#cadfael silverfrost

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A version of Cadfael got captured and experimented upon, as a test subject of the fun experiment, “Can We Make Icebrood That Listen To Our Commands?”

The answer was no, no they could not. They sure made an icebrood charr, but it was ultimately useless to them. Fairly traumatised, Cadfael was killed not too long later, and wandered around the Domain of the Lost for about... two decades, give or take, before she got her name back. After some bargaining with various Death Overseers(tm), came back to life as a reaper.

Ok GW2 peeps this is important: Throw your characters at me that got experimented on by the inquest.

What was done to them? How does it affect their life? Tormented souls, mildly inconvenienced or maybe actually benefitting from it?

I need to know. And potentially open a support group for some people.

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Family photo!

(Pictured, from left to right: Antares Silverstrike, Cadira Silverflux, Cadfael Silverfrost, Rylix Silverflame, Nasius Silverline, Mira Silvertail. Vachel Quicksilver is not pictured, presumably taking the photo)

[knight-of-the-thorn]

You know when someone has a stupid idea and your guild of four people spends three hours putting all 55 of your rp characters in the school uniform, setting up 11 gold worth of chairs and taking a class photo instead of doing fractals like you planned? That’s never happened to me. I’ve never done that.

So this is all of my, @fractal-quadrilioquy​, @guardian-instincts-bad and @deadlock-fractals gw2 characters! It’s been like a year or so since we started properly making lore for these kids, and it has come a long way since then. You guys all need to check out my friends blogs because they are amazing and have fucking incredible characters and I love them. 

Text transcript under the cut!

Portmantra, class of 1334

Top Row: Daisy Lockbane, Ryker Starflare, Kaden Starsight, Teyll Kiranison, Valarian Nyx, Felix Egilson, Rylix Cloudpiercer, Faoler Metrinh, Adreadus, Cadira Silverflux, Nótt Kismet

4th Row: Caleb Metrinh, Moroleth, Andrea Suturskodde, Denara Stormdelver, Cadfael Silverfrost, Zaera Starskred, Ephemeris Signblade, Arcshod Skyblitz, Yas Fenrirkin, Valwehn, Casus Laedere

3rd Row: Hense Aidnolea, Criswynne, Tezzhesta, Ghainen, Arceidai, Mikael Carrion, Alodiel, Eiramael, Lex Laedere, Hunter, Livaelin

2nd Row: Theta, Theitia, Taia, Aven Gast, Sunders Kismet, Roeseth, Faslae, Ysgithru, Lyraesse, Riaiva, Virivensis

Front Row: Cael, Endiena, Devkynn, Tohmeshyme, Jakk, Kajja, Eris Adajio, Olvep, Glokk, Caivere, Gwyniaeth

Absent: Myosotis Monroi, Ceriyan, Zemmi

Who belongs to who, courtesy of Guardian instincts

Green is me, Light blue is Guardian instincts, Dark blue is Quadrilioquy, Purple is Deadlock. Absentees belong to friends without gw2 blogs.

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A Non-Exhaustive Guide To My Various (In-Game) Cats

Cadira Silverflux:

- mirage supreme

- don't let him fool you - his gun shoots real bullets.

- if you're looking at four cadiras and trying to figure out which three are the clones, the real one is behind you

- allergic to calling others by their names

Cadfael Silverfrost:

- ~I, can, feel, your heart-beat~

- cutest of my charr

- engineering is basically just necromancy but with metal, right?

- suggest that she change her name and she'll fight you. if she's feeling nice, she might even officiate your funeral.

Antares Silverstrike:

- quiet, and looks like he's eternally brooding

- isn't actually brooding he's just thinking about things constantly

- body language is actually extremely obvious but only if you know what to look for

- wins 80% of his bets. you'd think people would learn by now but they haven't. looking at you, nasius.

- he/they. yes, he's a they. yes, they're a he. we exist.

- don't shorten his name to 'ant' or 'aunt', he will bite you.

