Guild Wars 2

Lazarus has nothing lol. His species is dead. He lost to the dragons. He lost to the humans. The Mursaat are really good at losing because of their own pride. I’d hope Lazarus learned something after everything he’s endured. Could he even take revenge? Sure he’s strong, but it’s not like he already almost died to humans.

Is there even a pact left? I mean, yes there is. But my question is, will the pact remain relevant? It seemed like the pact ended up being cannon fodder while the guild thing that exists now was really what killed him. And honestly, it was the same way with Zhaitan. I guess Mordremoth’s physical form was killed by the pact, but it didn’t end up doing much to actually kill it.

The 10k drinks isn’t bad… I can’t do the jumping puzzle, my internet has too much latency………………………………………………………………………………………………………. I’m out all of the money I spent on drinks.

Once again, I don’t agree that Bubbles is ready for a campaign yet, but it’s getting to be about time to reveal what’s going on there. I wouldn’t get on the Bubbles hype train just yet… it’s been a long time coming, but I’m confident there’s a long time to go.

Souls are a mists related item… there’s also ghosts… it’s all really wacky. There seems to be a ton of discontinuity on the subject, making it very hard to determine how they fit in. Spirit Vale and the death of Marjory’s sister revived this subject that I was sort of hoping they’d discard. I feel like with the modern understanding of magic, ghosts and what not just don’t really fit in… and yet they’re there.

Souls are supposed to pass on the mists, but living creatures can also go to the mists. I’ve always pondered whether or not things like demons, spawn from ‘bad’ souls. I don’t know, I think the whole concept was super confusing in Guild Wars 1, and Guild Wars 2 has not shed any light on the matter really.

At some point there existed a seed for the Pale Tree, not only that, it was one of many. Ronan only took one as he had to fight plant monsters to get it… or so the story goes. Can the Pale Tree make seeds? You could farm an army of Sylvari in theory.

I feel like the problem with a Thanksgiving themed event is the event density… it already sucks that Halloween and Christmas events are as dense as they are. It really sucked that Halloween co launched with Heart of Thorns. I honestly believe Halloween should have launched a week or two early, but it’s too late now.

It would actually be pretty cool to see a dragon learn and understand mortal behaviors, and manipulate them to better it’s position. Although, you could make the argument that Jormag is already doing this via religion.

The picture with the dragon attacking what appears to be Lion’s Arch… I’m begging for the love of all things good that we don’t ruin the city AGAIN for a few more years… I think Kralkatorrik is next.

Reason A: Glint’s egg is about to hatch, Kralkatorrik was NOT HAPPY with Glint upon waking up, I think the second that he catches wind of her having a live offspring, he’ll go into a rage again… he may even attempt to cross central tyria. To support this, Glint’s egg is placed opposite of the map from Kralkatorrik, this could be a coincidence, or the forgotten deliberately chose Tarir because of it’s distance from Kralkatorrik.

Reason B: Trahearne was preparing to kill Kralkatorrik, Destiny’s Edge has unfinished business with him.

Reason C: In line with B, Destiny’s Edge wounded Kralkatorrik very badly, nearly, but ultimately not killing the dragon. Zojja will want revenge for Snaff. Logan will want to redeem himself. Rytlock is a charr and he’s just a threat to them. Eir, who like Braham, would want Jormag is dead.

Those are my major reasons.

That’s for the next dragon.

However, the current story doesn’t seem to be talking about dragons directly (for now), but rather <possibly> the Mursaat, White Mantle, and Bloodstone.

A few crazies have suggested Primordus is in the Maguuma Wastes, but to put it simply, I don’t agree with that theory, I don’t see any reason to believe he’s there and not underground as we’ve been told. Destroyer’s can spawn seemingly anywhere.

Talking about the Quetzal, is it possible they could play into a story involving the Dominion of Winds? During the main sequence awakening of the dragon’s and the following disasters that struck, the Tengu, with exception to the Quetzal united and established the Dominion of Winds. They say the city has issues with destroyers? But we’ve yet to actually see the city at all.

