Guild Wars 2

Abaddon and the Five True Gods are the giftors of magic to Tyria correct? Dragons regulate that magic and keep it in balance, unless I’m mistaken. While the dragons do pose a huge threat to the races of Tyria and the very way of life, what will happen to Tyria if they’re all destroyed? It seems as if there will be a magic overflow (or a massive reduction in magic) causing all of Tyria to become an apocalyptic state.

Will the Five True Gods return to stop this calamity? If in-game characters know this information, why haven’t there been a rise in support groups ala our real world groups that support preservation of the world’s natural ecosystem (global warming)?

The Six Gods only released magic from the Bloodstone, which was created by taking all non-corrupted magic in the world into the giant stone, done by the Seers during the previous dragonrise.

As for what will happen if the dragons are killed, we have a forboding from Hidden Arcana:

Ogden Stonehealer: Too much magic, and the world spins out of control. Too little, and it crumbles into darkness.

And common speculation from this other line of Ogden:

Ogden Stonehealer: The brotherhood believed that [Glint] would one day become an Elder Dragon. She was old and wise, well on her way.

Is that Elder Dragons can be replaced by other beings that can naturally regulate magic. Namely, dragons and dragon minions. Which would explain the most important yet unexplained thing from all of Season 2: why the heck is Glint’s egg so gosh darn important!?

Personal opinion: I would not call the Elder Dragons to be “the world’s natural ecosystem” – they take a job required by the world to survive, but how they do it is hardly a required necessity. They simply need to balance magic – there’s no need to let magic rise to a high point, wake up and destroy countless civilizations and cause mass genocide, and then when the world is nearly without magic go back to sleep to let magic rise again. They’re balancing from one extreme to the other – a balance in the middle ground should logically be possible to make happen.

Konig, thank you very much for the corrections and added speculation! I’ll have to see what this Hidden Arcana is all about. Sounds like my questions may be answered in Heart of Thorns!

Also, besides the five Gods sealing the magic, that it was Abbadon who gifted magic to Tyria: the very first was a Jadoth, who is known as the First Margonite (Margonites are the followers of Abbadon).
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Abaddon

I thought magic always existed in Tyria but Abaddon gifted humans with the ability to use it? If the reverse is true then there is a plot hole in Tyria not having magikittenil Abaddon, but the dragons existing long before they arrived.

Magic always existed in Tyria, but before the century-or-so before the Exodus of the Gods, it was exceedingly rare due to the Elder Dragons consuming so much of it and the Seers putting the rest into the original Bloodstone.

When Abaddon “gifted magic”, what he did was give access to the bloodstone to various groups. Because magic was so rare beforehand, humans mistook the gods granting magic over the century-or-so with Abaddon’s big gift of magic as them making magic.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Angel-McCoy-Interview/page/3#post2821776
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quiz_Terminal#Terminal_5
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodstones_%28book%29