#Arren Sharpclaw

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How about, rank characters from dexterity to strength as in what they use for combat maybe note a specific trait of dexterity/strength for some characters

I ain't gonna do all characters cuz that's dfhjgjh a lot of 'em to get down to but I'll throw in some that I think deserve a shoutout in that sense but dfjghjh that's gonna be a long one anyway

To no one's surprise, Arengar is extremely physically strong, and being Blood Legion born and raised, yeah he prefers to approach fights with brute force of muscle and magic rather than in any dexterous or stealthy way, and being a heavy-armored, 8 feet tall charr makes trying to be agile or sneaky hard to begin with, him preferring to block hits with aegis and other guardian spells or just straight-up take 'em as opposed to dodging them. All that to say, not that he can't fight with strategy and intelligence put into it, but he certainly prefers just a plain, head-on approach 90% of the time, as for a charr of his particular skillset the alternatives are usually a waste of time

Kaia is yet another meat wall of a charr. She's extremely strong and durable, as expected of a warrior, and is even more hard-headed and straightforward than Arengar is. Being a warrior, she can't really protect her friends with any sorta spells, instead using her own body as a shield, able to take the punishment and give it back to the enemy twice as hard. Additionally, she's a spellbreaker, with her approach to it involving literally throwing whatever magic her enemies tossed at her right back in their face, so a lot of the time getting hit is her battle tactic. Get hit, shrug it off, toss it back and pummel your opponent with a hammer until it's done.

Alistair on the other hand really isn't physically strong nor durable. He's an agile, quick mesmer, who can't really take hits but if he plays his cards right, he doesn't in the first place. Confusing his enemies, teleporting around constantly, staying away from the opponent and cloaking himself with mesmer magic is core of his fighting style, with the way he fights it's almost a dance: graceful, fast and quite deadly.

Now Arren's a perfect combination of the two. He's very short, but stocky, quick and unexpectedly strong. His hits pack a punch but also being a thief he's extremely hard to catch and pin down, which he uses to his advantage.

Now Aela is on the other side where she's surprisingly agile. She's a heavy-armored soldier, and yet she's extremely lean and fast, dashing and teleporting around, delivering quick, deadly strikes, cutting down the enemy before they can even strike back. Her and Arren actually share a very similar fighting style, being trained together in Ash Legion, but both adapted it to suit better their professions, thief and guardian respectively.

Lani's just another massive, bulky brick wall that swings around a hammer that's twice as big as some humans. Not much to say here, he's not known for being good at strategy or... Some would say thinking in general, but he sure can handle himself in a fight, be it an all-out war effort or just another bar brawl.

Zemzus is interesting, because he's your typical run of the mill scholar with athleticism of a wet noodle, but he's also an extremely powerful reaper necromancer. While he's not powerful physically per say, he more than makes up for it with his magic, which allows him to just rely on sheer brute force of it.

#thank you for the ask! #that was actually quite fun to think about jhdfghj #also it's like 6 am so if my writing makes little sense that's why #now for tagging all those cats #Arengar Hopebringer #Kaia Ardentheart #Alistair Shredsteel #Arren Sharpclaw #Aela Sharpblade #Lani Pathmaker #Zemzus

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for the guild wars ask game, 2 for all of your ocs and 21 for the oc you like the most :)

jfgdsjhh thank you for asking I have, a lot of characters, about 25 in game right now so for the 1st one I'll just focus on the ones who have somewhat of a more defined elite spec, important for their character A lot of cats incoming, beware 2. What's their class/elite spec? Weapon of choice? Did they purposely train for it or did it just sort of happen?

Arengar Hopebringer, my main character and Commander is technically a dragonhunter in canon, even though I mostly play him as a firebrand because I just enjoy it more. The dragonhunter is... Pretty obvious as to why, he's the commander, the dragon-killer, that just felt appropriate. Also adds a bit of more of an identity crisis to him once turns out killing dragons is no longer the solution and instead he's gotta work with one.

Arren Sharpclaw is my former, quote on quote 'retired' Commander and a daredevil. He's an expert in hand-to-hand melee combat and makes up what he lacks in magical prowess or size in agility and physical strength, Ash Legion training involves much more than just sneaking around and he shows that.

Alistair Shredsteel is a mirage and currently a pact diplomat, alongside being Arren's best and one of the oldest friends. He's an incredibly talented mesmer, focusing on deception and treats the battlefield like a game a lot of the time, he can't take a hit a lot of the time but sure can avoid it via clones and constant teleportation.

Aela Sharpblade is Arren's former bandmate and currently an Ash Legion centurion. She's a willbender, taking down enemies before the threat can fester with, fast, brutal movements and unwavering determination. Willbender guardian seemed perfect for a dedicated Ash soldier.

Avitus Thunderjaw is an Iron tribune and a Bladesworn. Given Iron legion ingenuity combined with his warrior training, it's not a far stretch for him to use a gunsaber. He's not as much of, a patient warrior waiting for the right moment to strike like bladesworn is in game, but more like... He's a strong, heavy-armored charr with a giant gunblade. Things go boom around him. Guy's been over the moon to get out of his office when Drizzlewood happened and go into the thick of action again.

