Dunno if this has already been mentioned and there are way too many walls of text for me to bother checking. XD
Kind of in support of the theory that Mordremoth wants Zhaitan’s dead body for nefarious purposes.
After being told everything we’ve been told and seeing everything we’ve seen we’ve made a few assumptions.
We assume Mordremoth has a big dragony form because we’ve seen a dragony mouth, a foot, an almost-wing and his handsom big face.
We also assume everything we’ve seen of him thus far is in the Jungle.
Let’s start assuming otherwise.
Zhaitan’s design showed us that Anet can break the typical dragon design. He wasn’t so much a dragon but a flying fortress of recycled horrors rotting into eachother to form a creature that could make Cthulhu blush.
Taking another look at the release trailer where we get a good look at Mordremoth, the dragon himself.
I think he’s formless. He IS this world, so he says.
A massless being manipulating every thing from the blades of grass under your feet to an entire Race you thought were your friends. Not a physical dragon, he’s just a mind (with an unlimited supply of plant matter. Uh oh!).
A thought-dragon that invaded the minds of his Sylvari and drove them mad.
Avatar (the one with the blue people) would have been alot more interesting if this guy showed up >.>
So!
The opening mouth we see, taking his first breath of magic after Scarlet became the worlds craziest alarm clock, is simply that, just the mouth. We don’t see what it’s attached to, nor do we see what that giant foot is attached to in the trailer. Same goes for his almost-wing.
And when he comes face to face with Rytlock, we don’t see a head and a body, we see a twisting mass of vines being sculpted into a face like thing. All the nearby plant life simply slithers it’s way to his puppeteering stage.
Simply because he needed us to see him Smile.
What big teeth you theoretically have, Mr Mordremoth.
Now if the thought-dragon theory is true, assume that he’s actually not getting himself together in that scene as his “Final Form!” And he actually has just done that to break the ice with us. Whatever his “form” is, it’s already out there in it’s final state and this smiling face is just a way to say hi to Rytlock.
And if that’s true then you know this is gonna be one of those super hard bosses that takes us hours, only to find out that the bad guy can pull that one out his butt for a party trick.
And now to my point. At the very beginning of the trailer, just before we see a humanoid worrior being formed out of vines, we see larger vines twisting around something….
Is that a giant rib cage?
We don’t know what Orr looks like these days (though theres probably a Starbucks) but we do know it’s been “cleansed”.
Cleansing sounds a little sinister in hind sight, huh!? Quotation marks can’t help either.
Mordremoth is smart, if we’re Sherlock, he’s Moriarty. He had the foreknowledge to raise an entire Race of seemingly the most trustworthy creatures to work their way into our society and strike from within. Ultimate sleeper agents.
Even though Scarlet woke him up early he’s still kicking our butts…. Or maybe he woke up right on time.
When I say he is smart, that also means I think he has a complex personality, he wants something. What would a mind like his want? A mind with no physical form and yet the owner of a billion creatures that have what he can’t.
He want’s a body.
I like to imagine Mordremoth as a bitter old man, ancient in fact. He had a bad temper when he was just a kid, only a few hundred years old! A temper made worse because he always lacked something the other dragons had and they just rubbed that right in his face (if he had one. HA!).
He had to sit there with nothing but sunlight to satisfy him, jealously watching as the others as they feasted, fought, flew and ffffffff- went to social gatherings.
Now he can do something about that and he’s got millennias worth of rage to take out… On us. Figures.
That sounds like an antagonist I almost want to see win.
Some of the Sylvari had a built in need to kill Zhaitan or clense Orr. They were born knowing their purpose. Because that purpose isn’t their own.
And now Mordremoth happens to rise right when there’s a fresh dragon corpse laying around, not just any dragon, an elder dragon.
Fit for Mordremoth to inhabit and finally take his physical place as king of the hill, not through the eyes of his minions or the faux bodies he twists into shape from vines. His first had experience. Picture seeing colour for the first time in your life and you’re thousands of years old, now up the magnitude a few hundred percent. He won’t wanna let go of that any time soon.
Buckle up folks, I’ve got a feeling that this dragon won’t go down as easy.
