Who is snaff

Concept art of Snaff from Sorrow's Embrace. She will outlive me, as she should. She will face horrors that I will not. And in those moments, I hope she remembers my strength, not my weakness. Master Snaff was an asuran golemancer and the mentor to both Zojja and Kudu. He joined Destiny's Edge and fought alongside his fellow guild mates and Glint against the Elder Dragon Kralkatorrik in the Crystal Desert , losing his life in the attempt. Snaff's death led to the breaking of Destiny's Edge, and his genius would be honored among the asura of Rata Sum who dedicated the Snaff Prize and Snaff Memorial Lab to him.

Snaff was a highly regarded magical theorist and inventor even among the intellectual asura. He wrote a textbook on comparative golemantic theory. Rumors in Rata Sum suggest that Snaff lost control of his golems once. In his later years, the golemancer took the promising young genius Kudu as his apprentice. His research led Kudu into major discoveries about dragon energies , particularly that Elder Dragons each exuded their own energies with unique magical signatures.

Snaff discontinued this research because it was too dangerous, but Kudu picked it up again as part of the Inquest after parting ways with his disagreeing mentor. Disheartened by his apprentice's evil ambitions, Snaff nevertheless decided to take in another apprentice, Zojja.

With Eir's help, he built a special golem he named Sandy. Their group met another guild called Edge of Steel in Lion's Arch. The trio convinced the members of this other guild, which included the sylvari Caithe , the human Logan Thackeray and the charr Rytlock Brimstone , to join forces with them to take down the Dragonspawn, the Elder Dragon Jormag 's dragon champion which was terrorizing the Shiverpeak Mountains. The two guilds eventually defeated the Dragonspawn and decided to form one guild, choosing the name Destiny's Edge by combining their former guilds' names.

Destiny's Edge faced many dangerous dragon champions in the following months and became famous throughout Tyria for their heroic deeds. During this time Snaff's fellow guild mates helped him develop and hone his already impressive talents even more. In AE , Grand Duchess Faolain of the Nightmare Court sought out Caithe and, in an attempt to sway her to her side, informed her that the previous struggles of Destiny's Edge against dragon champions had amounted to nothing as the Elder Dragons would continue to rise.

According to Faolain, the Nightmare Court had learned that the dragon Glint had kept her loyalties concealed and was preparing for the rise of the Elder Dragon Kralkatorrik as his champion. Caithe delivered the troubling news to her companions in Destiny's Edge who were torn about the reveal as they did not trust Faolain and were aware of Glint's actions against the enemies to Tyria in the past.

Despite their initial misgivings about Glint's suggested treachery, however, Destiny's Edge resolved to seek out Glint's lair in the Crystal Desert and had the blessing of Queen Jennah , who was equally torn about the decision, to stop Glint before the dragon could help her master return to the world. The guild wandered around the Crystal Desert fruitlessly in search of Glint's Lair. Definition of snuff Entry 4 of 6.

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Yeah that might sound lame but snaff will always be remembered by me if not anyone. Posted by: Avatar Rage. Avatar Rage.

Posted by: Lutinz. Sadly they died in the last few pages of the book too… Arenanet authors have something about Asura dying heroicly. Posted by: Drakkon. Do we really need to create a new evil from a former hero? Posted by: Narcemus. Posted by: Sirius. On a slightly-related note, it was nice of them to follow up the Glint thing this year.

Posted by: Celebratty. After I read the book, definitely a shame. Potentially awesome character is of course the one who dies, leaving behind five flat characters that are all so flat mainly because of his demise. Perhaps some inter-dimensional contact with another Snaff from an almost identical world, or he could have pulled some serious watchknight skills and not gone at all.

Posted by: Dmzsfx. What bothers me the most was that everyone did not fall in to protect sniff, all they had to do was hold off the hordes for just a few more seconds as Rytlock says…. This also makes me wonder why everyone blames Logan — sure he left but he had an oath to protect the queen and from the state ebonhawke was in, they surely could have used the help. The problem is, by moving in closer they would have lost the advantage of the choke points at the entryways. Thus each individual could have been much more easily surrounded and killed off.

From what I can tell, it was just a moment of no one else hearing that Caithe had been overrun, and thus they were not able to fall back and assist in time.