How do you think FFG will handle the design of the legendary character (Bran, Lann, Balerion or Lyonel) that'll win the storyline-league?

Will it just be a normal character, or will they introduce a special icon (like the Alternate Universe Icon in ST:CCG or the Episode One Icon in SW:CCG)? Maybe a character that doesn't behave like a character (can't participate in challenges), but that has a cool special ability?

Personally, I don't like the idea of my characters fighting alongside the legendary X. (I remember the discussion about this when Rhaegar was printed. I don't mind him, nor Arthur Dayne, nor Jon Arryn, should he come along, but I do mind characters dead for hundreds of years.) I'd rather see a card with the title "Lann the Clever", that's not a character, but a... I don't know. A condition, maybe, that boosts all the characters of the house it belongs to. Or a "Legend" cardtype with interaction with the storyteller trait. But the news article says "character", so I don't get my hopes up.

would lyonel with a bunch of rainwood knights, bastard in hiding, and Tryell bannermen be that big of a deal?

There is room in the game to use the legendary characters as you want, or to have a 'fantasy' battle across all timelines (as a lot of Star Wars games are)

Lars said:

Or just think of those characters as ideas and Legends that exist in others heads and still influence them over the time. After all it´s just cards representing characters.