What's the story #guildwars ? - Chinwe, collector and airship inventor

Today we look at Chinwe On top of a high plateau in the Shattered Ravines stands a collector asking for Dusty Insect Carapaces. He needs these to create bellows for his balloon that will take him to the gates of Lion's Arch. All in all a good quest for someone stuck in the Desolation, but he does raise a few questions; First of all, why would a ghost need a balloon to take him so far away? Is it even possible for him to leave this place of his mortal remains? How would the citizens of Lions Arch respond when suddenly one day a ghost piloting a blimp (obscure Portal 2 reference is obscure) floats over their gates? I am sure there are a lot more questions to the current state of Chinwes plans, but there is an even bigger question for me, will he succeed? Guild Wars 2 is 250 years into the future, a length of time that for a ghost will seem like an instant. Will he succeed? Will we see a lone balloon floating high above? And most importantly, will he crash with Rata Sum? Again, Arena Net, I ask that you give this piece of lore the fleshing out it deserves. In fact, I believe Chinwe would be happy for any flesh at all as he is right now.

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.

A blog, a blog, my kingdom for a Twitter feed!

Started my blog earlier today with a post about Google+. But besides that I think this will be a place to expand on my thoughts for the moment, or thoughts I've been grinding over and over at the back of my head.


To be honest, this is not a true addition to the blog, it's more a test to see the RSS feed, and a chance to sort out what I plan on doing with this.


I think I'll add some thoughts on lifes little peculiar conditions.
I am anxiously awaiting Guild Wars 2, so I assume that will show up.
I play a lot of Guild Wars 1, so no surprises if that topic will appear.
Internet might rear it's twisted head.
Some general "Here I am in the forest with my two dogs."
And of course, things that annoy me to no ends...