The Dead Ships assaulted Lion's Arch in 1256 AE, which ultimately failed with the deaths of Whiting and the Risen leviathan known as the Maw due to Cobiah Marriner and the asura Macha's interference. Īfterwards, the Elder Dragon sent Captain Whiting on the Indomitable to lead his Risen forces to decimate the most populated ports along the Sea of Sorrows, starting with Port Stalwart in 1229 AE. When the tengu reached land, they built the Dominion of Winds atop the island once known as Sanctum Cay to defend against Zhaitan's minions, and unified their clans into the four modern houses, one for each of the winds. It was a descendant of Talon Silverwing that led the charge through Risen forces while the clans set their differences aside to survive through the calamity. The tengu of the world saw the Great Tsunami as a sign to return to Tyria. The black-sailed ships swept across the Strait of Malchor towards the Ring of Fire and the southern Sea of Sorrows, blocking sea access to Cantha and Elona, and beginning an age of isolation for Tyria. Corsairs who took refuge docked in the shattered peninsula were wiped out, and in its place there came an undead navy of Dead Ships, manned by the Risen servants of Zhaitan. The Great Tsunami drowned thousands, sank hundreds of ships, flooded Lion's Arch and the Battle Isles, and dramatically reshaped the coastline of the Sea of Sorrows, including Dajkah where the Olmakhan town of Atholma was destroyed, and drowned most of Kaineng City and parts of Shing Jea Island beneath the waves. Cobiah Marriner had witnessed the rising of Orr, seeing thousands of swarming Risen on the rising lands over a tidal wave later called the Great Tsunami. In 1219 AE, Zhaitan awoke and brought the lost nation of Orr, which had previously been destroyed by the Cataclysm, to the surface. When the gods revoked the gift of magic back into the Bloodstone to split it into the familiar four schools in 1 BE, they tapped into the dormant Elder Dragon's energy and increased the power of magic in doing so, not knowing of Zhaitan's existence. Some time during this dragonrise, the mursaat and the Forgotten joined forces and assaulted Zhaitan, only to fail miserably as the Elder Dragon proved to be too powerful an adversary for them to defeat without the assistance of other races of the time.įor more than a millennium, Zhaitan rested beneath the land that would become the Kingdom of Orr once humanity, which the Six Human Gods had brought to Tyria, had populated it.
Like the other Elder Dragons, Zhaitan is thought to have last awakened 10,000 years ago, around the time of the disappearance of the Giganticus Lupicus, and then fallen back into slumber from consuming all the world's available magic.
Initially mindless like the others, Zhaitan eventually developed its own personality and fascinations, particularly in death, and left Soo-Won for the world, becoming hostile to its siblings and mother. Zhaitan was born as the scion of the Elder Dragon Soo-Won, at Mother's Lament. Spoiler alert: The hidden text contains spoilers relating to Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons.
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