Back to the dragons… sorry for jumping topics, I’m confident Bubbles is not coming yet. I can even see Kralkatorrik being delayed for much the same reason, but less so. With Zhaitan’s death, now only Bubbles blocks the way to Cantha, I doubt Arena Net is ready to open that door. Kralkatorrik is blocking Elona, while he could be killed, and they simply say that the undead of Palawa Joko are blocking the way… I feel like that’s very lame. Based on this, Jormag and Primordus would be good dragon candidates based on the consequences of the deaths of the other dragons. I honestly believe Bubbles will be the last dragon to kill, then we’d focus our attention on Cantha… I suppose the Elona route is possible as well…

There’s still a lot to deal with before Cantha/Elona get touched, to name a few items. The bloodstone, the remaining dragons, racial conflicts(the ghosts of ascalon, krytan bandits, sons of svanir, etc), the whole Glint/Forgotten plot… and many others. I’d love it if we eventually got something featuring the human gods or underworld/fissure of woe, but that doesn’t necessarily have to take place in Tyria.

As far as Glint’s ‘minions’, the forgotten, who are usually portrayed as her servants, she was actually HER minion, because THEY liberated her for Kralkatorrik. I would argue that she was following the forgotten’s plan more so than making her own. She seemed to have an ability to predict the future, that the forgotten tapped into. Together, Glint and the Forgotten, made the long term plans that are apparently in effect now. But mind you, Tarir was engineered by the Forgotten, NOT GLINT. She’s part of the plan.

Mordremoth was not stated to be the strongest, but rather the most dangerous. Meaning his activity was the most directly harmful to central Tyria. The other dragons haven’t recently been interacting much with Tyria. Kralkatorrik got pretty beat up trying to kill Glint… Bubbles and Primordus are MIA still, and Jormag likes snow. He’s building a snow fort for the best snowball fight of GW2 history. Jormag is looking to rival Grenth and Dwayna’s annual snowball fight!

Back the point, most dangerous and most powerful are not the same. The other dragons just don’t happen to be messing with us for the moment, so they’re hardly dangerous. All of the dragon’s are immensely powerful, and as time goes on, you can expect the last ones will be stronger and stronger as there will be more uncontested magic for them to devour. They’re only getting stronger.

I just feel like an NPC standing next to a wall, that the bloodstone shard is very likely on the other side of hearing chanting… as if it were a ritual. That can’t be a coincidence. More likely a hint, or possibly a tease… Arena Net saying, we know what you’re thinking

So I was hanging out, waiting for a squad member to recruit another person for Vale Guardian. If you go West, there’s a wall. Your character will comment about the wall being unusual. There’s an NPC standing there, he says that there’s noises on the other side of the wall, of PEOPLE, not mordrem or something else. The noises seem to be “Chanting and yelling”.

If you’re familiar with Guild Wars 1, west of Spirit Vale was a place called Bloodstone Fen where the first bloodstone shard was located. What occurred there? RITUALS! Umm… yeah, I think this is a rather significant easter egg.

What’s Bubbles going do? Run up in the middle of Tyria? He’s the deep sea dragon, if he’s fought anywhere besides the middle of the ocean, something is not right. Clearly there is magic in the ocean, the Krait, Quaggan, and Largos were existing in aquatic civilizations much as the terrestrial races of Tyria do.

It would have to be right around then, given the 50 year sequencing. UNLESS the dragon woke up early, I suppose it’s possible, one could expect that’s when it would awaken, and we have no proof to suggest it woke up early, could it have? Yes. But there’s no reason as of yet to justify that case.

We also have very little information about the Krait empire, the quaggan, and the largos, also fled, and from what I understand, their accounts were the basis on the DSD waking up as the Krait aren’t particularly friendly and only really interact with other races to either eat or enslave them.

There was also a forgotten presence in the mists and elona, right? Where they operated as servants to the gods rather than Glint. I’d assume the gods, wherever they went, probably have a few forgotten hanging around, especially Kormir.

Quaggan can be corrupted, it seems to be dragon minions cannot naturally corrupt each other, the only multi-corruption that occurs is forced by the inquest, and it doesn’t seem that the artificial minions are even loyal to their respective dragons (They may be, it’s just not shown). It wouldn’t make sense for them to be loyal to a dragon since they’d have to be loyal to many, so being loyal to their inquest controllers would be more logical, and once again, they do appear to be loyal to the inquest, not the dragons.

