[See that's precisely what I need to do--just ride to ride again. Moving the the UK was not the greatest thing for my horsey life. I am constantly trying to recoup, readjust, get my riding mojo back. Also, well done Charles for anticipating precisely the exact story arc that is now coming out in GW2! lol Two elder dragons have been killed now, and suddenly it's like whoops! Here's this great big THING that's been happening to the world while you weren't looking, and it's at least in part a result! Of course we don't know where the devs are going to go with it and whether they'll pursue that angle of the story, but I really really hope they do. I think it's some of their best storytelling so far. Absolutely no one in Tyria saw it coming at all though, which is pretty funny in retrospect.]
Aurus paused, cocking his head at the questions Charles posed. His hand had been lightly brushing across the surface of a hedge as they passed, but now it was completely forgotten, and for a moment he just blinked at the man. Charles was proposing a possibility that plainly hadn't occurred to him before.
After a moment, he said, "Honestly, I was mostly just surprised that they managed to actually kill one at all. And with relative ease, no less, though I'm sure that the Pact members who brought Zhaitan down would thoroughly dispute that it was easy.
"What I mean is that, in the end, the dragon's death was quite straightforward. It died as any mortal creature would die. It was powerful and strong, yes, and the firepower required to bring it down was tremendous, but once it was dead... Well, I suppose it surprised me that the elder dragon of death had only a single, brittle grasp on mortality--no different than any other living thing."
He didn't directly say that he'd never thought of the world being thrown off kilter by the cycle's disruption, but clearly the idea was a new (and potentially compelling) one, something he most certainly needed to think about.
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Aurus paused, cocking his head at the questions Charles posed. His hand had been lightly brushing across the surface of a hedge as they passed, but now it was completely forgotten, and for a moment he just blinked at the man. Charles was proposing a possibility that plainly hadn't occurred to him before.
After a moment, he said, "Honestly, I was mostly just surprised that they managed to actually kill one at all. And with relative ease, no less, though I'm sure that the Pact members who brought Zhaitan down would thoroughly dispute that it was easy.
"What I mean is that, in the end, the dragon's death was quite straightforward. It died as any mortal creature would die. It was powerful and strong, yes, and the firepower required to bring it down was tremendous, but once it was dead... Well, I suppose it surprised me that the elder dragon of death had only a single, brittle grasp on mortality--no different than any other living thing."
He didn't directly say that he'd never thought of the world being thrown off kilter by the cycle's disruption, but clearly the idea was a new (and potentially compelling) one, something he most certainly needed to think about.