Glint, Friend Or Villain in Dragon's Clothing?

[Kyolin]

Maybe we didn't actually fight Glint herself there. Maybe we only met a smaller 'copy' of Glint. If she's powerful, she might be able to create duplicates of herself for her protection, which would be smaller, weaker, but still powerful enough to create an illusion of the real thing.

If I were a dragon, and had a group of heroes coming to see me, I wouldn't need to be able to see the future to tell that they may decide to kill me. Humans are a very violent species, and have been humting dragons for years, just because I'm going to help them, doesn't mean one of them won't try something. So if I could create duplicates of myself, I'd create one to talk to the heroes, and if they attack the duplicate, at least I'm alive, if not, well, I get someone to talk to for however long the duplicate lasts before the magic that created him wears off.

Of course, that's just what I would do, and there is no evidence that Glint can create duplicates like that.

[Fira]

Lol really, if it wasn't for the fact that killing Glint was a bonus, would you really want to mess with the lvl 30 dragon mother and her eggs?

Of course, we all have our own answers to that question, as we all are different people.

However think about it, if you were your charactor and you got sucked into a little grain of sand, fight past lvls and lvls full of things that want to kill you...

now you're facing a giant talking dragon who's telling you your destiny. Hm...

Again, there is no evidence that Glint can create duplicates of herself, so I won't get into it.

Lastly, does anyone have any comments on the fact that her eggs look crystaline? It was said that she made her home inside a single grain of sand, not that she was partly made of sand or anything like that, so I'd like to propose that she covers her eggs magically with some sort of extra casing that basically puts them in suspended animation, so that her little cave won't be filled with huge numbers of little dragons running around and eating whatever it is she eats (which is...?).

Yeah, I was thinking about that too...I actually would not have thought of them as her "eggs" if it wasn't for the fact that it says eggs.

My theory: Her eggs are crystaline because they have been "sealed" by the Gods. As Glint was the first that the Gods created (as far as we know at least), you would think there will be alot of mini-Glints running around (expecially with the way the she protects her eggs). Perhaps the Gods dislike how powerful Glint is, and to decide to end her race this way...so her children would never hatch.

[Quintus Antonius]

My theory: Her eggs are crystaline because they have been "sealed" by the Gods. As Glint was the first that the Gods created (as far as we know at least), you would think there will be alot of mini-Glints running around (expecially with the way the she protects her eggs). Perhaps the Gods dislike how powerful Glint is, and to decide to end her race this way...so her children would never hatch.

If that is true, then it would support my theory that Glint is imprisioned, rather than in the grain of sand by choice, and the Forgotten are indeed wardens of Glint's prison rather than guardians of Glint's home.

The jury is still very much out on that particular theory though, but the crystalline egg thing is a very interesting piece of evidence. Still, I think there is an alternate explanation.

Glint appears to be attuned to crystalline structures and motifs. Look at her moves for instance, they more or less all make references to crystals. It may simply be that dragons, in the context of Guild Wars, are represented by crystals.

[Kalidri]

Maybe we didn't actually fight Glint herself there. Maybe we only met a smaller 'copy' of Glint. If she's powerful, she might be able to create duplicates of herself for her protection, which would be smaller, weaker, but still powerful enough to create an illusion of the real thing..

Actually you have good evidence that she can do whatever she wants. You fight all the facets, which are representations of herself. If Glint is some sort of spirit being or so very powerful, the physical being you fight (or chat with) at the end is merely her physical manifestation. So I don't think you really kill her either.

Also I wonder if the whole thing is inside a grain of sand...then is it a vision or a dream? After all we are warping dimensions here. I kind of wonder if the whole thing is real at all and Glint is just having a little mind game of it and you never touch anything. She is a dragon after all...and dragons are good at protecting themselves if they are up to snuff. Anyhow I hope they do more with old Glint...I am on the fence as to her good/evil nature.

[Quintus Antonius]

Okay, but here's a question: Why is Glint broken into facets? It's almost as if they seperated her from her power by spliting the powers into individual "entities". Imagine how powerful Glint would be if her facets were merged with her being.

[Gmr Leon]

Maybe it was similar to the case with the bloodstones? I mean with all that power in one being I wouldn't be surprised if Glint was corrupt and evil.

Is it possible she came close to killing the gods and so they split her into different facets to balance out the power?

[Quintus Antonius]

I agree with the basic premise of what you just said, although I can't speculate on the gods reasons. It may be something completely off the wall, like Glint is actually a type of Titan.

[teh Monkeys]

I doubt the facets are like the bloodstones, I think they're more like a defense mechanism, if Glint is indeed imprisoned. (Which I actually doubt, since she can just create a portal inside her own lair, why doesn't she just escape?) Or just what the game actually tells us; the facets are a way to test whether we are worthy of meeting with Glint or not.

[Quintus Antonius]

Imprisioned or not, Glint is certainly egotistical.

[Kyolin]

The whole test part would match up with an ancient culture's form of getting to so mush as look at the Prophet/Seer/Shamen/ect, so I don't think the whole test of whether or not you're worthy is entirely out of ego.

But then... she is a Dragon, and they are known to be prideful and dignified. If you are this great big Dragon, what would YOU see a race of warmonger apes as? I'd see them as primitive creatures who haven't yet learnt to live with their OWN species, let alone the many other species in Tyria. So what you might see as arragance might just be typical Dragon pride.

Kuunavang also showed that pride. She could have just told the players to sod off and it'd be perfectly within her rights to do so. If it were ego, she WOULD have likely done just that, instead, she made the fight against Shiro slightly easier.

But, some people out there will find a way to counter this and on goes the debate. (Probably didn't help that I didn't word it how I wanted. I KNOW what I want to say, but I can't find the right words for it.)