealing her eggs. When you defeat her she is down, but not out.

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Actually if you read Edge of Destiny. Glint tells Destiny Edge that back in GW1 a group of adventures she helped suddenly beat her to near death for some unknown reason before they went to save the world from the titans.

That bonus in GW1 did happen since she mentioned it in the book Edge of Destiny.

Wrong. As I said, she merely mentioned that they returned to kill her. She never comments on the outcome of it. She furthermore doesn’t say it was before they fought the titans. To quote the book:

“Three hundred years ago, I welcomed heroes such as yourselves, praising them as the Chosen who would destroy the titans and save the world. But did they remember? Did not the very heroes that I sent return to battle me again?” (page 338)

This implies that after the heroes of GW1 left her guidance, they returned at some point to fight her. She then mentions later:

“But three hundred years ago, the dragons’ bellies were empty, and their minds were awakening. Three hundred years ago, the sons of men fought me before they understood that I was their ally.” (page 340)

This implies that the time the heroes returned was after discovering knowledge of the Elder Dragons (supposedly after Eye of the North), where they thought Glint was going to betray them for her original master.

Either way, there was no “beaten to near death” nor any “before killing the titans” mentioned by Glint.