Guild Wars 2

I took a look at the ceiling/Eternal Alchemy and noticed a small, maybe purposeful, difference between Elder Dragons. For the sake of simplifying things, let’s call them Type A and Type B.

Type 1 Dragons are located on the left side of the Alchemy and seem to corrupt inanimate materials[Water/DSD, Corpses/Zhaitan, Earth/Primordus]. Zhaitan is a bit of an outlier in this category, as it uses inanimate yet organic material.

Type 2 Dragons are located on the right side of the Alchemy and seem to corrupt living beings[Branding/Kralky, Plants/Mordremoth, Icebrood/Jormag]. These also, because of their nature, tend to corrupt not only the body, but the mind of their victims.

Anyway, just thought this was an interesting way to figure why the Alchemy splits the orbs into two groups instead of forming them into an evenly spaced hexagon.

Mordremoth has not been seen corrupting plants yet. Apparances lead to him creating corruptive plants instead. And these corruptive plants can corrupt corpses.

Zhaitan and Primordus are known to be capable of corrupting living beings – in the case of the former, we have two situations: Kellach and Necromancer Rissa; though there are various hearts in Bloodtide Coast and Sparkfly Fen where we see corrupted plants (‘living’) and living beings becoming sick due to Zhaitan’s corruption (though this appears semi-curable? Or at least delayable).

Similarly, Kralkatorrik has been seen corrupting inanimate materials (the Shatterer, earth elementals, and the very ground itself).

In a way, it is a hexagon – if you remove Tyria (the central orb) and close the gap between the two sides, it’s an evenly spaced hexagon even. I imagine that the width is simply due to height issues with the E2 cinematic which shows the same design. Most computer screens are widescreened nowadays, and in order to fit the design in with detail, such is the screen size they had to make the design for.

What’s interesting to note, however, is this:

• Primordus is opposite to Kralkatorrik – Primordus liquifies; Kralktorrik crystallizes (solidifies)
• DSD corrupts water, a liquid; Jormag corrupts ice, the solid form of water

Though this connection ceases at Mordremoth and Zhaitan, really, but then again, the circle designs also differ from those two and the other four.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

What’s interesting to note, however, is this:

• Primordus is opposite to Kralkatorrik – Primordus liquifies; Kralktorrik crystallizes (solidifies)
• DSD corrupts water, a liquid; Jormag corrupts ice, the solid form of water

Though this connection ceases at Mordremoth and Zhaitan, really, but then again, the circle designs also differ from those two and the other four.

• Zhaitan has decay, Mordremoth has growth.

And as I theorized in another thread, the horizontally opposing dragons also have a similar thing going on.

*DSD, liquid, Kralkatorrik, solid – form
*Zhaitan, decay, Mordremoth, growth – time
*Primordus, hot, Jormag, cold – temperature