Trahearne

Trahearne

Race

Sylvari

Profession

Necromancer

Rank

Legendary

Location

Caer Aval
(Fort Trinity)

Organization

Pact

“

The dragons are not stars in the sky. They can be counted. They can be fought. One day, we will kill the last of them. Only then will Tyria be safe.

— Trahearne

Marshal Trahearne of the Cycle of Dusk is the first of the twelve Firstborn and is a sylvari valiant as well as the leader of the Pact. Upon awakening, he was given the Wyld Hunt to reverse the corruption inflicted upon Orr, which he long thought impossible. To this end, he has spent his time traveling Orr alone, and for a long time he and Caithe were the only two creatures to have seen Zhaitan and lived to tell the tale. Throughout his travels, Trahearne has formed many connections with the Orders of Tyria, as well as more withdrawn races such as the tengu and largos. Due to this, and his wealth of knowledge about Orr and the Risen, he is held in high regard by many.

Biography

Personal story

In 1325 AE, Trahearne learned of a fleet of Dead Ships sailing on Lion's Arch. He traveled to Claw Island in an attempt to warn Watch Commander Talon, but was too late to prevent the massacre and barely escaped with his own life with few other survivors. In seeking new allies to help retake the island, Trahearne joined the hero who would come to be known as the Pact Commander in recruiting allies. He took counsel from the Pale Tree who granted him the magical sword Caladbolg and tasked the pair with unifying the Orders of Tyria into a single force.

After using his contacts in the Orders to retake Claw Island, Trahearne forged a Pact from the three factions, and directed them in an offensive against Orr. As Pact Marshal, he established Fort Trinity over the ruins along Terzetto Bay as the main base of operations for the invasion of Orr. As part of the invasion, Trahearne and the Pact targeted the Eyes and Mouth of Zhaitan to blind Zhaitan's forces and starve the Elder Dragon of magic. They later eliminated the Risen's supply of corpses from the Sea of Sorrow's coast, stemming the growth of Zhaitan's army.

The Pact eventually managed to establish a forward base at the foot of the Promenade of the Gods. Upon realizing that Zhaitan could not turn sylvari into its Risen minions and claim their knowledge for itself, Trahearne founded the Pale Reavers, an all-sylvari squad, which he sent on various dangerous missions throughout Orr.

Upon learning of a way to cleanse Zhaitan's corruption and where to do so, Trahearne and the Commander traveled to the Artesian Waters where they defeated the Sovereign Eye of Zhaitan. The marshal performed the Ritual of Purification to reverse the corruption therein while the Commander and eventually other allies fought against a Risen horde to protect him during the ritual.

Trahearne was weakened in the aftermath of the ritual, however, and was forced to recuperate at Fort Trinity while the Pact and Destiny's Edge assaulted Zhaitan in the Ruined City of Arah. With Zhaitan's defeat, Trahearne exclaimed the need to begin planning to win four more "impossible victories" over the remaining awake Elder Dragons while feeling a sense of relief over completing his seemingly impossible Wyld Hunt at long last.

Living World Season 1

Despite the end of his Wyld Hunt, Trahearne remained as the Marshal of the Pact. In the time after Zhaitan's defeat, he focused on reconstituting the ranks and resources of the Pact, with emphasis on building up its highly effective fleet. He was actively sending scouting parties and establishing research teams to begin the plan of an offensive against the Elder Dragon Kralkatorrik in the Crystal Desert.

During this time Trahearne had received reports about Scarlet Briar's attacks on cities, but did not involve Pact in any official capacity as they did not seem to pertain to Elder Dragon activity. During the quest to end the threat posed by the Tower of Nightmares, the Pact Commander encountered a nightmarish hallucination of Trahearne which the Commander was forced to fight against in the Nightmare Chamber.

Trahearne's plans to go after the Elder Dragons were interrupted by the aftermath of Scarlet Briar's assault on Lion's Arch, however, when Tyrians heard a dragon's roar in the aftermath of the Scarlet's demise. The marshal dispatched Laranthir of the Wild to investigate what had occurred.

