The Real Villain?

What Scarlet did was evil but brilliant at the same time. Scarlet’s intellect is something few have ever seen, definitely for a Sylvari. Where does this intellect come from? Maybe this intellect isn’t hers but is it given to her by something powerful that’s pulling the strings behind the curtain. Maybe this entity intended to use Scarlet as a means to awaken Mordremoth.

What follows tries to adress all these questions. FULL CREDITS go to Arlowix.5039, who’s the author of the article below.

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Not Scarlet, not Aerin, not Mordremoth.

And no, I’m not talking about who sabotaged the Zephyrites.

As soon as I faced Aerin in combat, I noticed strong similarities between him and Scarlet:

1) Both are Sylvari

2) Both are engineers, although not at the same level.

Scarlet studied HARD to get to the level of geniality and engineering skills we know of.

Can we say the same about our dear….Trader Aerin? (http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/29mrm5/a_little_background_on_a_certain_saboteur/)

As you can see, before departing with the Zephyrites, Aerin was not in the smallest way either an assassin or someone capable of creating a large and varied quantity of grenades and explosives.

A bell went off with me, and it went of again when I went through Scarlet’s old base in Prosperity.

From the speeches and holorecordings, we apprehend that Scarlet struggles ALOT, initially, to create working steam creatures and portals.

Then, all of a sudden, she “happens” (quote: “I may have created…”) to create an intelligent steam “brain”, as she puts it. A steam brain that will develop more advanced versions of the portals that she couldn’t get to stabilize properly…

Also, when you examine the Steam Minotaur head as an engineer, you discover that it was a very rude and crude version that not even OUR personal character would have made. (IMAGE: http://i.imgur.com/352zKqC.jpg )

In my eyes, it is implied that, before Ceara started to become Scarlet, she was a very intelligent sylvari but not as intelligent and genius to do what she did.

Anyway, this made me think about what Scarlet said in the holorecordings we examined in the Dead End’s tavern.

Let me report one particular sentence for you…

“Ever since I came out of Omadd’s machine, you’ve been taking credit for my ideas. They are mine! Not yours.”

I was very much convinced that the entity behind Scarlet and Aerin is Mordremoth. This would make a lot of sense (with the madness of both Aerin and Scarlet, and even the fact that the main monsters we fight off, while battling with Aerin, are in fact jungle tendrils and overgrown husks which are, in my opinion, Mordremoth’s minions) and its been my ongoing theory since a year. (I held many discussions about Mordremoth and Sylvari being linked, even when it wasn’t acknowledged by anyone, not even by Konig. But to this day it seems I was right).

The fact that gets me thinking is that it is implied that what these two characters have been capable of doing and achieveing is not their work….and that has always been crystal clear.

But does Mordremoth’s corruption, besides causing split personalities and general madness, also increase one’s engineering and intellective capabilities (in Aerin’s case from 0 to at least decent).

The question is: is it Mordremoth itself infusing his minions with superior intelligence when he corrupts them (which I dont think is the case) or is it someone else working with and on these individuals? Someone who is either linked with Mordremoth or gains something by awakening him.

My new theory is that some other entity, be it a Mursaat or something/someone we haven’t yet heard of (hell, maybe it is even Mr E), is setting things in motion and pulling the strings behind all of this. Someone, or something, capable of partially controlling people and enhancing them. We have been told that it was Scarlet’s grand plan to re-awaken Mordremoth.

I think it is someone’s else grand plan to reawaken Mordremoth to achieve something else – be it destruction or something we will be introduced later.