Teo Sawtooth is Thunderjaw's son. He's inherited his father's... Let's call it passion for violence and exploding things, so combine an Iron Legion engineer prodigy with some warrior training from his dad and an adrenaline-seeking personality and you get... A holosmith with extremely explosive fighting style that likely causes damage to everyone around, friend or foe. There's a reason he's mostly detained to commanding his own airship nowadays. He's always ready to provide his steady supply of explosives whenever Commander's squad needs something blown up though.

Tavlas Sandflare is a young but gifted Flame Legion scourge, who despite his age already climbed quite high up in the ranks of his legion. Does he have an ulterior motive? A thirst for ambition and willingness to do anything to make Flame Legion better in his eyes? Who knows he absolutely does, but one thing is certain: necromancer magic fueled by flame legion fire magic yields some horrifying results. Burning people alive from inside out, creating waves of necrotic flames and using his enemies' own life force to fuel his spells, it's all up his sleeve and nothing is "too dangerous" in his eyes to use in a fight.

Leon Brightglory is another Flame Legion charr and a Firebrand. An older shaman, he's been a part of Gaheron's inner circle for a long time before joining in with Efram. Leon's an interesting case since he's never had much of an ability in his own magic, however learning spells, creating them and studying ancient tomes was his specialty. One of the people responsible for Gaheron's spell to ascend to "godhood", helping Smodur create the searing bomb in Drizzlewood, Leon's done a lot of things he's justified as "for the greater good", yet always managed to stay afloat when waves came crashing down due to being just a sidekick a lot of the time. Most of his magic is fueled by ancient tomes he's been learning all of his life, hence the firebrand specialization. Also because it has fire. A lot of fire. Flame Legion after all.

Tayro's... An interesting case. An Inquest Operative and a Tempest, he uses purified and liquified ley-line magic to overcharge his elementalist abilities and use tempest's overloads. For which he literally has to inject ley-line liquid into his body. Is this a good idea? Likely not. Is he a little off the rails mentally as a result? Absolutely. However he has still not gotten full-on ley-line crazy and no one exactly knows why or how.

Vekell Ivarson is one of the characters I've only gotten to making recently. He's a Son of Svanir Reaper, and an opposite of Tavlas in some ways, instead using Jormag's ice magic to combine with his necromancer abilities and fuel his spells. There isn't too much to it since I haven't gotten to doing anything properly with him yet but. Ice necro that is reaper seems very fitting for him.

21. What song or songs do you associate with them?

I'll just pick Arengar for that one since he's my main but djshfghjg I love associating songs with my characters and creating playlists for them so Saint Mesa - Lion Shayfer James - Battle Cry

Skillet - Finish Line Grandson - Blood//Water That one's a little bit different because I mostly associate it with Bangar and his relationship with Arengar, rather than just Arengar himself. Bangar is Arengar's grandsire (with Arengar's dame being Bangar's cub) and Imperator of his legion, along with being a reason Arengar chose the name Hopebringer for himself, making Bangar manipulate Arengar throughout Icebrood Saga quite efficiently and leaving Arengar with a lot of doubts and anger. "The price of your greed is your son and your daughter What you gonna do when there's blood in the water?"

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #seriously tho fdgjhjhh thanks for asking there's. a lot of rambling #I ain't tagging all the characters #c: Arengar Hopebringer #except for Arengar yes #he deserves it

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🖊 mr Arren Sharpclaw

OKAY sorry this took forever but dfhjghj war crime grandpa 2.0 facts

Arren's actually got that heavy cowboy accent going on, and he was, in fact, born and initally raised into a family of cattle ranchers in Diessa, he's an actual cowboy deep down

He loves whittling, usually when he's got a bit of free time you can find him sitting in a corner somewhere, whittling down a piece of wood with a knife. That also ties into another bit of trivia: Arren's surprisingly good with kids and got a soft spot for 'em, he always unintentionally just, collects children to parent, they love their grumpy murder dad who's surprisingly sweet and patient with them, loving to whittle various little statuettes to give to them as gifts. He's just got that Dad Energy going on

He's also pretty good with animals as well, specifically raptors, as he's got one of his own since Path of Fire, and I think if he wasn't a thief, he'd be a ranger.

#I'm very slow with replies hdjfgjh sorry about that #Arren Sharpclaw

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One 🖊 for Arren and another 🖊 for Silvian!

Thank you for the ask <3

Arren's got acrophobia, a fear of heights, which is probably not great given for the longest time in-game he was my designated jumping puzzle character. He's always uneasy whenever he has to be on airship bridges and tends to stay as far away as he can from the edges. In general airships and Arren don't mix well.

I might've mentioned it before but Silvian's just... Oddly Squishy, specifically his mushroom cap. You can squish and knead it and it'll just pop back in place after a while like a stressball.

