Charr and Rain
The rain simply puts out the flame legion’s fires, thereby hurting the charr’s morale.
Warrior of Seafarer’s Rest EU
It might make their fur mat, but that would only make for more irritated charr.
You do not want irritated charr.
Not trying to sound like a smart***, but in Prophecies it’s simply the Charr. Legions were already mentioned in the GW1 manual i think, but even ingame in Eye of the North they are called the “Shaman Caste” instead of Flame Legion. The rain caused by Stormcaller put out the fire that was threatening what the Searing had left of Rin, thus saving the people who still lived there. The Charr still had to be killed manually afterwards.
[Yak’s Bend]
According to the charr near the remains of Stormcaller in the Black Citadel, the storm also had thunder and lightning. Though who knows if that’s just the charr trying to justify their humiliating defeat or not.
The braziers were more than just morale boosters as Mint says, they’re often enchanted – as you can see more clearly in GW2 by how they act as turrets or can summon embers.
@Frosch: The Shaman caste was a group of shamans in all four legions – the Shaman caste and the Flame Legion are not one in the same. It’s just that during GW1 most shamans were from the Flame Legion (given how the Flame Legion are magic-centric, this should not be a surprise), and in GW2’s time (that is, after the rebellion), shamans are only in the Flame Legion. But in a similar light, in both GW1 and GW2, not all Flame Legion are of the Shaman caste. In fact, I don’t think the Shaman caste exists anymore (though obviously shamans do), as they seem to be referred to as the “Godforged” in GW2.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
According to the charr near the remains of Stormcaller in the Black Citadel, the storm also had thunder and lightning. Though who knows if that’s just the charr trying to justify their humiliating defeat or not.
I think it’s the latter. Our own heroes were there in GW1 and there wasn’t any thunder (apart from the thunderous bellow from Stormcaller when Rurik blew it) or lightning. It was just a short rainy downpour that magically extinguished all the Flame Legion braziers in the city. The charr do seem somewhat panicked after the horn is blown, although it’s debatable whether that was due to seeing their sacred flames being extinguished, a physical impairment caused by the noise from Stormcaller (remembering that Charr are much more sensitive to supersonic and sub-sonic frequency noises than humans are), or just confusion over what was going on is debatable.
I had so far assumed that the Shaman caste was synonym with the Flame Legion, interesting to see how the Charr of today use them to keep the reputation of the other Legions untarnished. I do not think that the other Legions were only followers being led by the shamans, given the warlike character of the Charr. Still, the Flame Legion of today deserves to take the blame – mostly, that is.
[Yak’s Bend]
The members of the other legions who supported the shaman rule were killed when the flame legion lost power. when the flame legion fell, shaman were still useful to the war effort but they were relegated to the bottom rung of the social ladder.
edit; also, it seems the term shaman is synonymous with magic user. each legion had it’s own shamn before they swore allegieance to any ‘gods’.
In the end, the Shaman of the rival legions met in secret, unified their differences, and swore to force each legion to follow these new gods. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Ecology_of_the_Charr
(edited by Dustfinger.9510)