Hi there, Today, I would like to present you with my latest Old School map creation: "Knave." Inspired by my admiration for G.I character Arlecchino, I decided to create a map centered around her instead of basing it on a region. Arlecchino has become one of my favorite characters due to her intriguing backstory, past, and captivating character design.
Known as the Fourth of the Fatui Harbingers and also known as “Knave”, Arlecchino is the Director and Owner of the House of the Hearth, an orphanage in Snezhnaya.
Enjoy the video!
Peruere(ArlecchinO) is cursed and an orphan.
The orphanage known as the House of the Hearth was previously ruled by Crucabena, who took in Peruere as her adopted child. Crucabena only wanted power and she wanted to create a challenging atmosphere amongst the children living in the orphanage. This was in order to make sure that the 'best' of them would become the king, while the rest would be thrown out. Peruere had to kill Crucabelna's daughter Clervive, who was obedient to her mother even though she was pure-hearted and the best friend of Peruere.
In a hard challenge, Peruere was defeated by her mother, Crucabena. She asked Peruere to surrender and become king of the House of the Hearth, but Peruere regained her power and slew her mother with a giant explosion. She was then imprisoned, but later forgiven by the Cyro (ice) Archon Tsaritsa, the ruler of Snezhnaya turning her into the Fourth Harbinger, Arlecchino.
After leaving her past as Arlecchino behind, she begun to raise her own children, adopting those she deemed as orphans. Due to her hatred of her mother, her children would call her "father" instead of "mother," a way of distinguishing their new family dynamic.
Inspiration I was inspired by the Arlecchino character demo video to create the map. The video starts in Mondstadt Cathedral and moves through Inazuma and the Sumeru desert region known as Mausoleum of King Deshret before ending in the Opera Epiclese of Fontaine. After the next part, we don't know where she went, only that she is sitting on a throne. I tried to replicate the scenes from the character demo video and synchronize the map's music with the atmosphere like as in my previous concept old school maps, Inazuma, Sumeru, Mausoleum of King Deshret & Fontaine
However, I made a reinterpretation of one part. When the song becomes soft again with clouds and kids, I instead created a green zone covered with a hundreds of flowers. I added Arlecchino's character ascend material flower, the rainbow rose.
Features If you experience lag or freezing while playing the map, simply type '/hidec' to remove the textures. However, if your computer is sufficiently powerful, you can execute '/hidec' once more to bring back the textures.
You don't get bug at 0:50 it's just a Ultrathing bug, will not affected via normal effects of mta)
Credits Video & Edit by VonKasty Detailed credits can be found in the video's description. You may subscribe to Nakvie's YouTube channel as the owner of the Channel)
Special thanks to @Nico834 for assisting me with fixing the Red Flash part in the map!
Best regards, Nebla