I must say that Charr physiognomy baffles me. Theirs catlike features versus their bowane ears and horns. Are they race imagined to be “catpeople” or something similar to taurens? Combination of both or neither? Discuss!
They are described by A-Net as feline like. So, they are ‘cat people’ in a loose sense of the word but they also have other traits like the horns and ears. I read a good example someone came up with, they are “beasts” like beuty and the beast. They just happen to have more feline qualities in their “beastness” rather than any other type of animal.
They are neither, really, but they do have a lot of feline features… and no bovine ones. Seriously, whoever thinks “horns = cow” should at least try and recall some of his biology lessons in school. Would you at least take a look at the different horn options and compare them to real animals? There are “cow horns”, yes, or rather horns that would look like it if there were not four of them, but so are “buffalo horns”, “goat horns”, “stag antlers” etc. Also, when is the last time you saw a cow with predator teeth and claws? So, we have feline features that are shared by every member of the race and one distinct cow feature – the horns and only the horns – that is shared by some members of the race while others have features of other horned animals in its place. So, they could be described at “cat people” if you use the term loosely, just to get the idea across (in the same way humans are “ape people”, so it is a derogative term in any case), but there is really no reason why any sane person would seriously consider the Charr to be “cow people”.
Charr are charr. They aren’t cat-people, cow-people, or anything-people, they’re charr. I could get into a big spiel about biology and expectations and why the charr are best described as charr, but nobody’d care. Just remember: just like how calling the sylvari ‘plant elves’ is only true in the most general, grossly oversimplified sense of the term, calling charr ‘cat people’ is missing the point save in the broadest possible sense.
The original concept behind the charr was to make a replacement for the standard fantasy orcs and hobgoblins that you see in Dungeons & Dragons or Lord of the Rings. The designers settled on demonic cats that worship fire.
This evolved into the charr. At a root concept level, they are demon cats. At a realistic “I’m not overanalyzing anything, I swear!” level, they’re charr.
Go back to WoW if you think of tauren whenever you see anything with horns lol.
Fosthe — Sylvari Elementalist
Men of Science [MoS] – Tarnished Coast
When Arenanet was trying to design an enemy race for Guild Wars 1, they wanted it to be unique. They thought about how being killed and eaten by big cats is a human fear, so they decided they would design a cat race. However, the first charr concepts were just that—cat people. And cat people are too cute. So they thought “What can we do to make this race scary instead of cute?”. That’s when they decided to give the charr huge horns and teeth, and give them a fire-worshipping religion. They became “demons”, “demon-cats”, or “hell-cats”
I must say that Charr physiognomy baffles me. Theirs catlike features versus their bowane ears and horns. Are they race imagined to be “catpeople” or something similar to taurens? Combination of both or neither? Discuss!
I must say that Charr physiognomy baffles me. Theirs catlike features versus their bowane ears and horns. Are they race imagined to be “catpeople” or something similar to taurens? Combination of both or neither? Discuss!
I can sum Charr up thusly:
Look familiar?
I’ve seen that movie before! It’s Norn and the Charr! I’m joking :P, but it makes me wonder though if they got their charr idea from this?
I must say that Charr physiognomy baffles me. Theirs catlike features versus their bowane ears and horns. Are they race imagined to be “catpeople” or something similar to taurens? Combination of both or neither? Discuss!
I can sum Charr up thusly:
Look familiar?
I’ve seen that movie before! It’s Norn and the Charr! I’m joking :P, but it makes me wonder though if they got their charr idea from this?
Given how the only differences are that Charr have an extra set of horns and ears, I say that it is highly likely.
Sadly it seems when people see horns and the hunched over posture the WoW players can think of nothing but bloomin taurans, which is annoying as I don’t see anything aside from possibly the horns that resembles, bovine features and indeed see hell-cat whenever I see charr, which is what they were going for as was stated in the old dev post on how they originaly developed the charr for GW1 then subsequently settled on the design we have for female charr.
ahem
Wrong!
The answer is the cow (it is the only one that is non-fictional, non-sentient, non-misunderstood, and the list goes on).
P.S. Anyone who can properly name the guy in the third picture gets a prize.
If I remember from an old GW1 interview they were summed up “demonic hellish cat beasts who worship fire.” But they thusly beat them up with fabric softener for GW2 and have become more cat-cows than anything else
Not to nerco an oldish thread or anything, but I read this awhile ago and just a few mins ago came across some evidence supporting the fact that Charr are actually feline related.
When running an event, which you have to escort a Dolyak along with some Lionguard in the zone “Snowden Drifts” At some point during the event some enemies appear, and one of the Lionguards say this; (referring to a Charr Lionguard)
Lionguard Blikti: Incoming horde of rabid felines! No offense, Leadsnout.
I can only say: lore-wise, I pity the poor kitten who asks this question of Rytlock Brimstone, Ember Doomforge, or Almora Soulkeeper. I believe that sentient would then “disappear,” and become an invited Guest of Honor at the next Meatoberfest. And those three are the nice Charr – imagine what Gaheron Baelfire’d say …
Malegryne (Sylvari Mesmer), Lannka (Asura Thief) – Ferguson’s Crossing: [PRD/BRB/OMFG]
Other 80s: Any but Warrior
Charrs are Charr-like, what more must you know?
Are humans pig-like, for their soft, smooth bodies? Or are they mule-like, for their stubborness? Or are they, even, catlike, for their curiosity into things that very well will kill them?
No, Humans are Human-like, just as much as Charrs are Charr-like.
Charr are cat related. There is an event in Blazeridge Steppes around Tumok’s Last Stand where Glug the Unwise says how his friend has been “catnapped” by some separatists.
Charr are pretty unique among fantasy beast-men. The remind me a lot of gnolls (d&d) but cat-based instead of hyena-based. They are most like the Beauty and the Beast, beast though, who is lion-like with horns.
Well they are some kind of beautiful cats (as all cats are beautiful, right?). Look what Anet forums are using as a censored word replacement:
“kitten kitten kittening kitten #8221;
