Guild Wars 2

Hey all, this is my first post here and I came to speculate about what the awakening of Mordremoth might mean for Tyria.

So, from what we’ve seen, each elder dragon has their own unique form of corruption that warp living beings and even the very land into twisted forms in their own image. Zaitan has the Risen. Kralkatorrik has the Brand. Jormag has the Icebrood and Primordius has the Destroyers. Mordremoth has….?

I have a theory that we might already know of the jungle dragon’s corruption, and perhaps even one of it’s champions. It’s been right in front of us all this time, deep in Wychmyre Swamp.

According to in-game dialogue, the sylvari Gamarien believes that the world boss, the Great Jungle Wurm, is the result of a much darker force than the Nightmare Court. Along with the Wurm are a collection of enemies called Avatars of Blight and Blighted Husks. I believe this “much darker force” is the jungle dragon Moredremoth’s latent influence, and the Wurm could possibly be a champion of Mordremoth. Also, “the blight” that corrupts the area around the swamp might be the direct result of the dragon’s corruption. Heck, that might even turn out to be the name of the dragon’s corruption: “The Blighted”

One of the other times you see Husks are in the Crucible of Eternity, where the inquest have an Evolved Husk (no doubt having been experimented on to take this new form) in the green lab area that’s themed around a jungle. The Inquest use the Crucible to study and experiment on elder dragon magic, so if husks are there, it all but confirms that husk creatures are Mordremoth’s minions.

Also in the Crucible’s green lab area are Nightmare hounds, which would imply a connection between Mordremoth and the Nightmare Court. Also consider that the Nightmare Court are capable of creating their own husks and spreading their own “nightmare corruption”. Now, there’s already a lot of speculation and evidence suggesting the Sylvari were intended to be dragon minions. That has its own thread, so I won’t touch too much on it, but I believe the theory is true. It would certainly explain why they can make their own dragon minions.

The Three Headed Jungle Wurm in Bloodtide Coast also spawns Husks, which could mean that thing is also a champion of Moredremoth.

So what does this mean? Well, I have a couple of ideas on what we might be seeing out of the Living Story season 2:

~Its possible we could be seeing an update and expansion on the Great Jungle Wurm fight. It could get the same treatment Tequatl got. I can see this being an update early in the season, to set the stage of future events.

~Its possible we might be seeing more of “the blight”. I think this may be the name for Mordremoth’s corruption, though it might have another name once it gets revealed. Regardless, I think that for future living story updates, we could start seeing “the blight” corrupt creatures in the form of blighted animals such as “blighted jungle raptor” and “blighted mossheart” and even blighted humans, charr, asura, ect. And blighted creatures will resemble summoned husks in design and style.

~Also, I believe the Nightmare Court and possibly other non-pale-tree sylvari (Malyck) will either willingly align themselves with Mordremoth, believing that dragon is more in tune with the Sylvari’s “true nature”. Or, (assuming sylvari have been dragon minions all along) the dragon could possibly just control them directly, like how other dragons do with their minions. I can imagine several living story updates would be needed to flesh this out.

Do you guys think we’ll be seeing more of the jungle wurms and husk creatures in future living story updates?

I think tying the great wurms (and the Sylvari in some way) to Mordy is a pretty safe bet. But I’d be hesitant to call them champions. According to the wiki:

“The difference between a champion and other minions of a dragon is that champions are imbued with much greater amount of the Elder Dragons’ will, possessing an intellect of their own, to realize the will of the dragons and act according to them.”

I’d argue that neither the Caledon Wurm nor the 3-Headed Wurm fit this description. The husks certainly suggest that they’re tied to Mordy, but they don’t seem to have any intellect or his will. The only creature that I would definitively say was Mordy’s champ was Scarlet.

As well, I doubt the Caledon Wurm will get the Teq treatment, because it already did…they just made it a new boss and put it in Bloodtide Plus it’s a starter zone boss, so I don’t see it getting much harder than it already is.

To answer you final question: yes, I definitely think we’ll be seeing more wurms and husks in S2.

I really like the sound of Mordremoth’s corruption being The Blight, and The Blighted has a nice ring to it. It is certainly possible that it could be mordremoth’s corruption.

Now, on the subject of the Sylvari, and I don’t want to derail the subject into another Sylvari/mordremoth discussion, but it should be noted that During the Tower of Nightmares, If you did the story missions about malyck, Scarlet will say to you something along the lines of “I know Malycks Secret.” However, there were alot of Personal Story references in ToN, and that could just be there to reference that chain of events.

Speculation time:

Well if Scarlet was indeed directly influenced by Mordremoth, it may be safe to say that his minions are not all directly controlled by the dragon himself. The may have a degree of autonomy like Jormag’s Svanir followers who are aligned to him (it?) with promises of power. Maybe Mordremoth’s influence is slower, like a growth or a parasite building slowly over time through nightmares or dreams so that the animal or person doesn’t realize that they’ve been altered?

The Blighted may be products of that slow corruption or something.

O don’t get you guys regarding to Mordy and the Nightmares.
The Nightmare court is nothing else than regular Sylvary who don’t agree
with the wooden plate.
They are already present even with Mordy sleeping deep.

I guess something really new is coming.
Having Zaithan and minions story just coming in new costumes
would incredible lame.
I also trust when A-Net told us they learned a lot about story writing and regarding this story to every single individual not to the whole zerker gang.

I look forward to experience something extremely new without any zerking contend and no luke warm Zaithan copies.

I agree with you except for one thing: I don’t think the Nightmare Court are corrupted by Mordremoth. They show a different aspect of the Sylvari dream, but they are protected from dragon corruption just as the Ventari sylvari are. Unless a sylvari willingly removes her protection the way Scarlet did in Omadd’s machine—then they are safe from dragon influence.
It is possible that Mordremoth could be using the Nightmare Court as cover. If the Court is working in unison with dragon minions, it is probably out of ignorance—which may be intended by Mordy. If people associate his minions with the Nightmare Court—or are simply too busy dealing with the Court to worry about it—then he can keep his presence hidden for a while longer.
That said, it could be that some Court sylvari—especially those who are discontent with the way Faolin runs things—will choose to submit their protection, and serve the dragon for want of power.

Dunno if it’s present or not but ANet did mention the closer we get to certain parts of LS the more things will happen to the world. Exactly like the pre-sightings to karka…when suddenly whales appeared on the beaches of LA…stuff like that.

Clearly you’re correct on almost everything. The nightmare court theory may be a bit off the mark, but possible considering how scarlet used TA.

In addition, look to the Crucible of Eternity, each node on its external ring corresponds to an outdoor research facility of the different minions of a different elder dragon. Zone black is zhaitan/risen, zone violet is kralk/branded, zone white is jormag/icebrood, and zone red is primodius/detroyers. In addition there are two other zones not associated with the 4 original dragons. Zone green is clearly associated with mordremoth, and features husks as the enemy there I believe. There is also zone blue, which is under construction, and many think that some sort of ocean dragon could exist due to this fact..

In addition, Crucible of Eternity is an inquest research facility for the elder dragons, and their minions and their magic. Path 2 features the interior of zone green and the evolved husk is the unique boss for that path. These facts clearly support your ideas