![]() She also gained a sort of kinship with the other souls trapped by the Mist. One of the team’s more difficult challenges was getting Senna’s personality just right.Īfter being trapped in Thresh’s lantern, Senna realized that the Mist had hunted her for so long because of the extra spark of life within her-and that the Mist actually acts with a purpose, seeking out that spark. “This was someone who was put into an awful, hellish place, and going through something like that changes you.” “From a thematic angle, I felt duality was really important,” August shares. So we had to figure out what makes her her outside of these relationships.” Going into it, she was a woman defined by her relationship to her husband and her torturer. ![]() “Everyone thinks they know Lucian and Senna’s story,” explains senior narrative writer David “Interlocutioner” Slagle. After six excruciating years inside the lantern, she couldn’t be the same. death.īefore recently, the only canon depiction of Senna was a frightened woman trapped within Thresh’s lantern, but that version of Senna couldn’t be the one who was freed. With a gun design locked (and loaded) the team was able to turn their focus to another of Senna’s design aspects: Who the hell is this woman actually? There’s No Light Without Darknessĭichotomy is key to Senna’s design: light vs. This helped take the animations from bopping enemies with an oversized club to shooting them with a BFG. To give the animators a realistic idea of how someone would move carrying a weapon of that size, one of the members of the team created a to-scale version of Senna’s gun. Animator Adam “Riot Cattlegrid” Turnbull posing with Senna’s “gun” Slapping enemies with a giant bat-gun doesn’t exactly hit the marksman support fantasy, so the team had to do some creative problem solving to get the animations right. At one point it appeared as if Senna was carrying around Ekko’s bat, but at five times the size. And we thought the idea was really cool, so after working on it a little we ended up with a gun made of the lightstones from the other Sentinels captured by Thresh.”īecause League’s never had a weapon that can only be classified as an absolute unit, there were a few hiccups when the team tested out the gun in-game. “An idea pitched by one of the artists was a gun made up of various Sentinels’ weapons, melted down and combined together in some way. “We had to think of what the fantasy railgun is,” says Riot Earp. While August was working on the gameplay, the art team held a “Senna-dome” led by concept artist Justin “Riot Earp” Albers, where all the artists interested in Senna could draw what she and her weapon could look like. “And it was sweet as hell, so I completely killed the pistol kit and went back to the BFG.” “As I was doing this, the art team decided to draw the big gun stuff anyway,” August explains. But that made her feel more like a mage than a marksman, so August started working on a kit where she wielded dual pistols like her husband. ![]() In one of her earliest gameplay iterations, every time Senna used a spell she’d use the blowback from the gun to dash to a new location. Senna’s massive relic cannon was one of the guiding elements of her design, shaping everything from her concept art to her gameplay. But there was still one gun fantasy missing: A BFG. League has one gatling gun, one minigun, one shotgun (with a cigar), one machine gun Kog’Maw, two handguns, two rifles, two rocket launchers, three pistols, and six shotgun knees. There were no support marksmen in the game, so this was an open space for us to explore.” “We wanted Senna to be a support so she could lane with Lucian, yet we also knew she should have a gun because she had one before getting trapped. “One of the reasons we loved Xayah and Rakan was because you could be an actual couple in the bot lane,” shares senior designer August “August” Browning. And a really cool weapon to do it all with. A chance to liberate all of the souls suffering within Thresh’s lantern. Freedom from the curse that keeps the Mist hunting her. That’s not good enough for League’s first support marksman. And then… what? A suburban Demacian ranch with a white picket fence, a Pug’Maw to fetch the newspaper, and 2.5 kids? Killed by a spoopy green ghost and trapped in his lantern for six years. Trained by the father of the man she would later fall in love with.
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