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The Yoink · Jan 18, 2006, 06:37 AM // 06:37

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Originally Posted by Sol_Vie

Wow that's cool.

I was expecting something more along the lines of "In the year 9999 when killer turkeys rule the world..."

ATHF ftw.

wasn't it chickens?

as for the article, excellent job in digging that stuff up... that's definately more than I ever wanted to know about Tengu

The undead Mesmer · Jan 18, 2006, 06:20 PM // 18:20

Thanks thanks thanks and now shall i find some things out about charr Minotaurs skales or errr Aloe seeds :P

Dahnel · Jan 18, 2006, 10:55 PM // 22:55

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Originally Posted by The undead Mesmer

the ability to speak to humans without moving their mouth

so thats how Anet do their cutscenes

Tur713 · Jan 19, 2006, 09:08 AM // 09:08

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Originally Posted by The undead Mesmer

Thanks thanks thanks and now shall i find some things out about charr Minotaurs skales or errr Aloe seeds :P

I'm guessing you'll have your best chances with the minotaurs or centaurs since they derive from (I believe) Greek mythology.

4thVariety · Jan 19, 2006, 04:45 PM // 16:45

Try Rurik and Russian History, you are in for a surprise about the origins of the story line.

Rurik was the first founder of russia and most likely a viking exile. Later sovereigns traced themselfs back to him to proove the validity of their claims to rule.

none of them made for an undead guy though.

Uncle Penny · Jan 19, 2006, 11:35 PM // 23:35

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Originally Posted by The undead Mesmer

Thanks thanks thanks and now shall i find some things out about charr Minotaurs skales or errr Aloe seeds :P

Just to add something to this, they probably just got Aloe Seeds and all those other annoying plant monsters like the salvaging cactus from the aloe plant, which people use on cuts it seal it up, which is probably why ANet chose them as the annoying healing plant creatures lol

Ichabod The Ranger · Jan 21, 2006, 10:40 PM // 22:40

Well, there is no such mod as avcaraslaying so I believe it would

Also, the avicara are in the tengu family

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Csquirrelrun · Jan 24, 2006, 08:54 AM // 08:54

Unlike The undead mesmer I immediately turned to www.answers.com my favourite place to search something I don't know about. So I tried "Charr"
However it came up with a detailed description of the Charr we all know and love, those that only exist in the virtual world of Guild Wars. So I tried the other possibilities and thought this was kinda funny. I know Undead Mesmer found a description of this but just to drive their point home. Have fun

Arctic Char

Blaster The Warrior · Jan 25, 2006, 12:51 PM // 12:51

hey very nice i finally know were those tengu's come from

i thought they were made up by A-Net's fantasy xD i guess not then.

Cronos Khan · Jan 25, 2006, 01:18 PM // 13:18

A very awesome read! I am so hyped up for Factions now!

Tried looking up Charr, nothing on those guys

Kassad Shrikekiller · Jan 25, 2006, 07:44 PM // 19:44

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Originally Posted by Dictionary.com

char
v. charred, char·ring, chars
v. tr.

1. To burn the surface of; scorch.
2. To reduce to carbon or charcoal by incomplete combustion.

I think this is self-explanatory.

Cronos Khan · Jan 25, 2006, 09:35 PM // 21:35

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Originally Posted by Kassad Shrikekiller

I think this is self-explanatory.

I ment a creature type called Charr...doubt there was ever one that existed.

Joseph the Jester · Jan 29, 2006, 07:14 AM // 07:14

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Originally Posted by heist23

odd....that doesn't explain why they kick so much ass. seriously, tengu are some of the fiercest monsters in GW.

apparently you haven't encountered the Avicara yet. *shudders*

Zegorzalek · Feb 01, 2006, 06:03 PM // 18:03

Nicely done research! Can't say my ele has EVER been kind to OR liked those annoying disrupting birds....heh

Zeg

Warcheif_Jonval · Mar 18, 2006, 02:33 AM // 02:33

From all the time ive spent searching for stuff on Charr, ive come to belive that they are just creations of Anet.

The best monsters they have ever created as well. Much better than their Orcish counterparts in other games

The undead Mesmer · Mar 24, 2006, 05:02 PM // 17:02

Btw tengu are more smarter then they seem sadly whe havent seen Necro tengu henchies yet

ETSubmariner · Apr 04, 2006, 12:42 AM // 00:42

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Originally Posted by Csquirrelrun

However it came up with a detailed description of the Charr we all know and love, those that only exist in the virtual world of Guild Wars. So I tried the other possibilities and thought this was kinda funny. I know Undead Mesmer found a description of this but just to drive their point home. Have fun

Arctic Char

You all need to update your search methods!

Homer (yes, thee Homer) wrote about five harmful demons, and Charr (also known as Charrer and Asbestos) is the name of one of those demons. Sorry to disappoint, but A-Net didn't come up with the Charr name or their normal intentions (artisitic license notwithstanding).

Specifically, Homer wrote: "Potters, if you give me a reward, I will sing for you. Come, then, Athena [goddess of pottery], with hand upraised over the kiln. Let the pots and all the dishes turn out well and be well fired: let them fetch good prices and be sold in plenty in the market. Grant that the potters may get great gain and grant me so to sing to them. But if you turn shameless and make false promises, then I call together the destroyers of kilns, Suntribos and Smaragon and Charr and Sabaktes and Omodamos who can work this craft much mischief. Come all of you and sack the kiln-yard and the buildings: let the whole kiln be shaken up to the potter's loud lament. As a horse's jaw grinds, so let the kiln grind to powder all the pots inside."

Of course, in GW, Charr are all about fire, and burning things and otherwise being harmful, so maybe the real GW story about the Charr is that some poor potter in Ascalon who made the best pots in the land was trying to call upon Dwyana or Lyssa to help him bake some vases, but got the brush off so he called upon the Charr(er) to make Ascalon suffer!

One neat touch was that cut-scene when the Charr were casting spells to bring about the Searing - they were using a big pot to send forth their spell into the sky.

Anyway, that's maybe where A-Net got the idea for Charr.