TheBuragi.5867

Yeah, I don't like this retcon very much. All these years we were specifically told DSD has tentacled horrors made out of water. Hope Living Story tackles this retcon and actually redeems it.

Those are already corrupted by Void, which seems to like to corrupt dragons, including Saltsprays.

It's still odd retcon though. Soo Won has been asleep for millenia like the others, then she wakes up, then after a while she leaves, but the deep ocean horrors start appearing only after she leaves?? How could she protect the depths when asleep??

It's a small Leviathan skeleton and the plaque says that these and other monstrosities started appearing in the ocean depths after Soo Won came to protect Cantha (or go live in the reactor, I am not sure, but basically after she left the depths of the ocean).

I just remembered that the devs brought up the tentacled horrors again fairly recently after Primordus' and Jormag's deaths, during Dragon Bash some norn brings it up in a conversation. Which makes their absence and the benevolence of Soo Won even more odd, given at that time they were already working on the expansion.

IIRC, the original plot idea for GW2 was angels and demons duking it out on Tyria, so demons are very much possible and it would be interesting to see.

That's actually what ANet is probably doing. In Joon's mansion there's a plaque in front of a small Leviathan skeleton that claims that deep aquatic horrors have started appearing since Soo Won became the guardian of Cantha. Still, such a retcon leaves a bitter taste, especially for those of us who were excited to see DSD as a Lovecraftian monstrosity spawning evil dragon.

The story itself wasn't bad, but I am pretty salty they basically retconned the whole "big tentacled horrors made out of water". Even during the fight with her, they could've had Soo Won create water minions, instead it was just reskins of the other 5 dragon's minions.