Kaden Starsight:

- can and will overthrow bangar ruinbringer

- kalla's ghost has a megaphone in one hand and a box of popcorn in the other

- accidentally on purpose adopted three tiger cubs

- feral

- good at pretending she isn’t feral

- nobody is surprised when they learn this anyway

Zaera Starskred:

- centauri's emotional support and physical support cat

- solves problems by neutralising them

- geology nerd

- has been considered for a promotion to centurion but she left to join the pact before she could be notified

- doesn't like wearing chestplates even though she probably should

- does an excellent ryker impression

Ryker Starflare:

- BIG and SHINY

- uses the light of his virtue as a bludgeoning weapon

- bffs with a rogue

- pretends he's a himbo so people underestimate him or play nice with him. unfortunately for them he is very smart and good at maneuvering people

- does an excellent zaera impression

Denara Stormdelver:

- broke time a bit and by a bit i mean a lot

- probably harnesses the power of doomed timelines as a power source

- longstanding rivalry with her coworker(s)

- broke time a bit and by a bit i mean a lot

- old school blood legion mesmer

- warning: breaking time may have unintended cosmetic side effects

- broke time a bit and by a bit i mean a lot

Arcshod Skyblitz:

- biggest dad energies even though he's only 27 years old

- grew up in the snow and will melt if he goes to ascalon

- has at least one alternate self. does not know how to feel about said alternate self.

- impromptu pirate. surprisingly okay with this

- will launch himself out of a tree, screaming. often, not even to attack things.

Rinclex "Rin" Skyblast:

- obstinate asshole

- death couldn't stop him from heckling his bandmates

- shadow magic specialist

- i'd almost say he has a heart of gold except that he very much doesn't. he has principles, however, and sticks by them, selfish as they are

- misses the sky

Tailon "Tai" Skyshift:

- three-limbed charr with a walking stick

- uses clones only for the most basic of tasks; doesn't have the focus to maintain more

- material sciences and bioengineering specialist

- haunted. and not even metaphorically.

- knives and portals, portals and knives

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Silver warband: Iron legion who creatively named themselves after a colour of metal.

Cadira Silverflux - Flux because he's a mesmer and a bit of a trickster who enjoys playing tricks with his clones. Also a joke on electrical flux, which is the measure of strength of an electric field through a space, even though the field doesn't actually flow.

Cadfael Silverfrost - Minor necromancy often felt cold/chilling. Her bandmates also sometimes joke that she can seem cold/aloof to others when really she's just focusing on something.

Rylix Silverflame - Partially to match with his twin's Silverfrost, partially because he is prone to anger issues, partially because he likes working with machines as an engineer.

Antares Silverstrike - Has the highest strength in the warband by far. (In-game, he's Antares Jomuer, Jomuer being the name of a fictional red star, like the star Antares)

Nasius Silverline - Pun on the phrase 'silver lining' as she's generally an optimist.

Vachel Quicksilver - He's very fast and a daredevil (in personality. He's actually a very quick deadeye). Also for the pun, though I wouldn't describe him as particularly mercurial.

Mira Silvertail - Ranger! And also because her tail is naturally gray compared to the rest of her.

Star warband: Star students in their fahrar, later becoming an elite strike team of their own. Upon realising they all had 5 letter first names they also went with 5 letter surnames.

Kaden Starsight: Warband's scout with keen vision, and later, fitting as she becomes a revenant.

Zaera Starskred: Used to be something basic like Starblade (though it's still pretty cool) but changed it after a norn taught her how to do an ambush using an avalanche. Also because some of her actions kickstart, a lot of things happening differently to canon in her timeline.

Ryker Starflare - Very shiny tank who draws attention to himself and uses guardian and light magic to keep it that way.

Tersi Starskite - Daredevil who avoids and deflects lots of things. Has a disconcertingly easy time avoiding attention despite not using magic at all.

Acyra Starshawl - Known for a specific piece of clothing that contains a working invisibility charm about half the time. Also because her attention to detail/coordination tends to blanket a large swath of ground.

Sky warband: Iron legion warband based around developing/piloting aircraft.

