Guild Wars 2

Seishiro.7468:

Aaron Ansari.1604:

I am curious, though- why do you think Smodur doesn’t have a warband? Is it just because he uses a title instead of a surname, or have you seen something I haven’t?

Yeah, it kind of is about the title. You sometimes find Charr in the world that only use a titel, but all of those appear to have no warband, for example “>nameihaveforgotten< the immortal” in Orr, is a charr without a warband that earned his titel that way(well in his case it was kind of a mocking titel, because he seemed to survive everything and other charr started to belive he would run away whenever there is danger).
Of course I might be wrong about this, but I can’t think of any charr that still has a warband and doesn’t use the warbandname, some don’t have a warband anymore but still carry on with their name, but not the other way round.
I mean you can see how important the warband structure is to the charr by their memorial place where only warband names are, and since you see some charr that still have a warbandname AND a titel, it would make no sense for Smodur to be only called “the unflinching” if he still had a warband(I don’t think there is any cannon about it, but Smodur also has only one eye, maybe he was the only one in his warband that survived something? There are even rumors about him pulling it out himself, but those are only rumors I belive)

I can give you two counterexamples:
1. Howl the Brazen. At the start of the game, he’s either the legionnaire or second-in-command of the player character’s warband (depending on legion).
2. Sicaea the Shrouded. Current member of Ash Tribune Torga Desertgrave’s warband.

This is kind of a tricky subject, because most charr don’t outright state their warband; generally, we have to make an educated guess based on who they’re stationed with. Usually, that amounts to “who’s nearby that shares part of their surname?” – which, of course, automatically excludes “titled” charr from consideration.

Regarding Smodur—yes, we don’t know any members (past or present) of his warband. We also don’t know who’s in the Stone warband (Rytlock’s) or the Gore warband (Iron Tribune Bhuer Goreblade’s), even though we know they exist. What happens to the warbands of charr top brass is a bit of a mystery.