Guild Wars 2

Scarlet’s ending was fairly unsatisfying for me, and I feel there is a lot more Anet could have done to make it a bit more interesting.

Here is my proposed alternate ending to the living story: What if everything Scarlet did was not to simply awaken an elder dragon, but kill one. What if Scarlet was simply hurrying to silence the voices in her head rather than obey them. For Scarlet to be suffering from the dragon’s influence this whole time, but still managing to work against it and attempt to kill it would have revealed Scarlet to be an incredibly strong willed character. She had already shown that she wished for independence from the Pale Tree, so a denial of Elder Dragon control would have been an amazing feat.

This could have lead to a very exciting climax where Scarlet injects the toxins into the dragons and charges her armies at it, but fails. This would also be a way to display the dragon’s great power, as it instantly decimates Scarlet’s forces that we have been fighting for a whole year.