In the Sylvari starter instance (the Dream), you have to defeat the ‘shadow of the dragon’ to continue. The Pale Tree talks later about your character fighting Zhaitan, but the dragon in the dream looks nothing like one of Zhaitan’s minions. He summons nightmare hounds, and his appearance seems to indicate that he is a servant of Mordremoth, not Zhaitan.
I was running around Caledon Forest with a new Sylvari character when I saw the dragon again in Arias’ garden in Ogham Wilds. The other players with me didn’t see the dragon, but did see an eerie fog and heard the dragon. When I switched to a different character, I saw the fog and not the dragon as well. Hints about LS2, or a glitch? Has anyone else encountered this dragon here?
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It’s hard to do jumping puzzles with a big, fuzzy butt.
Many personal story things (airships, huge creatures and so on) are really on the maps, but just invisible. You can see them very often from distance and they disappear if you get closer.
Many personal story things (airships, huge creatures and so on) are really on the maps, but just invisible. You can see them very often from distance and they disappear if you get closer.
In Arah storymode you can see the Glory of Tyria before you even reach the dragon fights.
The Pale Tree talks later about your character fighting Zhaitan, but the dragon in the dream looks nothing like one of Zhaitan’s minions.
Counter argument: it’s a dream so the dragon was a metaphor. Your new little sylvari mind attempting to wrap itself around the wyld hunt with a limited frame of reference.
He summons nightmare hounds, and his appearance seems to indicate that he is a servant of Mordremoth, not Zhaitan.
We honestly know nothing about Mordy. The working theory is that he’s a plant-eque ED, but that’s based on on the color green, as in that one area in Crucible of Eternity.
The Pale Tree talks later about your character fighting Zhaitan, but the dragon in the dream looks nothing like one of Zhaitan’s minions.
Counter argument: it’s a dream so the dragon was a metaphor. Your new little sylvari mind attempting to wrap itself around the wyld hunt with a limited frame of reference.
Has a point. Perhaps before Personal story nobody really encountered the likes of Tequatl.
Some folks did, since Blightghast and Tequatl were known before we see them. And there were only two individuals – Caithe and Trahearne – who saw Zhaitan itself (and lived).
That said, the Shadow of the Dragon is said to be a representation of Zhaitan. Meaning that it isn’t meant to be accurate, but abstract. It’s only made physical due to the Nightmare’s presence in the Dream – which is also where the Nightmare Hounds come from. But the Shadow of the Dragon is meant to be like the emblem on the waterfall when you make a sylvari (the emblem being of the biography option – shield of the moon, white stag, or green huntsman’s helm), but made hostile and physical by the Nightmare.
In other words, it’s really just by chance that the Shadow of the Dragon was an enemy. Though it was said on the original sylvari guildwars2.com page that some sylvari see a shadow of the dragon and are called to fight the various Elder Dragons’ champions – so the Shadow of the Dragon may not be entirely by chance to be such an enemy, just that it represents Zhaitan instead of Tequatl, Shatterer, Claw of Jormag, or some other champion is by chance.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Although if the original assumption was true it would be a funny conversation with the pale tree:
“Thank you for killing Zhaitan and all, but actually your dream meant you had to kill Mordremoth. I released this before, but I felt a bit awkward telling you since you were already fighting Zhaitan… and then that stuff with Scarlet…”.
