Over at Dragon Season they posted a great article for all you players wanting to read up on the dragons.
If you haven't got a chance to check the places in GW1 and a current player I suggest go and see these places in the game. Its fabulous how players find and notices such details that the ArenaNet developers had put into the game.
We at Guild Wars 2 Stratics want to thank Dragon Season for posting such a great and insightful article.
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In the year 2011, on the 83rd day of the Season of Colossus according to the Mouvelian Calendar, a seminal article was published on our site, regarding the Elder Dragons of Tyria. The Dragon Season Scholars and Academics, however, never rest. As a result of their tireless efforts and following a scrutinous study of recently discovered manuscripts, we present today as an appendix of the aforementioned articles, these here below tables.
Name Primordus (aka Elder Fire Dragon)
Awakening 1120 AE
Location Depths of Tyria, near the Central Transfer Chamber – “remains uderground”
Creatures affected Asura , Skritt
General(s) Great Destroyer† , Destroyer of Life†
Name Jormag (aka Elder Ice Dragon)
Awakening 1165 AE
Location North Shiverpeaks Mountains – “created inland seas”
Creatures affected Norn , Kodan
General(s)“Drakkar” , Nornbear† , Dragonspawn†
Name Zhaitan (aka Elder Undead Dragon)
Awakening1219 AE
Location Orr peninsula, raising the sunken city of Arah
Creatures affected undead denizens of Orr, citizens of Arah, corsairs from the “Rings of Fire… to Lion’s Arch… across the Strait of Malchor” – blocks access to Cantha
General(s) Tequatl the Sunless , Morgus Lethe†
Name‘ Deep Sea Dragon’ (informal, aka ‘Bubbles’)
Awakening1270 AE (approx.)
Locationunder The Unending Ocean – in the triagle formed by Tyria-Cantha-Elona, surrounding The Battle Isles
Creatures affected Krait , Quaggan – blocks access to Elona
General(s)???
Name Kralkatorrik (aka Elder Crystal Dragon)
Awakening1320 AE
Locationin the lake separating Grothmar Wardowns from Dalada Uplands, in the Charr Homelands; “then flew south… creating Dragonbrand… landed in the vicinity of the Tomb of the Primeval Kings” (Crystal Desert)Creatures affectedevery plant and animal in its path – blocks access to Elona
General(s) Glint† , The Shatterer
The study of these documents brought to light yet another find, perhaps even more amazing than the information in the texts themselves: proof that some of the Elder Dragons had been sleeping in plain view for anyone to see, even since the old years! This truly rich photographic material is presented here for the first time. Enjoy!
Primordus
Dragon-themed decoration inside the Central Transfer Chamber
The main Asura Gate inside the Central Transfer Chamber, with Dragon adornments on each side
Primordus himself, petrified inside one of the caverns surrounding the Central Transfer Area
'Drakkar'
So called 'Drakkar', frozen at the bottom of the lake of the same name
Location of the frozen 'Drakkar' (outline) marked on the area map
'Drakkar' 's length: the observer is standing at the end of its tail and the head resides out where the green flag is...
'Drakkar' 's head (profile)
'Drakkar' 's head (en face)
'Drakkar' : head and upper part of body
Kralkatorrik
Kralkatorrik as seen from Grothmar Wardowns
Kralkatorrik inside the lake separating Grothmar Wardowns and Dalada Uplands
As seen from Dalada Uplands
It is obvious why he had been mistaken for a rocky island in the middle of the lake for so many years
His head and tail disappear into the ground and the thick foliage
Map depicting the location () of the Dragons' awakening and the location (
) where (it is thought) they reside now (1325 ΑΕ). In the case of these two locations being one and the same (i.e. for Zhaitan and Primordus) the symbol (
) is used instead.
Map of Tyria and part of Elona - locations of the Elder Dragons
Note that:
- ‘Bubbles’ is not shown on map as it whereabouts are not, yet, known for a fact
- the dragon one can see frozen at the bottom of Lake Drakkan is not Jormag but one of his generals who, due to the location he was found, has been called “Drakkar” (it is unknown, however, if that is his/her real name, as well as its current whereabouts). Proof to this fact is also his size which, as is evident by the photographs, is much lesser than that of the other known Elder Dragons. As an indication we submit a picture of the notorious "Tooth of the Serpent", Jormag's tooth on display in Hoelbrak: compare it with the towering height of the Norn around it, to draw a picture in your minds of the scale and size of Jormag!
- Nevertheless, Jormag could not have been resting much further from this location since, as one can tell by the area’s present day morphology, the extent of destruction can have been brought about only by the awakening of a really enormous being – much larger than “Drakkar” obviously. Furthermore, in the texts it is mentioned that (Jormag’s) awakening “created inland seas”.
- Primordus was resting very close to the Central Transfer Chamber where the Asura built their network’s main Gate. In fact, it was the very Dragon’s energy that made this place ideal for their purpose! Alas, no one know that the ‘stone statue’ that adorned one of the nearby caverns was, in fact, but a tiny part of this colossal monster’s body. Until it was too late…
