PvP Event Begins... Sorta

[Havral]

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Access keys that you should slap onto your account (Go by account region, not where you're actually sitting right now. Unless you're some freak who plays standing up.)

American Players:
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European Players:
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The Zaishen Order has taken over the Tombs, displacing the loyal henchmen that we all know so well with faceless Zaishen mercenaries of their own.

As usual, there are some 'flavour' NPCs to talk to, the first being the Zaishen Commander Kuro:



Up next is Acolyte Chigo:



And finally we have Acolyte Kaizhan:


He's a cheerful sod.

But what about Stefan, Orion, Alesia, and Reyna? Well, they're still kicking around, grumbling about no longer being the selectable Henchmen.


Prejudices aside, Stefan seems to know the most about the subject at hand. Still needs to lay off the pork rinds though.


Reyna's a cautious girl. Probably the reason why she's almost always the last to die.


How nice that she recognises me. I'm usually the one bleeding to death at the frontlines while she's trading hairstyle tips with Lina.


Oh, come now Orion. You were the only elementalist that managed to get through the AOE update unaffected. You couldn't land a Firestorm on time even if we nailed a dwarf to the floor.

There's some more dialogue bubbles, but I haven't got many of them. One of the best is one of Commander Kuro's.

[Lurker Wyrm]

Nifty little tidbit Van gave me about the Zaishen: the word means rebirth, so these new henches are the reborn versions. However, zaishen is the wrong word to express that sort of meaning and I forgot what Van told me the right word should be (sorry Van, but it was around 1am).

Edit: By the way, does anyone have any drothers as to which side we join? From the Gamespy article:

The Kurzicks are an ultra-conservative and highly religious culture whose socially frozen society worships the status quo. In fact, the world of the Kurzicks is a mirror of the petrified forest in which they carve their beautiful homes. The Luxons, on the other hand, are a wild nation of seafaring nomads who have traded in their ships for magical walking machines that traverse the jade ocean. As a group, the Luxons are a walking advertisement for the Darwinian social order -- only the strong survive.

Not to try and offend anyone, but the Kurzicks sound a lot like Catholocism, and I can't say I entirely agree with that viewpoint (I'm not an especially conservative person in general). My own personality leans more towards the Luxons, but I'll go with whoever.