Guild Wars 2

So, HoT, as we will call it for now, is quite likely going to be an expansion.

Lets talk, what could the plot revolve around from what we saw in the trailer teaser?

1. The Pact is divided:

The Pact brought armies not just from its own borders but from the Grove and other nations of Tyria to rally against the Mordrem. With the fleet crashing somewhere in the Maguuma (possibly Magus Falls even) the survivors are going to be bitter, and most of them will know who to blame.

This Xenophobia is going to be what likely starts events in motions both in exploring deeper into the Maguuma, and returning to Tyria to resolve threats there.

2. Queen Jennah could die/be injured!

Canach is clearly shown in D.R. before a very angry mob threatening to skewer him. I have no doubt we will have to save him from this unpleasant predicament.

As to why? Something big must have happened in the heartland of the human capital to trigger such a big response and nothing says big other than random Sylvari trying to kill the queen.

3. The Player Character might be Corrupted

We saw the vision that Scarlet Saw, this lowered her immunity to the corruption of dragon influences which essentially made her vulnerable in the first place. Her actions set in motion this entire event which leads one to believe that the player may end up being subject to Mordremoth’s mind magic later on in the expansion.

Imagine, if you will, the horror, of hallucinating a Mordrem attack, only to discover you singlehandedly slaughtered an entire camp of Pact Refugee’s.

Or the potential of fighting your own companions, as they attempt to bring you back to redemption, and “fight” destiny.

4. The Pale Tree might become an Elder Dragon.

Glint was supposedly capable and nearly at her potential of becoming one, even if she had been around a lot longer. Maybe Caithe’s plan is to sacrifice her child to make her mother into an Elder Dragon to fight the others?

5. If the above is true, dragon v dragon battle, 100% confirmed.

Godzilla, nuffsaid.

6. Mursaat or Guild wars Utopia Chronomancer?

A lot of theories on that mysterious fellow, but we still dont have an absolute answer yet, if its a Mursaat this could potentially play into the idea of the enemy of my enemy mentality.

We may find unexpected allies in old foes, more likely out of a necessity of mutual survival than anything else.

7. Treaherne might end up becoming a major antagonist.

His wild-hunt is over, his purpose questioned by Treesus himself at Zhaitans defeat, not sure what he was supposed to do.

He was just a humble scholar, never a leader, never meant to command armies.

Its evident hes also incompetent as a military strategist, but Mordremoth might change that once he has his brain on his side and his knowledge of Tyrians.

8. We might encounter other Pale Trees, but that doesn’t mean the Sylvari they create would be Humanoid.

Twitter posted some interesting pics from areas we haven’t seen in game yet, namely a pic of strange kittenroach/termite like creatures with glowing backs not so unlike Sylvari that was shown with Rytlock and the caption “they belong to the dragon now”.

As we see in the trailer for HoT, this quote is stated directly as Rytlock mentions “You cant trust the Sylvari, they belong to the dragon now.”

Corrupted Pale Tree’s may not produce humanoid Sylvari, keep that in mind.

Very good points. I do believe that we will at least see the second tree that Malyck came from, who knows it may of since fallen to Mordremoth.

I think if you re-watch the video, when it shows Rytlock, he’s cutting down Mordrem Husks. Nothing we haven’t seen a lot of already.

Once there was a time where I would have loved to kick Trahearne’s butt for stealing all my glory in the personal story. After LS2, I feel sorry for him. I might even feel a bit sad if I was forced to put him down should he turn into Mordy’s minion. The guy might have stolen my glory in PS, but I cannot ignore that he’s a tragic hero.

So with the above line of thought, does that mean that the Mordrem could all be Sylvari in some sense? Makes all that farming in SW over the past couple of months take on a different tone entirely…

We may get new citi somewher far east because if mordremoth influence start to grow and more Sylvari start going crazy people mite escort em or something els to eastern places wher mordremoth influence dont have reach yet.

sry if i misspelled something

It’s a content pac that will be sold on gemstore (lol).

Maybe Rytlock comes back, we go to Magus Falls, perform another searing ritual, and we defeated Mordremoth (and the Sylvari).

See, I don’t think Scarlet was corrupted because she viewed the eternal alchemy, I think she was corrupted because while she was inside the machine, she was cutoff from the Pale Tree, and this made her suspectible to modremoth’s influence. Remember Aerin was the second sylvari to be corrupted, and he was a soundless, who try to cut themselves off from the pale tree, while the Zepherites were flying over the Silverwastes, and AFTER modremoth was woken up by the Breachmaker hitting the leyline. Also, it was only the sylvari that got corrupted during the pact assault. The PC’s not corrupted, that wouldn’t make any sense.

I think it would be much more likely that caithe wants to brainwash the egg just like how ventari brainwashed the pale tree with it’s teachings/tablet.

Joint one point to add really: I don’t think that thing we saw was a Mursaat. I think it was a Seer.

I think it’s very likely that Trahearne will eventually lose his plot armor (whether it’s protection from the Pale Tree, Caladbolg simply being the first of the first born,) and become a champion of Mordremoth. We’ll slowly see him fall to corruption through the story progression of HoT and it’ll eventually reach a point where we’ll need to take him out just like Scarlet and Aerin. Not only that but one of Mordremoth’s spheres of influence is mind, so it makes sense why its been able to orchestrate such clever and ingenious strategies to empower itself; using Scarlet to awaken and embue it with leyline magic, attempting to absorb and take down all of the waypoints when the other dragons wouldn’t and so on. So wouldn’t it make perfect sense for it to target the one Sylvari who’s not only the the first of the Pale Tree’s first born and one of the leaders of his race, but also the marshal of the Pact and one of the few how has the most knowledge and experience when it comes to taking down elder dragons? With the Pale Tree phasing in and out of consciousness, she may not even be able to retain protection for her strongest children at all times, and Caladbolg is said to strengthen both the good and bad traits of its wielder in lore, so it’s looking inevitable at this point.

Regarding the state of Destiny’s Edge, I think one of the three members from the Pact fleet crash will die but the other two will make it through and survive. Eir is the one with the most death flags; she was the one who was protecting Logan and Zojja from the crazed Pact Sylvari masses while the other two where hanging on a ship ledge for their lives. It would also explain why Braham is the focal Destiny’s Edge 2.0 member at the end of the trailer; he’ll want to avenge his mother’s death by taking part in the fight against Modremoth and becoming a legend in her honor. And of course Eir’s death will have a huge effect on Destiny’s Edge itself, it’s probably the event that’ll lead Rytlock into a rage and expose the secrets behind the Sylvari to the outside world. I think it’ll also leave Zojja with a lot of guilt, considering that she wasn’t on good terms with her due to the events that lead to Snaff’s death and all.