Guild Wars 2

Why can humans understand when glint spoke to them? (GW1)

Also why can any race understand her as a revenant? (GW2)

in a recent article it stated the following

" What’s especially interesting about Mordremoth is that the only player race who can hear him are the Sylvari characters. The game’s other races only hear dragon-like noises."

So what makes glint special in that she is a dragon that can speak and we can understand?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Glint-the-Forgotten-and-the-timeline/first#post4543794

The above link to Konig and Angel’s posts should clear it up

Perfect thanks!

I was about to say. Summary: She communicates via telepathy

That’s not entirely true, vanderwolf. While Eir does claim this in Season 2, both GW1 and Edge of Destiny shows her talking verbally. She is capable of telepathy, and this is how she learned the common tongue, but she definitely doesn’t solely speak via telepathy.

A minor lore discrepancy. Probably done so as to push forth the fact that she has telepathy (something, imo, that was unneeded).

@Randulf: That was Angel McCoy, not Bobby Stein.

So it was. I genuinely read it as Bobby…must be the painkillers making me hallucinate.

I stand corrected!

I believe it’s also explicitly stated in the Forgotten path in Arah, and in a few other sources (the wiki seems to be having problems at the moment) – basically, Glint learned the language of humans and other races by listening in on their minds.

It’s likely that the the other dragons with the possible exceptions of Primordus and the Deep Sea Dragon also know the languages of those who live near their territories, since an Elder Dragon gains all the knowledge of any creature it corrupts into a minion. However, they use their own form of communication (that Ogden hesitates to call a language) when communicating with their minions. Sylvari are able to hear this even if they’re not Mordrem Guard because they were supposed to become minions and thus are able to understand this form of communication where Mordremoth is concerned. (Other Elder Dragons probably have different pseudo-languages).