#oh and for example: his dynamic with Soulshatter is

[the-desert-beast]

Maelgwyn, Without Trahearne

for the longest time maelgwyn's canon has included a ship with my very blorbo-ized trahearne-that-survives but i've gotten bored with their dynamic & lore. It's a completed story that doesn't do anything for me right now, so I've been thinking about his ship with a friend's oc wayy more. it's become the 'canon default' in my mind for gwynnie, but i recently realized the very obvious reason maelgwyn would get caught up in the pact no matter what:

in my lore, the commander, B. Soulshatter hires him as a desert guide and bodyguard. If he find trahearne attractive back, they begin that timeline. If he doesn't, he leaves. If trahearne isn't in the picture, he leaves, only to get dragged back in when amnoon is in danger at the start of LWS4.

In lore with others, Maelgwyn would make himself involved at the start of LWS4. He has a loyalty not to the city it's self but to the people within it, finding out Elona is in existential danger would cause maelgwyn to force himself into "neutral allyship," friends of convenience.

he's very much like Canach in a way. He gets tangled up in The Pact's affairs by circumstance, makes a few friends, continues to stick around. Maelgwyn would not join dragon's watch however, he's a lone wolf type. A mercenary at heart.

Now the only problem with him entering anyone else's lore is the entire sub-species of draconic sylvari. Though other-trees are already canon compliant, so it's not an issue really. Certainly not for me.