“Tyria will bow to a new master.” She says, knowing she’s defeated.
It is a bit strange that Scarlet would say that.
I think Scarlet understands the nature of the dragons, and possibly about the past cycle of dragons. Her short story strongly hints that she knows what the natural progression is about to lead to. Namely the dragons awakening and consuming all magic while destroying the world.
Her main goal, according to the short story is to redirect the forces that control the natural cycle of the world, and I think that includes how the dragons operate. She says she rejects dream or nightmare, and I think that duality is just an analogy for dragon vs civilizations.
On the face of it, it looks like Scarlet simply fell to nightmare (or dragons following our analogy). But the question I guess then. Is if Scarlet was fully corrupted and controlled to make her loose her prior goals. Or if Scarlet has indeed succeeded in redirecting the forces that control the nature of the dragons.
Lets understand the forces that are the dragons. They have been said to be more akin to forces of nature rather than a malevolent force. They are said to be solely intent on consuming as much magic as possible before going to sleep. To this end, they are lethal forces of a near apocalyptic scale. But they only exert control as a means for their primary goal of consuming magic. They control minions in order to supply magical artifacts for consumption, and then presumably to clear the way so that the dragon or its minions can safely consume the magic strewn about the world.
To say that Tyria will bow to a new master, and that master is an Elder Dragon is contrary to everything we know about them. That is like saying that a beach will bow down to a hurricane, that the hurricane will be the master of the people living there.
Since the death of Zhaitan, I think the natural order of the dragons are a bit out of balance. We have evidence that Scarlet has argued with Morde…(uh i don’t know how to spell that!). But as far as we know Elder Dragonss don’t converse, they are after all, simply forces of nature. The closest we even get to interact with Zhaitan is through its minions. Something seems off about Morde. That is what I want to say.
It seems that some of Zhaitan’s servants threaten that the PC and other allies would be subservient to Zhaitain at times. Perhaps that is similar to what Scarlet says. But I think that is just the distorted view of the minions. In Zhaitan’s case there is the detail that dead people do in fact end up serving Zhaitan, so those minions are simply saying you will die and become undead. Perhaps Scarlet saying bow down Morde, is just a distortion of the Morde’s intent through Scarlet’s mind, but what makes it striking is the way She clearly states that Tyria, as a whole, will bow down. That is distinct to the threat from Zhaitan’s minions in that it refers to the whole of Tyria rather than the player or other specific allies. And the fact that Scarlet does seem to be of mostly clear mind, beside the babble during the hologram fight, makes me trust the validity of her words more than that of a champion of Zhaitan.
I think Scarlet has unleashed something worse than an Elder Dragon. The forces of nature have been disturbed so much that what we thought we know about the dragons could soon be invalidated. But in a way, that may just save Tyria from total destruction.
