Guild Wars 2

I am playing through a char for the first time ( I know shame on me, im way too late) and came across the storyline ‘Iron Grip of the Legion’. This storyline is part of the ash-legion line. Here you meet Samona Ironclaw who is a member of the iron legion. At the end she decides to join your warband.

Am I right that this means she is now part of the ash-legion as well??
Wouldn’t that make the iron-legion call her a traitor then?
How loyal to his legion and how much cross legion recruiting is tolerated (beside the flamelegion who aren’t friendly with anyone so recruit whatever they feel like )?

Expectations probably differ heavily depending on the specifics. Clement Forktail, for example, was recruited from one of the three Legions to the Flame Legion, and that’s treated as normally being the sort of crime that earns a life sentence in jail as a traitor. Several of the other recruitable Charr come with their Legionaire, Centurion, or even Tribune’s blessing, and that’s presumably more acceptable, as are the ‘adoption’ of gladium or other lost causes.

Samona’s practically kicked out of the Iron Legion at the end of that quest — demoted to kitchen duty indefinitely, and she was already on scrapper duty. It’s not quite equivalent to becoming a true gladium, but it’s low enough on the totem pole that she didn’t have many options for real combat duty except through the Charr Player Character’s warband offer.

Charr can only be part of one warband at a time, and warbands can only follow one Legion, however. That’s not just a philosophical difference, but a command matter. Being recruited into an Ash Legion warband doesn’t just add Ash Legion to your list of titles: one might still remember one’s previous bandmates fondly (or not), but only the new Legion and warband have command authority.

I believe my Iron Legion charr recruited a Blood Legion soldier to my warband, and in all honesty I believe it was with her tribune’s blessing. I would say most likely, in incidents like this, you are under the command of the legion of your leader, but you most likely still listen to the commands of your superiors back in your legion as well.

Yes, she changed legions. No, she’s not a traitor – changing legions is a rare but accepted practice so long as you’re not joining the Flame Legion, though you always need acceptance from your superior Tribune officer – in the these cases, it’d be Rytlock, Torga, and Bhuer.

Charr loyalties typically lie in this order from greatest to least: Warbands→Legion→family/race→others

As said, cross-legion recruitment is very rare, and from my understanding usually frowned upon unless two things: 1) a gladium is wanted by a warband (which is almost always the case in the personal story) and even then it’s unlikely to occur (like said, need permission of a Tribune, and in the PCs’ cases, Rytlock either lets it go or calls in favors in most cases); 2) the individual’s behavior/personality/fighting style does not fit their legion (e.g., an Ash Legion soldier who goes charging head first into battle may get transferred by a Tribune to the Blood Legion, regardless of warband size).