Guild Wars 2

here it is, only the tail is visible though in Maguuma

…..fairly sure its just another vine, dude

well vines dont flash purple…

Branded vines would!

that’s definitely not a normal vine and its hidden so Anet doesnt want us to see it

there is a lot of strange energy coming from that vine.

Could be part of the source of Energy Scarlet found that drove her into insanity mentioned in the pile of lore Anet stored up in Scarlet’s old home on the last mission.

Right, and and dragon’s made of purple crystal flying around a giant wasteland caused by a titanic sized dragon simply flying by, is more plausible than a purple glowing vine?
I honestly doubt A-Net would show us an elder dragon’s tail at the very beginning of the season.

Didn’t say it wasn’t a normal vine, just saying it’s probably not an elder dragons tail

well Scarlet woke up a dragon, Mordremoth is the jungle dragon, we’re in the “jungle”, should be normal we start to see it

1. You call an open rocky desert the jungle?
2. Yes she woke up the dragon, but that doesn’t imply we’re going to see the elder dragon immediately. We didn’t see Zhaitan the second we set foot in Orr.
3. Most likely the vines are minions/creations of the dragon.

im 99% sure that this isnt the tail of modremoth

how would that work if every glowing vine is a part of modremoth

before you even enter Dry Top there is an ultra bright glowing vine… that would have to be part of him too according to your logic… modremoth would have some strange body then…

Weird thing about that vine (Orangensaft) posted, I’ve seen it aswell.. and every creature around it that gets close gets the same effect as the mobs in the Thermanova reactor..

math.6843:

that’s definitely not a normal vine and its hidden so Anet doesnt want us to see it

I wouldn’t exactly call “directly underneath the first waypoint” as something being ‘hidden’.

Venbloodblade.1093:

1. You call an open rocky desert the jungle?
2. Yes she woke up the dragon, but that doesn’t imply we’re going to see the elder dragon immediately. We didn’t see Zhaitan the second we set foot in Orr.
3. Most likely the vines are minions/creations of the dragon.

1. Had you played GW1, you’d know that dry top is an elevated dry mesa that sits at the center of the extremely dense and frustrating to navigate magumma jungle. Though the unrevealed map seems to indicate that in the past 200 years erosion and the uprising of Orr have expanded the frontier of these wastes, keep in mind that if Mord went to sleep in a jungle, this is precisely the place he would have done it, as at that time dry top was also covered in similar dense foliage (as evidenced by the massive husks of dead vegetation in the area 200 years ago, in GW1) In fact, dry top may actually be the result of mord altering the landscape as he settled down to sleep.

2. Excellent point. Mord is coming up, the question is whether we put a stop to it before or after it happens.

3. Another possibility exists. Scarlet “patched” the leylines like bridging electrical conduits. Those vines may be previously dead tendrils of mord animated by the new magical energies of the leyline flowing through the area rather than new creations of the dragon itself. Essentially, imagine that mord weaved its tendrils all throughout Magumma the last time it was awake, and when it slept these tendrils, still attached to it, atrophied in to the barren thorny husks we saw in GW1. Rather than Mord creating new tendrils, the situation may be reversed, and those old atrophied tendrils may have served as the conduit by which the ley energies reached the dragon and awakened it. If this is the case, then scarlet’s patch job is doing what Zhaitan required an army of the undead and several specialized units to achieve: They are feeding the dragon with magical energy to accelerate whatever end condition the dragons store all that magic to do.

If this is true, it raises an interesting question: does mord even need to rise at all, or can it accomplish whatever prupose the dragons have by simple enjoying that sweet leyline IV drip? Would we be doing MORE harm by cutting that flow, and forcing the dragon to rise to continue feeding? In fact, are we accelerating its rise by chopping all these vines?

Orangensaft.7139:

im 99% sure that this isnt the tail of modremoth

how would that work if every glowing vine is a part of modremoth

before you even enter Dry Top there is an ultra bright glowing vine… that would have to be part of him too according to your logic… modremoth would have some strange body then…

lemme refer you to the bodyshape of zhaitan… that thing is\was a mass of tails, heads and wings twisted together to a chutulu esque nightmare aswell so it wouldnt be too far fetched.. and we are talking about a dragon that prolly is made of plants so yea.. it wouldnt be impossible. Though.. if that would be actually a part of him i would really REALLY worry about the size of that beast.

At this point it’s possible that it’s his tail, but in my opinion, it’s unlikely. I think it’s just a large magic infused vine.

Guys, the area right next to where you enter Dry Top is an area with strange stuff happening because of the Thaumanova Reactor Fallout – as in, it’s an area over ley lines and so has a lot of magic coursing through it, hence the presence of vines. I think it’s sort of implied that the dragon is using his vines over there to absorb the energy from the reactor fallout/ley lines – making them purple.

It’s definitely not part of Mordremoth given that he has most probably deep underground (if he weren’t deep underground we would have seen his body in GW1 like we did with Kralk) and should still be further into the Maguuma where there is actually Jungle, rather than in the Dry Top.

Zalladi.4652:

math.6843:

that’s definitely not a normal vine and its hidden so Anet doesnt want us to see it

I wouldn’t exactly call “directly underneath the first waypoint” as something being ‘hidden’.

More to the point, one of the lost coins is hidden next to the vine. I highly doubt they’d put something they didn’t want you to see in front of something they wanted you to find.

It may not be Mordremoth, but it may be one of its vines or roots so to speak.

It would be interesting if Mordremoth was a giant, stablized tree-creature that spreads its corruption through the growth of its roots or vines.

