Guild Wars 2

So, back during Season 2 we learned that each Elder Dragon has 2 spheres of influence rather than just one.

Shadow was added to Zaitan, and Mind was added to Mordremoth, and we’ve speculated about the other Dragons.

People have queried both of these additions, Shadow not seemingly an obvious choice for a Zaitan strength, and Mind not seemingly all that important for Mordremoth, especially if that’s how it’s killed.

Yes Modremoth can influence Sylvari via their mind, but they are it’s minions, so that’s not exactly unique. It would be far more of a ‘mind’ dragon if it was taking over and talking to non-Sylvari via the mind.

What if the second sphere is actually the way to defeat the Dragon instead of a second strength, and the Priory just misunderstood.

I know, it’s easy to see how Mind could be the weakness of Mordremoth, but how then was Shadow the weakness of Zaitan?

Well, it depends on whether it was important to create or remove Zaitan’s shadow to weaken him. However, there is one thing that does both, bright light shone from a fixed source. Shine a light on a shadow and it weakens the shadow, shine a light on an object and it creates a shadow.

We kill Zaitan using the “MEGA-LIT” cannon, now if that doesn’t sound like a really bright light, I don’t know what would.

We didn’t kill Zhaitan using the laser cannon – we just cut off his tails. Technically speaking, that thing barely did much to Zhaitan because it missed. What really harmed him was the grappling hooks that came immediately after the laser cannon, which appeared to be electrifying him and resulted in an arm literally just falling off and a wing turning burnt red. Then we finished him off with the non-laser cannons.

Also, Mind wasn’t really Mordremoth’s weakness. I mean, yes, we did kill him by attacking his mind, but that was the means to kill him because his two domains rendered him nigh immortal as he could transfer his mind (mind) and regrow his body (plant) should he about to be killed. In theory, you could kill him by removing all of his corruption – but that’s a long and slow process. So the only way to kill him in a reasonable manner – especially since his corruption spreads quickly – is to destroy his mind.

Keep in mind all the things Mordremoth did with his mind. He accessed hundreds of sylvari minds telepathy, simultaneously, whispering different orders to each one individually. And, as mentioned, he transferred his mind to a being he was mentally tied to, allowing him to live past the lifespan of his body (an effective brain transplant). On top of this, he transferred the minds of those he corrupted into new bodies (again, effective brain transplant) several times over.

This does not sound like a weakness to me.

His corruption takes the form of plants, but his method of corruption was that of mental conversion.

Zhaitan does use shadow quite a lot – but just not under that name. He has a lot of attribution to darkness throughout Orr and the personal story. Even in GW2’s song names, there are attribution to darkness with fighting Zhaitan.