Tailon Skyshift - Emergency teleportation/safety specialist.

Rinclex Skyblast - you know, someone with that surname should probably not be the legionnaire but here we are. Usually good at fixing the consequences of things going wrong. Also named for his stunning personality.

Grave Warband: They just thought it sounded neat.

Nuvia Snowgrave - Ironically, was originally part of the Snow warband, and bounced from warband to warband until some charr with a sense of humour decided to reassign her to the Grave warband.

Cenoxi Shallowgrave - He's a necromancer with a hell of a lot of death magic in him and has come back to life, so.

Other charr:

Vertis Forgefever - Forge warband, a warband working at the Black Citadel's smelter. Used to be in a different warband before Flame Legion Reasons and he left them.

Kolya Twiceforged - Was added to her friends's Forged warband after her old warband all died. Previously Tinkertwice, of the Tinker warband, due to being a meticulous engineer and also a mesmer.

Versira Nightrise - Night warband, she wanted to pun on 'sunrise' and did not entirely succeed. Also bc she gravitates to high places. Her legionnaire however will 100% say that she's named that for her ability to annoy people.

Finally, Denara Stormdelver (Storm warband), and Avry Triplestrike (Ash legion, not sure which warband) who I haven't given name lore to yet.

ok lore question for people with charr characters because ir eally want to know: what is their surname, what warband are they apart of, and what meaning does the surname have?

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Day 4: Unseen

Blackwing Excavation, Fields of Ruin

1317 AE, Centauri

Under the cover of dusk, two charr darted from shadow to shadow. This late in the day, the human miners who toiled here had all gone home, back to the heart of Ebonhawke, leaving only long shadows and a skeleton guard.

Cadira’s heart thudded heavily in his chest, the uncertain rhythm of stop-and-go wearing on the charr’s nerves. He would’ve portalled them across, so they wouldn’t have to worry about stealth, but-

-gunfire and explosions, cut off sobs as their bandmates were cut down, one by one, while all he could do, all he could see was roiling purple and-

-well. That wasn’t an option.

He grimaced, counting his breaths to stave off the encroaching panic as Cadfael watched, silent, for the changing of the guard. This next part was the most risky, with little cover to hide their advance, so they waited. Two days of watch had been enough to catch the guard’s pattern, but someone must have seen them, for tonight’s patrol was larger than usual.

Go, Cadfael signed with a flick of her tail and claw, and they moved, taking off at a dead sprint across the valley, hurtling into the next shadow.

“Hey! Is somebody there?”

He cursed, silently. Not fast enough.

“What did you see?”

“I-I’m not sure. I’m gonna check it out.”

Cadira held his breath. Any moment now, and the guards would look over the ledge, lantern light spilling over their hiding place. Already, he could see it edging closer. Purple coalesced in his claw-

“Hey, guards!” A voice called out.

-and froze, waiting.

The lantern swung. “What in the- Sir, it’s not safe, there have been sightings of charr around here.”

“Yeah, no shit there were,” the unknown voice hissed, “They’re by the gates!”

“They’re what? Damnit!”

Their light quickly moved away, but Cadira didn’t move, still not convinced it wasn’t some elaborate trick, until Cadfael shoved him bodily out of the way.

“Now’s our chance!” she hissed.

“But-”

“Most of them are moving,” Cadfael tapped her chest, over her heart. “We’re not getting a better chance. Move!”

She ran into the darkness. Cadira cursed, and ran after her.

In the corner of his eye, he could see a human, leaning over the ledge lining their layer of the mine, as if keeping watch over the gate - but when Cadira turned to look, he saw their eyes staring unerringly at him over their shoulder. He growled, poised to defend, but as if that was a signal, the human turned and ran off, silhouette disappearing among the light and shadows.

…Why did they seem so familiar?

“Who was that?” Cadira panted as he caught up to Cadfael.

“Who was what?”

“That human, there was something about them-”

Cadfael scowled. “If they’re human, it doesn’t matter- let’s go!”

He shook his head. Right. Focus on the now.