DSD really isn’t a threat to Tyria anyways, unless you want to cross the ocean, and nobody really seems to want to ‘yet’, he doesn’t need to be dealt with. Until we get water combat mechanic improvements, I doubt we’ll encounter this dragon or its minions anytime soon. Heart of Thorns has pretty much no major instances of water combat, clearly they probably aren’t ready to tackle it yet. Plus defeating Kralkatorrik and DSD opens the doors to Cantha and Elona… I doubt they’re ready to open those cans of worms yet :P

Konig Des Todes.2086:

And from both the cinematic during The All as well as the Trial of Strength during City of Hope, it’s most likely that the DSD awoke between Primordus and Jormag. Primordus awoke in 1120 AE, and Jormag in 1165 AE. That would place the DSD’s awakening between those two dates – all possibilities lying before 1173 when Rata Novus fell.

DSD woke in ~1270, all of the dragons, except Mordremoth (because of Scarlet) were 50 years apart, even bubbles. He rose after Zhaitan and before Kralkatorrik… that cutscene was riddled with errors, like Mordremoth and Zhaitan being mixed up. It’s definitely clear they normally awaken within 50 years of each other, Primordus and Mordremoth attempted to do so prematurely, with Mordremoth being successful. So I’m it appears, ~1270 is when the aquatic races flee inland, which is the only confirmed event Bubbles was responsible for.

The lore is that Warriors lack the ability to harness magic and use signets(created by those who can) to amplify their physical strength. In practice do warriors use magic? Not really. Could they possibly learn some magic, perhaps, but the class is designed to emphasize that people of this profession, Thief and Engineer as well, have a low ability to use magic, compared to Mesmer or Elementalist that uses magic for pretty much everything.

You could compare this to your ability to do math, some people get it, some people don’t.
Don’t read too much into it, we have no lore explaining how magic is channeled, it just is, and not everyone seems to be able to do it.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

@Mushroomz: That only means it was made out of human bodies. That’s what it sounds like Gorseval is. A fleshy construct made to house souls. The souls themselves are in that blue back bubble-area.

@Mickey: I wouldn’t consider it “Bugs and Souls” though I certainly see how you weren’t there. I’ve been thinking Jormag is souls though. I think just like how Zhaitan trapped souls, the DSD might have too.

In the end, most likely scenario is likely to be “Gorseval is a titan” or something along those lines, being freed from the Realm of Torment. And that the Chak are just never-known-before ley line eating bugs.

The Corseval is not a “fleshy construct”, it is the congregation of the souls, he specifically says that in the video, the body is how the souls manifest and the arms are to emphasize the composition.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

So having watched that guild chat episode in the full, and I am now convinced that the above theory is 100% wrong.

Ronald makes a CRITICAL slip of the tongue after talking about how it’s formed and talking more about its animation.

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“I didn’t want to make something generic and, you know, something we’ve seen before in other dragon-ah.”

He cuts himself after saying “dragon” and returns talking to the model animation.

Gorseval also has tentacles, a stated case of DSD corruption.

I think Gorseval is a dragon champion of the DSD, given that the raid is said to be about the “next story” and there are hints to the DSD coming soon in HoT promotion/HoT’s ending (we got that three dragon heads rising from tidal waves assaulting LA, ley line energy going to the Unending Ocean at HoT end, we got Chak burring from depths but what’s in the depths layer of the Tangled Depths? huge underwater tunnels – Drax promoted the theory Chak are DSD dragon minions and Gorseval isn’t all that different from them – more of an undead than insectoid version).

The tentacles – compared to spinal cords – also reminds me of the tentacles that grew in the karka hive a bit to me.

And about Chak/Gorseval/DSD connection… Chak hives have bone tendril-looking tentacle spirals in their hives. Curious…

Alternatively, could it be Zhaitan returning? They didn’t say human souls, as far as I’m aware. What if they’re dragon souls?

They didn’t say “human souls” but there’s human arms, I’m going to say it’s safe to assume human because dragons don’t have arms like that. At the very least, the arms are something at least similar to humans in terms of arms. This is why I like the bloodstone theory/soul battery theories because that’s really the only logical way you’d get a bunch of human souls in that scenario… or we could get something far crazier.

rewatched the video He talks about the souls escaping [something] and forming that.

