Guild Wars 2

I have gathered some information on the upcoming dragon, Mordremoth. However since this is clearly incomplete any information you may have or anything you want to add to this is welcome And yes I do realise that this information or some parts of it have been around for a while, I thought it might be nice if there was a place in the forums were we could mention the information we’ve all gathered so that people don’t have to go looking all over the internet for this.

Lets get started. Almost 1 year ago Colin Johanson talked about the jungle dragon in an interview, saying that Maguuma has a very nice history and clearly implying that if the jungle dragon makes an appearance in the storyline we’d have to explore Maguuma a whole lot more.

But, that wasn’t the first time the jungle dragon, Mordremoth, made an appearance. In fact, we have had it’s corruption around since Guild Wars 2 launched.

The Infinite Coil Reactor is a place in Mount Maelstrom where the Inquest have been experimenting with the Elder Dragon energies, there you will find 6 Zones:
Zone Black (Zhaitan)
Zone Violet (Kralkatorrik)
Zone Red (Primordus)
Zone White (Jormag)
Zone Blue which is still under construction implying that the Inquest want to experiment with minions of the deep sea dragon (a whole other topic)
and finally
Zone Green (Mordremoth)

Now once you get inside the dungeon Crucible of Eternity which is inside the Infinite Coil Reactor, you’ll find 3 experimental labs:
Experimental Lab Red
Experimental Lab White
Experimental Lab Green
As you’d expect Red=Primordus, White=Jormag and Green=Mordremoth, however in the Experimental Lab Green you’ll see some Evolved Husks that do look awfully similar to the Summoned Husks that you can find in Caledon Forest, The Grove and in Twilight Arbor (TA has already had a path added since LS1 that was connected to Scarlet and her plans). Now as you progress through the CoE dungeon you will have to defeat Subject Alpha, which if you do look at the combat log and the skills it uses you will find this: Teeth of Mordremoth.

So yes, the idea of the “Jungle Dragon” has been around for a while and obviously ArenaNet had always known that this would be the first new Elder Dragon that would make an appearance in Guild Wars 2 after Zhaitan.

Now some other information about the previous Elder Dragons and their awakening:

In 1078 AE, the first of the Elder Dragons to awaken, Primordus, began to stir. Its greatest champion, the Great Destroyer, and its destroyer army swarmed the Depths of Tyria, driving the asura to the surface and destroying multiple underground civilizations. The asura refugees united with the dwarves, as well as the norn and Ebon Vanguard, to strike at the heart of the destroyer army, defeating the Great Destroyer and delaying the awakening of Primordus until 1120 AE, but at the cost of the dwarven race, who underwent the Rite of the Great Dwarf in order to suppress the destroyer forces. To this day, the transformed dwarves fight them in the depths so that the surface may be spared, although in recent years small groups have made it to the surface world.

In 1219 AE, Zhaitan’s awakening caused the sunken nation of Orr to rise from the ocean, flooding the coastlines of Tyria and drowning thousands. Zhaitan conscripted those killed into its risen army, alongside the ancient dead of Orr, creating a fleet spanning the Strait of Malchor, and blocking access to and from Cantha while also invading north towards Kryta and southeast towards the Elonian border.

As we can see the patern is that when an Elder Dragon awakens it brings destruction, this has yet to be observed in Tyria since Mordremoth awakened. Could it be that the first update we’ll get is the aftermath of Mordremoth’s awakening ? Possibly some really big destruction in Maguuma ?

Again any information you may have on this is welcome

The Dragon is a lie.

You know, you could have just linked the Mordremoth and Elder Dragon wiki pages:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mordremoth
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Elder_Dragon

Trouble.3859:

Could it be that the first update we’ll get is the aftermath of Mordremoth’s awakening ? Possibly some really big destruction in Maguuma ?

Again any information you may have on this is welcome

Between your observations, this thread, and this thread, the potential for Mordremoth’s crashing the Dragon Festival seems too delicious to pass up.

“Yay Tyria, boo dragons, we will never— OH KITTEN WHAT IS THAT?!”

That’s a really nice observation. But if destruction were the case wouldn’t it cause disasters in the Maguuma regions we haven’t explored yet? Since that is mostly likely the place Mordremoth will be at?

Maybe season 2 will hold something similar to like, protect refugees as they flee their destroyed homeland in maguuma or something similar. I see no reason for destruction(even though I’d like to) in Caledon Forest or Brisban Wildlands since they are probably still too far away from the havoc Mordremoth can cause.

Now there’s still alot of mysteries regarding this Elder Dragon, the biggest 2 is probably it’s way of corruption and it’s minions. We can argue it’s the nightmare court but there’s no proof as of yet. I’m still very eager to see what we will discover into this new season 2. I hope it will be a much darker and more serious storyline this time.

We’ll just have to wait.

Actually, it’s possible that we have already seen the destruction caused by Mordremoth. Mordremoth is supposed to cause insanity, and who do we know who is insane and caused widespread destruction?
Scarlet and the entire Thorn family.

He’s waking up, but he hasn’t caused anything yet. Kralkatorric created the Dragonbrand when he flew across Ascalon to the Crystal Desert, rather than just from waking up. It can be assumed that Zhaitan had to actually do something to raise Orr, even if that something was just as thoughtless as tossing off a blanket when he woke. Mordremoth is just now waking up, so he hasn’t really tossed off his blanket yet. But when he does, it’ll probably be really bad for everyone.

It should be kept in mind that when Primordus woke up, nothing truly cataclysmic happened in the area around him.

Kralkatorrik actively made the Dragonbrand and did so while hunting down a renegade champion. Zhaitan had a peninsula collapsed on top of him.

Jormag also did very little the instance he woke up – though he capsized the kodan’s Sanctuaries as he scattered them, and though he shattered the Far Shiverpeaks to make Frostgorge Sound, the latter seems to be after he pushed the norn south (given that they fought against him in norn lands, and the shattering submerged about 60% of those lands if not more than) which in turn happened 4 years after waking (the norn had known Jormag was coming from a 4 year long blizzard before he actually was confronted), and given the kodan fled south as well as north, the capsizing of the Sanctuaries likely happened after shattering the Shiverpeaks – making his actual waking up… uneventful.

So there’s not necessarily a need for an immediate cataclysmic event from waking. Not beyond seismic activity from them unburrowing themselves. Which reportedly is already happening.

MadDemon.7548:

Actually, it’s possible that we have already seen the destruction caused by Mordremoth. Mordremoth is supposed to cause insanity, and who do we know who is insane and caused widespread destruction?
Scarlet and the entire Thorn family.

Nothing concretely says that Mordremoth causes insanity.

And if you look at it in certain lights, all Elder Dragons cause insanity in some fashion. But you shouldn’t try to link all insanity (such as the Thorn family) to Elder Dragons if you’re arguing that. It would be like saying all fire elementals are tied to Primordus, and all ice magic is tied to Jormag.

Some say that LS 1 was a disaster. Maybe that was the fault of Mordermoth waking.