Frode

Frode

Race

Norn

Level

80

Rank

Legendary

Locations

• Fractal Incursion Conference
  (Lion's Arch)
  
• Wizard's Ascent
  (Skywatch Archipelago)
  
• Inner Sanctorium
  (The Wizard's Tower)
  
• Open Sky
  (The Wizard's Tower)
  
• Moon Camp Covert
  (Lowland Shore)

Organization

Astral Ward
Tyrian Alliance

“

When I'm out here, at least I have some influence on the outcome. Besides, it means a lot to the soldiers to see the warden leading the fight. Proves I'm not asking anything of them I wouldn't do myself.

— Frode

Frode Wurmsbearer is the former norn shaman of Wurm and the current Warden of the Astral Ward. He has a daughter, Arina Copperwolf, with his late wife Ragna Copperwolf. Alongside Mabon, Frode petitioned twice to recruit the Pact Commander into the Astral Ward, though both attempts were unsuccessful.

Biography

Early years

Frode Wurmsbearer was a shaman of Wurm and married Ragna Copperwolf, a shaman of Wolf, who gave birth to their child Arina Copperwolf in winter. Eir Stegalkin provided Frode and Ragna with herbs that had aided Eir in giving birth to Braham Eirsson. Frode wished that Arina would grow to follow Wolf rather than Wurm as Frode believed that his teachings were harsher and angrier.

Frode and his friend Sejm left on an expedition north to Saldistead just before spring as Knut Whitebear had grown worried that the homesteaders would die in isolation unless help arrived and because refugees from the north had told worrisome tales. By the time they reached the stead, they found no survivors, only bodies. With their rations diminished, the pair decided to hunt at a nearby lake. Sejm heard a call from what he believed to Wurm and rushed forward, only to end up transforming painfully in front of Frode's eyes. Sejm fell beneath the ice as it cracked wide open, and Frode witnessed his friend sinking into the depths. Frode returned home alone.

Five years passed, but Frode could not forget the harrowing moments with his lost friend in the north. After Ragna had passed away, Arina began training with the elders, while Frode avoided her as he did not want her to think of him as a hollow replacement. Having lost his faith in Wurm while being haunted by past events, Frode eventually left, hoping that Arina would forget about him and find more strong-willed people to look up to.

Frode was eventually found by and recruited into the Astral Ward by Isgarren and Uenno. After spending a decade healing his wounds with Mabon's guidance in Amnytas while learning the ways of the Astral Ward, he reunited with Arina whom Mabon's had brought to the Astral Ward after she had gone looking for Frode as Mabon believed that father and daughter needed each other. Shortly after, Frode was hand-chosen to be the next Warden to lead the Astral Ward by the previous ailing Warden, Levente.

Secrets of the Obscure

Through the Veil

Frode was the first person to welcome the Wayfinder back in The Wizard's Tower. He shared some good news about ongoing recovery of the Astral Ward, despite an occasional Kryptis or two showing up... as well as a surprising information that Isgarren and Peitha are "getting along". Once Frode led the Wayfinder to meet the two, that very same information quickly proved to be a jest when Isgarren clearly exhibited signs of anxiety caused by Peitha's presence. When the wizard asked the Wayfinder for a private conversation, Frode swiftly left the room. Unbeknownst to him, a part of that conversation contained rumors regarding his daughter, Arina, who was likely alive, but stuck in unfriendly lands of Nayos. While Isgarren began preparations to open a portal, Frode led the Wayfinder to Zojja, who just recently undertook an ascension. Later, Frode helped defend the tower from a sudden attack of Kryptis from an abnormally strong Kryptis Rift. He stayed behind while Isgarren, Peitha, the Wayfinder and Zojja entered the rift in order to close it from the other side.

Locations

Horn of Maguuma

• Amnytas
  • Bastion of the Celestial
    • Astronomic Nexus Ring (only during related events)
  • The World Spire (briefly after completing Defeat Nourys, the Eyes of the Abyss)

• Inner Nayos
  • Defiled Cradle (only during related events)
  • Mosyn's Repose (only during related events)
  • Nyedra, Dreamer's Sanctum (only during related events)
  • Spire of Creation (only during related events)
  • Spire of Dreams (only during related events)
  • The Commons (only during related events)
  • The Midnight Abyss (only during related events)

• Skywatch Archipelago
  • Wizard's Ascent
    • Beacon of Ages Command Center

• The Wizard's Tower
  • Inner Sanctorium
    • War Room
  • Open Sky
    • Wizard's Respite (after completing Frode's Journal)

Janthir

• Lowland Shore
  • Moon Camp Covert

Kryta

• Lion's Arch
  • Fort Marriner (only during Fractal Incursion)
  • Fractal Incursion Conference

Story involvement

Secrets of the Obscure story

• Act 1
  • Hell Breaks Loose
  • Mother of Stars
• Act 2
  • Voices beyond the Veil
  • The Missing Facet
  • Tower of Secrets
  • Mabon's Fate
• Act 3
  • Into the Obscure
  • The World Spire
  • Treachery
• Through the Veil
  • Duress
• The Realm of Dreams
  • The War Council
  • Eventide's March
• The Midnight King
  • Desperate Measures
  • The Eleventh Hour
  • Sovereign of Nayos

