I agree with Palador. We’re sort of in an event loop, and the whole Pact thing is the prelude to Heart of Thorns. Also note that Canach seemed to be himself.
Someone else posited that the Pale Tree is a Glint analog and is protecting Her children from the corruption as best She can. That gives an out to RPers who want to stay on the “good side.” Though Soundless may be in trouble …
One thing I noticed in the cutsceen. You see Faolain fighting against and killing the pact troops. This means that the Nightmare Court have now officially joined Mordremoth. This tells me that it is the Sylvari who have fallen to nightmare, and thus without the protection of the pale tree, who have joined Mordremoth.
You can also see that Foalain slays a Sylvari in that cutscence. My guess is that Sylvari who are still part of the dream are immune to the Dragon corruption, but Nightmare and Soundless are not. It is also possible that because the tree has been weakened maybe some of the Sylvari in the pact assault were corrupted because they were too close and The Pale tree was too weak to protect all of them.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens because there are many other Trees according to Lore but The Pale tree is the only one that we know of that is connected to the dream. Also it’ll be interesting to see what happened to that one Sylvari in the Sylvari PS that was from a different tree but wasn’t corrupted or part of the dream. There is so many question!
Though I am sure PCs will be safe from the corruption.
Edit:
I noticed that Canach is in the final scene of the HoT trailer, he looks uncorrupted and in the jungle, which is good news!= D
(edited by Arkuden.7342)