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This is a good opportunity for me to remake my GW2 D&D character... in game. Faust Everburn, a guardian (paladin) that disapproved of the way Flame was being run, and opted to stay out of the spotlight after Gaheron was (thankfully) killed. Now with this truce coming to fruition, he's stepping back in to start securing his future to make sure his Legion does it right this time. As for my actual, current in-game characters... Katra Wavestrike, an elementalist that attempts to specialize in water despite her natural inclination to fire, daughter of an escaped female and a flame legion shaman, finds their sudden involvement suspicious... but she's also hopeful, and willing to work with them because she is interested in her heritage, despite everything else. Thinking about remaking her and name-changing her to reflect this, if she chooses to immerse herself in her birth culture. Valicca the Dreamweaver, an olmakhan (in the making, going to be name changing my ranger at some point) lifebender is wary at best and distrustful at worst. Her people left the High Legions for a very good reason, and she decided to join the Pact after the Commander saved their home, so she wants to give them the benefit of the doubt... but you won't see her openly helping them. Ever. Karvax Hollowhaunt is a gladium who runs with a bunch of other misfits that he's adopted, but he is former Blood Legion and is suspicious of the idea. However, if he can make nice with the humans in his new "warband", coming to value and respect them, then he should give the Flame Legion the benefit of the doubt and the chance to repent. Right?

That's not the full story, though. It's not like they just pulled back and twiddled their thumbs for a millennia. During their 1000-year civil warring, the charr were constantly being pushed back further and further away from Ascalon and the humans were building settlements into charr territory even further north from the wall they took 900 years to build to keep the charr out. If nothing else, because of the continued pushing for territory that humanity was taking from the charr, it's only natural that a brutish, warring race like theirs would hold a continued grudge because of constant strife and would eventually fight back. At this point in time, the charr are finally beginning to grow as a race as move out of their "primitive" ways, as seen by the fact that the Iron Legion is attempting to revitalize the land that a couple centuries ago the Flame Legion left burnt to a crisp. It's a deep seated hatred from both sides, and both are at fault for various reasons. Not so cut and dry as you're trying to paint it as. Edit: And I don't feel like they're painting them as the victims. That's not how it felt to me when I was playing through Bound by Blood, even as a primarily charr player myself. Maybe Bangar was trying to drum up sympathy, but it was coming from a place of hatred and possibly fear and he was doing things any warmonger does. There's a reason there are still both separatists and renegades, and a history that's full of war for well over a thousand years means that the animosity is going to run very strong for a few centuries yet. Stories of war crimes would circulate on both sides, but there are charr who are actively trying to strive for peace now.