The Entangled Alchemy

The exciting end of S02E02 Entanglement sure got the community buzzing. What does it all mean? The small orbs are confirmed to represent the Elder Dragons but which orb represents which dragon? And how is the Pale Tree linked to this center of Tyria? Is it the force of balance behind it?

What follows tries to adress all these questions. FULL CREDITS go to maidenswhisper.net, who’s the author of the article below.

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Let’s take a look at “Entanglement”, Episode 2 of Living Story Season 2. Warning, there most likely will be spoilers, even though I won’t go into as much detail with the story as I have in the last episode and take a closer look at the things we were only hinted at.

The Eternal Alchemy

So… yeah, at first we float through space and whispers, finally seeing the icon for the Pale Tree and falling through it we see the Eternal Alchemy – or that’s what we believe. Here’s the picture series to freshen the mind:

So … wow. What does it mean? Well the speculations started to run wild. What I say now is a thesis/speculation that makes most sense to me, but you will find plenty of others out there!

We know for a fact the orbs represent dragons. This is stated in the Episode 2 summary in the Journal. That said, their lighting up is most likely linked to their awakening. Let’s see in what order they light up…

If we are to match their lighting and the dragons, the most logical explanation is:

Primo, Bubbles, Jormag, Zhaitan, Krally, Mordy

This leaves us with the issue that the darker green is Zhaitan and the lighter one is Mordy. Many speculate that these are reversed. Either way, what we see colliding into the center is 4 – the green one. While my first thought was that this is Mordy (in the thought that 4 is Mordy) corrupting the center/Tyria itself like crazy, I now believe that’s not the case, and this is meant to confuse us. I think that the collision of 4 into the center is in fact Zhaitan’s Death. Scarlet saw this just like we did, and she saw that this destroys the whole balance of forces. It’s an “insurmountable challenge” as she says in the blog-post “What Scarlet Saw”. We can either die by dragons – or by their magic tearing Tyria apart once we defeated them all. Her bloody and probably flawed solution was to empower the dragon opposing Zhaitan – Mordy, so he would eat the excess magic Zhaitan’s Death pumped into the leylines. This could also be the explanation why Tequatl got stronger – excess magic. Lastly, it would fit with what Scarlet said too about how she now knows how to play these forces against each other.

If that is really the case, we do have a problem. We can’t kill dragons – we can’t live with them. If it’s true, we have to dig into the background of bloodstones soon, using them to sponge up the dragons excess magic after we kill them, maybe? And how is the Pale Tree linked to this center of Tyria? Is it the force of balance behind it? If so, why does it appear the Tree is encouraging to fight dragons? Questions over questions, and we can only hope time will tell the answers.