The Shadow of the Dragon was originally just a representation of Zhaitan, it was meant to look like Zhaitan’s champions. Why they reused his model, I can only guess as yet another sad attempt to please the masses, done in the (imo) wrong way.
To start, I’m not correcting you here. I’m simply speaking out of my experience in seeing this pattern across multiple IPs and genre of games. Borrowing models isn’t anything new, it saves time. Just copy and paste. That’s why the stairs for the Mursaat were the same, just different coloring, to those found in the Underworld despite there not being any obvious connection between the Mursaat and Grenth. It’s actually fairly common and while I agree that its lazy, Anet isn’t the first nor will they be the last.
However…
…yet another sad attempt to please the masses
Konig, are you seriously going to throw tantrums every time something doesn’t go according to what you thought? Blaming the devs because you over thought something or didn’t think enough on it, is disingenuous. I may disagree with you on a lot and critique you for your own opinions but behavior like this is flat out childish. There’s no excuse for it.
To start with:
The Shadow of the Dragon was originally just a representation of Zhaitan, it was meant to look like Zhaitan’s champions.
Ok, lets think about this. Since day one Crucible of Eternity had reference to Mordremoth (through the use of a jungle section and the name of the skill). That being said, nothing was brought to the player characters attention… they wouldn’t know what name a skill was. Lore in the game however speaks of the wild life in the Meguumas receding back as if something was stripping it and feeding, a jungle dragon.
This is where Mordremoth’s name becomes a controversial topic because the name was never mentioned yet suddenly out of nowhere our character knows. That’s fair, it was planted poorly and the devs of course recognized that.
But the problem is, many of those closest to the Pale Tree had no knowledge of Mordremoth (as seen in DR:EP1 where the Pale Tree asks to be alone with you the player). With that I do assume that Caithe had no knowledge during the prologue for the Sylvari. Making her interpretation questionable, all characters (as explained in another thread) are capable of error. Even Caithe. Now we don’t know what Scarlet was getting at (“Caithe, someday you will see that Tyria needs me.”) but Scarlet’s rise was after the fall of Zhaitan so it can be inferred that Caithe found out along the way or that Scarlet, through her discoveries, tried to approach Caithe specifically and Caithe dismissed her. The point is, the Wyld Hunt is subjective and I don’t think that was Zhaitan’s minion at all – Caithe made an error in attributing that dragon with Zhaitan because she had no knowledge of Mordremoth. Misinterpretation, through and through.
In closing, I’m all for calling out anybody who makes mistakes. Give credit when credit is due and all that jazz. During Episode 2, yes I was right there displeased with the name-drop and felt it was tacky and done poorly. I believe their excuse but that still doesn’t fix the problem that still, to my knowledge, exists and needs to be fixed. However, throwing in the towel as it were and crying a fit that they’re doing this for fan service… throwing a tantrum isn’t going to do you any favors. You took something directly which was highly subjective and then feel slighted because you were mislead even if their intention was never to mislead the players. It’s not right and it’s definitely not fair, be constructive with your criticism not destructive.
