Guild Wars 2

What happens to Dragon Minions after their master dies, I assume that undead would be automatons that would require a Lich to utilize, how ever all those Mordrem were alive and capable of critical thinking; do you think the Nightmare Court could recruit the Mordrem since they’re dreamless?

My guess is, they become stuck in their animation. They have been given a command, and are propably used to not hearing their father until a new command comes in. I dunno how actively an ED talks to their minions. But if an ED dies, they might or might not know depending on their intelligence and just continue doing what they were doing. If they do knowntheyr father’s dead, they propably enter a voided state where they loiter around for selfpreservation only

We see this in the case of Zhaitan’s minions in the Arah explorable. His champions don’t believe he’s dead and are continuing to do whatever they think he’d want them to do, and those that don’t have their own initiative follow the orders of the champions.

For Mordremoth’s minions, it might be a bit more interesting – unlike most minions, Mordrem Guard have the potential to regain their own will when Mordremoth is no longer booming in their minds. We may see Mordrem Guard reverting to regular sylvari… or trying to.

draxynnic.3719:

We see this in the case of Zhaitan’s minions in the Arah explorable. His champions don’t believe he’s dead and are continuing to do whatever they think he’d want them to do, and those that don’t have their own initiative follow the orders of the champions.

For Mordremoth’s minions, it might be a bit more interesting – unlike most minions, Mordrem Guard have the potential to regain their own will when Mordremoth is no longer booming in their minds. We may see Mordrem Guard reverting to regular sylvari… or trying to.

Regarding the Sylvari, there’s an interesting example:
Wounded: Mordrem Guard Punished from the Buried Insight instance.
This one in particular was free of mordremoth’s booming voice for some time and had recovered some of his senses. When canach aproaches, he gives in mordremoth’s call again. I found this one interesting because he was a complete ‘corruption’ but returned to sense (speaking from a sylvan point of view) for a few moments, which means that the ‘corruption’ of mordremoth is not as permanent or dominant as is with other elder dragons.

I do hope we get to see a mordrem guard returning to his senses now. Be it in regret for his actions, or happy that he’s free, either way would be interesting to see. I can also think of a few who have completely lost themselves and without mordremoth have no ‘self’ to return to anymore. Their minds are propably completely blank now, and will either wander around until they starve to death to cotninue on autopilot

Dragon minions (regardless of the Dragon involved) will act the same upon their master’s demise. Unless they have their mind purified (through, for example, the Forgotten’s ritual), they’ll keep pursuing the Dragon’s will, given that the mind was deeply and irredeemably changed, without the need of a continued link with the Dragon.
In my view, this happens even with the Mordrem Guards (unlike others have said): sylvari who still retained a remnant of their will, as implied by Canach (also, it’s just a small pocket of them, definitely not every single one), were able to “revert back”, but those particular Mordrem Guards weren’t fully turned yet, their mind wasn’t changed for good yet.

On a side note, the Inquest was able to bypass the mental corruption with magitech (we see this happen with some Risen in Arah); I doubt it was a definite solution though, since I believe that upon removal of said magitech those dragon minions would revert back to follow their original master’s will.

We don’t have any indication of what’s happened with the Mordrem since Mordremoth’s death apart from Rox’s comment about some of them being ‘unhinged’. That could be anything from every Mordrem Guard turning back and seeking some form of redemption by going on an extermination spree of the non-sylvari Mordrem turning the area into a warzone, to every Mordrem going on a vengeance-fuelled rampage looking to avenge Mordremoth, to anything in between. That’s a loose thread that ArenaNet seems to be looking to leave hanging.

With regards to the Risen in the mursaat path, we never were given an explanation of how the Inquest magitech there worked. My gut feeling is that it essentially made them think that the Inquest were champions of Zhaitan – not bypassing the corruption so much as hijacking it.

In my opinion risen should be severely diminished on Core Tyria Maps with the exception of the more reclusive parts of Orr even when some champions still produce other Risen.

It is reasonable to assume that the pact destroyed the biggest production sites of risen and the big push against the races like Zhaitan envisioned will never start because Zhaitan can´t command it. If him commanding would not be necessary, champions would start it on their own and would be destroyed at the gates of the big cities because they lack the coordination and reinforcements to attack or even siege a big city when they all act independent.

I am also pretty sure that at least Tequatl realizes the death of Zhaitan after his massive power gain.

draxynnic.3719:

We don’t have any indication of what’s happened with the Mordrem since Mordremoth’s death apart from Rox’s comment about some of them being ‘unhinged’. That could be anything from every Mordrem Guard turning back and seeking some form of redemption by going on an extermination spree of the non-sylvari Mordrem turning the area into a warzone, to every Mordrem going on a vengeance-fuelled rampage looking to avenge Mordremoth, to anything in between. That’s a loose thread that ArenaNet seems to be looking to leave hanging.

With regards to the Risen in the mursaat path, we never were given an explanation of how the Inquest magitech there worked. My gut feeling is that it essentially made them think that the Inquest were champions of Zhaitan – not bypassing the corruption so much as hijacking it.

Anet completely abandoned Orr, so learning anything about the mordrem guards is something we shouldnt have hopes for

I think they will fall over time without their masters’ power support.

The Inquest could dominate them.