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

[h2]A small backpack, a big mystery![/h2]

Author | Zhou, Xiaoyun

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Curious Scholar - Noli
Gender: Female
Race: Elf
Birthday: February 14
Birthplace: Camble League-Alchemy City Nelas
Height and weight: 139cm/31kg
Specialty: Speed reading, arithmetic, alchemy
Favorite things: new knowledge, touched heads, rare research materials, free research
Disgusting things: old antique! Stingy person!



Perhaps attentive players will find that this little girl with a big backpack on her back is almost as tall as herself, and has appeared many times in our recent sharing. In the recently completed scene - workshop, Noli will also appear here. Taking this opportunity, today the designer Xiaoyun specifically asked the designer Zhou several questions about designing ideas to Noli——

Q1: When portraying the character of Noli, did you focus on certain points?
A2: Noli is not easy to portray, because most people nowadays don't like naughty kids and find they are very annoying. So the key point in portraying Noli is to grasp the scale of "naughty". It is necessary to show a girl who is lively, energetic, and always planning to do some prank, but not to overdo it. To give her a reliable and pleasing side, and to give her a reason for being naughty. It is not for the sake of being naughty, but out of the alchemist’s thirst for knowledge, and that's why there will always be accidents in the process of exploring new things, etc. .

Q2: Noli's image is very cute. Will this give you any inspiration in the design process?
A2: To be precise, there was Noli's character design first, and then the character image. However, the image of the character drawn by the art design is almost the same as I imagined in my heart. The small body is carrying a large backpack, full of props that will be used for experiment (prank), especially the frog on the head is very funny, it shows an appearance that survived the Big Bang in the laboratory.

Q3: If you use three words to describe Noli, which three will it be?
A3: Lively, naughty, and smart.

Q4: In the future, what role will Noli play in the plot?
A4: Noli is the best alchemist in the Black Guards Academy. Although she always explodes the laboratory, she has discovered many important items in the future through failure after failure. In the plot, she will be the backing of the Black Guards, using her alchemy technology to discover secrets that are hard for ordinary people to detect, and of course she will become one of the villains most hated and most want to get rid of.

Q5: What is the marker of Noli?
A5: Noli’s marker is her big backpack, which is filled with snacks, alchemy props, and pots of potions. Don’t think of her as a little girl who can only rely on others for protection. You will never know that the things that she took out of her bag was a lollipop...or a potent potion that could explode a cloud of mushrooms.

Q6: The alchemist seems to be a mysterious and unsmiling character in Western fantasy works. Is it to create a contrast effect for a "Naught kid" like Noli to become such a character?
A6: Yes, the image of the knowledgeable, tall, thin, and unsmiling alchemist is too common. It is difficult to make any new tricks in that image, so I just took another contrast and created a new one. The appearance is a kid, but the knowledge is more profound than anyone else's, this will appear more interesting.

Q7: Have you ever wondered what Noli will look like when she grows up, and who is she more like in the current haracters?
A7: Noli will be a person who always has a childlike innocence, always keeps the thirst for knowledge and exploration. When she grows up, she may be more mature in appearance and figure, but the simple and innocent heart will not change, as always, lively and energetic, maybe will become the girlish version of Brahindo.



The above is the creation and sharing of the background story about Noli. In the actual game, Noli will appear in the player's team as a Mage Black Guard. If you want to see more thoughts on the creation of the background story of Black Guards, please look forward to sharing it next time~

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