Living World Season 2

Upon hearing that the Pact Commander was to present evidence of the recently awoken Elder Dragon Mordremoth's imminent threat to Tyria, he attended the World Summit in the Grove in 1327 AE. The negotiations were halted when the Shadow of the Dragon, one of Mordremoth's champions, attacked the Pale Tree and the gathered leaders. The beast was driven off after a fierce clash although it managed to severely harm the Pale Tree before fleeing.

After the attack on the World Summit, Trahearne took the Pact Commander's warnings to heart and shifted all Pact resources against the newly awakened Mordremoth in hopes to counter an anticipated dispersion of Mordrem minions across western Tyria. He established Camp Resolve in the Silverwastes with contributed arms, resources, troops and researchers from each prominent race. Trahearne began investing in a strictly aerial assault on the Elder Dragon with the hopes to avoid another drawn-out war of attrition on the ground, and planned to strike before Mordremoth could muster its minions. To locate the Elder Dragon, the marshal used reports which claimed that Mordremoth's core of power was "somewhere east, or south".

When the preparations of the Pact Fleet were nearly complete, Mordremoth attempted a counter-offensive against Camp Resolve, which failed. Trahearne, flush with victory, called out for the rallying and beginning of the Pact's own offensive. He was then informed that the Pact Commander would not join him in the attack as the Commander was attempting to recover Glint's Egg from a mysteriously absent Caithe who had taken it earlier.

With assistance of Destiny's Edge members Logan Thackeray, Eir Stegalkin, and Zojja, Trahearne led the Pact Fleet aboard the Glory of Tyria in battle against Mordremoth in the skies above Verdant Brink. The battle ended as rapidly as it began, however. Moments after the marshal had called out for the initial volley of fire into the jungle below, massive vines shot out and pierced airships like paper. Chaos spread as sylvari aboard the fleet began to lose their wills and minds to Mordremoth's call. Armed, well-trained, and freshly delivered, the subjugated sylvari overwhelmed Trahearne and Destiny's Edge, and the offensive ended in a complete rout.

Heart of Thorns

Trahearne, Eir, Zojja and Logan went missing after Mordremoth had brought down the Pact Fleet. It was revealed from survivors of the fleet's destruction that the four had been taken prisoner, and placed in a caravan headed south through the Heart of Maguuma. At some point during their transport through Tangled Depths Trahearne, Zojja and Logan created a diversion to allow other captured Pact officers to escape although it came at the expense of his and their own opportunity to flee.

When the Pact Commander, their allies, and remnants of Destiny's Edge finally reached Trahearne in the depths of the Dragon's Domain in 1328 AE, the captured marshal was dangling unconscious and guarded by a corrupted and blighted Faolain. At her defeat, Trahearne was snatched away from rescue by Mordremoth itself, and taken into the dragon's inner sanctum, seemingly as a trap.

By the time the Commander's party reached the sanctum, Trahearne was awake but broken in body and spirit, and unable to survive removal from his eldritch, pod-like prison. Despite this state, he was able to aid the Commander in attacking Mordremoth's weakness — inside the Dream, where the Elder Dragon had been attacking sylvari in their own minds — by acting as intermediary to the Dream. This connection allowed Trahearne to open a portal so the Commander's party could begin the final assault on Mordremoth's mind while other members of the team stayed behind to guard the area from encroaching Mordrem.

After Mordremoth's mind was destroyed and the victors return to the waking world, Trahearne asked the Commander to bring Caladbolg to him while others marveled at their impossible victory and Mordremoth's disappearance from the minds of the sylvari. The revelry ceased when Trahearne announced that the Elder Dragon had left a 'seed' inside his mind that would blossom and allow the dragon to reclaim all it had just lost if not dealt with immediately. Insisting that he would not survive anyway if removed from his pod-like prison, Trahearne asked to be destroyed with the shattered remains of Caladbolg. After a horrible moment when Mordremoth attempted to possess Trahearne's body, the Commander struck Trahearne down and ended Mordremoth permanently at the expense of the marshal's life.

