create your own hero

Suppose ANet released a contest that you have a chance to create your own hero, and the reward is $100,000. If you are going to create your own hero, what would the hero's profession be, what would he/she look like (drawn picture is optional, since not many ppl are good artists), what race would he/she be, and what hero armor would he/she access (also mention the items, skills, and attributes that the hero starts with, keep in note that the stuff the hero comes with usually sucks. Note that all weapons that heroes start with always are customized). This is all creativity here, and I hope to make this a sticky.

Since GW already has a centaur, Asura, Charr, and Dwarven hero, I think it would be great to create a Tengu and Elven hero.

Name: Swift Goldclaw
Race: Tengu
Profession: Assassin
starting level: 20
starting weapon:
Butterfly Knives of Fortitude
slashing damage: 5-11
Health +25
Attributes:

• 11 Dagger Mastery
• 10 Critical Strikes
• 10 Deadly Arts

Starting skills:

• Dancing Daggers
• Wild Strike
• Death Blossom
• Moebius Strike
• Critical Strike
• Critical Defenses

Description: Swift Goldclaw was a well known Angchu Tengu assassin throughout the world of Tyria. He has traveled through Tyrian, Canthan, and Elonan continents and have known to fought 150 Am Fah bandits, slew a giant wurm single-handedly, assassinated one of the Kournan generals during the conflict between the Sunspears and the Kournan, and even visited the Elven Republic and the Tarnished Coast where the Asura are currently living. And now, he is now willing to follow a worthy traveler who can beat him in a one-on-one duel.

You get this guy from a quest where you have to fight a 1v1 duel on him.

I'll have my idea on the elven guy later on.

Pretty sure there will never be elves in GW. Try Sylvari instead.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Image:Sylvari.jpg

hmm from the norn tourney i presume?^.^
okay heres mine:
Name: Amber
Race: Human
Profession: Ranger
Starting Level: 20
Starting Weapon: Candycane bow!

you get her from luuuurve

Okay real one here:

Name: Tony Harrisson
Race: Naga
Profession: Ranger
Starting level: 20
Starting weapon: candycane bow

description: Well known by tyla as he is his pet snake, 1 foot atm and growing

you get him...from christmas!

sorry i couldnt resist

Oooo I like this idea! Okay, here's mine:

Name: Faya Stormwind
Race: Sylvari
Gender: Female
Profession: Elementalist
Starting level: 15

Starting weapon:
Dragon spire staff of fortitude
Earth damage 11-22 (req. 9 Earth Magic)
Energy +5
Halves casting time of spells (10%)
Halves skill recharge of spells (20%)
Health +30

Starting skills:
Earth Attunement
Aftershock
Armor of Earth
Dragon's Stomp
Grasping Earth
Stone Striker

Description: Faya was born among the Sylvari, but she doesn't know hate or pain. But she also knows the world is not as good as it seems. She studies the art of the elementalist from the very earth of whence she came. Though sometimes humble, she will not let you down.

You get her from a quest where you have to save some other Sylvari from hate that they don't know about.

Thought we needed a female ele hero. I may try to draw up her and some armors later on.

What about a Forgotten One Hero?

Lariss Vassiriss (Forgotten Elementalist)
Female
Elementalist (So people can have one with runes for each element).

Adquisition: Having GW:EN and Prophecies. Go to the Desert, talk to Siliss Yassith, made a small quest in The Arid Sea about the Ancient Weapon:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ancient_Weapon

After using the item for something, it never spawn again in the area, and you get the Hero.

