Guild Wars 2

So aside from taking our spotlight (I will never let it go…), I have a theory about Trahearne’s true goal. He was tasked from the beginning to be the cleanser of Orr with a sword crafted from the Pale Tree. However, Heart of Thorns changed this a bit. The Pale Tree is revealed to be a dragon champion of sorts, the sylvari are actually Mordremoth’s minions. This put me to think. Mordremoth is “unkillable” in the sense that his physical body can’t be destroyed. He can just put his mind and power elsewhere and regrow. What if Trahearne “cleansing” Orr is actually just Mordremoth spreading his consciousness elsewhere? After Mordy’s “death”, his magic spread in 4 different locations, one noticeably to the East. Now, I can’t be exactly sure that it headed to Orr.

What if Mordremoth survived his death by having Trahearne place the Caladbolg in the Source of Orr, possibly allowing himself to regrow?

There’s three huge holes in your theory:

First, dragon corruption that’s purified remains purified and cannot be recorrupted. If such were possible, then Glint would have been recorrupted rather than killed, and the Pale Tree recorrupted rather than assaulted and attempted to be killed. Even the sylvari do not get corrupted in the traditional dragon corruption sense, but rather fell to mental whispers disguised as the individuals’ own thoughts (same with Scarlet).

Second, Wyld Hunts are not given by Mordremoth – nor are Dark Hunts. They are given by the Dream and the Nightmare, which have been heavily implied to the point of “do you really need it explicitly stated, bookah?” levels that the Dream/Nightmare is what protects sylvari from dragon corruption (leading them to instant deaths); Mordremoth can only turn sylvari via ‘the call’ because he too is tied to the Dream/Nightmare, and is able to effectively hijack the channel used to give Wyld/Dark Hunts to plant those whispers. However, he couldn’t do this while asleep – the only sylvari influenced by him was Scarlet, and that’s because she distanced herself from the Dream/Pale Tree’s protections (as shown in the What Scarlet Saw short story).

And if neither of those were convincing enough, there’s the third flaw, a fatal one for your theory:

Mordremoth can send his mind to any of his corruption. If he could send it to the purified dragon magic, then he could have done so to any sylvari or the Pale Tree at that time; in addition, he could send it to any of his actual corruption – the non-purified stuff – such as the vines right around us. He could not, however; he was left with his mind in only two places: Trahearne and his own physical body (Mouth of Mordremoth), where his mind was already before we fought him in the Dream; once those were destroyed Mordremoth was gone for good. This is shown in the second raid wing, Salvation Pass, with a Mordrem Vine being devoid of all life.

And as an aside: there would be no way for Mordremoth to fathom he may die. Elder Dragons are nigh immortal, Mordremoth more so, and none have died for tens of thousands of years – if ever. So the notion of him sending a “sleeper agent” or whathaveyou to create a back up in the change someone may decide to attack him in the Dream is… ludicrously low. He would never consider such because he would never consider someone would be capable of killing him. At least until Zhaitan is killed – which is why he goes directly after DE, Trahearne, and the PC.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

There’s three huge holes in your theory:

First, dragon corruption that’s purified remains purified and cannot be recorrupted. If such were possible, then Glint would have been recorrupted rather than killed, and the Pale Tree recorrupted rather than assaulted and attempted to be killed. Even the sylvari do not get corrupted in the traditional dragon corruption sense, but rather fell to mental whispers disguised as the individuals’ own thoughts (same with Scarlet).

Second, Wyld Hunts are not given by Mordremoth – nor are Dark Hunts. They are given by the Dream and the Nightmare, which have been heavily implied to the point of “do you really need it explicitly stated, bookah?” levels that the Dream/Nightmare is what protects sylvari from dragon corruption (leading them to instant deaths); Mordremoth can only turn sylvari via ‘the call’ because he too is tied to the Dream/Nightmare, and is able to effectively hijack the channel used to give Wyld/Dark Hunts to plant those whispers. However, he couldn’t do this while asleep – the only sylvari influenced by him was Scarlet, and that’s because she distanced herself from the Dream/Pale Tree’s protections (as shown in the What Scarlet Saw short story).

And if neither of those were convincing enough, there’s the third flaw, a fatal one for your theory:

Mordremoth can send his mind to any of his corruption. If he could send it to the purified dragon magic, then he could have done so to any sylvari or the Pale Tree at that time; in addition, he could send it to any of his actual corruption – the non-purified stuff – such as the vines right around us. He could not, however; he was left with his mind in only two places: Trahearne and his own physical body (Mouth of Mordremoth), where his mind was already before we fought him in the Dream; once those were destroyed Mordremoth was gone for good. This is shown in the second raid wing, Salvation Pass, with a Mordrem Vine being devoid of all life.

And as an aside: there would be no way for Mordremoth to fathom he may die. Elder Dragons are nigh immortal, Mordremoth more so, and none have died for tens of thousands of years – if ever. So the notion of him sending a “sleeper agent” or whathaveyou to create a back up in the change someone may decide to attack him in the Dream is… ludicrously low. He would never consider such because he would never consider someone would be capable of killing him. At least until Zhaitan is killed – which is why he goes directly after DE, Trahearne, and the PC.

You’re saying that M couldnt retake a cleansed sylvari, but then wouldnt trahearne have been safe at the end? He pepsi’d somthat his body wouldn’t host M. If he could do that, then he could also claim the pale tree as a new body

Trahearne was directly connected to Mordremoth, and was being slowly corrupted (as his appearance into a psuedo-Mordrem Guard sould suggest). This is presented in the story as the sole reason why Trahearne had a connection to the Dream as well as why Mordremoth was in him.

Mordremoth does not have a direct connection to the Pale Tree or the cleansed parts of Orr.