Guild Wars 2

This character was a simple AI in another “Run through this” mission, but lorewise she was a great character.

If I remember right, Shiro Tagachi assassinated the emperor and many others at a festival. It is unknown why other then power. While in the middle of Usurping his throne, this little assassin in training shadowsteps behind the Emperor’s Throne, stabbing him in the shoulder.

Vizu was killed by Shiro, but he in the progress of murdering her, reinforcements cut him right down the middle with his own swords.

Vizu sacrificed herself to protect the Emperor’s legacy and empire from evil. Her spirit was made Lore on why spirits come back in this unclear to me around the time Shiro started corrupting souls and bodies of the dead.

If Vizu was strong enough to single handedly injure the most important enemy in a GW1 Campaign, and resist his temptation as a “Spirit Corruptor,” she should be an ally to us.

This would not be a straight up GW 1 reference. Most GW1 players when asked “Who killed Shiro Tagachi originally” would answer the “Kurzick and Luxon leaders” if anything at all. Many do not know the effort Vizu made.

However, this would bring Nostalgia back from the Gw1 era, and I would LOVE to see something back from that era. Factions was mine and many others people’s favorite campaign.

TL;DR: Vizu was the unrecognized Assassin which killed Shiro Tagachi in his mortal life. Shiro was the main priority who you would have to “Kill” again in a major expansion, Factions. Vizu sacrificed herself yet the majority of players do not know her contribution. This could be Nostalgia for GW1 players who remember yet not require GW2 players to play the first one to understand what’s happening, as many GW1 players don’t know her as more then an AI they did 3-4 missions with.

It isn’t unknown why Shiro did it – He was influenced by a Fortune Teller who turned out to be a demon under the service of Abaddon. Vizu was killed by the Jade Wind blast that Shiro unleashed as he died.

She did not do this single handedly, her actions allowed two prominent Kurzick and Luxon figures to finish off Shiro. Shiro also is by no means the most impotant enemy in a GW1 campaign, IF you really had to pick someone it would be Abaddon…

Any players who paid attention to the story of Factions will absolutely know who she is..

Is this a request to have Vizu appear in Guild Wars 2?

That is certainly possible… if we go to Cantha. It’d make no sense to have her appear in the game as we currently know it, since her spirit was housed in Tahnnakai Temple.

Wing Leigh.3795:

If I remember right, Shiro Tagachi assassinated the emperor and many others at a festival. It is unknown why other then power. While in the middle of Usurping his throne, this little assassin in training shadowsteps behind the Emperor’s Throne, stabbing him in the shoulder.

He did it because he was told the Emperor was going to kill him by a fortune teller who had been right previously. This was just a ploy though, as she was an agent of Abaddon who was trying to cause havoc on the world. Shiro slowly went mad with paranoia (more or less – this isn’t explicitly stated, the paranoia part, but we can see in Factions with a flashback cinematic that the Fortune Teller’s words were causing serious problems for Shiro’s psyche), delved into dark arts (presumably because of his paranoia), and decided to assassinate the emperor, absorbing the power that Dwayna had granted the emperor in the process.

The thought that Shiro did it for power and the throne is speculation from an in-universe part before knowledge of Abaddon.

Wing Leigh.3795:

Vizu was killed by Shiro, but he in the progress of murdering her, reinforcements cut him right down the middle with his own swords.

Nope. Vizu crippled Shiro then got struck herself, during which Shiro was cut down. Vizu was then able to shadowstep away from the initial Jade Wind blast but eventually got caught by it on the Jade Sea’s coast. She was one of the last to die from the Jade Wind, and the last from the Harvest Temple.

Wing Leigh.3795:

Her spirit was made Lore on why spirits come back in this unclear to me around the time Shiro started corrupting souls and bodies of the dead.

A few years after the Jade Wind, Vizu’s body was found and ritualists pulled her soul from the Underworld to have her “live” in Tahnnakai Temple, where she was at least until Factions.

Wing Leigh.3795:

If Vizu was strong enough to single handedly injure the most important enemy in a GW1 Campaign, and resist his temptation as a “Spirit Corruptor,” she should be an ally to us.

This would not be a straight up GW 1 reference. Most GW1 players when asked “Who killed Shiro Tagachi originally” would answer the “Kurzick and Luxon leaders” if anything at all. Many do not know the effort Vizu made.

Vizu is celebrated by the Canthan empire as the hero who slew Shiro – just as the Kurzicks celebrate Saint Viktor as the one, and Luxons celebrate Archemorus as the one, even though all three killed him. She was not forgotten.

However, bring her back in GW2? Maybe if we go to Cantha. But the spirits in Tahnnakai Temple get replaced over time, just as Togo replaced Kolai.

Wing Leigh.3795:

as many GW1 players don’t know her as more then an AI they did 3-4 missions with.

That’s their fault for not watching cinematics or reading primary quest dialogues, since her story of her contribution was told directly to players there in the primary story of the game, point blank even, at the end of the mission she was introduced with – and at the end of the mission prior.

BTW, this link may interest you for the lore facts behind the events of the Jade Wind: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/An_Empire_Divided

Relevant:

This is basically what we’re talking about.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Relevant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcFEe2odAuo

This is basically what we’re talking about.

Oh thank you for this, I remember the first time I seen this. The anticipation!! Still gives me goosebumps haha