Name: Virian Mancis
Race: Dynastic Spirit
Profession: Mesmer
starting level: 20
starting weapon: Inspiration Staff (r8, Chaos 9-17) HCT 10%, customized
Attributes:
11 Inspiration, 10 Fast Casting, 10 Illusion
Starting skills:
1. Conjure Nightmare, 2. Drain Enchantment, 3. Drain Delusions, 4. Power Drain, 5. Ether Feast, 6. Physical Resistance, 7. Resurrection Signet

Description: Virian Mancis is a spirit bound to the world by his feelings of failure. Once a noble of Vabbi blocking key passages needed by Palawa Joko, he stood resolute against the Undead King. But as the forces of corruption swirled around him his closest allies and marshals defected. Virian was helpless as his forces were slaughtered, his home made desolate, and his lands defiled. But worse, Palawa Joko converted his living wife and children into undead atrocities right before his eyes. Then the Scourge of Vabbi banished his spirit from his body and left him bound in a desolate demesne with only the memories of those he failed to lead, protect, and save to feast upon.

Attainment: Shatter the protected inscription found in the Shattered Ravines and guarded by 3 Boss Shock Phantoms.

Just a thought....

Name: Forky
Race: Animated Item
Abilities: All the powers of the fork!!!

Sorry I'd gone to long without posting the word fork... here's the actual idea:

Name: Darkflash
Race: Afflicted
Acquisition: Gained by the winners of the celestial tournament, or some other cool tourney
Profession: Assasin
Starting Level: 20

Starting Attribute Levels:
Critical Strikes-11 +1 (12)
Dagger Mastery-10 +2 (12)
Shadow Arts-10 +2(12)

Equipment:
Poisonous Daggers of Defense 7-17 damage (+33% poison duration, +4 armor)
Minor Rune of Critical Strikes
Major Rune of Shadow Arts
Major Rune of Dagger Mastery
Nightstalker's Insignia (x2)

Starting Skills:
Unsuspecting Strike
Palm Strike
Horns of the Ox
Falling Spider
Shadow Refuge
Critical Eye

Description:
an afflicted that shiro lost control of during his demise, it gained control over a source and regained its humanity, with some extra powers. He, she...it does not like to talk about its past or who it really was, but it is ready to look forward to the future and the bountiful life of a powerful assasin.
(figured this could be put in if Anet wants to add something like this to gw2, bring back something familiar to the new game. Could be a cool little subplot to find out who it really was but that'd only be if they incorperate him, if at all, into gw2 cause gw1 wouldn't work with it atm)

Came up with another one a second ago, and decided not to post again but to edit this post:
Name: Shade
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Proffession: Necromancer
Acquisition: Baltahzaar Faction

Starting Level: 5 (you can use her with all pvp characters at level 20 and on the pve character that unlocked her with starting level 5)
Starting Attributes:
Curses- 4 (12 at max)
Soul Reaping- 3 (12 at max)

Starting Equipment:
Grenth's Curse- (leveled wand, increases damage with level) 5-10 shadow damage (+5 energy, +10 armor)
Grenth's Defense- (does not increase with level) +5 energy (+10 armor)
Madil Armor- 20 (+15 vs. piercing damage, *undertaker's insignia x2*)

Starting Skills (level 5):
Enfeeble
Desecrate Enchantments
Defile Defenses
Parasitic Bond
Insidious Parasite

Starting Skills(level 20):
Plague Signet
Plague Sending
Insidious Parasite
Parasitic Bond
Suffering
Ulcerous Lungs
Faintheartedness

Description:
Born during the first guild wars as Darcil, she grew up seeing death, destruction, and hatred all around her. Eventually she like many others found an unknown relic known as Grenth's curse. She is forever young and beautiful yet forever bound to grenth's will. And grenth's will is the end of the meaningless slaughter and the beginning of his own bloodbath.

/signed for both. But I want a female char named Spork.

I got nothing for this but I do like the idea.

~the rat~

Name Oracle of the fogotten
Proffesion Choice of core professions
Starting level 10
Lore/apperance The Oracle was born to the forgotten he is human escept a leg missing wich was replaced by a forgotten spirit that laps up his side and resmbles a leg. he is the only hero that can change his proffesion. his weapon is a forgotten spirit in his hand that resembles the chosen weapon.


Thats a cruddy image of what i want him to look like mabye a bit darker to seem evil... but u get the idea