Friday, 11 November 2011

What's the story #guildwars ? - Lissah the Packleader

This will be a series of entries on different characters that appear in Guild Wars, that I feel should get some explanation or perhaps a follow up in Guild Wars 2.

My first entry will be about Lissah the Packleader.

In Bjora Marches, deep within Gursteig's cavern roams a pack of wolves, and in their midst is Lissah. What separates her from the others is the fact that she's an elemental with only the vague shape of a wolf. In fact she shares model with the shard wolves.
There is no explanation on why she leads the pack or why she feels a connection to them. Is she a shard wolf that's escaped the Fissure of Woe or is the resemblance to them just coincidence (and a resource saving use of an existing model)?

Is Lissah the failed experiment of a crazed Stone Summit mage that tried to create a pet?

Was she just a wolf that came too close when Svanir called upon the magic of Jormag?

I own a few novels written within the Elf Quest world and one of these tells the tale of magic gone bad. A small puddle of residual magic that through the ages has gone stale, and when a wolf entered it, it turned him into a monster. Did Lissah stumble upon some elementalist corpse that was lost and forgotten in the mountains?

Whatever Lissah is or how she became the packleader, there is a story there and it deserves to be told.

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