Guild Wars 2

This could be boneheaded but I wanted to bring it to you guys. Maybe you can help solidify this theory or help to debunk it. Please with either option be helpful and respectful.

Anyway there it is guys. Let me know what you guys think.

jweez.7214:

This could be boneheaded but I wanted to bring it to you guys. Maybe you can help solidify this theory or help to debunk it. Please with either option be helpful and respectful.

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BOMBSHELL! You’re definitely on to something with #1. If you look at the Elder Dragons section in the same article, you’ll notice it states, “The natural role of the Elder Dragons is to keep magic balanced by consuming it and drawing it into themselves.”

Magic and dragons are connected. If Scarlet succeeds in her goals, she could release another dragon for the PCs to kill, and if all the dragons are killed, magic will cease to exist.

In the Sylvari personal story line, the PC’s Wyld Hunt (in all 3 storylines) revolves around killing dragons. The Pale Tree’s goal is also about saving Tyria from the dragons.

I definitely agree with you on this one. I’m also going to add that all Sylvari PCs want to remove magic as well because their Wyld Hunt is to kill the dragons.

A very interesting theory. Certainly one of the most original I’ve seen. Kudos.

But it only works if you’re of the opinion that she’s in control of her goals. They’ve made it fairly clear that some entity has a grasp on her mind, and that her actions are playing right into that entity’s goals. If that entity is a dragon, as many of us suspect, then it wouldn’t make sense for the dragon to want to erase its own food source.

As well, I don’t think she has the capability to erase all magic, no matter what leyline hub she has access to. Magic appears to be a natural force in Tyria. There are creatures that consume it (Elder Dragons,) attempts to contain it (the Bloodstone,) and sources of it beyond Tyria itself (the Mists,) but the fact that it permeates the entire world and runs in natural channels through it tells me that it’s a fundamental part of the world.

That’s not to say that the world couldn’t exist without it, but something tells me that removing it from Tyria entirely is well beyond the scope of Scarlet’s power. Now, she could be attempting to contain it in a new kind of Bloodstone, sealing it away from the dragons. But again, I think she’s Mordremoth’s puppet, and I don’t see why he would want to do away with his food.

kta.6502:

Magic and dragons are connected. If Scarlet succeeds in her goals, she could release another dragon for the PCs to kill, and if all the dragons are killed, magic will cease to exist.

Magic and the dragons appear to be connected in the way that leeches and blood are connected. There’s nothing to suggest that killing them would do away with magic; indeed, the opposite. Killing them would allow magic to keep building up unchecked; that buildup seems to be what triggers them to rise and trim the magic down in the first place.

Thanks guys. I am glad you guys see it as a viable theory if nothing more.

Kal, I agree that this theory only works if she is in control of her own goals. I haven’t found anything yet to say-definitively-that she is not. From what I have we know that something has broken in her mind. We don’t really know if she is in collusion with it or not. Furthermore, it is a beautiful irony that the being who wants nothing more than independence lives everyday with something compelling her actions. Perhaps that can be another reason why this theory works; she seeks independence above everything but cannot achieve it now with the voice in her own head. If the voice is an elder dragon all the more reason to want to do away with them.

The reason I think she’s not in control is something from her journals from the previous living story releases. From her main journal:

“Control of my world, of myself, is slipping through my hands.”

And from the holojournals:

“Ever since I came out of Omadd’s machine, you’ve been taking credit for my ideas. They are mine! Not yours. Let me be clear. I’m not doing this for you; I’m doing it for me. Nobody tells me what to do. Not ever. It’s not true. None of it. I don’t have to listen to you. Get out of my head!”

Emphasis mine. These lines suggest to me that, much as she’d like to be in control, everything she’s doing is playing right into the entity’s plans. That said, it’s likely that she still has some degree of control. How much, and whether or not it makes a difference in the end is yet to be seen.

I have a feeling that her end goal – whatever she’s going to do with that leyline hub – is something that she thinks will break the dragon’s control (or defeat it,) but is only going to cause him to rise. In essence, I think her drive for independence is working against her; it’s blinded her to how much of a puppet she really is.

That said I still like your theory

Thanks! I forgot about those lines of text in the last Ls. That does indeed sound like she lost control.