Guild Wars 2

Quick question about the Dragonbrand (forgive me if this is said in any of the novels, I have yet to read them):

Kralk was the large mound that we found in GW1 in the Blood Legion Homelands, correct? If so, did it only decide to start creating the Dragonbrand once it got near Ascalon? Only reason I ask is that the Dragonbrand starts in northern Ascalon, not in the Blood Legion Homelands. We know that it did not continue creating the Dragonbrand after fleeing from Destiny’s Edge.

Did it have willpower over whether to create the Dragonbrand? I had been under the (likely mistaken) impression that Kralk had created it unwillingly.

This is actually an oddity on the current map.

The original map – as well as the novel maps – have the dragonbrand going further north. In Edge of Destiny, Kralkatorrik begins corrupting things the very moment he breaks free of the earth that formed around him during hibernation.

And I would say yes, it had the ability to chose when and when not to corrupt, given that during the fight with Destiny’s Edge, it was an off-and-on attack that he used a couple times.