
So what would her story be? And how would the team make sure she felt anchored in League? Zeronis’ concepts showed a cherub-faced girl in a lolita-style dress, which could feel pretty foreign in Runeterra. It’s just the feeling that everything’s really, really amazing and you just have to experience it all.”īut that still left the question of where Gwen would be from. They’re brimming with joy and excitement to do everything-eat cotton candy, ride the rollercoaster, play games. “The narrative team sort of envisioned her as someone during their first trip to an amusement park. And she’s amazed with all of it,” SkiptoMyLuo says. “Gwen has some memories of her life as a doll, but now she can finally interact with all the things she’s only seen before. But there was one particular concept that stuck out to everyone: the doll. Gwen’s original concept artist, Paul “Zeronis” Kwon, used this idea to create a spread of characters who might understand the unbridled joy of life. Things we normally ignore because, to us, they’re so mundane.” One of the perspectives we haven’t explored is someone who’s amazed by everything-even the little things like the feeling of grass or the smell of the ocean. “So we needed to make sure we found a new approach. “We have a few champions who fall on the ‘joyful optimism’ spectrum already, like Lux and Seraphine,” explains narrative writer Michael “SkiptoMyLuo” Luo. Gwen’s story started, as many champions do, with a goal: create a “peppy skirmisher.” Following Viego with a champion of similar seriousness and gloom would’ve left League feeling xX2edgy4meXx, so the team looked towards the opposite end of the edgelord scale, to joy. And then the three would live happily ever after.Įxcept that’s not how the story ended. Doll and maker would travel across the sea, experience royal life, and maybe, just maybe, marry the prince. Everything about her made by a girl who dreamed of one day going to the castle herself.Īnd maybe one day they’d get that chance.

The doll’s dress lovingly crafted to match the intricate designs on the Camavoran warships in the harbor. Gwen, she’d have been called-a name that sounded so perfectly royal to her young maker. Who’s to say a Camavoran peasant girl never ran through a field of wheat with her selfmade princess doll in tow? They would’ve stayed in that golden field until day turned to night.
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