Janthir Wilds story

• Act 1
  • Prologue: The Tyrian Alliance
  • Unknown Territory
  • Diplomacy and Discovery
  • Strangers among Lands
• Act 2
  • Finding Balance
• Absolution
  • Salvation's Cost

Event involvement

Amnytas

[Group Event] Assist in summoning the Guardian of the Celestial (80)

Defeat the anomalous tentacle and close the rift (80)

Inner Nayos

[Group Event] Escort Frode to the Kryptis Camp (80)

[Group Event] Help Frode convince frightened Kryptis to leave. Defeat any loyalists (80)

[Group Event] Defeat Valthrog the Frenzied (80)

[Group Event] Fight your way through the loyalists and reach Nyedra (80)

[Group Event] Defeat Knaebelag the Terror (80)

[Group Event] Clear the malignant fog protecting Zakiros (80)

[Group Event] Disable Zakiros's extractor towers (80)

[Group Event] Defeat Gatekeeper Vialgos (80)

[Group Event] Descend the Spire of Creation (80)

[Group Event] Siege the hatchery and destroy the abyssal watchers (80)

[Group Event] Continue descending the Spire of Creation (80)

[Group Event] Defeat Charybda the Cunning (80)

[Group Event] Defeat Eparch, the Consumed King (80)

Combat abilities

Abilities

• Warden of the Astral Ward

Effects

Stun — Vulnerable while broken.  Occurs when defiance is broken.

Skills

Dialogue

Skywatch Archipelago

In Wizard's Ascent before completing Weaponmaster Training

You'll need all the help you can get against these new foes. We can give you special training developed by an ancient Astral Ward weaponmaster.

What kind of special training?

The kind that will teach you to use weapons that would otherwise require elite specializations. Weaponmaster Training will let you use those weapons no matter what your specializations are.

Sounds useful. What do I need to do?

It's already done. The knowledge was only waiting for you to accept it. Being part of an ancient magical order has its upsides.

Much appreciated.

No thanks.

No thanks.

The Wizard's Tower

After completing Frode's Journal

You...found this? Wayfinder, thank you. I haven't read it myself in years, but I'd planned on giving it to Arina. I... Thank you.

How are things now that the fighting with Nayos is over? (after completing Sovereign of Nayos)

Honestly, it's hard work, this whole peacekeeping thing. Planning, negotiating, rebuilding...exercises a lot of muscles I haven't used in a long time. But it beats the alternative.

And how's Arina?

Great question, Wayfinder. Happy to say I have no idea! I haven't seen her—she's stuck to her promise to get that R & R. Hope you've tried to do the same...but somehow I doubt it.

As you say, peacekeeping is hard work.

Talk to you later, Frode.

Of course, Frode.

Lion's Arch

During Fractal Incursion

Primary article: Fractal Incursion#Dialogue

Gallery

• 

  The Midnight King key art with Frode, Dagda, Pact Commander, and Peitha.

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  Frode attends the inaugural meeting of the Tyrian Alliance.

Related achievements

• Horn of Maguuma: Weaponmaster Training — Speak with Frode during or after Secrets of the Obscure chapter 3, Mother of Stars. Players can also unlock this achievement by purchasing the Weaponmaster Training Document in WvW from the Heroics Notary vendor. (3)
• Secrets of the Obscure: Act 1: Written Ward — Find and read the Astral Ward communiques. (1)
• Secrets of the Obscure: Act 2: Astral Gofer — Complete the optional tasks for your allies. (1)
• Secrets of the Obscure: Act 3: A Chapter Closed — Speak with all your allies in the Wizard's Tower. (3)
• Sorrow's Lost: V: The Weeping Mountain — The rock we all stand on, this unshakable driving force... It will take a special kind of soul to guide us forward. A warden, protecting his flock.
• The Midnight King: Astral Salute — Salute Frode when he enters the portal. (1)
• The Midnight King: Talk of the Tower — Check in with all your friends and allies in the Wizard's Tower. (3)
• Inner Nayos: Heitor's Territory: Frode's Journal — Find Frode's journal pages around the Horn of Maguuma. (5)
• Inner Nayos: Nyedra Surrounds: The Fangs That Gnash — Successfully complete each of the events in the Fangs That Gnash event chain. (5)
  • Inner Nayos: Nyedra Surrounds: Repeat Defanger — Complete each of the 6 events in the Fangs That Gnash meta-event and defeat Knaebelag. (3)
• Inner Nayos: Citadel of Zakiros: Event Collection: The Midnight Abyss — Participate in successful events in the Midnight Abyss. (3)
• Inner Nayos: Citadel of Zakiros: Event Collection: Spire of Creation — Participate in successful events in the Spire of Creation. (2)
• Janthir Wilds: Act 1: Everyone Loves Democracy — Listen to every delegate's thoughts on the vote. (1)
• Janthir Wilds: Act 1: Moonlit Reading — Read all of the literature around Moon Camp. (1)
• Absolution: Master Mingler — Speak with all of the partygoers during the Tyrian Alliance's celebration. (1)

Trivia

• Frode is voiced by Rick Wasserman.
• Frode is also the name of the Verifier (or "Detective") in a series of books, set in Sweden in the late Iron Age.

See also

Associated items

• Mini Frode