Also, where this thing about dragon heads in the tidal waves? A source on that would be fantastic! It’s not that I don’t believe you, I would like to see it.

I think it happened and wasn’t shown like Diovid said. There were a lot of mistakes in the development of Zhaitan that I don’t think Arena Net is going to replicate. I think the burst of magic was added to show that Mordremoth is TRULY dead. A wonkier idea I had was that Zhaitan can’t die, why? Because he’s the dragon of the undead. There’s no real support behind that, but I SUPPOSE IT COULD MAKE SENSE……………

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Technically, the Pale Tree isn’t an entire map, and not even all of The Grove. Keep in mind that city maps are much smaller than standard zone maps like HoT’s. Further, we see not one, not two, not even three, but at least eight gigantic trees in HoT – five of which are Blighting Trees which are the mordrem version of Pale Trees. Three of said Blighting Trees are in Dragon’s Stand.

I will say this came to mind when running into “The Great Tree” in Tangled Depths. The name seems to suggest that it has significance. But I’ve yet to find anything explaining it. It looks like a destroyed, big tree, could it be an ancient incarnation of a sylvari tree? Just kind of pitching ideas.

Diovid.9506:

Mushroomz.4280:

And lastly, the Nightmare Court seems to have it’s own agenda, that honestly, really only cares about them liberating Sylvari from the Pale Tree, could this help Mordremoth’s plans? Absolutely. I would even say there’s probably a lot of overlap. Neither Mordrem-Sylvari or Nightmare Court accept the Pale Tree as their master, that’s definitely a common enemy.

This is not entirely true. First of all, the goal is not liberating Sylvari from the Pale Tree, but liberating Sylvari from all oppressors (which means the firstborn, the tablet, but also, as Faolain points out, Mordemoth). Secondly, they do not want to get rid of the pale tree, they need the pale tree. They just want to change the pale tree.

Ehh, I don’t know, there’s different factions, some of the Nightmare Court, one of the bosses in TA, I forget his name, literally talks about burning down the Pale Tree, but you are right that many want to convert it to their side. We know there are different factions in the Nightmare Court, and even radical factions such as the Toxic Alliance faction. There’s much talk about embracing their ‘true nature’ and that true nature would be being a minion of Mordremoth. I feel like it just depends on who you’re talking about.

There hasn’t been a connection established between Mordremoth and the Nightmare court, perhaps there isn’t one as Konig suggested. It’s weird because Sylvari do seem to be able to be corrupted by the Nightmare, and in many ways, it’s similar to how Mordremoth corrupted Sylvari. However Scarlet Briar was never a nightmare courtier, in fact she made fun of Caithe and Faolain because I guess she thought their feud was pointless, she also knew that Caithe knew what the Sylvari were, and we have no clue how she found out. The point is Scarlet was an agent of Mordremoth, she was plugged into ley line energy, which at the time they had no idea that the ley lines contain at least some dragon magic, all of that, exposing her to Mordremoth.

Another bit of a difference is if I remember, Scarlet refers to Mordremoth as a dark entity, I don’t think there’s any mention of the Nightmare court communicating with a any sort of Dark Entity, which is weird because go forward to Mordremoth’s mind, there’s this black, dragon-ish visage, that’s clearly the dark entity Scarlet was referring to.

I think that if the Nightmare Court is related to Mordremoth, it would be similar to the sons of svanir, where they aren’t necessarily minions, but begin to practice the ideologies of the dragon. I suppose it’s possible the Nightmare Court could have been devised by Mordremoth to weaken the Pale Tree’s independence in preparation for his awakening. There does seem to be a Glint-Kralkatorrik relationship between Mordremoth and the Pale Tree, it would seem clear that the Elder Dragons do not like their creations to defy them.

And lastly, the Nightmare Court seems to have it’s own agenda, that honestly, really only cares about them liberating Sylvari from the Pale Tree, could this help Mordremoth’s plans? Absolutely. I would even say there’s probably a lot of overlap. Neither Mordrem-Sylvari or Nightmare Court accept the Pale Tree as their master, that’s definitely a common enemy.

I think the deal is that the Pale Tree is big, and consists of an entire map, recreating that would be weird. Only way I could see a corrupted Pale Tree coming in would be as a raid perhaps. As far as the scope of the story goes, while it would be cool, it seems like a lot of resources would be devoted to a plot that’s ultimately a dead end.

