Guild Wars 2

Causes too much magic to be released into the world at once. Because the Elder Dragons feed off the Ley Lines and keep too much magic from being spread into Tyria.

1. Kill Elder Dragon
2. Unleashes massive magic into Tyria
3. Another Elder Dragon awakes
4. Kill new Elder Dragon
5. Even more magic released into Tyria
6. Causes ANOTHER Elder Dragon to awake

What if… brace with me…

Us killing the Elder Dragon is CAUSING the end of Tyria?

Self fulfilling prophecies.

By killing the Elder Dragons we are actually hastening the end of Tyria?

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(P.S. Now imagine there is some outside force that knows what this is doing? And is pushing us towards doing it by doing so. Dhuum? Menzies? Kormir corrupted by Abaddon’s essence/power?)

There are a lot of theories about the dragons. I’m not sure which one I ascribe to at this point. They might be a part of nature, they might not. They do seem to portrayed as a part of the natural order of Tyria. Part of it’s ebb and flow.

I do think it would make sense if the various dragons somehow balanced each other out, by actually killing one, we screwed up the balance that has existed for who knows how many thousands of year.

I don’t think I ascribe to killing a dragon unleashes the magic it’s harvested. They story tellers took the time to point out at dragons (not just glint, it specifically says dragons) consume magic, but don’t destroy it. Their body retains it “like a sponge holds water.” As with sponges, I can see some of the retained magic leaking out / ‘evaporating’ over time back into the world, but not in vast quantities rapidly.

There are too many unknowns, I think, to really formulate good hypothesis here.

We actually know for sure that a dead dragon’s remains will hold onto the magic they gathered (or at least some of it), because the Zephyrites were able to use Glint’s bones to grow and cultivate aspect crystals.

If all the magic of a dragon were released at the time of its death, I imagine the resulting blast would be some kind of crazy chaos nuke and probably wipe out a huge swath of Tyria. After how tamely Zhaitan fizzled out, I think we can mostly eliminate that possibility.