Knight of the Thorn

After their return from the Heart of Maguuma, Pact soldiers set up a memorial statue for Trahearne near the entrance of the Grove. Valiant Ridhais, who had seen a vision of Caladbolg in her Dream, sought out the Pact Commander in hopes of using the Commander's help to restore the broken blade. During the quest, the Commander encountered a vision of Trahearne in Caladbolg's Dream in the canopy of Verdant Brink. The spirit of the marshal tested the Commander's worth in battle, thanked them for finishing Mordremoth and entrusted them to take up Caladbolg and protect Tyria.

Path of Fire

After dying in the rogue god Balthazar's ambush in 1330 AE, the Pact Commander's soul appeared in the Domain of the Lost where all spirits which experience sudden, violent deaths end up in. While recovering their name and remembering their purpose to be properly judged, the Commander was subjected to fragmented visions of past deeds, during which Trahearne's memory was briefly visible.

Locations

Ruins of Orr

• Straits of Devastation
  • Fort Trinity
    • Caer Aval (only after meeting him in the personal story)

Historical locations

Kryta

• Tower of Nightmares (zone)
  • Nightmare Chamber (as a Hallucination)

Story involvement

Personal story

• Chapter 2: Teachings of Ventari
  • Act With Wisdom path
    • After the Storm
    • Beneath the Waves
    • Mirror, Mirror
    • A Vision of Darkness
    • Shattered Light
  • All Things Have a Right to Grow path
    • Wild Growth
    • Seeking the Zalisco
    • The Direct Approach
    • Trading Trickery
    • Eye of the Sun
  • Where Life Goes path
    • Where Life Goes
    • An Unknown Soul
    • Source of the Issue
    • A Different Dream
    • Snuffing Out Embers
• Chapter 3: Justice for Riannoc
  • A Splinter in the Flesh
  • Dead of Winter
  • A Tangle of Weeds
  • Flower of Death
• Chapter 6: The Battle of Claw Island
  • The Battle of Claw Island
  • Durmand Priory path
    • The Ghost Rite
    • The Sound of Psi-Lance
    • Shards of Orr
    • A Light in the Darkness
    • The Priory Assailed
  • Order of Whispers path
    • Reconnaissance
    • Early Parole
    • Magic Sucks
    • A Light in the Darkness
    • Critical Blowback
  • Vigil path
    • Killing Fields
    • Defense Contract
    • The Good Fight
    • A Light in the Darkness
    • Under Siege
  • Retribution
• Chapter 7: Forming the Pact
  • Forging the Pact
  • Let an Innocent Die path
    • The Battle of Fort Trinity
    • A Sad Duty
  • Dishonor My Allies path
    • Marshaling the Truth
    • The Battle of Fort Trinity
    • Delivering Justice
  • Make Another Suffer path
    • The Battle of Fort Trinity
    • Liberating Apatia
• Chapter 8: Victory or Death
  • Temple of the Forgotten God
  • Through the Looking Glass
  • Close the Eye
  • What the Eye Beholds
  • Estate of Decay
  • Starving the Beast
  • A Grisly Shipment
  • Ossuary of Unquiet Dead
  • Further into Orr
  • Priory's Plan path
    • Hunters and Prey
  • Whispers' Plan path
    • Ships of the Line
  • Against the Corruption
  • Cathedral of Silence
  • Romke's Final Voyage
  • The Source of Orr
  • Victory or Death

Living World Season 2

• Episode 4: The Dragon's Reach: Part 2
  • The World Summit
• Episode 5: Echoes of the Past
  • Reunion with the Pact
• Episode 6: Tangled Paths
  • Return to Camp Resolve
• Episode 7: Seeds of Truth
  • The Newly Awakened
• Episode 8: Point of No Return
  • Pact Assaulted

Heart of Thorns story

• Act IV
  • Bitter Harvest
  • Hearts and Minds

Living World Season 3

• Side Stories: Knight of the Thorn
  • The Second Vision

Path of Fire story

• Act III
  • The Departing (as a memory)

Combat abilities

Effects

Skills

•   Kick - Knocks foes back.
• Withering Curse - Inflicts ₂ Vulnerability (5s).

