Guild Wars 2

I’ve never played GW1, just seen a few gameplay videos of it. On the GW1 wiki, it says they worshipped the flame, which they don’t worship in GW2, unless you’re talking about the Flame Legion. So were the Charrs in GW1 the flame legion?

Some of them were Flame Legion, like the shaman bosses from the Burnt warband, but there were charr belonging to the other Legions as well. Back then all charr followed the Flame Legion’s teachings and worshiped the titans regardless of their personal Legion. It was only after the destruction of their titan gods by ‘mere humans’ that vocal minorities within the other Legions began to openly rebel against the religious dominance of the Flame Legion.

The Ecology of the Charr (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ecology_of_the_Charr) goes in to a lot more detail about how things changed between then and now. The end result was that Blood, Ash, and Iron rejected Flame and their teachings in its entirety.

Some were Flame, others were the other legions. But since the Flame Legion was in control and forced the others to obey their rules or get killed, we can blame the Flame Legion for all the fights in GW1.

Guild Wars 1 charr were from all the legions—Blood, Ash, Iron, and Flame. However, Flame was the most powerful, and the other three legions were subservient to the will of the Flame Shamans.
Originally, the Flame Shamans worshipped the minions on an evil god—the Titans—and used this religion to maintain control over the rest of the charr. However, the players in Guild Wars 1 defeated the Titans. After this defeat, the Flame Shamans started worshipping the Destroyers—dragon minions—to try and hold their religion together, so they could stay in power.
However, the defeat of the Titans made a charr named Pyre Fierceshot realize that the Shamans had been lying—that the religion was a lie to keep the charr enslaved. He started a rebellion among Blood, Ash, and Iron legion—which was continued by his granddaughter Kalla. What Pyre started, Kalla finished—freeing those three legions from Flame.

You’ll also see Ash Fiends etc. which I figure aren’t Flame Legion in GW1. They’re split by profession – those ones are necromancers for example – but generally the societal structure is different in GW1, with the shaman caste ruling, placing less emphasis on the individual legions.

As a side-note, it’s probable the charr scout in pre-Searing, Vatlaaw Doomtooth, was Blood Legion. Most of the invasion force in Kryta, including its commander, were Ash – they got wiped out by the White Mantle.

As described in the ecology, the Flame Legion ruled the other legions. The ones in charge of the other Legions were the shaman of those Legions. And the shaman of the other Legions answered to the Flame Legion. Though, they were still seperate Legions.