Officer Spotlight with Feral Lightningpaws

It's been a long while since our last Officer Spotlight, and with the April 2009 massive updates, we'll be featuring the last guild officer (but not least) in our 4-part mini series of interviews! Returning from his extended cartographer trip, having charted the lands of Tyria, Cantha, Elona and the North, and drunk to a stupor from one too many flasks of Firewater - Feral Lightningpaws!

Hi Feral, you've found your role as the guild's very own navigation officer and professional cartographer. How is that you manage to find your way around the lands with such ease?
Well, whenever I discover a new, unchartered region, I'll etch a map of it into the underside of my helmet with my sword. My current helmet has the entire map of Tyria in it. I only have to look up, and I'll know where I am!

What happens when you run out of storage space?
That's what the other armor parts are for! I've got Cantha all over the underside of my chest plate, and Elona on the back. There's also dungeon maps on my gro-

Have you ever considered using scrolls instead?
Nah, I'm allergic to paper. Not to mention when the scrolls soak up my perspiration, the ink smudges all over and I have to chart everything all over!

So why a warrior? Shouldn't you have been a ranger instead?
I've considered that option before, but I can't etch very well on ranger armors with my sword. They usually tear apart too easily. Warrior armors provide better writing surfaces, not to mention that they look so much better!

You have a tiger named Chesire. Any interesting pet tricks?
Well I hate to let the cat out of the bag – but Chesire likes hiding in my traveling backpack for some reason. He takes keen pleasure in lunging at pickpockets, that seems to have become his staple diet now. He's kinda picky when it comes to meals, you know cats. I'm trying to introduce him to tax-collectors, though.

What's your weapon of choice and why?
The Vera - the best war hammer you'll ever get. Nothing smashes skulls swifter and messier - with that crisp, crunching satisfaction that it gives. Always a Vera.


Whack first; ask questions later or heroic battle-cry; then frenzy for the win?
I'd prefer a keg of good ol' aged dwarven ale to spruce things up a little, you know what I mean? A little bit of drunk adventuring never hurt no one, cept for your hapless enemies of course. When they see a rampaging drunkard warrior racing towards them screaming incorrigibily.

About your last name, does that apply to your swordsmanship or something else?
Yeah especially when it comes to etching out maps on my armor. You gotta be quick in enemy territory if you don't wanna get caught with your pants down, you know what I'm saying?

If you could invent your very own elite skill, what would it be and how would it work?
“In Your Face!” Elite Shout.
You shout “ IN YOUR FACE!”, for 30 seconds, the next 5 attacks while wielding a hammer, you deal an additional +100 dmg, and have 100% armor pentration. If your attacks hit, your opponent gets knocked down on the first strike, suffers bleeding from the second, deep-wound on the third, blindness with the fourth blow and dazed from the finishing strike. All conditions applied last for 15 seconds (including knock-down.)

You've put your helmet on the wrong way and gotten your entire party lost in the Crystal Desert. Everyone's in despair. What do you do?
When no one's looking I adjust my helmet and hope that everyone has enough supplies before Chesire eats everyone up.

That's all folks and thanks for journeying with us!