As one of the toughest and most widely known Charr around, Rytlock Brimstone is the best plushie you could have defending your Black Citadel.

For those of you who have never played Guild Wars, the Charr are a race that is half cat, half man. Not a house cat, that would be ridiculous. No they are more like lions, panthers, leopards, or cheetahs. The Charr are a mighty race of warriors, trained for battle from a young age. Banded together by both legion and warband, they fight. They are at war with the human race for the lands of Ascalon. The Charr feel that the humans took those lands from them and they will not stop until they have crushed the humans beneath their mighty warrior claws and retake the Ascolonian lands for themselves.

That way of thinking lasted for over 250 years… until now. Now there is a mutual threat to all of Tyria that they must work together with the humans and other races in order to defeat. The Charr have (at least temporarily) set aside their differences in the face of that common enemy, the Elder Dragons.

Rytlock Brimstone is a Tribune of the Blood Legion. He is feared by many and wields the legendary flame sword Sohothin, which once belonged to the human Prince Rurik. He was once a member of the adventuring guild, Destiny’s Edge. His fellow Charr still regard him as being strange for his alliance with a human within Destiny’s Edge. They also question his loyalty for it since the guild was formed before the peace treaties were in place with the humans. Rytlock is quick to silence those who would doubt him as he no longer considers Logan Thackeray to be an ally and distrusts the human race.

Rytlock is a fitting character to be turned into a plushie for sure! He can stand guard for you, annihilating your enemies and vanquishing the monsters in your closet. Treat him well and be wary not to betray his trust though or you may find yourself without an ally when you need him.

ArenaNet commissioned an AMAZING cosplay costume to be made for Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. The costume itself was created by Nimba Creations and it is phenomenal. They used techniques that are commonly used in movie special effects to create a realistic and lifelike representation of what Rytlock Brimstone would look like if he were in our world rather than an online MMO.

The costume as described in detail by its creator nimbafx on the forums of The FX Lab:

Almost everything you see here is cast in good old-fashioned latex. The sculpts were done on a grp body cast in wet clay Plaster moulds were made and the painted-in latex skin was filled with a nice light, flexible urethane foam (Mouldlife’s M2). 

The skirt is based on a Scottish ‘great kilt’ (well we had to didn’t we?!) and the belt buckle is actually an antique Indonesian saucer carved from a coconut shell that we found at an antiques fair in a tiny village hall near the coast… always nice to add a genuine bit of character and history in there to really sell it  

The hair is made up of a number of shades of hair extensions, mixed and laid up by hand and then styled to keep the shape of the head and face. The horns are made from real cow and water buffalo “hardware” but cast in a light, rigid foam. The eyes are taxidermy lion eyes and the teeth are heavily modified taxidermy teeth. 

None of these images are in any way mine, nor am I trying to claim them. Many images are from the ArenaNet Flickr photostream
Close up  detail images of Rytlock Brimstone plushie are from ArenaNet’s Guild Wars 2 website. Purchase your Rytlock Brimstone here!

Now I just have to hold out hope for an Asura plushie. Oh, how I would adore getting my hands on a Zojja in plushie form!!! I really hope that as the release of Guild Wars 2 draws closer they will expand upon their merchandise to include not just more plushies, but also t-shirts and hoodies with the artfully designed logo on them or possibly some of the drool-worthy artwork they have shown us. If you could get your hands on any type of Guild Wars 2 merchandise – what would you want? Tell me in the comments!