The gate loomed before them. Its locks was made to withstand human strength, but they fared no match against two well-placed bullets, and before the sound faded from the valley, lost within the chaos of the nonexistent charr attack outside, the two of them had slammed the gate behind them.

Shouts faded from awareness as they ran through the darkness, staffs painting the way with rays of gold and blue. They made it through.

The desert awaited.

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CUTE ASKS for your pick of character: 4,5,6? -charrwybie

(Pictured: Cadfael Silverfrost, in both her scourge (pic 1) and reaper (pic 2) outfits. Though she's a scourge in canon, I enjoy her reaper look a lot, in the few instances where I feel like playing reaper :D)

(Sorry this took so long! I saw the ask 2 weeks ago and then, uh, immediately forgot it existed. whoops. I'm gonna do this for Cadfael because she has been voted among my guildmates as the cutest of my characters.)

4. What would be the best present to give your OC? Who would most likely be the one to give it to them? What is their reaction to receiving it?

her warband back (no, this is an angst-free ask meme, back with ye.)

In general, I’d say any interesting technological project! Stuff that she could disassemble and reassemble and tinker with - It’s a fun project for her, and it’s basically the necromancy of engineering - Taking something apart and then putting it back together again. Similarly, those, like, 3d puzzles that can only be put together or taken apart in a certain way, or any similar puzzles (rubiks 360 also comes to mind, or those various puzzles you see on youtube that have like a little prize if you finish it) is something that she’d enjoy a lot.

Her twin, Rylix, would be the most likely to seek out these puzzles and projects, enjoying seeing his sister happy (and if she so happens to start inventing something cool with the mini-flamethrower he totally didn’t bribe a friend for, that’s just a bonus!)

I picture Cadfael’s entire body kinda, lighting up in attention and curiosity as she starts to piece it apart with her eyes, and ready to start taking it apart the moment she confirms it’s for her. Whenever the ‘band plans on doing stuff together during their free time, gifts are always the last thing to be exchanged because otherwise Cadfael won’t be seen outside a workshop for the rest of the night :P

5. What is your OC’s favourite childhood memory? Why?

I think there was a day when she was young, in the fahrar, when she and Rylix played a prank on Antares who, even at that age, was already the sort of quiet, not-actually-brooding-but-people-assumed-they-were-brooding kid every classroom had. And in the way kids do, the twins wanted to see if they could entice a reaction, and decided to do this by shaking a Metric Fuckton of pepper on his food. Antares’s resulting sneeze was so loud and startling that Cadira reflexively spawned a clone and Mira tripped over her own tail, and the twins burst into giggles seeing all this chaos. Surprisingly, Antares started laughing too, a sound none of them had heard until now, and the ridiculousness of the whole situation dragged all seven of their ‘band into fits of laughter.

It stands as the first memory that Cadfael has where she looked around and felt, even if for a small moment, that they were all a family.

6. What does your OC think is the cutest thing in the universe? Kittens? Baby plants? Something else?

Miniature anythings! And not like the miniatures we see in game (which have, so many implications and none of them promising) but just, anything condensed into mini forms. Little mini fox sculptures, tiny clay mushrooms, world’s smallest music box, almost anything along those lines! Apart from food. Tiny portions of any sort of food is just, baffling. She’s a charr, she’s Big, these foods are Tiny, how can anyone get any sustenance from these. But other than that, she finds them adorable, even though (or rather, especially because) she can’t make anything with that amount of precision with her own claws.

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So I was thinking about Mira and Nasius, as I am wont to do (and who I can actually make now I have the character slots! (sorry vachel you don't get real boy priveleges yet)) and realised that Mira, Nasius, Antares, Vachel, and Cadira, all have a sort of rhythm or dance-like movements that're part of their attacks (untamed hammer bonks, holosmith sick flips, axe/gunblade spinny spins, daredevil sick flips, mirage sick flips--)

And then you have the twins whose fighting style consists of 'deploy a bunch of little things to rally around and shoot people until they stop moving.'

It is eminently clear that these cats named themselves after a colour and not a metal that has any substantial use in warfare.