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Seraphine, Warden of the High Choir

Seraphine, Warden

of the High Choir

"Every hymn is a blade, if you know where to aim it."

CELESTIAL RANGER

PLAYER COMPANION

ACT II – III

✦ Close-up Studies ✦

Origin & Story

Seraphine was once a temple chorister in the sky-city of Aurellum, chosen for a voice that could calm storms — until the day the storms stopped answering to song at all.

She traded her choir robes for warden's plate after the Hollowing, binding what remained of her hymn into a blade of solidified sound. Now she walks the fractured spires as the last living relay between the silent gods and the people below.

Players first meet her defending a collapsing bridge of light with nothing but a broken note and sheer will — a scene that became the seed for her entire design language of shattered halos and singing steel.

Seraphine was once a temple chorister in the sky-city of Aurellum, chosen for a voice that could calm storms — until the day the storms stopped answering to song at all.

QUICK FACTS

ROLE

Player Companion

ORIGIN

Sky-city of Aurellum

AFFINITY

Sound & Light

WEAPON

Choral Glaive

HEIGHT

5'11" (180 cm)

SIGNATURE MOTIF

Broken Halo Rune

FIRST APPEARANCE

Act II, "The Falling Spire"

✦ Alternate Forms ✦

REST FORM

COMBAT STANCE

HALO IGNITION

✦ Process ✦

Sketches & Exploration

Costume

Side Profle

Abilities

✦ DESIGN NOTES ✦

Seraphine's silhouette had to read as protector, not conqueror — so her wings sit lower and wider than a typical angelic design, more shield than weapon. The halo went through six iterations before landing on a thin, dimmable ring rather than a solid disc, so it could double as a mood indicator without ever leaving the silhouette read cluttered. Costume metal was kept deliberately dull; the light was always meant to come from her, not her armor.

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