I feel like the point of Mr. E is that we have no idea who it is. I think they will be dealt with between this and the next dragon campaign. Unfortunately, I feel like Glint’s egg may dominate the coming material.

Well, the Bloodstone is kind of right there, I would love if it was related to that, that was be a really cool way to bring it together and that would explain the human souls.

The titans coming back? It wouldn’t make sense, Abaddon is dead, dead-dead, he’s not coming back. I don’t expect the titans, of which he constructed, would even exist anymore. Guild Wars 1 was big about exterminating the titans because they were very dangerous creatures, at least in the lore, one of the most threatening types of creatures in the game.

The mursaat were heavily teased with the Exalted, but I don’t know, I’m kind of under the impression that if they came back for any reason, the elder dragons would have to be contained. I honestly have no guesses as to how the Mursaat would be reintroduced. I think we’ll see a forgotten before a Mursaat, or at least know of their fate. I do not by any reason think the Mursaat are dead, Arah shows that it’s perfectly viable for them to still be alive, and they were being teased at with Heart of Thorns, the idea of them is still on the table.

Going back to the bloodstone idea, I think that’s a very good candidate. I looked at an overlapped version of the maps, it’s right next to where I believe one of the Guild Hall maps is? I think that’s a prime candidate for them to add a raid location at given that it’s adjacent to known land. From the pictures they’ve shown, it is in the Maguuma isn’kitten

I don’t think this will ever be addressed again by Arena Net, the whole Zhaitan campaign clearly seems to be a mistake, because they’ve completely scrapped that form of design. Arah was originally supposed to feature his corpse that covered a very large portion of the map, the dragon was supposed to be vastly larger than it was. It’s tail is shown in the priory headquarters, to me it seemed a little bigger than when you actually fight him, it could just be an illusion… but I think it could just be an attempt to blow his scale back up.

The reality is boring, they maybe ran out of budget or time, maybe it wasn’t within the scope of the campaign, it wouldn’t really make sense to kill Zhaitan how we did if he was much bigger than he was, changing that would once again cost time and money. It could be a hardware issue or something, a moving model like that uses a ton of vertices and such, animating that would be a nightmare, I’m sure animating the dragon we saw wasn’t easy.

To add to this, we got the Mouth of Mordremoth, which seems to be a lot bigger than Zhaitan, but it’s basically a long snake and has a relatively generic design, Zhaitan’s design was at least complex, even though size was sacrificed.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

From what I’ve gathered regarding the Dragon’s Stand meta dialogue and from the final instance dialogue is that the Mouth of Mordremoth is actually Mordremoth’s physical body – it’s the mouth we saw at the end of S1/beginning of HoT. The reason why we can’t kill Mordy by killing the Mouth of Mordremoth is that his mind is effectively in all of his corruption so he can just regrow his body (explaining why the meta is a repeating event).

Actually, it’s said way earlier, in one of the the Living World chapters that the vines are Mordremoth.

Also, in Auric Basin, an Exalted Sage says, while you’re cleansing the Font of the Maguuma, that the Mordrem are “extensions of the jungle by virtue of Mordremoth” or maybe he says the dragon? Regardless, all of the Mordrem and vines are a manifestation of his corruption.

As far as the mouth of Mordremoth… it’s a bit of a misnomer, while it’s clearly not Mordremoth, he definitely is in control of it and seems to almost use it as his physical body. But then there’s that wackiness with Trahearne.

I’m going with the idea that Mordremoth isn’t a physical being. They said you could burn down every forest and kill every vine and they’d just grow back. While the Mouth of Mordremoth may be a body he uses, Trahearne is being turned into one as well. And lastly, it’s all so complicated between the shadow of the dragon, trahearne, the mouth of mordremoth, and mordremoth himself in his mind that it seems to be meaningless to say “Oh that’s him!”, because it seems to very well be all of them at once.

