GW2: Botanist Klekks

To celebrate the resurrection of my blog, I am going to do a little character post! There was a character slot sale on Guild Wars 2 and I made a new character - an elementalist asura called Botanist Klekks.

It's hard to come up with good names - a gw2 themed name generator gave me the suggestion 'Piss' for a male asura name. Technically it adheres to canon, but really, Piss? Funny.

Anyways, first idea was Kex or Kekks because it sounds like the Latvian word for cupcake - kēkss. Then I went for Klekks since that sounds like 'kleksis' - a colloquialism in Latvian to refer to a dirty spot.

Considering the fact Klekks works with plants he can get his claws dirty quite often, so that name seemed most fitting.

Here is a height comparison between Klekks and Zojja. I made him a bit chubby and also max height - he does a lot of hard work! Must stay in shape. A buff ele is a bit odd, a buff asura even moreso. He looks surprisingly good in some types of light armor - usually a big headache for male characters in gw2.



Not to mention that he has a cute face. Klekks is a pleasant asura - a bit sharp tongued like most but not arrogant or outright malicious to other races, maybe a bit insensitive to sylvari since they're plant-people, Klekks finds them most intriguing.
Klekks hails from the college of Synergetics, so he's all about the Eternal Alchemy and the mathematics and philosophy behind it, I suppose that's why his hobby is gardening. After a long hard day in the lab picking weeds is the right kind of activity to relax.

In other news - I need to find a better way to take prettier gw2 screenshots. I cannot run the game on max settings but I need to find a format that doesn't create grainy pictures. Perhaps through fraps. Apparently there's a way to make the game output the screenshots as .bmp or anything else but that takes some messing around I'm too lazy to do. God forbid I mess up the game.