Also the purple hue is reminiscent to the Tower of Nightmares; we’ll probably see more spores and toxic environmental hazards when we go deeper into the wastes.

When I first entered the zone, I fell or jumped into that vine (can’t really remember which). Not onto, but into it. For me, at least, it didn’t seem to be solid.

I’ve no idea what it is supposed to be, dragon or vine or …what, but I guess I glitched it out. Lol.

Somebody go pull it and see what happens.

Bags not me.

It’s “hidden”? There’s a lost coin next to it! You have to literally walk over that vine to reach it.

Obvious troll is obvious

Venbloodblade.1093:

1. You call an open rocky desert the jungle?

In GW1 Dry Top is a rather small circular map area aswell, which connects Ettin’s Back to Tangle Root. Both maps belong to the region Maguuma Jungle.
Ettin’s Back is more like a desert, where Tangle Root is obviously a jungle.

It’s kind of an entrance map in GW1, allthough its still the same region the nature changes, the higher cliffs of Dry Top hold back the desert of Ettin’s Back on one side and on the other side it holds back the jungle of Tangle Root. You might see signs of the jungle in Dry Top, wich shows the transition of environment. In GW1 this is the case in Dry Top. This might be the case in GW2 aswell.

PopeUrban.2578:

1. Had you played GW1, you’d know that dry top is an elevated dry mesa that sits at the center of the extremely dense and frustrating to navigate magumma jungle. Though the unrevealed map seems to indicate that in the past 200 years erosion and the uprising of Orr have expanded the frontier of these wastes, keep in mind that if Mord went to sleep in a jungle, this is precisely the place he would have done it, as at that time dry top was also covered in similar dense foliage (as evidenced by the massive husks of dead vegetation in the area 200 years ago, in GW1) In fact, dry top may actually be the result of mord altering the landscape as he settled down to sleep.

Perfect explanation of what may have happend to the map Dry Top. Thank you Pope!

They stick to the design used in GW1. I think most apreciate this.

I don’t think those vines are part of mordremoth. Actually i’m somehow pretty sure the dragon is in the more greeny area highlighted in the pic.

Its my theory that the purple glowing vines are the “roots” of mordremoth. I bet what’s going on is that he spreads tendrils out to tap into the ley lines and siphon magical energy from them.

We already know that there’s a ley line somewhere in Dry Top that the miners accidently dug up. There’s good reason for Mordy to express his influence in that area.

Clyan.1593:

I don’t think those vines are part of mordremoth. Actually i’m somehow pretty sure the dragon is in the more greeny area highlighted in the pic.

I doubt the dragon is in that area. Other dragons are fairly far removed from areas where the players are and that spot looks close enough that it could be a part of new potential maps. I’d expect the dragon to be much further to the west.

it seems likely that this is indeed Mordermoth not necessarily his tail but i imagine Mordermoth is a plant like dragon with roots that have been spreading all over Maguma for a long time now, and the purple glow i believe is a consequence of scarlet redirecting the ley lines to somehow feed Mordermoth to create in imbalance in the natural order of things that will ultimately end the cycle of how the dragons seem to feed and rest
ask yourself this how will the other dragons react to Mordermoth becoming more powerful them them
could this possibly result in a war between the dragons ?

The dragons don’t consume, but rather absorb (like a sponge) magic. Once the magic has all been absorbed they rest. I don’t see how giving Mordremoth access to the ley lines changes any of that. He absorbs the magic from the ley lines and gets more powerful, but should still eventually go to sleep at some point.

Also I think a war between the dragons is unlikely, otherwise it would probably have been noticed during their last rising. They might not like each other (their minions are hostile to one another), but I don’t think they would war between themselves. If they had there’d probably already be Elder dragon skeletons on Tyria.

ive often imagined the dragons to be in a sort of power struggle with each other with no dragon ever being able ot gain an edge over the others or even confornting each other because perhaps this has happened many times over tyria’s history and the outcome was always the same inevitable draw or even if one dragon fought another dragon it could be an opportunity for another 3rd elder dragon to take advantage of the situation its the classic Mexican stand off
of course its all just conjecture at this point no one knows if the dragons have ever fought each other in the past we scarcely know anything about there previous feeding cycles on tyria

one other thing just crossed my mind that could support this theory is the sylvari
assuming you subscribe the the notion that the sylvari are dragon minions of mordermoth
consider personal story and traherne and all the other sylvari who took part in the war that took place on the cursed shore resulting in the eventual demise of zhitan
allso consider how the other sentient races belive they are here to fight the dragons

mebey just mebey this is mordermoth’s goal they are all following by fighting the other elder dragons

math.6843:

well vines dont flash purple…

Apparently big ones do.

Mordremoth had scales in the cinematic, so it’s unlikely that he’s made of vegetation too. Unless they do the same as with Zhaitan’s appearance changing, but that was meant to represent what our player characters thought Zhaitan would look like, while the cinematic that shows Mordremoth is meant to show the players something that their characters don’t know or see. (According to devs in two separate spots).

Furthermore, “purple” had been explained to be used to define evil. And we see purple in the more corrupted places of Orr, specifically Desmina Hallows and Arah.

Most likely, those purple vines are just cases of “stronger corruption” by Mordremoth.

lorddavito.2395:

Weird thing about that vine (Orangensaft) posted, I’ve seen it aswell.. and every creature around it that gets close gets the same effect as the mobs in the Thermanova reactor..

If you’re talking about the non-plant creatures there, then they’ve been like that since release. Toxal Bog is full of a spill of Thaumanova’s chaos magic explosion, in part thanks to the Inquest lab just north of it which houses Thaumanova’s energy core (it’s a skill challenge).