The Icepath

My what-if version of the Charr Personal storyline "My father was a flame shaman" -------------------------------------------------------------- The Flame took my sire, my brother, and the one I loved. I will allow any shackles get a hold of me. I will gladly give up my allegiance to the High Legions if all they want to do is "wait for a better moment". The Flame must be punished. My "brother" must be punished. And they will be so by my hands. ... With the death of the incompetent Steelbane by my challenge, the Steel warband was no more. I've been appointed as the new Legionnaire and decided to raise a new warband under me. Things started to look like it was going in my favor. Reeva and my brother, Kazi, stood by my side and assisted the best they could with the renovation of our warband. Until the day when my shameful sire, Clement Forktail, escaped from the Flame Legion to tell us the Grim news of the upcoming Ritual that may as well be the end of the High Legions. My warband will go and correct this. Kazi... He betrayed us. And Reeva... the blow to the head may have been too fierce... Rest of us survived. It seems he was keen on leaving us alive, but unfortunately Reeva took the hit a little over the limit.. Ah, Reeva... she taught me how to be more confident, how to tinker, to hunt, to enjoy life, to go out and have a drink together from time to times... and I loved her. No tears came out, yet. A Primus once told me that "A soldier must be able to eat his ration at the end of the day, sitting besides a dead friend." I kept repeating the quote in my head over and over again until a twine of thought slithered across my mind. 'I never even got to tell her that I...' My vision blurred. I've, no, my warband decided that we should go in the front lines against the Flame for a proper retaliation. However, learning from the event, the High Legions were now too nervous to blindly send off a brand new warband into the midst of Flame territory. "What if the rest of them are just like that one who betrayed us? They are too inexperienced and have yet to prove their loyalty, just yet." Despite my efforts, they were unsure if I may make the same choice if I had gotten too close to those treacherous smoked meats. I've immediately threw away my rank and abandoned the Citadel. Throughout my self-exile, I've studied the Bitterfrost and the Icebrood. How they embrace the cold astounded me and if I could harness such power to myself, it would become an ironic end for the Flame. The Flame worships fire and considers it the ultimate power. I will show them how wrong they are and quake their beliefs by defeating them with the polar opposite of their magic. I, Izak Hazardclaw, am now on a Frozen Warpath. The only thing hot enough around me is the fire in my soul, ready to take on my vengeance. I am frozen, like my body, in time. The only way for me to move on is once I see the Flame to fall. ------------------------------------------------------------ Hello! I'm back with another skin. Trying out different angles for screenshots and using more various locations but I dunno, even with different camera angles, so far, it doesn't seem as different. The hardest part of all this, however, was the lore. I opened up Word and started typing the story I had in mind for this skin, and it ended up with a three-page short story... I had to summarize it as much as I could to make it shorter, but now I'm not as satisfied >:( I have some more skins (that I've used in the past that I'm thinking of bringing it back for my entries) with their own lore and I'm afraid they may have the same problem. ------------------------------------------------------------ Apologies in advance to people who would much rather prefer small details in armor or subtle design to blend in with the Guild Wars atmosphere. I just prefer to stand out from the crowd, so I make (most of) my skins to be bulky, shiny, glowing, or just have mixture of vibrant colors that you may have only seen on a Chinese New Year (I'd like to feature that skin eventually, by the way).