Guild Wars 3™ – Playable Species Spotlight: Kodan

Summary

Greetings, good people of Tyria! I'm Erin Amschlinger of ArenaNet's Narrative team. As part of our series on the playable species of *Guild Wars 3*™, we're going deep on a species whose outsized presence in our announcement trailer at Summer Game Fest may have caught your notice: Tyria's much beloved bearkin, the kodan.

While longtime *Guild Wars 2*® players may be well acquainted with their headstrong forebears on the isles of Janthir, the kodan of the Orrian golden age are a unique case in the history of the species—a population called south to the wilds of Orr, prompting a resurgence of belief in an otherwise faithless people. As you set paw onto Orrian soil, you too shall begin your own journey. One that's sure to be retold by the fireside.

But before you set off to make history, you'd best be acquainted with your own.

Heeding the Voice or Embracing the Silence

Originating in the Far Shiverpeaks, the kodan are, broadly speaking, a culture defined by their faith. Kodan worship Koda the Creator, a deity they believe to be the sole fashioner of Tyria and all the natural and magical life that inhabits it. Devoting the whole of their civilizational effort in service of this creator, the kodan are among the most capable fighters on Tyria: ferocious, intelligent, and driven by unshakable conviction.
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