The one thing I do not understand, we kill Mordremoth’s mind, and yet, it doesn’t die because it still exists within Trahearne… but we accessed him mind through Trahearne? So how is it still there? And only Trahearne’s death releases all of the magic Mordremoth has absorbed back to the world…

My understanding of nodes is there’s several FIXED locations, these do not change, they’re part of the map data. There seems to be linked clusters, and within these clusters X locations are randomly selected and generated. I know this because I used to run gathering locations for gold when it used to be good money. The amount that spawn does not change. With things like herbs/plants, they absolutely exist in clusters, always. I’m not certain how ore or trees work, the cluster might just be the whole map. If you watch orichalcum spawns, people do this, the same number always spawns. This mechanic was probably reused, why write several bits of code when one does the job?

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I don’t get why there’s two of him? I don’t think he’s a Mesmer, or is he?

The Apostate was indeed a Margonite, but why would he know about the all or the eternal alchemy? I’m curious if this is another hint pointing at Abaddon’s actions had something to do with the immanent rising of the dragons. It’s always been thought the gods had no relationship to the dragons, and it’s possible they didn’t immediately, but I just don’t see how with evidence… like GLINT, how they couldn’t have known.

Last thing, it says it’s probably a metaphor at the end of the book, a metaphor… for what? Is it simply the obvious? The death of a dragon? Or something else? The elder dragons are powerful, but Tyria is but one small piece of the world. Something has been hinted with Mordremoth’s progression, that he’s becoming very powerful, very quickly. He was even able to find away to get woken up early. Balance works in two ways though

With the things we know about Sylvari, that being that their dragon minions, their long term presence does seem to sculpt their environment over time. The grove is filled with all kinds of PLANTS that don’t grow naturally. It could just be an effect of her/her corpse’s radiating/leaking dragon energy.

Like Konig said, at least one other sylvari visited her grave, perhaps they put the turrets there, the Pale Tree, as shown with Wynne is very concerned when any of her children die it seems. I doubt the explanation is overly complicated, but I don’t think it shows anything such that the dragons are passively fighting each other. In fact, the sylvari involved are free of Mordremoth, and since it’s a grave… Mordremoth won’t be taking that Sylvari back.

Could one of the spheres of influence be Tyria’s moon?

Abaddon is definitely dead… the last interactions of the gods was ensuring a mortal would kill him and then absorb his powers… Then they took off with the mortal to wherever they went. Abaddon wasn’t doing well as it was, he sacrificed most of his body to nearly gain his freedom and to create and recruit followers.

Anyways… I wouldn’t make assumptions yet. We have NO idea where Rytlock went, how he got his power, or how he reclaimed his sword. We don’t know why the sword took him there, we know basically nothing. Rytlock may have met the gods, he may not have, we don’t know.

Another point is, it’s said that looking at the gods can blind mortals… Only one mortal has ever looked at the gods, that was Malchor, he didn’t EXACTLY go blind… but it did go absolutely insane. Also I hate to say it, when I played Nightfall, I got a good luck at that Abaddon fellow, didn’t go blind either. I’m curious if the “Gift of True Sight” can allow mortals to see divine entities. The Mursaat are described a similar way, they have spectral agony where their sight has kitten ing consequences to their viewers as well or something along those lines. But anyways, there’s soooo much grey area, it’s very hard to make any reasonable theories, but I suppose it’s not impossible.

Hype Trains do

Killing off the Sylvari is a dream come true!

There’s no Five True elder dragons, there’s also not Five True gods, that’s just how humans describe them because Abaddon isn’t much liked. Now with Kormir, it’s six again. But there are potentially more, Dhuum and Menzies may or may not be alive still, Dhumm WAS a god, and I believe Menzies was half? Anyways Grenth overthrew Dhuum, but never actually killed him, at least not in GW1, he was in fact imprisoned in his own realm, much like Abaddon. Even then, Abaddon wasn’t always hated, many people worshipped him. It wasn’t until the bloodstone that Abaddon disagreed with the other gods, which is a really big mystery… nobody knows what he knew that caused what he did, but he went to war with the other gods over it and was determined to give humans insane amounts of magical power. Perhaps he knew about the threat ahead and wanted to prepare humanity, but ultimately humanity was using the magic to kill itself and wasn’t ready.

Maximus Delion.8719:

I’m not sure if this has been asked before, but is there any information available about how large the continent of Tyria is? In-game, Lion’s Arch is a brisk 10 minute jog from Divinity’s Reach. But I’m sure that in the “real” world of Tyria (GW2 novels), it’s assumed to be much farther away (and people probably run A LOT slower).

