[Designer Talk] When designing The Verdant Ranger, what were we thinking?

Hi everyone, I'm Xiaoyun. During this period of time, I worked with the art staff to remake The Verdant Ranger. Thanks to the wonderful drawing of art stuff, I have a lot of inspiration to rewrite her character background story.

[h2]【Design】[/h2]
According to Zhou, one of our designers, if we use a specific symbol to summarize the personality of Kieyanna, it should be the green of the forest.

At a time when the urbanization process is constantly moving forward, and it is difficult to turn back, more and more people are pouring into the city. At the same time, more and more small towns are actively following the pace of history and constantly changing their own style. Among those who flock to the city, most of them are young people who are full of infinite yearning for the future.

However, in remote areas surrounded by nature, there are fewer and fewer young people. The young people's long journey took away the vitality of the small town, and the vast nature behind it just watched all this quietly and silently in the deep emerald green. As for nature, it has "naturally" become a common symbol in the minds of people living in cities—mysterious, romantic, and remote.

It may be a kind of welcome relief that people who live in the city will choose-or a destination of a short trip during a holiday, or a departure point of an adventure in the game world, where you meet the elves. That quiet and deep emerald green always carries people's imagination of one kind or another in the boundless time. It is a stage loved by various literary and artistic works and entrusted with imagination. But it is not the whole of life after all.

In such an opposition between nature and urbanization, we are determined to create a natural child who was born in the forest and loves this land. This is not only to give the depth of this opposition, but also to continue in our game the type of role that the predecessors of the game industry often designed in the Western fantasy works-the archer in the forest. Therefore, Kieyanna was born.

Combining this idea, in Kieyanna's latest drawing, there are design elements of wolf head and starry sky. An archer girl in green, with a bright red cloak, that can run miles with the wolf king in the forest. When she ran, the red cloak swaying with the wind, meandering the starlight.
In the twinkling starlight, her story begins here——



[h2]【Past】[/h2]

The earliest memory of this girl is the quiet night sky full of stars. She doesn’t know who her parents are, but it may not matter. She grew up on her own in the Monteverde Forest, where she lived and walked freely among the shaded forests, racing with cheetahs, swimming with butterfly fish, drinking and singing with the beasts who were feasting, and learned Elf's language in their settlement. With all these, she never felt lonely.

However, when the girl was 12 years old, misfortunes came quietly. In order to expand the territory, an imperial noble lord led an army to Monteverde Forest. They razed the former green forest to the ground, hunted and killed animals wantonly, and drove out all the natives living here.

The young girl lost her home, and also separated with her friends in the forest. She spent a long wandering life. In the end, she came to Arkrance, the city behind the great wall. And recalled the story about Black Tide that she had heard from the Elf Elder.

The girl didn't have the idea of becoming a black guard at first, but just wandered aimlessly in Arkrance... Until one day, she saw the exploration team returning from the god abandoned land. The way the injured black guards supported each other and encouraged each other, reminded her of the once-dependent partner in the forest, and her desire for home was rekindled in her heart.

In the end, the girl passed the selection with amazing archery, drank the holy blood and successfully awakened, becoming a black guard.

In the Black Guards roster, the girl writes her name "Kieyanna". It's an Elvish phrase, which means-step out of the past and start again.

As for the story of Kieyanna coming to the academy and becoming a member of the Black Guard, I won’t reveal it here, please find out by yourself in the game~



Thank you for your Read!

In the actual game, Kieyann will appear in the game as a Sniper hero. If you want to see more thoughts on the creation of the background story of Black Guard, please look forward to the Designer Talk next time~

Thank you for your interest in our game!