Guild Wars 2

In HoT we have 2 Mordremoth fights: Mouth in Dragon stand and the smallish walking Dragon we fight in his mind/the dream in personal story. I suggest that the Mordremoth we fight in the dream is not just some mental construct he uses to fight us, but actually the real Mordremoth; meaning how Mordremoth looked before he became an elder Dragon.

It has been suggested elsewhere that glint could have been an elder Dragon given energy and time, and that the we could do the same with glint’s egg. This implies that Elder Dragons are made instead of born. This further implies that all the elder dragons were at one point real dragons from various Dragon species.

With this in mind, consider what we fight in the dream. Mordremoth comes off as the most pathetic Dragon in the entire guild wars universe. Even the shatterer comes out as more intimidating. One assumes the Dragon of mind would have fought using something larger and more intimidating If he could change his form, especially as he rants about how he is the jungle and such. This leads me to believe that Mordremoth was unable to change his form.

So why did he look that way? Mordremoth may be an elder Dragon, he may constantly change his physical appearance, but by the time he became an elder Dragon his mind was set (I for example always dream of my childhood residence as “home” in dreams) and we are actually fighting his mental image from before his transformation.

What would this mean? My impression was that Mordremoth looked like a burrowing Dragon given his lack of wings and stout stature. Perhaps he burrowed into a ley line, started absorbing the energy. As he gains power his physical body begins to grow and change beginning massive like the jungle ( to compensate for his small size previously), but in his head he stays the same since he doesn’t view the power as corrupting him.

I know this isn’t the most groundbreaking theory, but I haven’t seen anyone mention it so I came here to ask for the lore forum’s thoughts.

*edited for accidentally implying we could be elder dragons instead of Glint’s egg

That thing we fight isn’t a dragon. It’s a dopy crocodile man that got locked in at a doughnut shop over night and said, “Eh, what the kitten?”

Burrowing dragon? Nein.

Dopy Crocodile man? Nein.

Upright Dragon Moss. Ja.

Upright Dragon Moss? Não.

Baby Kaiju? Sim.

I was actually thinking it resembles an upright drake, which are dragon relatives. But I still really think the Mouth of Mordremoth from the Meta is part of his original body. Be it what is left, or what he could reconstitute.
Maybe he went through states of evolution as he became an Elder Dragon and both are throwbacks to that.

Eh evidence is so so on that (well actually there is no evidence only speculation).
In this case I think it’s another example of mechanics / practicality over lore. Making a giant plant dragon monster that we fight in the dream might have been more lore consistent or visually impressive, but it would also have taken far more time and effort to model, texture and animate and ANet did seemingly put a lot of effort into the MoM fight.
Although I would have liked to see a Zhaitan-ish creature in the Dream.

Regards Snow:
I wasn’t trying to imply the mouth wasn’t his body, but that it was a heavily ‘evolved’ body from ages sucking on ley lines. I was suggesting that the dream iteration was his initial form be before such magical transformation

Regarding CureForLiving:
They had the shadowy face, so it could have been a shadowy body too. Did our even need to be a whole body given we are fighting his brain? I think given the options this is more than just a mechanics over lore decision, especially given the detail elsewhere. It also ties in to the idea that Elder Dragons can be made not born, which is central to the glint egg thread. Although I concede that more evidence would be necessary to make a certain statement on this.