Just as a point of reference, would a trip on foot from DR to LA take hours? Days? Weeks?

If I’m traveling from Rata Sum to the Grove, is that something I’d pack a daysack for? Or would I need to requisition a dolyak or pack mule to carry my supplies?

Has anything been said about what the in-game world’s scale is supposed to be? (i.e. 10 minutes of running in-game would be equivalent to 50 miles, or something like that?)

Tough question, only Arena Net can give you a clear answer on that. I’d say Tyria was initially loosely based on the US, so maybe a bit smaller, but ultimately very similar in size.

It’s interesting too that these swords are named, perhaps these names are significant, of course we don’t know anyone why… but it could be something to do with Orr. In any case, I really hope Rytlock adopts the line: “Kill it with fire!”

Anything is possible, but we know very little about Primordus, he was our first Elder Dragon, and yet we only learned his name. The dwarves have successfully fought him off, and their aren’t a ton of them, I doubt he’s that much of a threat. He’s still busy attacking skritt holes and statues, unlikely to be a problem anytime soon.

You’re right, it is used in the trailer, I’m not sure why, I guess I assumed it was for effect, and it could be. It doesn’t really answer if it’s divine fire.

Mr. E is a fun character, he’s not really super important or anything, I personally enjoy the fact we don’t know who it is, he/she is designed to be a mystery! I don’t think we’ve had enough interactions with them to spoil the surprise yet, it would take the fun away.

Also, don’t drop the t! That gets you misery! That’s probably why nobody enjoys it.

I honestly think, nobody really understood what Scarlet was up to, her motives still aren’t clear. The ONLY known fact is she was under Mordremoth’s influence somehow. But yeah… I just don’t think anyone knew she was going to wake Mordremoth, at least not until it was too late. And agree with the previous statements, a lot of Tyria’s military was weakened from Zhaitan, also, as shown in detail in season 2, the racial armies are pretty busy with their own affairs, such as Charr and the Ghosts. Other races, like the Asura, weren’t convinced of the worth of sending troops, and so on. It also seems, nobody, except Caithe, had ANY clue what Scarlet wanted, they didn’t even know who Mordremoth was yet.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

That’s one source. I know dwarvern texts have been mentioned as a source in the past as well.

Great point! And to elaborate on this, in the Priory base they stated they found the scroll of the gods? and various other scrolls… Anyways, it says the names of the six elder dragons, however it’s damaged where the DSD’s name is, and only reveals S. It also says their powers, such as Mordremoth being Plant and Mind. But Primordus actually came from dwarven texts in GW1 initially, a couple others may have as well.

Anyways, it’s not clear who named them, but they were named long ago, possibly by the five ancient races, seers, mursaat, forgotten, etc. Or possibly by the gods, or even more likely, possibly by Glint. But they’re VERY old, and one is even potentially lost, calling it bubbles… as we have… well it’s a good candidate for a new name if we never find it :P

Animating and modelling these Elder Dragons takes considerable time and money on Arena Net’s part. You need to think of these things in relation to budgeting, Arena Net simply can’t do all of these amazing things we dream about, your idea is very cool, it would be spectacular to see that, BUT it’s not realistic, and it doesn’t make good playable content. It would be like season 1 of the LS all over again, sort of random and clunky, ended up upsetting a lot of people.

It really seems as if Mordremoth’s influence is growing in strength, the Heart of Thorns teaser seems to show his eye opening for the first time since he last awoke, so I think as he’s been waking up, the effects of it are getting stronger. Before he was awakened, Scarlet was his only victim, even above the Nightmare Court, why? Omadd ran her through an experiment that no one else had survived, it connected her mind with the Ley Lines apparently, and Mordremoth was able to establish a connection at that point. Though she said Mordremoth always spoke to her in her dreams/nightmares, and it scared her as a “child”, I guess at this point, she either accepted, or was convinced of something that would either serve, or aid Mordremoth. We don’t know if she was FULLY influenced, as she seemed pretty self aware and didn’t act like a typical minion, however, she definitely saw something that convinced her to wake Mordremoth. At the point he woke up, the Aerin situation quickly followed, and more will fall as well. Aerin and Scarlet were both soundless, meaning they rejected the dream, but weren’t nightmare court either.