Skills (underwater)

• Overhead Smash - Inflicts heavy damage on the target.
•   Shield of Absorption - Grants  Shield of Absorption.
• Smash - Basic melee attack.
• Spinning Slash - Whirls forward to the target.

After the Pact's formation

Abilities

• Marshal of the Pact

Effects

•  Regeneration (only during the end of Forging the Pact)

Skills (wielding Caladbolg)

•   Daybreak Blade - Slash your foe once, then again on the backswing.
  •   Flashing Arc - Medium range sword attack.
•   Electrolyze - Hit multiple foes with arcs of chain lightning.
•   Skyfall - Smash your foe, knocking them down.
•   Twilight Crash - Knockback all targets in front of you.
•   Maelstrom Strike - Thrash foes around you in a spinning frenzy while flinging projectiles.

Skills (following the ritual in Against the Corruption)

•   Punch - Basic melee attack. Inflicts  Daze (2s).
•   Kick - Physical. Push your foe back with a kick.

During The Second Vision

• Daybreak Cleave -
• Flashing Crescent -
• Electrolyze - Hits multiple foes with arcs of chain lightning.
• Maelstrom Strike - Thrash foes around user in a spinning frenzy while flinging projectiles.
• Nightfall -
• Putrid Explosion - Explodes a summoned Flesh Golem.
• Skyfall - Smash your foe, knocking them down.
• Twilight Crash - Knockbacks all targets in front of user.

Dialogue

Before completing the personal story

Salutations. My apologies for being so brief. There is much that must yet be done.

Okay.

After completing the personal story

My friend! Greeting once again. Even with Zhaitan dead, there is much to do. Around the world, the dragons are rising. We must put them down.

Okay.

Quotes

Greets

I am pleased you are here.

The Pale Tree guide you.

What's on your mind?

What troubles you?

This won't end well.

Greets during The Second Vision

Commander.

Mordremoth is next.

I hope you're well.

Hello, old friend.

You're always welcome here.

Upon entering combat

Die by my hand!

This won't end well—for you. (when engaged during The Second Vision)

Upon leaving combat

Never rise again! (after fighting Risen)

Upon defeat

A new experience...

Gallery

Appearances

• 

  Trahearne disguised as a Nightmare Courtier.

• 

  Trahearne, Eir Stegalkin, Zojja and Logan Thackeray aboard The Glory of Tyria.

• 

  Trahearne held captive by Mordremoth.

• 

  Mordremoth possessing Trahearne.

• 

  Trahearne's death.

• 

  Hallucination of Trahearne in the ??? area of Jahai Bluffs.

• 

  Trahearne glows purple at night time.

Related achievements

• Heart of Thorns: Act 4: Unblighted — Get to Trahearne without triggering any of the Mordrem blighting pods. (1)

Notes

• Prior to obtaining Caladbolg, Trahearne wields a Bandit Baton and a Hard Wood Focus.
• Trahearne wielding the greatsword Caladbolg was not foreshadowing the Reaper elite specialization for necromancer.
• Trahearne wears Snapdragon Epaulets, Dryad Coat, Snapdragon Gloves, Orchid Leggings, and Orchid Boots.
• His Nightmare Court disguise consists of Seer Mask, Nightmare Court Robes, Snapdragon Gloves, Orchid Leggings, and Dryad Boots.
• Trahearne's height was changed to be shorter in Living World Season 2.

Trivia

• Trahearne is voiced by Matthew Brenher.
• King Trahern is a legendary King of the Britons in Geoffrey of Monmouth's fictional Historia Regum Britanniae. In Welsh, the name means "incredibly strong"; in Celtic, it means "strong as iron." In Norwegian, the word TrÆrne means "Trees", which bears significant similarity to the name.
• Thomas Traherne was an English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer. A great passion depicted in his work is his love of nature and the natural world. The work for which Traherne is best known today is the Centuries of Meditations, a collection of short paragraphs in which he reflects on Christian life and ministry, philosophy, happiness, desire and childhood.
• Trahearne's favorite poem is "Darkness Pays Orr a Visit."

See also

• Caladbolg
• Firstborn

Associated items

• Mini Corrupted Trahearne
• Mini Trahearne