Besides that, he's also quite a performer, he loves to make a big entrance, turn the fight into a big show and bow down on an exit, quite literally, as he does have a habit to bow to his opponents after the battle, like a proper gentleman duelist

#Arren Sharpclaw #Silvian Bonnet #I need to do more with Silvian tbh shdjfh I love the funky mushroom

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After 4 years of having him, local war crime cat finally got an update to his outfit

#I swear he's been rocking charr cultural t2 armor since the day I got my hands on it dfgjhhh #and since Arren is technically the first character I've made in this game it's. A long time #but he got a new drip and a specter build to go with it #I love him as a very physical daredevil but also. specter fits so well with his desire to help his allies #watch their backs and keep them safe from the shadows no matter what #also it's not too visible here but he's actually wearing whispers colors now #black gold and red #gw2 #guild wars 2 #charr #c: Arren Sharpclaw

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Charrtober 2020 2: Scar

Which of course had to be Arren with his... Quite mangled face. Though for him those scars symblolise things way worse than just not having a pretty face anymore

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #charr #karol's stuff #charrtober #Arren Sharpclaw #the quality is quite bad cuz the lighting in room was horrible #rip I guess but I don't like this piece enough to bother taking better photos

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Just Arren doing... Thief things

Got those rainbow spellbreaker daggers recently motivated by @commander-pleur, and well, Arren deserves them gay daggers

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #charr #karol's stuff #arren sharpclaw

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Forgot to post this here since it was drawn at 5 am by impulse but why not

Arren and @commander-pleur's Ovidius. Sad Whispers charr. I have no idea how to draw Ovidius' hair still but hey I tried xD

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #charr #karol's stuff #arren sharpclaw #Ovidius is my fav sad Flame dad alright #you know I love him #I know I love him #now the tumblr shall know too shdjhr

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Patrolling the Desert Highlands

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #karol's stuff #charr #arren sharpclaw #yes I am canonically giving Arren griffon as a mount #still need a name for it #but hey

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Oof... That's a mess, but it was fun. I swear at this point Arren could write a guide on how to destroy all your relationships huh. What a hot mess of a charr

Template by @ascalonianpicnic, I liked it a lot Socks :D

#gw2 #charr #karol's stuff #arren sharpclaw

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Tried to edit Arren and my, uh, "new" engineer Ranvar into one pic, it didn't go well (as you can see on one of Ranvar's shoulders), but still, came out better than I expected

And those two... I'd call them mercenary buddies

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #charr #karol's stuff #arren sharpclaw #ranvar blackdust

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"It's too late to run"

Just random Arren stuff, because I got him mursaat boots and wanted to take screenshots

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #charr #karol's stuff #arren sharpclaw

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When the fires, when the fires are consumin' you

And your sacred stars won't be guiding you

I've got blood, I've got blood

Blood on my name

#gw2 #charr #guild wars 2 #Arren Sharpclaw #karol's stuff

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Apparently Ember Bay has an amazing color palette to take screenshots with Arren

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #charr #karol's stuff #arren sharpclaw

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Commander Sharpclaw? Commander Sharpclaw.

Got a second gear set for Arren. Now if I'll deside to beat personal story or HoT again with him, he's gonna look like he actually used to back then :D

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #charr #karol's stuff #arren sharpclaw #yeh I'm in Arren mood today

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" - Arren? You... Changed.

- Me? Well, yea, maybe a bit. Slept well this night. First time in two weeks, huh. What's wrong with me though?

- Nothing, nothing. Just... Wait, for how long have you been wielding a greatsword? And is this a hawk?

- Erm, always, what's with *you* today, Fenrar?

- Nothing, uh, alright then"

A bit of a rant ahead, you've been warned.

Arren's got... A complicated story. He was originally a warrior, and I deleted that one quickly, making him a thief, with who I would pass through most of the core game. Though after I got the expansions thief sort of blanded among other stuff for me, and felt really weak and annoying compared to revenant or mesmer. I disliked it and almost never played him, but couldn't do anything because Arren was my first character and moreover the only one with world completion.

But recently I unlocked all the waypoints on Fenrar, and decided that Arren deserves... Better. I deleted thief and made him a ranger. And if it wasn't one of my best decisions ever. Ranger is easy, ranger is fun, and first time in months I feel like I actually want to play Arren. While it feels bad that I deleted my oldest character, and that deadeye aesthetics suited him really good, soulbeast overall is just so much better for him and for me. So yeah, guess this deadeye mercenary is not really a deadeye anymore. Still a mercenary, though!

Turned out a bit longer than I wanted, and I don't even have enough screenshots to spice up this post with (soulbeast skills are so hard to screen ;-;), but have this, at least. I love how some of the merge soulbeast skills look like matrial arts techniques. It well matches Arren, him being an expert in unarmed combat.

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #charr #karol's stuff #arren sharpclaw #unfortunately i can't put 'read more' on mobile #sorry y'all