Guild Wars 2

SPOILERS AHEAD

Hello all,

I apologize in advance for possible typos and grammar/syntactic/semantic errors, English is not my first/mother language.

So, Mordremoth, the jungle dragon, has finally awakened. Now a lot of the lore content related to Scarlet, Malyk, Caithe, the Pale Tree and Mordremoth makes sense to me, and I felt like sharing my thoughts and theories on the subject with the community.

The correlation between Malyck, the Pale Tree and Mordremoth
Malyck was born from what is believed to be a ‘’Pale Tree’’ in Magus Falls, west part of Tarnished Coast, where beneath the jungle, Mordremoth has awakened. The thing is, unlike the Pale Tree from the Grove, the Pale Tree from Magus Falls didn’t have something like the Ventari’s Tablet to guide the Magus Falls Sylvari to a path of ‘’Justice and Rightneousness’’ and have no ‘’Mother Tree’’ in which to guide her saplings, since Malyck feels no connection at all with anything, similar to the Soundless, only a sense of distance and void. Despite that, he was able to build a ’’good’’ personality with sense of justice and rightneousness similar to that of the Sylvari from the Grove’s Pale Tree. So, probably, they (Magus Falls Pale Tree Sylvari) have a huge variance in personalities and due to their location, lack of a teaching and ’’Mother’’, they are the most probable subject of curruption by Mordremoth.

Ceara
‘’Caithe, someday you’ll see. Tyria needs me.‘’ Scarlet got hold of some dark secret of Caithe, but had never let it slip to the world as she threatened to. We don’t have much info on this, maybe next patches content? Hope so. I’m open to suggestions, but the phrase itself denotes Scarlet’s ego, as she thinks that she is some sort of overlord and must control the Eternal Alchemy at her will. But all this is a mix of her goals as Ceara, when, althogh a sociopath in the time, only wanted more power and control of the Eternal Alchemy out of curiosity, but with lack of sense of rules and morality, never hinted a hate for Tyria or anything tho. But right after she entered and came out from the Eternal Alchemy, where Mordremoth took hold of her, despite the advice of the Pale Tree, she came out a complete psycopath, lost half the Ceara in her, to give room for the new ‘’Scarlet Briar’‘, the now Mordremoth most powerful and intelligent corrupted pawn. You can clearly see the corruption over her body in the final cutscene (Scarlet’s End) after she died.

If the Elder Dragons are so powerful, why did Mordremoth needed Scarlet?
As we know from the game lore, Elder Dragons draw their power from massive sources of magic. Now we know that before the Exodus of the Gods, the Gods tapped something that had awakened an Elder Dragon, after messing with magic in Tyria, without knowing, now we know that it was a Ley Line, or a convergence of Ley Lines like the one in Lion’s Arch. So, my interpretation of the Eternal Alchemy is that it’s just the the depths of The Mists, where without power to wake and work their hibernating physical bodies, and due to the fact that they are still mystical beasts of great power and weird form of existence, the ’’souls’’ or ’’essence’’ of the Elder Dragons roam in the depths of The Mists, trying to find a way to awaken. Why the Gods don’t kill them all? You may ask, probably because they can’t. Most of the Gods are just former mortal heroes, they probably don’t fully understand The Mists, as you can clearly deduce from their ignorance of the Ley Lines back then. It seems clear to me that the Dragons are so powerful that their ’’essence’’ or ’’being’’ are so huge that even when hibernating they affect the world around them, and can even have a presense in The Mists, and can tap into other aspects of existence. But why Scarlet of all beings? My guess #1: Mordremoth is somewhat linked to all Sylvari even if in a small degree. My guess #2: Scarlet was a perfect fit with her incredible intelligence, determination and fascination for the ocult/darkness and the Elternal Alchemy/The Mists. She always refer to The Mists as Eternal Alchemy due to her strong link with the Asura teachings, which call the source of all things in nature, including the Gods, the Eternal Alchemy.

Ceara and the Inquest
We already know that the Inquest have a similar goal as Ceara’s. (To acquire and control the Eternal Alchemy, and they are trying to do this through the Elder Dragons, since as I theorised above, the Elder Dragons have a good hold of The Mists and also the magic that flows in Tyria through the Ley Lines, and are one of the most powerful creatures known to date.) As you can see in the experiments at Infinite Coil Reactor, where we also saw the word Mordremoth for the first time inside Crucible of Eternety, in one of the Dragon powers that the abomination had summoned. If not Ceara, Scarlet became a true genius, so sad that she was so evil to begin with. She managed to merge all three Asura colleges knowledge into one greater knowledge and power, Statics, Synergetics and Dynamics, and we notice that when fighting her at the Breachmaker. If Ceara had not sucumbed to Mordremoth, she maybe had become a new God, as she seeked the knowledge and control of The Mists and was fascinated by it.

So your saying Modremoth sought Scarlet for her intelligence….. Fascinating….

Nice speculation here! I’m so intrigued!

Concerning Caithe’s secret here is some dialogue from the aetherpath from twilight arbor:

Scarlet Briar Hologram: “Ooh, and I just realized: I know something about you even Faolain doesn’t know.”

Not trying to knit pick but someone would have brought it up eventually

Heta.8629:

Concerning Caithe’s secret here is some dialogue from the aetherpath from twilight arbor:

Scarlet Briar Hologram: “Ooh, and I just realized: I know something about you even Faolain doesn’t know.”

Not trying to knit pick but someone would have brought it up eventually

I didn’t do that particular content. I don’t mind, I’ll update the post. Thanks for the correction.

Zarkas.1675:

Heta.8629:

Concerning Caithe’s secret here is some dialogue from the aetherpath from twilight arbor:

Scarlet Briar Hologram: “Ooh, and I just realized: I know something about you even Faolain doesn’t know.”

Not trying to knit pick but someone would have brought it up eventually

I didn’t do that particular content. I don’t mind, I’ll update the post. Thanks for the correction.

If you don’t mind, could you give me a quick rundown on the significance of Caithe & Faolain’s relationship? As a lore junkie, I’m embarrassed that it’s slipped my mind.