Guild Wars 2

I may be wrong, or early, but heres the short and simple:
Krait are building and Obelisk, Possibly for Scarlet who plans to channel magic for the Elder Dragon Mordremoth, whom she met within the dream. This will increase the dragon’s power moving the story forward towards Maguuma/Sea of Sorrows, which will provoke our friends the Tengu, whom will become the next playable race. In the expansion coming next year.

This coming from months of speculation in trying to tie the story in with the "Unproven" expansion hinted at in late 2012 by an NC Soft marketing company who released data suggesting their profits may greatly increase near the end of 2013. This information quickly hushed and NC Soft and ANet releasing the statement "We have no plans for a full expansion at this time."

Ok… I’ll bite…

In terms of an expansion: ArenaNet has a staff of about 250 employees. If I remember correctly, each of the four living world teams has roughly 20 main people (based on pictures posted of some of the LW teams back a few months ago and the number of people per team could have changed since it has been a while since those pictures were posted) with other people pulled in if necessary. So let’s say that the Living World takes up 100-125 employees. What have all the other employees been doing the past year? Either they have been pulled in for Living World work or they have been working on larger expansion content that can’t be talked about yet (as you said NCSoft / ArenaNet hushed up very quickly on expansion talk).

On to the other topic of the Elder Dragon Mordremoth. It is very possible that is what Scarlet saw and that he is influencing her. In Scarlet’s short story, the Pale Tree even warned her of going further which hints that the Pale Tree possibly knows about Mordremoth’s corruption and was trying to save her (the Sylvari themselves seem very tuned to the dragons and to their corruption as seen in the starting personal cinematic). Some other interesting things to think about:
- The Dredge and Flame Legion (Molten Alliance) and Aetherblades say they are working for Scarlet due to their fear of her power. Could it be that they don’t fear Scarlet herself but the power that controls her (Mordremoth)?
- In the Crucible of Eternity, the enemies in Mordremoth’s room are Husks and Hounds which are both creations of the Pale Tree and Sylvari.

Now, onto the Krait and their obelisk. I don’t think the Krait would ever bow to Scarlet, they are way too xenophobic for that. We don’t really know why the Krait would build the obelisk unless their prophets have returned.

In all honesty I’m hoping this is a build up to an Elder Dragon being introduced and it is highly possible that it could be one we wouldn’t expect due to the known ones and their current state.
- Primordus: he drove the Asura and Dredge to the surface; the Dwarves turned to stone and fought him in the depths; based on what Ogden says, he is the last surviving dwarf but that the other dwarves died in pushing back and keeping Primordus underground
- Kralkatorrik: he flew off after fighting against Destiny’s Edge; most likely recovering from that fight (and the one with Glint) while still trying to fend off Palawa Joko and his undead army
- Jormag: he’s up in the Northern Shiverpeaks; the Norn did manage to fight him back temporarily before being driven south; we don’t know how much of an effect that fight had on him
- Zhaitan: killed at the end of the Arah story mode; Tequatl looks to have absorbed some of his masters power after Zhaitan was killed
- Bubbles / Mordremoth: hanging in the background and not engaging Tyria at the moment; could the reason be that they are testing the strength of major races of Tyria before striking?

Of the six Elder Dragons, one is dead (Zhaitan), two are recovering from fights (Primordus and Kralkatorrik), one is possibly recovering (Jormag), and two are not engaging (Bubbles and Mordremoth).

Who knows… ArenaNet could easily use the Krait and the obelisk as a hook into the post-Scarlet living world arc and have something to go off of once we wrap up Scarlet’s storyline which I believe is supposed to end at the end of this year / beginning of next.

they way i imagined it, the krait are very proud, but like the grawl not very smart, and the bloodwitch is extreamly power hungry, scarlet could promise the bloodwitch power, but double cross the krait in the end, unless the end result is just to bring massive power into the world for mordy to take later. Of course there’s also the chance that this krait update is just another distraction while Anet works on other things, i can’t imagine it takes much time for a full living story team to build a tower.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/october-29-2013/
“Driven by Whispered promises and Madness”, Krait holding Nightmare-ish weapons, Large Root protruding from the side of the tower, I believe we can count Scarlet in on this one. My theory remains.

“When will then be now???”

“Soon…”

Seriously though, I hope hope hope an expansion is being worked on behind the scenes. I suppose time will tell.