Guild Wars 2

Parlourbeatflex.5970:

They believe other, lesser races have nothing to offer them, so the krait never bother to communicate with them. Never beaten, they are convinced that they are blessed and elevated: the superior species in the world.

The living story explains that whoever is pulling the strings (Scarlet, probably,) found something to offer them: Krait obelisk shards. The Krait might not like working with the Nightmare Court in return for them, but they do have a reasonably explained motive.

Add to that another NPC talking about how the Krait used to be top dogs out in the ocean, but are on the decline since moving to shallower waters, and it’s easy to see how they’d jump on any chance to hasten the return of their prophets, to return the Krait to supremacy. If they have to work with others to bring themselves the power to step (slither over?) everyone else, so be it.

I do hope we get more development on this alliance, more than with the other shallow alliances we’ve seen, but at least this one is set up with a lore-based motive. It’s not enough to say “Krait are xenophobes, ends of story.” They’re allowed to be cunning as well as stubborn.